The Opelousas courier., 1890-10-18
FAR@ AND GARDEN NOTES.
plants In the evening.

w 0uSA PANe0tS
The navy bean is the one unusually
Erown for the market:
In handling bees be gentle; subdue
shem, if necessary, with smokea
In handling queens never e}aEch them
by the body, but by the wlng,4
The best protection against moths and
robbers is to keep all colonies strong,
Pollen, or bee-bread, is the fertilizlng
lust discharged by the anthers OF flowers.
The man who will find a perfect,
imple remedy for the cut worm has made
lis fortune.
Two weak families, when united, will
consume little, il any, more honey than
4 left separate.
Give the girl a flower bed, the boy a
vegetable garden, or change about If
heir tastes choose that way.
Keep the garden frequently stirred' if
rou don't you will soon have to stir to
ret any crop-except weeds.
It is the best to plant the poles first;
hen the beans, when you raise limas, I'M
ess you have the improved bush variety.
If all the fruit you wish to send to
market is not irst-class make two grades
If it. Don't mix in the same cassahpx
,r barrel.
Red clover secretes much honey, yet it
q beyond the reach of common bees, but
italian bees store honey from it to a con-
| iderable extent.
Presidents James M. Smith says of
yood ashes: I have used them in pref
srence to any fertilizer | could get for
~,otatoes for many years.
Plant the late potatoes just as soon as
you can get the ground ready. In this
uay you get ahead of the bug and save
akeh work and expense.
You need not be in a hurry ab6lt plant
no bea2s; after the corr and potatoes
ire all in, and aver under a good grow
ng Roadway, will be time enough.
Grape vines should be cut back each
rear within a few buds of the old growth,
,ut even when this is neglected most ex-
.ellent crops of fruit are sometimes pro.
iuced.
Kidney beans are sometimes very
profitable, but the market is more liable
% be overstocked with them than with
The white marrowfat, the pea or the
navy bean.
Some of those who have been accus-
joined to eating buttermilk-favored
outter washed white in grains, but after
hey use it for awhile they object to the
,ther Kind.
Butter can be sailed too much when it
s dry sailed, but not when it is brine
,alted. The latter method requires the
most salt and the least labor, besides
being sure to salt the butter evenly.
Don't plant beans with the suppositior
that they require poor soil to make . good
,rop. To be sure, they may produce
,aying crop, where wheat or corn would
not. but poor soil il not necessary K
make them do well.
Every farmer should have q supply o
grapes. Once well started the grape vim
s long lived and very productive. Set il
rood ground and trained to q t~rellis, o
IN an old wall even, they are almost surf
10 produce fruit every season.
Adopt some good pattern of hive ant
stick to It. Choose those that are 81
sxact that every part of each will fit will
that part of another. This is important
Is many advantages are gained by tn
interchange of frames and other parts.
Mrs. T.. B. Baker, of Lansing, Mich.
IN relating a four-years' experience i
bhe apiary before a State convention
said she had found bee-keeping NOR
healthful, profitable and enjoyable tina
her former occupation Of keeping board
When brine sailing there is no use i
waiting for the butter to absorb the brin
when It is put into the churn: if you al
ready to print or pack, give the churn
lew turns, draw off the brine and th
butter will be as salt as fit were above
TO remain in the brine for an hour.
Bees, snail fruits and poultry, make
good combination. If you KIN Nv how
manage 4 very nice living al be Of
tanned. Each will assist the other an
during the different seasons the prof
of one OF the other can tide over any d
dciency Of the other. You should sd
i or the other TO your poultry and .
how il pays.