The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1890-08-09
HERE AND THERE.


Farmers, or any body else for that
matter. who consent to their own undo
ing. claim more sympathy for their
misfortunes than admiration for their
wisdom.
Fences are an important item OF
expense on the farm. Tho cost oil
building and repairing fences in 1889
will be one of the inquiries made on
each farmer by the census enumerators
this year.
If you have hen that has proved
to be an extra good layer, save as many
of her eggs as possible to set Selec.
tons for special points of utility en-
hances the value of poultry, stock, and
extraordinary laying strains have thus
been made by careful selection.
"A pound of bran makes to within sew
enteen per cent. of as much milk as a
pound Of corn-meal which costs over
twice as much. says Mirror and Farmer;
but corn-meal makes a richer milk,
while the bran makes a richer manure.
If you give your bees a good supply
of empty combs before the beginning OF
the honey crop and keep them at work,
they will rarely swarm, but if they once
find themselves crowded and get the
swarming fever, nothing will keep
them from swarming.
"A fifreen-miie journey is an average
days work for horse. How far does
the COW travel in poor pasture, nip
ping a pennyweight of grass here and
there, to get her daily ration? Then
she is expected to pay for it through
the milk pail.
The potato bug has not shown him.
self very numerous this year. Is he going
to give US a rest? Carrant worms are
as plenty as usual. Give them a dose
of white hellebore, once ounce in
bucket Of water, and they will subside.
1t is thought that Texas will BIO
represented at the Worlds Fair in
Chicago in 1898 in such manner as to
erase the erroneous impression preva-
lent in the North and East in regard to
the Lone Star State. An effort will be
made to convince the Yankees that the
Texans haven't horns and that they
walk on two feet as well as other peo-
pie.
Profits are cut down to an alarming
extent by the minglinG and feeding to-
gether of all sizes of animals. If the
weak get what they want the stronger
have stalled appetites too much Of tho
time. 1t is the survival of the fttest in
the herd of many sizes at feeding timo
as much as in the wilds of nature.
Nature and practical results point
out very plainly the kind of food that
should be fed to animals under various
and conditions. Tho
man who works contrary to these
sooner or later meets with disaster.
The brood SOW and the growing pigs
must not be fed as the fattening animal
do not let the calf suck your finger
whom teaching it to drink, or you will
have to repeat several days before it
learns TO drink readily. Better spend
half an hour the first time teaching it
to drink at once, than have trouble with
1t week or more.
Owing to the mildness of the past
winter hens found it more pleasant to
lay eggs than to devote the;. time to
them into spring chickens
Or possibly a change of sentiment has
caused them to relegatc the drudgcry
Of Matching to the incubators entirely.
Any way spring chickens are scarce and
nigh. while eggs have ruled low in
price ali winter and spring.
The canning industry has grown to
proportions in various parts OF
he country, and farmers devote many
lcres to growing fruits and vegetables
pecially for the canning factories. Tho
lumber of acres and the yield of peas,
,eans. green corn and other vegetables
md fruits grown for this purpose, will
orm special and interesting features Of
he new census.
The likes and dislikes OF cows are
'lmost as various as their color mark !
ags- The dainty feeder may, and gem
rally will. prefer rich and concentrated !
God, while the voracious feeder is COM
aratively Indifferent as to the quality.
rovided there is plenty of it The
eeder must study his cows and cater to |
heir Municipalities, -Jexsey Rullafsu. /