The Opelousas courier., 1890-10-04
worth here, the cost per day would be
about two mills and one-third per head.
National Dairgnaan.

straighten up the sagging gates.
Lead and direct your field force.
To make corn grow-stir the soil.
A successful breeder must be a good
feeder.
Assert well and pack neatly all fruit
for marketing.
Shallow culture of hoed crops is now
the order of the day.
The medium weight animal usually re,
turns the most profit.
Large growing trees should not be
planted in small yards.
Examine your lambs, If infested with
ticks, give them a dip.
Fix your watering place so that the
animals cannot foul it.
Do not let any weeds 60 to seed
around your house Or barn.
It is poor business to grow sheep that
do not shear a paying fleece.
It is important that the corn crib be
cleaned ont and fumigated so as to de-
stroy insects.
Wire screens in the stable windows to
keep out insects will enable tired horses
to rest better at night.
If you are going to save any herbs, cut
them just before full bloom, tie in small
bundles and dry'in the shade.
Having begun fruit growing, stick to
it. It is not a business to be picked up
one day and dropped the next.
July IS the best month to kill weeds.
Cut them off close to the ground, dry in
the SUM-, and burn the night of the second
day.
For supplying any one of two missing
ingredients to the soil, we must have re-
course to commercial fertilizers if we
consult economy.
Be sure to provide your calves with a
cool, shady place in Which to escape from
flies. It will save flesh and put money
into your pocket.
So far plaster and salt have been of
very little use this year. The season has
been too wet. In a dry season both have
a beneficial influence.
If possible get into thatJine of farm
ing which you like. You will be much
more likely to succeed than with one
that is distasteful to you.
Keep alfalfa closely cropped if the
weeds are growing among it. In this
manner the weeds will be killed, while
the alf9ifa becomes stronger.
The eDst of a bushel of grain or a
pound of butter on one farm is no guide
to the cost of the same on another-so
much depends upon conditions.
When cattle have to go too far for
water they will often 60 without to their
discomfort, and when they get to the
water they will drink to their injury.
Eggs are a most excellent article of
food, and should be produced in sufi-
cient abundance on every farm to meet
the daily demands for table use, If not
more.
The care required for a good crop of
cabbages will raise a good crop of cauli-
flowers. Abundant manure, with thor
ough and careful cultivation, are the
secrets of success.
Experiments with the Bordeaux mix
ture as a remedy for grape rot is being
made in every section this season, and it
is believed that in a few years the disease
will be under control.
9EEarthworms in dry weather sometimes
work their way through the soil to the
! well and fall in, thus communicating the
water to a certain extent. # possible the
curbing of all wells should be cemented.
Wherever weeds grow luxuriantly the
ground is usually fertile ana such ground
| should be made to produce some kind Of
crop. At this season millet or Hun
garian grass should be sown on such
land.
Ii you must, or think you must, feed
corn to the horses during the wintE, dc
let upAon the practice in summer. Feed.
ing d horse corn in summer is a good
deal like building a fire in the parlol
stove on the Fourth of July.
There is never too much good butter
on the market, but there is alw avs
large supply of inferior butter. The
prices are not relegated by the quantit.
So much as by the quality. Good butte
sells at a high price at all seasons of TIL
year.
The following is highly recommended
as q sheep dip: To ten gallons OF waite
add forty pounds of soft soap, bring t
a boil, then add one pound carbolit
acid: add this mixture to 100 gallons 0
soft water. This is sufficient for seven
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