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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22
dicatinc a short hay crop. Corn, hay

dicating short hay crop. Corn, hay
and COW peas are suggested by the
2oiler as a substitute for grass hay. II
is said that corn or sorghum food for
winter use by stock is better than tim.
othy, and can be raised at four dollars
per ton. In Tennessee it may be sown
in June or as late as July 10. broadcast
two or three bushels to the acre.
On rich land it may be sown nearly
as thick as wheat. Corn will
grow as large as mans finger
and many stalks viii bear nubbin.
II is proposed as an improvement on
the above that bushcl of corn and q
half bushel'of peas be sown together
to the acre on good ground. The corn
stalks afford support to the pea vines
that will grow erect with such help.
The crop should be harvested by the
mower after the tassel dies. The stuff
should be shocked as soon as cut. Let
farmers in attitudes north of Tonnes
see try the plan proposed ut different
dates between this and the middle o.
july and note the results.-Jourhai 81
Agr ic,.lfnre
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22
Fruit Going 10 Waste.

Never in the history of the State was
there SO abundant a crop Of fruit of
every variety. Peaches. apples, pears.
plums. grapes. strawberries. raspber.
ries and blackberries every where.
The majority of our people. how
ever, are in the same fix the Texas
man was the year Of the great mast:
He had no hogs to eat the
acorns: ii he just had the hogs he would
be rich" Only a few evaporators and
fewer canneries. Thousands Of dol
lars worth of fruit will rot on the
ground. Why did we rot prepare 10
save this fruit before it was too late.
We knew six weeks ago it was COM
ing. II was then sGfc.-irk. F0rmcs
and STOCK man.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22
Chufas.

A correspondent says that chufas are
the same as the ordinary nut-grass OF
the South, Has he ever seen the two
plants? The common nut-grass is a
native OF the South, we believe AT
all events, it has been growing here
since the time when the memory OF
man runneth not to the contrary. l,
has been known on the South Atlantic
coast for the past hundred years, Ger.
tainly, and has gradually extended. or
been carried, into the interior. II is
rightly feared as one of the greatest
pests in the shape of grass that farm
er can have on his place. as il actually
operates to depreciate the value of the
land by really taking possession of it.
When 1t has once taken possession
of a tract of land, we do not believe
that there is any practical means of
getting rid of it. The roots ramify i'm
every direction, and with the small
knots, or nuts. extend very deep. Now
chufas and nut grass, while somewhat
similar in appearance and manner of
growth, are really very different
things. The nuts are certainly three
or four times as large as those on nut
grass. and the roots do not take pos
session Of the land or work it any in
jury, and are easily eradicated when-
ever their eradication is desired. We
have planted them considerably. and
have never had any cause for dissatis-
faction with them. They are indi-
genous to Spain, and have been
grown in the South for
many years. and we have never
heard before that they were introduced
by the Department of Agriculture.
They are well known to be "A very ex-
celent food for the purpose of fatten-
ing hogs, being so prolific that one
acre Is capable of keeping twenty hogs
fat for month. Ne do not personal
ly like the fat or flesh made by chufas.
as both are apt TO be soft and fabbv.
but this may be only matter of taste.
and many farmers in the South would
not agree with us in this opinion. In
CNt'u tulS DC "A general
suit. it may be rectiiied by penning the
hogs and feeding them for ten DAYS
on corn. 1t is the custom 10
plant the nuts in drills. ooened
about two and 6 half feet apart. drop-
ping them ten inches apart in the drills.
While growing they are cultivated
Regularly. as corn or any other crop.
until midsummer. when they shade
the rows so that no other weed or
grass can grow. Ia the fall. when the
tops have been killed by frost. the
hogs are turned upon them. and they
and the turkeys scratch and root them
p and thrive upon them. They re-
luire good land. and do not amount to
aluch on poor soil. On good land the
yield per acre is very large. and they
certainly afford very useful food for
hogs and poultry. Il. r. r., ga Farm
AID Fircsij.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
iiints for Sheep Farmers.

Some men like to raise sheep, and
usually such succeed better than 9TH
ers.
A sheep that is full OF good, sweet
food, and is otherwise comfortable,
will grow wool and lay on flesh every
hour in the three hundred and sixty
five days and six hours of the year, and
such sheep seldom have grub in the
head-especially Merino sheep-nor
any other kind OF disease.
4 thin, poveriy-strioken sheep
always keeps its owner hating sheep,
complaining of low prices, wanting a
dog law, higher tariff on wool, want
ing to know what is good for this and
for that disease: or he thinks some new
disease has appeared in his flock. He
always thinks he has had bad luck.
Poverty is. indeed. hard on sheep. 1t
is an embargo against all improve
ment. Good breeding helps good feed
ing. and without good feeding all good
breeding is a failure. The poorest
scrubs come from well-bred sheep
neglected.
The best mutton of England comes
from the black faces OF the mountains
of Wales. When taken to the agri-
cultural lands and fed on the farm. the
rich, juicy qualities are gone. The
native mountain grasses give the NUT
ton its highest claims of excellence.
The same differences will be found
in this country. A friend sent some
mutton chops TO our hotel last week.
10 be prepared expressly as a test of
North Carolina mountain sheep. fat
tened on chestnut. Ii was most de-
licious eating. There was simply no
comparison with the common mutton.
Some farms and some farmers are
suited to raising sheep for mutton
and some are not. Farms and farmers
must be alike suited 10 the business or
there will be a failure. To raise wool
rs some do. there may be a short sup
ply OF food and water occasionally.
which spoils the animal, and binders
that symmetrical development 50 es-
sential to a good butchers sheep.
Some sheep. as with cattle, are
suited to one purpose better than an
other. Therefore it is important TO
decide these purposes and the fitness
of each breed TO those ends We wish
to attain. Some regions are suited to
one purpose and not to another. Kan
sas, for instance. has been a choice
wool-growing country. Now it is
good place to feed and fatten sheep.
The arid regions may protitably send
sheep to the grain-growing sections TO
be fitted for the market. Thus the
cheap corn. oats and hay ccn be fed
on the farms at better profit |
than crowded upon the market |
The manure will be profit i'm |
keeping up the fertility OF the soil. |
Lands are too high i'm some grain-rais- |
ing sections TO keep Is pastures, and |
the uncertainty of prices of grain !
would favor the feeding OF sheep IN
stead of hogs, which are more liable !
TO disease. or even cattle. since the |
profits of feeding sheep are more GER
tain. if not SO large.
High-priced sheep do not always |
give the best per cent. on the invest
mcnt.
Large carcasses are not most accept |
able TO the butcher. for the reason that !
quality, 10 the consumer. is most i'm |
pOrtant.-F'arm and Fireside.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22
HERE AND THERE.

Ewes that have weaned their lambs
may be fat;ened very easily II given
two meals day OF grain with plenty
of grass in the pasture.
A fruit-grower who draped plum
tree with a mosquito net to keep OF
the curculio, obtained twenty-five
quarts of fine fruit. Another covered
a single branch with equal success!
Keep squashes and pumpkins away
from the cantaloupes and watermelons.
In fact. 1t Is best to grow no pumpkins
on farm where melons are raised. as
the bees carry pollen from one plant
to another.
About the surcst remedy for the
hordes of army worms that devastate
meadows and grain fields is to ditch
against their progress and mash them
as they accumulate in the ditch.
A fruit tree that is kept healthy
and i'm good condition is far less liable
to the attacks of insects than one which
has been allowed to suffer from neglect,
just as a healthy animal is better able
to Withstand disease than a feeble one.
Keep both animals and trees in good
condition by care and judicious feed
ing.
If any one in the world has right
to have choice berries. vegetables or
fruit upon his table it is the farmer.
Carelessness is generally the reason
why many do not. They are cheaper,
far better and much more wholesome
than the strong bacon and coarse diet
too often found upon the tables of tho
tillers OF the soil.
A writer i'm the Mirror and Farm.
or dec ares that farmers are governed
too much by acres and not enough by
bushels. They decide to plant SO many
acres, and they make their manure go
over it, and it is apt to be pretty thin.
The rule should be to put on all tho
manure the crop can use, and stop
when the manure is gone.
Don't forget to give your breeding
stock, cattle. hogs. mares and colts
plenty of salt. The grass j.. in con-
sequence of so much rain, very wa
terry and stock need more salt than
usual.
The copious rains have caused the
grass to grow very rapidly, and the
pastures rs well as the range are fine.
The grass is long. tender and luxu-
RANT The visible effect is fat cattle
and hogs. Stock of all kind look well.
Many good apple orchard has
been injured because few worthless
wild cherry trees were permitted To
grow and provide headquarters for the
caterpillar. In every community
where the authorities have enterprise
enough 10 demand the destruction of
weeds. the roadmas:er should be made
10 destroy all wild cherry trees.
IL you have ca, yot,r first crop OF
clover. put on about one hundred
pounds of gypsum to the acre. Go
early in the morning while the dew IS
on. or just after u shower OF rain. and
scatter broadcast II will nearly, if
not quite. double the second crop.
Make hole about six inches
square In the la, fence. near the ho,,>c:
place !; SMALL trough inside. and feed
all The spare skim or buttormiliS 10 the
Young pigs; also all the kitchen Stop.
and scraps If cold victials. Enough is |
wasted about nearly every farmers
kitchen to raise meat for the table.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22
Use for Pretty Cards.

A pretty way Of using the Christ.
mas. Easter. birthday or any of the
pretty carrls.so much in vogue. is To
paste the card on piece of pasteboard
a couple of sizes larger than the card.
Take piece Of satin or velvet of some
pretty shade to contrast we'll with the
cOlOrs used in the card, and cut an oval
in it to just fit over the face OF the
card. Finish the edge of the oval with
a plating Of ribbon. and draw the satin
smoothly over the pastebOard and
fasten at the back with long stitches.
Cut piece OF cambria a little smaller
than outside. and paste to the back.
Fasten to the back q loop OF ribbon TO
hang il up by. or it can be set on an
easel.-Bosfoa Bnigct.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

1t has generally been believed that
the reduction liz average height OF
French soldiers which followed Ma
poleOn's wars. due, of course, to the
immense slaughter in those campaigns,
made all Of those soldiers the shortest
in Europe. But. according 10 high
medical and military authority in Rus
sis. the minimum height of the Rus
sian and the French censcript is about
equal five feet: while in most other
European countries the minimum
ranges from live feet cue inch to i've
feet three inches.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

The umpire on the base ball l1eld neves
makes homo run, but there arc occasions
when the crowd gets after him that h
would like to-B0st0n Poet
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22
Corn and Pea Hay.

A severe drought has existed in Ten
sessee. inj'r,ny the meadows aud in
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

A "sHAKIxo APPARATUS" has beer
patented for egg nogs, bu: il can't beat M
larial fever.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

IT II said that Chinese thieves take
things coolie.-PuasbuvpA ChroaiclA
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

A DENTIST must be thorough in tooth
pulling, he must get at the root Of the mat
tern. o. PtcaNsne.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

FLY time and the baseball arc veEJ
properly contemporaneous. - Merchant
Tfupelcr.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

TnE hornet 10 . good deal like . railreai
makes the most fuss with it, terminal e
cilitics.-Dslufh Plr0gwuphsr.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

"GIvE me light lunch, !" said traveller
in. Russian railway restaurant And
they brought him = tall0w candle.-Aetel
MIL
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

STRANGE - It may appear. we'll cooked
meat in boarding house II very rarc.-
IUsstsys Stsfesm0n.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

fnR mesquite 10 NO prohibitioniss; 10 ID
lead set against closing the bars.-ze1es
&GltmR
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

II sfaicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. lsaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it25c
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

WHEN you como To the matter Of fanAI
The Japanese take the paln.-PHck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

BEHoR0 arithmetic Was Invented people
multiplied on the faCe OF the earth.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22
The Best Test Of sueesss .: success

Tested aA1 proved BY over twsoty-Avs
years' nee In IN parD Of The Wosld.
ALIcocK's PoRors PLAsTR1s have the ~
dorsement Of the highest medical and
chemical authorities. and millions OF gfate.
full patients who havo been cured Of dis
tressing ailments voluntarily testify "a
their merits.
ALLcocx's PoRocs PLAs1xns arc purely
vegetable. They are mild but effective.
sure and quick in their action, and abse.
iutely harmless
Beware Of limitations. and do not b T.
,eived by misrepresentation
Ask for ALLcocK's. and let NO explanation
or solicitation induce you 70 accept sub
Stitute
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

II leap year IL b nothing strange - rcd
Of female lawyers going eourtiaG.-ReeA0-
~ Poet ExpvesS
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

TuR Still Alarm-expected seiguro q
Illicit whisky-TxEas SVtinOs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-22

NRvRR call . plain featured person home
" until you have got . glimpse Of the mind,
the spirit, the character behind the faca
You may discover such . happy combine
ton Of virtues and excellencies In that
personality, that the plaia Saasnses viii b.
como radiant with . beaign beauty which
no combination Of so-caaas4r 'bssuty fiDss''
can rival-Infertoc
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-21
How to Start a Creamery.

To organize cooperative cheese
factory or creamery, you should first
write to the manufacturers of dairy sup
plies, and get all the information they
can furnish in their printed matter or
letters. Then call a meeting of your
farmers and tell them all YOU know.
This meeting should appoint commit
tee to further investigate, and if posi-
BILE the committee should visit several
such factories. If their report is not
sufficiently complete, get some expert
enced creamery manager TO address q
meeting later. After you have adopted
q constitution and bylaws Gin the prep
aration Of which lawyer should be
employed to make sure that your State
laws are complied with and that YOU
startright,) you can then decide whether
to use the cream-gathering or the whole
milk system, what apparatus to employ,
etc. Whether butter-making will pay
better than cheese depends largely upon
the market, but as u rule, the creamer-
les can return a larger price for milk
than cheese factories. You can equip a
factory to make either butter or cheese,
as the market warrants, although wa
prefer to have it confined to one thing.
Farm and Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-21
Vaccination Statistics.

The following extract from the SAINT
tartan would seem to indicate that a
compulsory vaccination law has its adj
vautages: THE success of the anti
vaccinationists is aptly shown by the
results in Zurich, Switzerland, where
for a number of years, until 1883, q
compulsory vaccination law obtained,
and smallpox was wholly prevented
(not single case occurred in 1882
This result was seized upon in the fol-
lowing year by the Observation-Disclosures,
and used against the necessity for any
such law, and it seems they had suffi-
cicnt influence TO cause its repeal. The
death returns for that year Q883)
showed that for every thousand deaths
two were caused by smallpox; in 1884,
there were three; in 1885, seventeen;
and in the first quarter of 1886, eighty
fye.h
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-21

"The Christian Herald has for many years
had full permission to publish my sermons.
l shall continue to revise them for this pa
per, which is growing with miraculous ra-
pidity in circulation, influence and moral
power" The same paper ls also authorized
to publish Rev. G. H. Spurgeon's sermons,
which are sent direct from London every
week by special arran cement. Every issue
contains the portrait of one or two eminent
persons with pictures and biography; a
summary of the weeks news from all parts
of the world; part of thrilling serial story
Sunday-school lesson; short illustrated
stories and missionary scenes, anecdotes,
etc, etc. In short, it is O complete and ex-
cellent family Illustrated paper of 16 pages,
and is rapidly increasing in popularity. Sub
scription priceis $50, Special terms to clubs
Of two or more Send postal card for free
sample copy to the Manager, 63 Bible House,
New York City. Wewould strongly advise
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rency for two months trial subscription.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-21
CURSED BY WEALTH.
Increase in Suicides Among the young
Sons of Rich Fathers.


But the poor devil who, in the midst
of great city, without money, home
or friends, decides that the best road
for him leads through potter's field may
derive some small consolation from the
fact that riches, too, sometimes lead
to voluntary funeral and hole in the
ground The political economist and
the Anarchist may extract double
kernel from this nut of city life ana
mammoth fortunes, for suicide among
the young sons of wealthy fathers is
reaching a point which calls for retlec-
ton. To be sure, the coroners' in
quests in these cases are "doctored"
by an adequate outlay of cash, and
they 60 upon the official records gen.
orally as accidental death. Neverthe-
less, they are cases of self-murder, and
the public know it, while wondering
at the causes which should lead q
youth, the heir apparent to million or
more and untold luxury, to take his
own life.
The very wealth is at the root of il
all. The boy is INDUCED in money and
the disposition of his time. He play:
billiards and cards all night, smokes
cigarettes immodcrately, drinks whisky
in proportion, INDUCES in other pas
times and vices, and brides the servant
to lie about his comings and goings a
home. The father, engrossed in large
affairs, frequently has young drunk
ard sitting opposite him at dinner with
out being aware of the fact, and the
mothers love is too blind to observe
The boys health is damaged, his NOR
ais strangled, and his pocket mors
gagged. He gets INTO all sorts ofscrape'
that he is ashamed of, until finally one
more outrageous than usual and per-
haps with q female attachment, drives
him, with a mind weakened by de
bauchery, to despair. Then he shoots
himself; and he's usually drunk when
he does tn ]. Letter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-04-21
FlRST-CLASS SEEDS.


SSS OH'AA's
Few farmers give enough attention
to the proper selection of seed. The
price is Of little Importance provided
one gets just what he wants. pure, true
to name and of good terminating force.
Take cabbage seed for instance. Every
year there are acres of cabbage stumps
set and the seed put on the market
which is comparatively worthless. The
seed should be grown from cabbage
heads carefully selected in the fall;
those which least resemble the true
type of the variety should be cast aside
and sold, only the true stock being
kept for resetting for seed.
No farmer who proposes to grow
onions for market should buy seed that
he knows nothing about. Price is NO
object If onion seed is selling at one
dollar per pound, and some grower has
by careful selection, hand Smelling, etc.,
produced seed that is really worth
twice as much by the labor and care
bestowed on it, ought he not to ask two
dollars per pound? Some buyers will
refuse to pay 1t, thinking the cheapest
will be good enough. But suppose the
seed fails. proves to be Of some infe-
rior variety, full of scullions and with a
tendency to "stilf-neck," the labor and
seed are both lost. have grown 1,O90
bushels per acre of white globe onions
from selected seed for which / paid So
per pound, while an adjoining plant
ing Immediately beside the first on
same land and under same conditions,
did not produce bushels enough to be
profitable; the seed cost only $2 per
pound. l have grown $50 bushels red
globe per acre. and 77S Wethersiield
large red, and | have seen over 1 POO
bushels of the latter on n single acre.
Many seeds that go through dealers
hands are mixed with old or n cheaper
seed, the terminating power of whila
has been destroyed by heat, so that
they will not come up and expose the
fraud. The farmer wonders why his
seed did not come up well, but does
not think it was tempered with. Buy
your seeds of some expert grower or
scotsman who has reputation, or
grow them yourself. ~ q. Farmer.