St. Landry democrat., 1886-07-31

We see most travelling correspond
ents describe the soil OF a country but
none describe the climate now is that
not the all-important thing to know IN
successful cropping with moderate poor
land, with suitable seasons, can you
not out crop, good land, with uncertain
and bad seasons, and can anyone learn
this but by years of strict, intelligent
observation AS we cannot change the
| seasons, we have to observe and adopt
ourselves and crops accordingly, for
many years it was useless to remark in
June, when corn is tasselling, its too
dry, in July, when making fodder its
too wet, last year wet June made corn
and sweet potatoes, this year wet June
corn good but excess OF rain and wind
destroyed it, we cannot OF should not
| expect season, to suit corr, cane and
cotton, no country has perfect seasons
| for all kinds of crops we must learn for
which each country is best adapted and
crops accordingly, as we labor under
some disadvantages from older and
more northern countries; with their
continued culture is there not some
things wherein the advantage, yes, i'll
some all-impOrtant and OF chief neces-
| sity, cheap homesteads, for what they
pay yearly rent We can purchase and
obtain perfect title, for us and our
children, not only that but If we have
sons they can procure homes without
emmigrating. In addition we can raise
as near all we need as any other coun
try, with corn and rice, chickens, eggs,
sweet potatoes and milk no one can
want, no famine, as never do all fail in
one season. In winter game OF various
kinds for the shooting what they never
have it you cannot raise or fatten the
hog, SO much the better for you and
yonr family, by this you save two thirds
in doctoring. Let the West send her
hog and grease to the northern coun-
tries where they can digest tallow can
dies, we south cannot nor ought not if
people will go in debt and lose their
homesteads, that is their fault and not
the necessity of the country. Unfortu
nately man does not properly appreci
ate these things, until he loses them the
charge is, that we south are lazy, this is
in a great degree true, and can for one
from "a years experience, not hearsay,
admit it, and further assert that man
nor beast can perform the same amount
of labor here as in more northerly
climate, nor on a warm damp day as on
cooler and dryer day, and every Oh
serving man who drives horse knows
this or he lacks observation, 20 man has
reasonable excuse, to ever-wOrk him
self or beast, no more than he has a
right to do nothing there is some very
common sayings and nsed very flip
PANTY, that we think need correcting,
one is that our winter being mild and
short we need but little feeding in win
ter, contend we need more care with
stock, they not being so robust need
early and attention as seen by the
horse he is more subject to indigestion
producing collie, etc.
Again, we should do as they do North
or as thy do in England where they
have such fine stock, no we say initiate
them if you will but in and as far as
you find it is adapted to the climate you
are residing in. For example, north
digestion is more vigorous, hence fat
and more condensed food they digest
not so here, less fat and more digestible
grain or cracked grain to suit our weak
digestion, as difference between oats
and corn not that oats contain more
nutriment but because in better con-
dition to assimilate in the stomach.
When Mr.. Ten Brock visited En-
gland with the celebrated Lacomp and
other horses he wrote back the great
est difficulty we have to contend with
in England is the tendency of our
racers to get fat; we feed less; exer-
else more but cannot keep down their
flesh, here we treat and feed our horses
different from our cows, for example,
We reason horse cannot work ON grass
alone, yet we expect milk COW to raise
"a calf, give enough milk to feed the
family, on grass alone, is that reasona-
BILE, does she not need more condensed
food as the horse, in one respect we act
the reverse or by this time our horn
cattle would have become worthless, in
branding all agree to save the best bull
calf, but the best colt is altered and
they leave the meanest colt to continue
the stock-and we see very plainly the
result, how mean and trif1ing the pres
ent ponies are in comparison to what
they were when 1 came here 40 years
ago, and so with ether things, we could
name but enough, we have the pre-
sumption to say that on the farm is the
place to learn farming not college, a
very little reading in the evening is
useful and of use when in connection
with practice, as it is in mechanics, the
farm and the workshop makes the prac-
tical man. my experience is that all
hard work is easily learnt.
Onegansas. In.