St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-16
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Where the water is slow in dsap.
pearing from certain portions of the
field the best remedy is tile drain age,
which will incur but little expense.
Dwarf pears and cherries often
yield good crop the second year aft
err planting, but for the after good of
the trees such early bearing, in large
quantities, should be discouraged.
Luck as factor in profitable
farming ceases to exert tangible in
fuence when fertility begins to be
impaired by injudicious methods, and
that condition is sure to come on every
farm where luck is counted as a fac
tor.
Fresh manure should not be used
if it can be avoided, but should be
composted and allowed to decompose.
If placed on the land it must still I'M
dergo change in the soil before it
becomes plant food, which causes too
much heat in dry weather.
The white grub and the strawber-
nv leaf roller are the two principal
enemies to contend with in the straw
berry bed. In a small patch, with
leaf rollers, hand picking will answer;
but as rule, making new planting
in new place is the best remedy.
Whenever the work of the farm
will permit, it will pay 10 plow up a
good patch for turnips. In any thing
like favorable season turnips will
yield heavily; and as very little, if
any, cultivation is necessary, they can
be raised very cheaply. Home, Farm
and Factory.
An advocate of pig pork declares
that Young pig will produce more
live weight from a given weight of
food adapted to its use than any other
domestic animal. Skim milk and
meal. he says, are the most effective
rations fed. Middlings is the best
single food; cob-meal. fine ground, is
all efficient food, and equal to clear
corn-lneaL
Salt is an alb 'orbent. Thrown on
the stable floor, after it is Ccleaned, it
will absorb the mmonia. Thrown
into the manure heap, it will kill the
seeds of thousands of weeds. Thrown
on the land, it kills the grass and
noxious growth that takes up more OF
it than is good for them. Sown on
lawns in the spring. 1t kills worms,
bugs and weeds, and give the grass
chance.
White clover is the best pasture
grass that can be grown for sheep.
As white clover is a short grass, it is
more desirable than red clover for
grazing, as sheep detest long grass,
preferring TO crop close to the ground.
On mixture of grasses in a pasture
cattle and sheep may be grazed to-
getheE as the grasses that may be OBJ
jectionable to the cattle will be appro.
priated by the sheep.
An hour or two of contact with
parching air will kill young trees left
lying exposed to it by careless plant
ers. They often dry to death after
being set owing to neglect to com.
pact the soil. And in very hot sum-
mers, ounce bushes, grape vines and
many other plants given to root very
specifically are destroyed or gre atty
weakened by having their shallow
feeding-roots parched up in the sur.
face earth.
Some one wisely suggests that it
would be better for the farmer to ''pay
the tax equivalent to two or three
days work and hire somebody to
make roads who knows how" Ordi-
nary country road making is simply
time and money thrown away. The
roads are often more married than
by the work done on them
It would pay farmers we'll to carry
put the suggestion above given, in the
saving good roads would effect in the
wear and tear of vehicles, harness
and horseflesh-to say nothing Of time
and temper
Glover silage is not looked upon
with favor by many dairymen. They
prefer to feed it dry in connection with
corn silage. 1t is urged that clover is
apt to mould in the silo and that a
anger proportion is reasonably sure to
poll than will be found IN the case of
'orn. Chopped clover keeps better
han long. and it is found that allow
ng the clover to wilt on the ground
before hauling to the silo is great
Idvantage. In fact, with any kind OF
rop. this willing is beneficial. Clover
anks second as silage crop, but corn
) so far ahead on the list that the
atural tendency is to make the clover
nto hay. Rural Nev Yorker.