The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-12-25
VOL. XIII.
FARM AND GARDEN.
practical Points for the Tillers of
the Soil.

then penetrate the earth during the
winter.
An exchange says one drop of castor
oil placed on warts every day for from
ten days to two weeks, will remove
them and leave no mark.
Onion seed sown now, and protected
with litter during the winter, will give
early onions next spring. - 4 a
To kill moles, an Illinois farmer
puts strychnine in pieces of liver the
size of a hickory nut, placing the pieces
at different points in their runs.
Do not let the blackberry and rasp-
berry canes grow up in grass, but cul-
tivate them thoroughly, SO as to secure
greater growth and stronger canes.
The United States Dairyman does
not believe that sweet cream from
given quantity of milk, will yield as
much butter as sour cream from the
same milk.
Sheep will eat nearly all kinds of
weeds, and may be made to do good
service in some fields. They should,
however, always be given feed of
grain at night. L.
Every dairyman should be prepared
to feed green grass or green corn fodder
in the stable, night and morning, as
soon as the pasture begins to fail.
San Diego county, Cal, boasts q tree
which grows nowhere else in the world.
tits called the Pinus Torreyana, and is
found only within limited area in the
country
AS soon as the ears have been taken
from the sweet corn, the stalks should
be cut up and fed to the COWS in as
green condition as possible. Steaming
them makes them tender.
. What cotton is to the South, and corn
to the West, hay is to Maine and New
England generally. For Maine it is
the principal agricultural export.
To protect watermelon plants from
: bugs South Carolina grower recon-
mends charcoal dust or cOal-kiln dirt,
dusting about pint over each hill
when the plants are young.
The farmers of this country waste
enough seed each year to winter as
many animals as they keep. That is,
by saving all food and feeding it judi
ciously, they would double their tiocks
and herds. f.4.,.. .
One who has been close student of
the habits of his flocks, is satisfied that
when they are allowed to drink all the
good water they will. they do much
better than if deprived of it, on the old
idea that sheep do not need water
The Arabs have saying that to get
your horse to do his best, you should
drive moderately till he has sweated
and dried off tmee times, and after
that you can let him go forward freely,
and he will not disappeint any reason
able expectations.
The quantity of cheese which a. given
weight of milk will produce, does not
settle the value of a breed for cheese
production. Other conditions being
equal, the COW or the breed Whieliwlll
turn out the most cheese fora given
quality of feed, is the most profitable
--one for the cheese dairy. ----
"A North Carolina writer asks which
would be the best breed of beef cattle
to cross on his native stock in that
state, Polled, Angus, Shorthorn, or
Hereford: and the New Yorks4im re-
spends that none Of these would he
suited to the locality indicated "a cot
ton-growing region--but recommends
the Devon, which makes excellent beef,
while the cows are better mixers than
any one of the three mentioned.
Fish-hawks are very plentiful along
the New Jersey coast. They build
large nests in the tops Of trees. and very
soon the trees die Gor what reason we
do not know. leaving the nest on the
summit of bare trunk. These birds
are large and handsome, and have a
very musical note, but are exceedingly
fierce. The State imposes fine of $50
on any one caught killing one Of them,
because they protect the neighborhoods
! they frequent from the depredations of
ehicken-hawks. tF
Ragweed is the great bane of our
grain stubb,es. If of spring grain. to
be plowed under in the fall for winter