The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-05-29
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Hill up the clean subsoil around
fruit trees to the height of foot, to
remain all summer-as u protection
against the borer fly.
Never go to town to buy unless
you carry an equivalent to sell. Sell
for the cash, pay cash for what you
buy. and keep out OF debt as you would
keep out of the fire.
Continue to plant sorghum, millet,
collards (for stock) and late corn.
Don't neglect the patches of cane and
other side crops in your anxiety to
get over" your cotton.
DO not water your young plants
too much. Some towering plants are
easily killed If water gets in tho
crowns.
Don't breed too many kinds Of
fowls at the same time, unless you are
going into the business. Three or
four will give you your hands full.
The young onions must be we'll
worked or tho grass will soon crowd
them. Fine weather promotes the
growth of grass and weeds, and they
must be kept down from the start.
Light Brahmas alone are not the
most desirable for broilers. They grow
too slowly. But cross light Brahma
hens with white Leghorn male, and
we have quick-maturing and plump
bird.
Study to feed the plant, not to
make the soil rich, If profit is the OBJ
ject. Farmers should never overlook
the fact that the object Of agriculture
is to make crops grow rather than to
enrich the soil.
An experienced New York dairy
man, who has done business with
twenty-five cheese factories for about
fifteen years. has found it more satis-
factory to deliver milk to the factory
once day than twice.
When an intelligent farmer is
once convinced that poultry can be
made a paying branch of his business
he is usually not slow to take steps to-
ward improving his flock and provid-
ing good quarters for them.
Keep your tools sharp, now that
the work is pressing. A man with
sharp tools can do more work in a day
than can two men with dull tools. It
may take little time to sharpen the
tools, but it will be labor saved.
When an animal appears to refuse
certain foods to which it has been ac-
customed, change the bod and give a
variety, which will improve the ape
petite and induce the animal to eat
more.
No farm is complete unless it con-
tains orchards. Not only should the
apple be given place, but all other
varieties of fruit. The small fruits
should be grown especially for family
use, and large supply Of all kinds
should be canned for winter.
lin every State where experiment
stations have been established tho
farmers have been protected against
adulterated fertilizers, the quality Of
the seeds is better. and the system Of
planting and cultivating crops i'm.
proved.
Every farmer should have an ex.
perimental plot of his own. The i'm
formation gained of practical kind
will be invaluable. II every farmer in
the United States could be induced to
try few experiments annually, agri-
culture would make more rapid prog
ress than any other branch of industry.
do not be induced to retain male
pig from the cross-bred litter because
it is a fine specimen. The male should
be thoroughbred, or there will be no
uniformity in the offspring. The mis-
take Of keeping over cross-bred males
is one that he's largely aided in de-
generating tho swine ea some FARMS 1