The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-01-15
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with clover hay, if both arc cut fine,
slightly sailed, moistened and sprinkled
with ground grain.
The fence-corncrs should be as clean
as any other portion of the farm. They
arc the harboring places of vcrmin and
q fruitful source of weeds.
The old idea that young cattle and
colts must winter at straw stacks in
open feeds, to make them tough, hap
PLY has gone, much to the comfort of
the young animals.
The moro the peach trees are cut
back when young the more stocky will
be the trunks and branches. The very
| tall trees are also more roughly shaken
by the winds.
-House-plants should have as much
sun and light during the winter months
as possible; admit air whenever the
temperature is not too cold, say forty
degrees Fahrenheit in the open air.
The housewife who makes practice
of giving fowls a mixed mess of warm
mash and vegetables with scraps of meat
and crumbs of bread will quickly dis
cover that it is superior to an exclusive
diet of grain.
DO not throw the cornstalks away,
| but pass them through a cutter and use
them in the manure heap as absorbants,
so as to allow them to quickly decom-
pose. If they are tender, cut them and
! feed them to stock.
1t is cruel to dehorn an animal, and
it should not be done. If an animal is
SO vicious that it must be deprived OF
its horns for fear of iniuring others, it
is better to replace such an animal by
one of gentle disposition.
The injury to seed corn in winter is
not due SO much by exposure to extreme
cold as to the corn not being perfectly
dry Seed corn sh ould be kept in a dry
place, where dampness can not reach it.
and the cold will then have but little
effect or it.
Flat roofs make the warmest build
ings for stock, but they will also increase
the heat within such buildings in sum.
mer. In constructing stable, poultry.
house or playhouse with a fat roof make
vcntilator holes near the highest point,
so as to close them in winter and open
| them in summer.
Many good COWS give but a small
quantity of milk because they are not
properly managed. Some persons allow
certain quantity of feed, from which
no variation is made. a COW should be
fed all she viii: eat, and if she improves
in the quantity of her milk she should
be induced to eat more.
Don't use any hogs for breeding pur-
poses except those that show evidence
in form, disposition and breed of incli-
nation to early maturity. Hogs are
raised only for their flesh, and the few
est days it takes a pig to accumulate
enough to be of any marketable size the
more profitable it is for the owner.
| -Chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, but
ternuts and pecans can be grown and
will give good variety, and on many
places on the farm they can be planted
and grown to advantage as easily as
other varieties of trees that bear such
fruit as nuts of marketable value,
while the wood of the nut trees are Of
equal value.
1t must be clear to any man with
the most ordinary business instincts
that good roads mean thrift, iberality
and wealth They mean good farms
and good real estate values. They mean
that the farmer enjoying their use will
save time going over them, will save
wear and tear not only on his wagons,
but on his teams.
1t will soon be time for the ewes to
produce the early lambs, and they should
be kept in good condition. The first
duty of the eve is to provide plenty Of
milk for her lamb, and as the LIANT
grows fast and depends on the eve
| should she be in poor condition she will
| be unable to sustain herself end hel
Il yeung until y y weaasa,