The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-06-01
HERE AND THERE.

"A corner lot, size twenty by forty
feet, in the business center of Chicago,
recently sold for $l50,000. It is hard
to realize that land could sell at the
rate of IS, l67, 500 per acre.
There has been large increase in
the membership of the Grange in tho
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 a small portion
boiled each day. All this seems q
great deal of trouble, but the increas-
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 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,
2 cotemporary correctly remarks, is
BY 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 lessening the
yield.
AS a rule, says the Live Stock Indi-
Gator, blackberries require about the
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 aud 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, 600
bales. worth about 500 per bale. this
would be 500. 600. 900. The poultry
product is over $500, 0OO, 900 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 vigorous start to the germ
Of the plants.
"A practical test viii convince the
dairyman who has tried it that his
cows are capable Of consuming and di-
costing much larger amount of food
than the usual allowance. Expert
ments of this kind will 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
following is about the result: The
cattle are little thin on account Of
the grass having to some extent been
rotted by the continuous rains, but
they are strong and In good condition
to rapidly take ON flesh. The losses
during the winter have been light and
have been confined to low lands which
we're oyerdowed