St. Landry democrat., 1888-08-04
FACTS FOR FARMERS.


Farmers who must have hired men
to help them in their farm work ought
not to forget their overworked wives.
There is as much need of extra work
ers in the kitchen as on the farm.
Country boys ought to be taught
The use and value of money. Many a
farmers boy is growing up to man
hood with no knowledge of business
but little education and self-reliance.
Such young men will be lily prepared
to enter into the active business pur-
suits of life.
There are two things farmer can
never have enough Of: One is feed,
the other is manure. Feed obviously
makes manure, for it enables the
farmer to keep more cattle, and some
can always be purchaser cheaply in
the fall or winter, and make a good
profit on the feeding
To secure d good crop of grass it
is fully as necessary as with any other
crop, that good care be taken to have
the soil reasonably rich and we'll pre-
pared before sowing the seed. 1t is
quite serious error to work upon the
plan that land that is too poor to plant
to any other crop can be seeded down
to grass. Western PIownsan.
ANY domestic animal understands
and appreciates kind treatment. It is
no use to say they are "only dumb
brutes." 1t is true they can not talk,
but, like dumb or blind men, their in
telligence in other respects is doubled.
You can make friends of all your
animals If you take the trouble to do so.
One of the best means of removing
lice from fowls is to make them do it
themselves by having lot of dry earth
where they can dust themselves when
they feel like it, having first sprinkled
the earth with diluted carbolic acid.
This acid proves too much for the lice
and they leave the premises at once or
it causes them to give up the ghost.
All grass crops make the best hay
Il cut before the seed-heads form.
When a plant produces seed it has per-
formed it's mission and stored much OF
it, nutritious matter in the seed. To
Sc cure the largest amount of nutrition
in hay the grass should be cut while
the stalks and blades contain the ele-
meLts that would otherwise be directed
to the formation of seed
When stock is turned on the past
ure and there left all day, the water
supply must be looked after. A mich
cow must have plenty of water. She
can not wait until she is driven up at
night. The water is a necessary con.
stituent of the milk, and she must
have it during the time the milk is
being manufactured. If deprived OF
water during the warm days her sup
ply of milk will fall off.
One who has tried it states that
burning scraps of old rubber, rubber
boots Or shoes, upon.a pan of Goals that
is circulated among the trees of an
orchard will cause all insects to de-
part. This is a very simple means,
but we should fear that they would re-
turn after a little time The claim
was that there was a sort of consist
ence to the smoke that adhered to
leaves, blossoms, and even the trunks
of trees. which, being repulsive to In
scots, drives them away, and also holds
j virtue for some time. If this is q
i liable remedy it will be convenient
u repel rose-bugs during their period
of greatest injury.
There are farmers scattered every
where all over the land, who would be
in Independent circumstances to-day,
instead of tuning and fretting around,
trying to lift the mortgages ON their
farms, If they had adopted more sys-
tenn and method in their work, and
therefore stopped the little leaks that
have kept them behind. and always
will. There must be system about the
farm if we would have every thing rum
ming almost smoothly, without jar or
strain. In other words, there must be
a place for every thing and every thing
must be kept in its place. Ohio
Farmer.