St. Landry democrat., 1890-01-18
Farm and Orchard.

piOH RlhpcSt tHSy arc du4puE
the NEST valuable fruits.
Keep an eye on the vegetables and
fruits all through the winter.
Once in awhile the agricultural press
turns loose in praise of the sulhower.
Washing the shelves with strong alum
water will keep auts out Of cupboards for
q time.
The condensed milk product given by
the census was 81, 547, 429. We will call
it now So 100000.
Next year thb orchaTdist will get his
force pump anGtmeke his arsenic mixture
and spray his tr ees.
Persons who have tried it say that bee
stings will not scure the rheumatism, as
some have asserted they will.
Potatoes too small for sale or seed should
be boiled and liked with corn-meal; they
make excellent food for pigs.
Trees in yards where fowls are confined
or much freq bnted by them are often
benefited thereby. Insect injuries are les
sened.
Ploughing ths cabbage-ground late in
the fall and ex Hosing it more thoroughly
to freezing will kill a great many injurious
pests.
If you live ear q grange, alliance, or
other farmers society, join IL and attend
the meetings lis wiuter. Make them
social.
Farmers who understand their own in
serests are now oing all they can to pre-
vent the furthaA destruction of insect eat
ing birds. II
The sunfow h seed makes good oil,
makes good fee@ for fowls, and the refuse,
after the oil expressed, makes good
stock feed.
1t is suggesSdM that the experiment sta
items in the NoE& h test thu hardness OF the
japanese plum # so that it may be known
how far North aey are hardy.
Thanksgiving Hast week, Christmas near
by RemembeH8the poor, if they are near
ycu. During 10 holidays every body is
rich WHO is at RI lace with the world and
has enough to u axe him comfortable.
Do everything in the dairy at the right
time and in the light way says the North
Goestern Ag15culs trSst This will require
the least labor nd the least care and vex-
alton. The be$& way is the easiest way
Neglect and dol o things out OF time make
hard work and educe the profits,
According to be Commissioner Of Agrl-
culture, the pou try products of the UNI
ted States the st year had a farm value
of at least 5000 loo 900, and nc less thai
is 0F0 600 doze48 eggs were imported at
dfst c9st of oven Is cents per dozen, while
the average ann IA al value of such importa
ton during the last four years has been
az, PIG, 1876.
Salt has often brow d beneficial on some
soils by causing chemical changes where
by insoluble pla h food is rendered avail
able. Its best Feet is on lands rich IN
vegetable matte which it helps to decom.
pose. On lands ,esr the seashore it is not
likely.to be use / In large quantities 1t
is poisonous to esetation. From two TO
six bushels per c1e are the amounts com
monty used.
The pecan try is readily propaga'eo3
from the nuts, hich should be gathered
soon after they III, and be buried In he&ts
mixed with soil, = here they viii Do tx
posed to fros's nd rains during the WIZ
ter. In the spr be- they may be so"h IA
drills in a nurse and the seedlings trans
planted when on wear old, or the nuts
may be planted h rhs time of the gatu7t-
ing in the places where the trees sIe 10
stand.
Several years have cut oats for hay. l
cut it with the n owing machine, when inc ls
straw is half rip let it lie until the straw
is all yellow thef rake up with a horse,
rake when it Isl wet, bunch it up, anu :1
when dry haul Cattle eat it greedy,
even the gleanin s. and keep as well as q, on o.
the best OF hay. Side by side with mii n -,
oats yielded the Erger crop and the mlll 81
made the horses Ilobber. / sowed rye III
an orchard and + it when in BLOSSOM
but nothing will .st it Ohio FaaWer.