The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1890-04-03
HERE AND THERE.

HEHE AND THERE.
The pedigree or animals points two
ways: To what the ancestry has been
and what its offspring will be.
There are misfits in every thing
misfit wives, husbands, parents and
farmers A misft farmer, like all mis-
fits, makes things look all awry.
Whenever man gets ready to pluck
live fowl, he should, before beginninp
operations, get somebody to pull out bis
own hair by the roots.
-CottOn-seed meal is good for cows
says one. Cotton-seed meal is bad for
cows, says another. If it is fed with
other foods we guess no one will reerek
feeding it.
What would the world be without
flowers, sweet, beautiful, eloquent flow.
ers? What is the little part Of the
world that we occupy, if it has no fow-
ers? Much more of desert than need
be.
Whatever is the most easy done, is
concluded by some people to be the best
way. We think we shall state nothing
startlingly new when we say that it is
not necessarily true.
-"All flesh is grass, it is said; per
contra, all grass is flesh. Then, natur-
ally and logically, he who eultiTates
grasses raises horses and cattle. In
otner words, the two go together, and
one is necessary to the other.
The press every now and then adj
wise their readers in eloquent strains ID
SOW turnips." This is erroneous adj
vice. If they have the turnips, let them
save the fruit. When it comes to sow.
ing turnip seeds, then the advice IS
proper.
One of the eccentricities Of this
country is thus stated: A 9OO-pound COW
in Texas will not bring over SIS in Chf-
cago. Deducting the freight, s4.95 from
this, leaves S1O.75 to the seller. Yet
when made into dressed beef 1t is
shipped back to Texas and sold at $50
Please tell me how to prevent the
effects OF intoxicating liquor, asked
man of the doctor. Don't drink it, was
the reply. What can we do to prevent
the ravages of hog cholera? asks the
swine-breeder. Stop making the con-
ditions that produce it, is the reply.
1t is often said that pig will eat
up the refuse on the farm and turn it
into value. That is true, and there is
no special objection to feeding what re-
fuse there is upon farm, but when rot
ten, sour, fermented and fermenting
garbage OF the cities is purchased for
pig feed, it is time to say that it is not
the best kind of food.
"A too common idea prevails that
alRaost any kind of structure will an
swer for stable without regards to
looks so long as it is built and intended
for the purpose. The fact of the matter
Is, stable should look like what it Is
intended for; and if intended to go with
good house, should partake Of the
same style and finish.
"A writer says that warming water
Tor cows is good thing for New En-
gland. AS the COW is the same, and as
cold water is the same, and as twenty
degrees below zero is the same, the
world over, we guess If that man Is
right, warming water for cows is q good
thing wherever there are COWS, winter
and cold weather.
"A special value of the peanut crop
IS in the production of oil. The oil Of
this nut is regarded as being equal IN
MI respects to olive oil. and may by em-
oloyed for every purpose to which that
IS applied. 1t is said that bushel Of
peanuts, weighing twenty-five pounds
n the hull, will yield one gallon Of oil
when subjected to hydraulic pressure.
1T is claimed, says the National
StOckman, by those in a position 70
know, that it is only by combination Or
manufacture. thatany thing
ike the needed amount Of good butter
s produced. The very best butter IN
he market IAN article which has less
competition than any other---is Of indi-
Tidual manufacture, but is wholly inad-
'guate in quantity to supply the needs
II these who know a good from medi-
'cre article.
Peanuts are largely. used to aduls
crate chocolate, and SO far as whole
oneness is concerned this adulteraslou
s not Objectionable, as the nuts contain
great deal of starch and oil, thus re-
the cocoa bean, although the
luts have not the heterogeneous principle
he bromine, to which nutritiVe guar
les OF the cocoa bean are largely dae.
n some Southern families an imitatloA
t chocolate is made by crushing lhs
roperly roasted peanuts in mortar
nth sugar. and favoring With chr
aoqpr vanilla, .asias