St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-09-01
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i'm manipulating butter never allow
the hands to come in contact with it,
as their warmth melts and Injuries the
grain.
Make it rule to kill every white
butterfly seen in the cabbage patch. as
they are the parents of the cabbage
worm.
One cock with ten to fifteen hens,
one drake with six ducks and one
gobbler with a flock Of twenty hen
turkeys is the rule.
Corn cut before fully ripe will
make good seed corn. Some advocate
and follow the practice. Care must be
taken in curing it. II put in large
shocks while green there is danger Of
the corn being injured by overheating.
Sweet potatoes and melons can
endure quite period of dry weather.
but no weeds should be allowed in the
hills, as they will rob the occupants Of
the rows of both food and moisture.
As a general rule scraping trees
does more harm than good. A good
wash. if properly applied. will destroy
the pests that may infest the trees and
the necessity for scraping be avoided.
The better quality Of fruit Is moro
difficult to raise than lower grade.
yet, at the same time, it sells much
more readily and at better prices. SO
that a large profit can be secured.
For grazing alone blue grass Is
one of the very best grasses that can
be grown on the farm. Once well
established it will Withstand heavy
tramping and close cropping with less
damage than almost any other grass.
During the Very warm days the
poultry house demands attention. The
droppings should be removed at least
twice a week, and the interior thor
oughly saturated with kerosene oil, in
order to prevent lice from taking pos.
session. A few days only are neces-
sary for poultry-house to be overrun
with lice. as vermine multiply rapidly.
See that the fruit trees are not too,
heavily loaded down, Often a valu.
able tree is ruined for want of little
care in this particular. A little work
in thinning out, few supports set up
under the limbs, will often avoid I'M
necessary risks.
e S. Goff, horticulturist OF the
New York experiment station, found,
as the result Of long series OF tests,
that the productiveness Of any strain
Of potatoes can be materially increased
by the continued selection for seed OF
tubers from the most productive hills.
The Dairy World says that an
Illinois genius has invented a travelling
milk separator, that he sets up in .
'.giffen or two." ut the door of each
farmer, and puts the milk through.
leaving the sweet skim-milk on the
farm, and goes on his way rejoicing
with the cream to the butter factory.
A young colt should not be worked
hard. but it is all the better for ham
ding and light exercise at q very early
age. says a writer. No attempt at rid
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three years old, but almost any thing
else may be done with a much
younger colt. The teachableness OF
colts depends a good deal on breeding.
1t is dreadful waste Of cow force,
says Hoard, to turn her out where she
roams over several hundred acres of
land. She will be doing it most all
day. il there is no fence to stop her,
and will be sure to do il. II the pasture
is thin and sparse. She had better be
fed what she needs; on small space,
and then lie down and attend to he.
legitimate mission on the earth-make
milk.
A pig that takes its head out OF
the trough while eating and acts as il |
the slop had run down the wrong way
has the snuffies. says the Lire SIocE |
Record. He should be removed from
the herd and cared for. as the disease
is contagious. Put pine tar in the
slops and smear both the nose and face
with it Feed sulphur and turpentins |
with it. A free use of carbolic acid,
both externally end Internally, shcu,j
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