The Opelousas courier., 1886-07-03

oome Improvement should be made in
= OK yoke commonly used. 1t should
MT the neck, or else when the OK is draw.
ing the load much Inconvenience NAV i,
the result, the windpipe being At t;m a.
lartly closed and the inner mart of II.
Eeck CALLED.
The problem of farming consists i,
making n soil increasingly fertile. Ma.
mare IS the turner's savings bank. and !,
more OF them would have large heaps oi
It every spring to spread upoa their land,
ltstead Of money at interest, they would
prosper in the end.
The best varieties of lettuce for summe,
Sc are the yellow butter and the whit,
thinner cabbage. In a deep, we'll en-.
Tened SOIL they stand the heat we'll and
remain for a long time in a condition fo,
use. These varieties form large heads.
aad on this account are Objectionable ta
some persons.
no pruning at all is safer practice thar
the putting a pruning knife into thu
hands OF an ignoramus. Itreauires skill
ana knowledge of varieties and their ne
cullarities, which few possess, to prun,
apple and pear trees properly. WhaI
would be good treatment for one varietl
would be ruinous to others.
After calves get so they will eat hay
give them what they will eat clean o
this and shout one quart of oats daily
Without the grain the hay will only keel
them In store condition and worth it'll
More at q year old than now. ALI tn,
profit will come from the grain, and th
farmer WHO sees this point will increas
the grain feed all the animals will bear.
Much time on every farm is spent il
doing small jobs, and if proper conve
niences for these are not furnished tn
time wasted j? so much clear loss. A
good farmer will try to have stock
grain, hay ard roots, with water, a
under n roof. This enables him to d,
the work with the least needless labor
and gives more time for nee sary i'm
p~rovernents.
Prof, e. w. Stewart says hat sun
fiower-seed is a valuable food for stocl
if fed properly. The best way to feed t.
calves is to remove the hulls in a hulling
mlchine and then boil the meats to
jelly. Tt is, in this condition, a gooG
addition to skimmed.milk. Sunaower
seed contains 1876 per cent of oil, Will
faxseed contains 81 per cent. The oil i
a mild laxative, and will keep the Goa
glossy. Fifty bushels Of seed could b
raised from twenty-five thousand plant
on an acre.
Most farmers have learned that cut ha
or even straw wet and sprinkled wit
meal is a better feed for working horse
than whole grain aud hay. In thi
shape the nutriment in the feed is easil,
eaten and easilydigested. Horses do no
need water when eating, except as it j
put on the chopped hay to make tn
meal stick to it. The meal being fin
digests perfectly, while much of the nu
triment in whole grain is lost. Again
the wasted effort made in digcsting tn
latter is SO much det1aeted from tn
strength which should go to the work.
Fresh wood ashes are often of it'll
benefit. The caustic potash probably in
lures the roots of tender plants in som
cases, as a1y one can test by putting a
overdose of ashes in the cor hill wit
the seed. But the ashes 500 lose thei
caustic properties. In the soil vegetahl
decomposition is constantly throwing Of
carbonic acid, and this neutralizes tn
alkali of the potash. Old ashes long eA
posed to the air absorb considerabl
amounts Of ammonia, and tothis leachc'
ashes owe much OF their value. Wha
potash they contain is in the form OF
nitrate and ready for immediate use.