The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-21
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
A member of a famous farmers club
aays feed onions to sheen to kill the

"A member OF z famous FARMERS CiuU
says feed onions to sheep to kill the
icks.
1t is good idea to cultivate the
young orchard for three years; then it
may be seeded down for three years.
when it should be cultivated again.
-Ashed with good roof is necessary
in every hog pasture. However well
hogs may enjoy an abundance OF water
in warm weather, when the rain comes
in torrents for days, they take to
dry shed with evident pleasure.
The advantage in sorting out the
fruit before sending to market. not
only includes a quicker sale, but re-
allies better profit; and when there
is any thing like a full crop this will
be found the most profitable plan with
all kinds of fruit, whether marketed
at home or sent considerable distance
away.
Spraying fruit trees in blossom
with arsenical poisons is strongly con-
demned by Prof. A. j. Cook. 1t
poisons bees and the honey they are
making, and Prof. Cook thinks it may
even poison people who eat honey
made from the blossoms sprayed. He
suggests that legislatures should enact
laws furnishing the spraying of trees in
bloom with fine and imprisonment.
Ground squirrels have become so
great nuisance in California that the
farmers in some counties are organ
izing against them. 1t is proposed to
pay bounty raised by local taxation
of so much per acre to every farmer
who shall keep his land free from
squirrels, and to appoint squirrel in
spectors, whose duty it shall be to de-
stroy the pests when the owners of the
land neglect to do so, and who shall be
paid for their services by the commu.
nifty.
One cent is small matter! Yes,
but when added to the receipt for each
pound of butter or meat. each quart OF
berries or milk, through the year, it
is little thing that tells. Added to
a price it is so much gain, so much net
profit. The first cost must come out
of the price, whether it be large or
small; the cost being covered. every
cent extra is so much clear. Isn't it,
then, wise to pick and pack, and to
raise only first-class products, that the
extra price may be secured?
1t requires but little experience to
discover that the same kinds OF crops
can not be grown on the same ground
for many years in succession without
detriment. Plants of the same family
should not be planted to succeed each
other. Plants which occupy the
ground for number of years, such as
rhubarb and asparagus. should sue
coed annual plants. Crops grown for
heads, such as cabbage, cauliflower,
ETC., should be succeeded by crops
grown for their bulbs or roots
Plant strawberries in the spring.
Fall paintings are liable to freeze out,
and they will not bear crop tho en-
suing spring, and summer paintings
require more care and skill than the
ordinary farmer is likely to bestow.
Strawberry plants can be set in April
without losing one in a hundred if
proper care is taken in putting them
out. They should not be allowed TO
fruit the first spring, as they will not
be sufficiently rooted, and it will reduce
their vitality too much; besides the
fruit will be inferior and dirty.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
Many farmers cling tenaciously to
the idea that "corn makes the hog. "
Corn is a very necessary article in the
production of pork, but all the corn in
America can not make pork at q profit
out of the long-nosed. thinshouldered,
thin owled, flabby, cadaverous looking
little individual found in many of the
pig pens on many farms. The sooner
the farmer gets rid of these proitless
scrubs and breed quick maturing swine,
they will learn that there is something
else needed besides corn to make swine
breeding a paying investment. Tho
Swineherd.