The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-05-09
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Plant out onion sets as soon in the
spring as the soil can be worked into
a good filth. Have the soil rich.
Under good management straw
berries should yield 1000 gallons to
the acre; raspberries, 700; bIackber-
ries, 800, and currants from 400 to 500
gallons.
Warmth is very important for
young chicks. The early chicks pay
well, and this is the season when they
should receive extra care.
Whenever you whitewash slake
stone lime with boiling water, and
then thin down to the desired consists
ency with SKINNED milk and it will
be much more durable.
The 10000, 900 hogs raised in the
country are valued at 5000, 000,0 600.
The Mississippi Valley claims to have
raised three-ffths of the number.
"A COW that takes on flesh and fat
freely will not. as general thing.
make good mixer, and one making
a liberal large flow of milk will not at
the same time be good animal for
beef.
The surface of the soil in the or
chard should be kept reasonably level.
In blowing plan to secure this. Make
your surface drainage by running out
the necessary burrows, taking pains
always to avoid washing.
Use your wood ashes on your fruit
trees and vines. For peaches it is the
best fertilizer known. Broadcasted
over the orchard ground it will great
ly increase the growth of new wood
and invigorate the trees.
When you put out young peach
trees cut the sticks back to within two
feet of the ground A low tree is less
affected by the winds, and will grow
better. Young trees can be trained to
any shape desired by judicious prpn-
ing.
There is an advantage in using
walnut as shade tree, and that is, in
addition to securing more or less nuts
to use, it is freer than the average
from insects, and during the summer,
when good rest is desired, this is
quite an item.
Avoid using kerosene on peach
trees or applying it to vines in order
to destroy insects, as it often destroys
the trees or vines. 1t is a dangerous
substance to use on trees for any pur.
pose. AS lice destroyer in buildings
however, it has no superior.
| Feed the brood sows that have lit
tiers of pigs literally on warm, SLOPPY
food. Skim milk or buttermilk is ex
celent, but if this is difficult to Obtain
give her all the scalded ground grain
she can eat, with a mess of cooks
turnips or potatoes to which has beef
added pint of linseed meal.
"A hen that lays 100 eggs per year
the eggs averaging eight to the pound
produces more in weight than does
hen that lays 120 eggs a year tina
weigh twelve to the pound. Egg
should be sold by weight. 1t is no
always the hen that lays the create
number of eggs that is the most ser4
} iceable.
} Grow only such crops as have bee
found best adapted to your soil an
, climate. Any attempt to grow some
thing that is not well adapted to tn
soil increases the cost of productio
and lessons the profit. All new var
cites should first be tested in smal
, plots before attempting to grow gen
eral crop therefrom.
3 The direct cause of hog cholera
5 the presence of bacteria or diseas
I germs on the grass and in the watel
These cause Inflammation Of th
stomach and bowels. By feeding q
4 abundance of bone and muscle-forn
: ing foods, such as wheat middlingi
b clover, pease and oats, we can rails
t strong, healthy pigs. which win nc
8 readily succumb to disease. -Colons
Z D. Curtice.