The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-30
HERE AND THERE.

"A corner lot, size twenty by forty
feet, in the business center of Chicago,
recently sold for $4,000. It's hard
to realize that land could sell at the
rate of IS, 167, 500 per acre.
There has been a large increase in
the membership of the Grange in the
past two years. 1t is said that the
Grange now has over 100000 active
working members.
The man who makes his farm pay
these days by use of brains as capital
has real talent, and should stand sec
ond to none in the community where
he lives. Farm, Stock and Home.
"A little salt is necessary to bring
out the flavor" in butter, but when any
one says: II want considerable salt in
my BUTTER it is certain he does not
know the flavor of the choicest butter.
When the hogs are killed the livers,
lights and hearts should be saved for
the chickens, and q small portion
boiled each day. All this seems q
great deal of trouble, but the inereas-
ed production of eggs repays one with
compound interest.
The invention of labor-saving de-
vices, and the improvement in farming
methods, have lifted the husbandman
from the level of the mere machine
1--WE might say, of the beast Of burden)
to that of the intelligent and skilled
manipulation and engineer.
Mr. Goodpasture, representative
from Montgomery County, Tenn, has
introduced a bill in the Tennessee
Legislature which revives the old
method of the tobacco inspectors be-
ing elected by the quarterly courts in
the counties where there are tobacco
markets.
The best plan of feeding the plants,
q cotemporary correctly remarks, is
Nv applying fertilizers to the soil. The
continual growing of any crop without
returning to the soil the plant food
they are taking from it will, sooner or
later, exhaust the valuable supply, at
least to the extent of 1essening the
yield.
AS rule, says the Live Stock Indi-
Gator, blackberries require about Che
same general treatment as raspberries,
with the possible exception, however.
that they need not be planted on quite
as rich a soil. They need, however,
good pruning and clean cultivation to
secure the best quality of fruit
Some people think the poultry bus
mess is small potatoes. 1t is esti-
mated that the annual cotton crop OF
the United States is about 1000, 900
bales. worth about 800 per bale, this
would be 800, 900, 900. The poultry
product is over $500, 600, 600 annually,
according to Burnham. Surely poul-
try is king!
While it is an item to commence
work as soon as possible in the Spring,
there is nothing gained in attempting
to work the soil until it is sufficiently
dried out to work readily into a good
filth land sufficiently dry and warm
to induce good termination OF the
seed, and d vigorous start to the germ
of the plants.
"A practical test will convince the
dairyman who has tried it that bis
cows are capable of consuming and di.
/ costing much larger amount Of food
than the usual allowance. Expert
ments of this kind viii soon denote
/ which of the COWS pays best, by not
ing whether the excess Of food is con
, verted into increased quantity of milk
: or converted into flesh.
I'm summing up the present condi
ton Of cattle in Southwest Texas the
i following is about the result; Inc
cattle are little thin on account o.
| the grass having to some extent been
} rotted by the continuous rains, oul
they are strong and IN good condition
. to rapidly take on flesh. The losses
J during the winter have been light ana
3 have been confined to low lands Whlea
5 were overhowed.