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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-14
Turning Over a New Leaf.

Turning over a new leaf" is a IA
Torite theme with agricultural journals
when they set about to give their peri
odical good advice at the beginning of
a new year. 1t may look like a stale
subject, and the advice in most cases
may remain wholly Ineffective. It is
good, nevertheless; although often act
ed upon in a wrong way. If farming
has not paid during the year now past,
the farmer must know the reason why,
in order to be able to turn the leaf
properly. Good farming, although,
perhaps, more the exception than the
rule, never fails to pay in the long run;
but of all the grave problems of good
farming that confront the husband
man, the judicious selection of crops
with the wedding out of the unprofita-
BILE ones, is one of the gravest. And
here the farmer is only too apt to turn
over that new leaf to his own disad-
vantage. Aye, this turnover is one
of the most common and most serious
mistakes that agricalturists ever make.
If the potato crop has not been profita-
BILE one year, the new leaf is at once
turned over; that is, the crop aban-
doned or the area planted largely de-
creased next year. Strawberry beds
are plowed up, raspberry plantation
and hop-yards torn up, sheep sold, ETC.,
merely because the berry, hop or wool
crops have failed to yield as fair returns
last year as they may have done year
or two before. This turning over
new leaves vacillating between this
crop and that, generally hitting the
improbable seasons with what
ever happens to be grown
most largely, is the chief reason
why farming is not found to pay
By so large a number of farmers. The
average profits of any crop during a
term of years alone can give us a safe
basis for our calculations. The crops
that are permanently and hopelessly
Improbable are the ones to be discard
ed permanently. Most crops, if grown
in localities adapted to their produc-
tion, will yield a fair average rate of
profit to those who grow them regular
", or, perhaps, make a speciality Of
them. The deficiency of one year is
generally made up by the extra good
results of another. Turning over new
leaves by everlastingly changing crops
from year to year is an operation that
savors of gambling. with the chances
against the gambler. If this has been
your practice, it is high time to turn
aver another new leaf by quitting II.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-14
HERE AND THERE.

The first six weeks of the life Of
young pig are the most Important
Warmth will do more at this season
than food to give the fall pigs start.
1t will soon be time for the ewes
to lamb and they require awarm place.
1t should be provided now, when the
work can be done at leisure.
The flower bed for next year may
be made very rich by scattering the
sweepings of the poultry-house over it
Soapsuds may also be well utilized by
throwing them on the flower beds.
Prof. Stubbs, of the Louisiana Ex-
pertinent Station, cautions Southern
farmers against investing in so-called
new varieties of cotton. In twenty-five
of these varieties he found there was
no decided difference.
Every new fact discovered about
the diseases of farm animals, empha-
sizes that these diseases are owing to
impure drink from ponds and sluggish
creeks more than all other causes
combined.
During the winter is a good time
to arrange the fowl yard and eoops
for spring. A good breeding coop is
necessary, one where the young poul-
try can be fed without interference
from the old poultry.
If provided with comfortable
shelter and well fed, ducks will begin
laying very early. They should not
be fed so as to get too fat, but it will
pay to feed sufficiently to keep in
good condition.
Milk is one of the best feeds that
can be given to poultry. 1t can be
given to them to drink; be made into
curd and fed in this way or be mixed
with meal, bran or table scraps. For
young or old it can, in many cases, be
used with more profit than to feed TO
the hogs.
in winter fowls can stand closer
confinement than in the summer, buta
reasonably good yard, where they can
scratch and exercise, is almost me-
cessity. If the yard is well seeded to
grass and then divided so as to allow
them to be changed from one part to
the other, better results can be OBJ
tanned.
"A writer says that wood ashes,
where available, are the cheapest fer
tilizer for fruit trees. In their alb
sence, bone manure, three parts, and
muriate of potash German salts) OF
high grade, one part, have the strong
Endorsement of the Massachusetts,
Agricultural College.
Two COWS in Georgia are reported
to have lost their tails by the opera
lions of worms. The worm in each
case eats its way around the tail about
foot from the body. The lower part
of the tail becomes dead, and in a few
weeks breaks of. The presence Of the
worms was not detected except by the
work they had done.
The editor of the Mark Lane Exs
press advises farmers to cdt off potato
blossoms as soon as they appear. The
balls, or true seed of the potato, which
results from the blossom, are not only
unnecessary, to the formation Of the
tuber below, but are o preiudieial strain
on the plant,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-14
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
a supplx Of Grass Tor Hay.


There are two plans for keeping up
q supply of grass for hay. One of
these is by making grass a part Of a
system of rotation, seeding portion
of the land each year to grass, and
blowing up old meadows and putting
the land in some cultivated crop. The
other is when a good stand of grass is
secured to keep the land in grass as
long as profitable crops can be secured.
The continued growing of grass
crops to be cut off for hay, without
adding, or rather supplying any thing
back to the soil to make up for
what is taken away, is as certain
to gradually decrease the fertility
as the growing of any other crop.
And it is just as important if good
growth and yield of grass is secured to
have the soil as rich as it is with any
other crop. So that it becomes neces-
sary to apply sufficient fertilizers to
keep up the supply of plant food in an
available form.
When a rotation is adopted and car
ried out there is always more or less
opportunity for applying manure, and
in such a way that the best results are
possible. If the land is we'll plowed
and then the manure is applied upon
the surface and properly worked into
the soil with the harrow or cultiyator,
it will place the soluble portions in a
condition to be of the most benefit to
the growing crops. A system of
rotation and manuring is, no doubt,
the best plan to keep up the fertility,
as the changing of the crops
as well as the manuring will increase
the amount of available plant food,
But in some localities it is somewhat
difficult to carry out plan of this
kind, for the reason that it is some
what difficult to secure a good stand of
grass, and often when the best of care
is taken to prepare the soil in good
filth and sow the seed in good season,
the weather will be such that the seed
ing will prove an entire failure. It is
of course difficult under these con-
ditions to meet with the best success,
and it is then better plan to keep the
land in grass SO long as good yield
can be realized. At the same time the
fertility of the soil can be kept up by
top dressing.
Whenever this plan is adopted care
should be taken to have the manure
thoroughly rotted and fined, and
then if it is spread evenly over the
surface the fertility may be kept up.
It will be best to apply dressing fire.
quently, using less quantity than to
apply so literally that the grass will
be even partially killed out. And
the applying of too large quantity
of fresh, coarse manure is often the
cause of considerable damage to the
growing grass. When the supply of
manure is hardly sufficient to keep up
the fertility it will often pay to pur-
chase and use commercial fertilizers
on the meadows, and use the stable
manure upon the cultivated land.
Grass, potatoes and wheat can all be
greatly benefited by an application of
good commercial fertilizers, and in
many cases it will pay to use CONNER
cial fertilizers on these crops when the
supply of barn-yard manure is INSULT
cient, and especially on grass land
when applied as a top dressing
Practical Farmer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-14

OSE Of Gods ways of training as for His
service is by setting US at dfstasteful
tasks for others. We may ourselves be
gamers BY honest effort in behalf of those
who themselves receive no benefit from
our endeavors. In considering the ques
ton whether our more toilsomc work -
the present time is a profitable work, we
must know that its chiefest gain may be
TO US in its doing, rather than to those in
behalf Of whom it is done-S. S. Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-14

one of the best sights upon which
human eyes can rest is an old man full t.
the brim of sweetness and hope-a regu-
lar optImist in every thing that concerns
grace and glory. Michigan Christian I'D
voeate.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-03-14

THERE Is such difference between com
ing out of sorrow, merely thankful for re-
lief, and coming out of sorrow full OF
sympathy witt and trust in Him who hs
released Us, v~F .itItps BrooaA
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16
SENSIBLE SAYINGS.

WORK taken in proper doses is good
medicine.
"THE highway of virtue is so little fire.
quented that collisions are rare.''
LAzINEss grows on people 1t begins IN
cobwebs and ends in iron chains.
SOME Of the brightest lights go out in
consequence Of using borrowed Oil.
A GOOD many people know just what is
the matter with others, but never found
out what the matter was with themselves
MANY employers lose faithful service be-
cause they never praise when every thing
is well done. but always censure when any
thing goes wrong.
CERTAIN qualities are always necessary
to enable any man to succeed in his voca-
ton, and a mans advancement above a
competitor depends upon tbs magnitude of
these qualities.
SOME men, like hornet, are always
found sting uppermost. They sting their
friends to show their independence; their
enemies, to show their lmpartiallty; and
each other, to keep themselves in practice.
PEOPLE fret too much about trif1es.
When thing is beyond repair, waste no
useless regrets over it and do no idle fret
ting. Strive for that serenity Of spirit that
will enable you to make the best of all
things. That makes contentment in it's
best sense.
Too MUCH planning to avoid possible
future evil is as bad as too little The old
maxim not to cross bridge until you come
to it, contains deal Of good advice. They
who are constantly nerving themselves to
fight with shadows find they have very Lit.
tie strength to meet real trouble.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16
ASTRONOMICAL FEATS.

A DRY-GooDs clerk in a Pennsylvania vii
lage ate three large mince pies in an even
ing and went to bed. Instead of dreaming
that he saw his departed ancestors he went
to join them before morning.
A TRAVELLING man was matched against
an eightpound turkey in recent Kansas
contest, and won by devouring the entire
bird at a single meal When it was all over
the fowl was mere skeleton of its former
self
A BALTIMORE boiler-maker named Howe
recently performed the feat of eating five
dozen raw eggs, shells and all, on a wager
of five dollars. 1t took him two hours and
one-half to reach the last egg, and he washed
the feast down with pint bottle of pure
alcohol.
RoMULUs Lawson, of Allensville, N. c., is
evidently an expensive guest to have to
dinner He has record of having devoured
at one meal a quarter of mutton, two half
grown chickens, pound Of bacon, five her.
rings, loaf Of corn bread, eighteen bis
cults and a pound of candy.
THE champion buckwheat-cake eater, II.
Il. Bissell, an employee of the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad, resides in
Youngstown, o. Last week, on a bet of
twenty dollars with Charles Near, miller.
he ate sixty-three cakes, none being less
than five inches in diameter Near threw
up the contest after eating fiftv-eight, aud
Bissen secured the money and champion
shin
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16
Excursions to California.

Special excursion trains to California
points via the Missouri Pacific railway
Wednesday, Dec. II, and every alternate
| Wednesday throughout the winter. Cheap
rates and firstclass accommodations
choice of routes. You can go via Fort
Worth and Fl Paso or via Pueblo Denver
and Salt Lake City. Ali tourists cars are
taken care of by firstclass porters who will
wait on passengers without extra charge
The Missouri Pacific railway is the great
southwest system which connect. the
great commercial centers and rich farms
Of Missouri, the broad corn and wheat
fields and thriving towns and cities of
Kansas. the fertile river valleys and trade
centers of Nebraska
The grand picturesque and enchanting
scenery and the famous miuing districts OF
Colorado.
The agricultural. fruit, mineral and
timber lands and famous Hot Springs of
Arkansas.
The beautiful rolling prairies and wood
lands OF tAe Indian Territory
The sugar plantations OF louisiana
The cotton and grain fields-the cattle
ranges and winter resorts of Texas.
Historical and scenic Old and New Mex
leo and forms with its connections the
popular winter route to Arizona and Cali
fornia.
For reservation of berths and general
information relative to any trip. business
or pleasure, call at city ticket Office, l37
North Main street, or at depot, corner
Second and Wichita streets
K. +. BLECKLEY,
15-tf Pass. and Ticket Agent
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16
THE RESULT OF RESEARCH.

An Ohio girl claims to have invented a
process by which barrel of oil can be con-
verified into ten thousand cubic feet of gas
IT has been stated that the reason why
oil Gains the waves during q storm is that
it ''acts as a lubricant between the air and
the water, preventing the wind from TAX
ing hold upon the water, and by the great
cohesion of its PARTICLES preventing also the
breaking of the waves"
II has been demonstrated that in piping
natural gas in pipes of one size, consider
able of the pressure is lost about eight
pounds per mile; but by using the telescope
system, smaller pipes at the well and grad
ually increasing the size toward the point
of consumption, that the loss of pressure is
reduced TO about three pounds per mile.
THE extraction of gold in what is called
the wet way seems to promise TO super
sede the amalgamation process. The ore is
treated with chlorine gas, the soluble chic
rides formed extracted with water. and the
gold precipitated from the solution so OBJ
tanned. either by hltering through a bed of
powdered wood charcoal or by heating 10
boiling with small quantity of the char
coal
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16
Coke, Coke Coke, Crushed Coke, at II
Economy, ZIG \. Market AZ
"Reasons Why"

''Reasons Why
You should patronize the great Rock Is
land route:
|. because it is always first to give
cheap rates.
2 Because IL gives to its patrons only
first class accommodations.
B. because il runs free chair cars on all
trains and Pullman sleeping cars on all
night trains leaving Wichita.
f. Because Its ticket agents will sell you
tickets and check your baggage To destina-
tons be IL east west, north or south, aud
always ready to give reliable information.
). Because il is noted on account of its
gentlemanly employees and the attention
paid its patrons.
s. Because it is the only line That ladies
and children can travel over without
worry or trouble and receive the best Of
treatment by nil employees
Z. Because its tracks are of the heaviest
steel rail. rock ballast, iron bridges. com
modious station houses and the finest eat
ing houses in the world
These are only a few reasons why you are
justified in selecting the great Rock Island
route wren going OF a journey for business
or pleasure-for comfort, speed and safety
the Rock Island route is way ahead. Call
at the ticket Offices of this company for
rates, dates, and routes and further infor-
nation. 20J East Douglas avenue.
l3-tf G. A RUTHERFORD, Ticket Agent.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16
RELICS AND RARtTrEs.

TEE birch rod used by the first teacher Ia
q Vermont school-house over one hundred
years ago is said to be nailed over the pres
emit teachers desk.
Two OoALA, Fla, ladies are the happy
possessors OF pieces Of one Of the court
dresses worn by Queen Isabella, wife Of
Edward IL, who reigned over England in
the thirteenth century.
An autograph letter of Henry, Of Ma
varre, was sold for 500 the other day in
Paris. 1t was addressed to Gabriel d'Es-
trees, and closed with: 81 Kiss you one
hundred thousand times.7
AN engrossed copy Of the declaration Of
independence in vellum has been found in
the New York City library. It is in folio
form, and is attested by Charles Carroll. OF
Carrollton, then the only surviving signer
of the original document.
LAFAYETTE, N. Y, has an old-fashioned
clock made in Germany more than 200
years ago which still keeps good time. 1t
was made entirely by hand, and the ma
nogany case, reaching from floor to ceiling,
is held together by wooden pins.
A HINDoo god is offered for sale in Lon
don. Its throne was at Delhi, and to it fc-
male pilgrims hocked for more than thou
sand years. 1t ceased to be an object Of
worship about the year 1888. The divinity
is of gold, incrusted with precious stones
and is set round with priceless gems called
the mine charms"
TIE late King Alphonso XII, of Span,
gave to his cousin Mercedes, when be-
trothed to her, ring which has brought
death to each successive wearer Of it. Five
members of SPANS royal family wore it,
and each one died shortly after placing it
on the hand. The ring now hangs from q
statue of the maid of Almudera in Madrid
TIE Pilgrim Society, of Plymouth, Mass,
has received a shoe found In the founda-
ton of an old chimney recently torn down
on Isaac Bartlett's estate at Manomet The
chimney was erected in 1850 on the site Of
one much older. The shoe has pointed
toe, and rather resembles a Dutch foot
covering. The house was occupied by the
ancestors of Sidney Bartlett, the oldest
member of the Suffolk County, Mass, bar.
IN the collection Of engravings of the
late Major Ben Perley Poore, recently sold
at auction in Boston, were two rare prints
of special interest to collectors. They were
portraits of George and Martha Washing
ton, and their value lay In the fact that they
were the first portraits of the Washing,
tons ever executed by a professional en-
graver III America. The work was done
by j. Norman, and printed in Boston in
17S2. 1t is thought that there is but one
other copy of the George Washington in ex-
istence, and no other Of the Martina Wash
ington. The prints fetched $500, and were
bought by Boston man.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16
STRANGE SUPERSTITIONS.

SPANIARDs, in the sixteenth century, be-
heved that spiders indicated gold when they
were found in abundance.
IT is said that upon the backs of the
seven-year locusts there sometimes appear
marks like letter of the alphabet. When
this looks like " it is thought that war is
imminent
A HEBREW at Athens, Ca, has received
gift Of six ounces Of white sand from Pal
estine. 1t is said TO be the belief of some
Hebrews that this sand, if placed under the
head of corpse, insures the return Of the
spirit TO Jerusalem.
OUR Dakota Indians extend the number
OF souls TO four. one OF which after DEATH
wanders through the world, another hovers
around the village where its possessor
lived. the third watches the grave, and the
fourth goes to heaven.
SAILORS believe reiigiously that the
frigate bird can start al daybreak with the
trade winds from the coast Of Africa and
roost the same night upon the American
shore. Whether or not this is a fact has
not yet been couclusivejy determined, but
Ii is certain that the bird is the swiftest OF
winged creatures, and is able 20 fiy,' under
fayoriug condition, two hundred miles an
hour.
TIE Audubon Magazine tells rs that ia
Sweden the turtle dove IS looked upon as
sacred is called Gods bird and IS sup
posed to protect a house where it is left
from lightning. In the Tyrol the quail Is
credited with the gift of prophesy. and the
number OF his calls is believed 70 denote
the price Of corn and 70 indicate as well
the prospects OF the crops Il is there
thought that eauns sparrow pro-sa.css s..
Vllls Gaacs
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16
JOURNALISTIC JOTTlNGs.

IT is said that secret treaty has been
concluded between Japan and Russia
against England.
A TABLET in memory Of Henry Ward
Beecher is to be placed in the wall OF
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
A WASHINGTON paper says that not a dol
lar of conscience money has been received
at the Treasury for two years.
The Sea-Coast Fishing and Shooting Club
is the name of an organization IN Tennes-
see which meets once week to play check
ers.
ULYSSES (Neb.) man has built the
Largest corn-crib on earth" 1t is 400 feet
long, 12 feet wide and IL feet high, and holds
% 900 bushels.
IT is getting to be the fashion in New
York to salt tenement houses with free
tenants for the purpose of selling them.
The sale being effected, the tenants move
out.
IT is thought by experts that the next
census, TO be taken June /, 1890, will
show population in the United States of
$4,000, OO0-an increase of Il, 000, coo over that
Of 1880
A TOURIST fell into a Yellowstone Park
geyser the other day and was carried some
distance below the surface of the earth.
An instant later he was hurled up fully
twenty-five feet above the ground.
IT is proposed to make new county for
Connecticut from the Sixth and-Twentieth
Senatorial districts. The named suggested
Is Waterbury" County, and it would in
ciude eighteen towns, with an aggregate
wealth of 500, 5000
The Scientific American says the great
Oil fields of New York and PENNSYLVANIA
are rapidly becoming exhausted. The sup
ply has fallen from 1905 to 43 600 barrels
per day. Search is beng made for new
fields.
A RESIDENT of Detroit, Mich, recently
purchased real gondola when he was in
Venice, paying $3.50 for it. The freight bill
exceeds the original cost of the boat It
viii accommodate twenty persons, and will
float on the Detroit river next season.
THE postmaster of New y ork says that if
the rates paid by the Government for carry
ing the mails on the railroads of the coun-
try were reduced in the same proportion as
the companies have reduced freight rates
to private parties, a one-centrate for letters
could be Immediately inaugurated without
increasing the present post-of1ce deficit
THERE is only one woman in the United
States who is entitled on all occasions to
the privilege of the floor of the Senate.
This is the wife of Senator John II. Reagan,
OF Texas, who has been appointed private
secretary by her husband, with all the hon
ors and enoluments Of that position,
amounting TO $4,000 a year. This is said to
be the first case Of the kind in the records
of the Senate
THE last "drop-a-penny-in-the -slot" auto
matic machine is that perfected by Canon
Bagot, the celebrated Irish dairy authority.
In return for penny 1t will give drink of
milk in paper glass" He is confident
that this will lead to great increase in the
use Of milk as beverage in cities. Over
1900 glasses were sold on one holiday in
Dublin, and more than two hundred of the
buyers said that it was the first time they
had ever tasted cows. milk