Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-07-31
About the Farm.

Now is an excellent time to push young
pigs, as they grow very rapidly after the
weather commences to become warm.
The advice to put COW before calving on
short rations to prevent milk fever is bad
The food should be regular not forced.
The bes. bred stock costs the most money
but its produce brings great deal more than
the produce of that which is badly bred.
Calves kept gaining vigorously through
the first year are worth at the end twice as
much as Others that have been retarded in
growth.
In feeding you want TO notice that some
animals are more dainty as to their choice
than others. Their likes should be respect
ed.
Iregularity in sailing will not conduce to
the laying ON of flesh. Especially in dairy
ing will irregularity in sailing show in the
milk.
Vigorous growth of plants is the best
protection against insect enemies, and time
l. cultivation comes in q most effective
auxiliary force.
Trees in cultivated field are troublesome
but when they are not numerous they add
enough TO the beauty of the landscape to
compensate.
A soil but FIVE inches deep cannot be
worth as much as another that gives free
scope to the roots of plants to whatever
depth they may penetrate in search of nu-
triment.
A second brood of currant worms usually
makes its appearance just as the fruit begins
to ripen, and 1t is quite as injurious TO the
crop as the first If not promptly destroyed.
Roots and plants that go by choice ten or
twelve inches in the soil fail to bring up full
support when they are restricted to four or
five inches by reason of impenetrable earth
beneath.
Public water troughs, it is claimed, are
places at which infectious diseases are
spread, hence the water should always be
flowing in them instead of turning it on only
when wanted.
1t is said that calves begin to form cuds
and ruminate rs soon as they are allowed on
pasture, but three months is soon enough to
allow them to do so, or the result will be
scours.
1t is said that the best mode of using sui
phur about plants, in order to destroy in
sects, is to sprinkle it on the ground during
a warm day, when it will prove beneficial
without injuring the plants.
Cut the clover before the blossoms begin
to fade.
Clean cultivation is essential to good crops.
This often takes work, painstaking, tedious
hoeing and weed pulling.
A whip IN the hands of driver who uses
IL freely on his horses is out of place. 1t
should be laid across his shirtless back.
Good seed is at the bottom of all good
farming. No matter how well the ground
may be MANFRED and prepared, if the seed
Is poor there can be no success.
In making a lawn too little stress is usu-
ally placed on thorough trenching or sub
sOIling and enriching the land. The surface
in the finest condition.
Look after the small things of the farm.
Larger profits In proportion to the cost OF
production are realized from sales of butter,
eggs, spring chickens, asparagus, ETC., than
from the main crops.
Strong, pure brine is recommended as an
effie,eht hardener of flesh, and has been used
with success about the necks of horses.
where the collar goes, at the commencement
of the blowing season.
When bargain is made, its terms to be
fulfilled later, 1t is well to make q memoir
andum Of details that subsequent disagree
ment may be avoided, for one or the other
party Is likely to forget the terms.
mesa ial.af.lpOnth or six weeks old will now
The Ould woHcare to make them prosper adj
sly. They should be well and re-
QUARRY I'D, carefully housed at night and
constantly be looked alter in wet weather.