The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-10-02
Farm and Garden.
Encourage toads in your nOt-bed and

Encourage tQadS III your nOt-Oed ana
garden. They will destroy more than
their weight in insect pests.
Dust melon vines with Paris green or
London purple to keep off the bug.
Dust with one part of the powder to
twenty-five parts of flour.
Watch for the currant worm, and as
soon as the leaves appear ragged apply
white hellehore-a a tablespoonful to the
pail of water-by means of a syringe.
Repeat in about a week.
The trees can be protected from field
mice by banking the trees up foot or
SO with soil, and borers and rabbits can
be kept away by wrapping the trunks
for a foot above with tarred paper.
Frozen cream will not make good
butter Care should be taken to keep
the milk room or spring house at an
even temperature in winter as well as
in summer
Use a corn-stalk-knife to scrape hair
off hogs. Scrape Or pull, never shave
the hair where you can possibly avoid
it. When shaved the stubs remaining
detract from the appearance of the
meat.
Some people don't appear to know
that corn stalks are worth almost as
much as hay as cattle and horse food.
What will your hay sell for? If You
have none to SELL may it not be because
you do not feed your corn fodder?
A horse is not fully nlatTed until
six wears of age. Immature animals
are often over-taxed and their future
usefulness discounted Young horses
should not be worked too hard if they
are expected to live to green and use
full old age.
\ well-knoWn horticlturist, in rela-
ton to trapping certain moths, adj
yises as follows: Take shallow pans
or saucers and place some strong apple.
vinegar in them and fasten among the
branches of the trees. The odor Of the
vinegar attracts the moths and they are
caught and drowned at the same
time"
The hogs should have undisputed
sway in the orchard during the fruit
season. and they will eat up all the
| fallen and wormy apples, and hunt out
| many of the gruhs, etc, which are in
| furious to the trees. In this way they
destroy many of the enemies of sound
fruit and sound trees, and in other ways
greatly benefit the orchard.
The best ground for peach orchard
is a light, sandy soil that has beer
planted several years with general
crops Do not plant Oh ground ricl
enough to produce onions, peas, spinach
or lettuce. for the trees will be liable tC
make late autumnal growth, ant
produce unripe wood that will be win
ter killed.
Profitable bee-keeping greatly de
pends upon the gathering up of th'
fragments. that nothing be lost. Frag
ments of time can be used in caring 70
bees fragments of lumber in maxim!
hives and frames, fragments of COM
for wax. and every drop of honey i
useful. even though mixed with dirt
it can be fed to needy colonies.
After calves get so they will eat hay
give them what they will eat clean q
this and about one quart of oats dali,
Without the grain the hay will onl
keep them III store condition and wort
little mere at a year old than now. \
the prof, viii come from the grain, an
the farmer who sees this point will il
crease the grain feed all the anima
viii bear.
Much time on every farm is spent
ioing small jobs, and if proper conven
| ances for these are not furnished IL