The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-09-25
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

There is millions in farming, but
you can not get Eve cents out at 1t I'M
less you know how.
The breed is an important factor
in stock raising. The breed adapted
for the object sought will give better
results and at lower cost proportion
ately.
Meadow land needs manuring as
we'll as for other crops. If not plowed
up in a system of rotation, a good APP
plication of manure should be given,
taking care to have it we'll rotted and
fined.
Corn may do we'll On billy land,
Though the crop must be uneven),
but nearly always the land will lose
heavily by the denuding action OF rain
often SO heavily as to make grass or
small grain more profitable crop.
-Purslane is very peculiar weed;
1t not only produces innumerable seeds,
but every piece into which it is cut in
wedding will take root. 1t is. howev-
err, not tall, smothering weed, and is
said to indicate land rich in potash.
1t will not pay to attempt to farm
with fewer horses than are really re-
quired. An over-worked horse may
be reduced in value more than the sum
that may be derived from the crop he
produces. Every farmer should have
a spare horse or two in order to rest
the hard workers, especially in sum
mer.
1t will be better to SOW a less acre.
age and have the soil well prepared
than to prepare q large acreage in
less thorough condition. When 1t can
be done without increasing the cost too
much, every opportunity should be
taken to thoroughly prepare the soil.
where by SO doing, the yield can be
increased.
Onion tops and onions chopped
fine, mixed with the soft feed and fed
twice daily, will prevent the gapes,
will cure them if not too far advanced,
and viii greatly relieve the chick in all
cases where it has strength enough
left to eat. They must be fed faithful
ly, twice day.--Rural New Yorker.
If farm is running down and the
owner getting poor there is, according
to American Agriculturist, no relation
in his favor more promptly than rye,
clover and sheep. The land is plowed
in August and rye sown. five pecks to
the acre. In September timothy seed
is sown and in March liberal supply
of clover, which by August is in the
height OF its glory. Then the sheep
are turned in.
| Any farmer or worker out OF door
should be especially careful to use all
precaution in regard to becoming
overheated. A person who has once
been sunstruck or overheated seldom
fully RECEIVERS from the effects of it,
and sometimes it results speedily in
death. One is also more susceptible
| to second attack after having il
once. Attention to diet. the right use
of cold drinks and little prudence il
regard to the time of working vii
generally prevent it.
An exchange gives the following
reasons why the preparation OF lant
for potatoes should be made in thu
fall. (D The exposure of manure
during the winter to the decomposint
effects of the pulverized soil fits it fol
this crop, which is injured by fresl
manure and needs it's food mineralizet
by decomposition. (2) Fresh manure
harbors and encourages wire-worms
which are the most injurious pest
next to the Colorado beetle. (3) Ear
ly planting is indispensable, and a
soon as the ground is free from fros
and safe from deep freezing the see
should be planted.