The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-08-23
HERE AND THERE.

AS we'll attempt to keep abreast
with the reading, progressive and prac-
tical farmer without a good weekly
paper as to get to Heaven without
Bible or prayer-book.
-Nowise man will neglect to repair
his fences until after his stock has
strayed away. The loss of one steer
may be only SIS; but even that will
paw a hired mans wages for half
month.
Hay and chaff gathered up from the
barn floor, the mows and the lofts can
often be fed to poultry to good adj
vantage. They will pick and scratch it
over and eat more or less that other
wise would go to waste.
Where fowls have good range the
roosting places are nearly the only por-
ton of the house that is used to any
considerable extent now. Cleanliness,
good ventilation and thorough drainage
are the three important items with the
roosting places in summer.
No wise man will allow his reaper
and mower to rust and rot in the field
has agricultural machinery TO sell will
be sure to find him out Likewise the
man who has money to loan at ten per
cent and on long incorporated the
interest is paid promptly.
One of the easiest ways of supply.
| ing a dust-bath in summer is to make a
small ash-heap in some part of the poul.
try-yard where the fowls can have full
access If little powdered sulphur or
a small quantity of carbolic acid is
added they will be still better to help
rid the fowls of lice.
Cattle seem to exercise more sense
in regard to drinking than any other
animals. A drove of steers or cows
when hot will rush into stream and
stand in the water. but very little will
they drink until perfectly cooled of. II
Is rare for one to founder under such
conditions
"A practical horseman says that
when the time for the mare to foal ap
proaches, and she shows no signs o
having milk, to give her half galloI
of sweet milk, mixed with enough brar
to make a mash; salt lightly and feed
once day as long as thought necessary
A mare will eat it greedily, and it SEEM
to be just what they want
"A horse should never be so thirst.
as to drink more than a bucketful o
water. AS there are various sizes o
buc kets or pals it is better to be NOR
accurate. Let us say, then, twelv
! quarts. If a horse when driven befor
, buggy or wagon is within two mile
| of home or of the next stopping plac
for the night let him drink even IL n
will. be ready to take his feed Of grail
i, very soon after he is stripped of his hal
, ness.
"A note from Kentucky says tina
the number of mares, both thoroughbre
? and trotters, IN that State as we'll a
Tennessee that are either barren O
, have slipped their foals is much large
a than in any previous year. Breeder
Z generally now attribute it to the eatin
; of too much of the rank grass whic
: grew so luxuriantly during the open wiz
. ter. Mares that were barn fed have ne
q been affected in this way only in exceI
, tional cases.
> The high-bred horse is the anim'
1 nearest the man in INTEL ,,gence. Hors
? breeding has become {, science.
{ France it has reached wonderful d.
v gree of perfection. The French peop
i are lovers of horses. This sentimel
4 has been kept alive amid all the tn
{ moils of France. The government h;
!. lent its interest to secure valuab
animal for army use. The government hi
}. its own steeds selected with the grea
o est care. This fostering has resulted
II wonderful progress Over twelve tho
q sand have been recorded under the
n rection of the government The mo
!, valuable horse in France is the Frena
b coach.