The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-12
HERE AND THERE.

Tho pedigree or animals points TWO
WAYS: TO what the ancestry has been
and what it's offspring will be.
There are insists in every thing
misfit wives, husbands, parents and
farmers. A mistit farmer, like all mis-
fits, makes things look all awry.
Whenever a man gets ready to pluck
a live fowl, he should, before beginning
operations, get somebody to pull out his
own hair by the roots.
|. -Cotton-seed meal is good for COWS
saws one. Cotton-seed meal is bad for
cows, says another. If it is fed with
other foods we guess no one will regret
feeding it.
What would the world be without
flowers, sweet, beautiful, eloquent flow
ers? What is the little part OF the
world that we occupy, if it has no flow
ers? Much more of desert than need
be-
Whatever is the most easy done, is
concluded by some people to be the best
way. We think we shall state nothing
startlingly new when we say that it is
not necessarily true.
-'.All flesh is grass" it is said; per
contra, all grass is flesh. Then, natur'
ally and logically, he who cultlyatcs
grasses raises horses and cattle. In
otner words, the two go together, and
one is necessary to the other.
One of the cccentricities of this
: country is thus stated: A 900-pound COW
in Texas will not bring over SIS in Chi
caco. Deducting the freight. Si.25 from
this, leaves S10.75 to the seller. Yet
when made into dressed beef, it IS
shipped back to Texas and sold at $50
, Please tell mo how to prevent the
= effects of intoxicating liquor, asked
man of the doctor. Don't drink it, was
), the reply. What can we do to prevent
= the ravages of hog cholera? asks the
. swinc-breeder. Stop making the con
= ditions that produce it, is the reply.
", 1t is often said that a pig will ca
" up the refuse on the farm and turn i
into value. That is true, and there /
- no special objection to feeding what re
fuse there is upon farm, but when ro'
ten. sour, fermented and fermentln
garbage of the cities is purchased TO
in pir feed, it is time to say that it is nc
the best kind of food.
IN "A TOO common idea prevails tina
81 almost any kind of a structure Will al
10 swer for a stable without regards
OF looks so long as it is built and intende
re for the purpose. The fact OF the matte
m is. a stable should look like what it
ed intended for; and if intended to so wit
VI good house, should partake OF III
III same style and finish.
W "A writer says that warming wat
III for COWS is a good thing for New &
~ gland. As the COW is the same, and
% cold water is the same. and as TWEEN
JIG degrees below zero is the same, Il
10 world over, we guess ii that man
III, right, warming water for COWS is go
NV thing wherever there are COWS, whit
Ae' and cold weather.
is "A special value of the peanut or
~ is in the production of oil. The oil
how this nut is regarded as being equal
hor all respects to olive oil, and may by e
ess ployed for every purpose to which tt
~ is applied. Il is. said that bushel
go peanuts, weighing twenty-five pour
~, in the hull, will yield one gallon of
inc when subjected to hydraulic pressure
as 1t is claimed, says the Natio1
al Stoclman, by those in position
, at know, that it is only by combination,
1t cooperative manufacture, thatany tn
if like the needed amount of good but
, of is produced The very best butter
ally the market-an article which has
rch, competition than any othcr-is of il
lson vidual manufacture. but is wholly in
h is cquate in quantity to supply the ne
and of these who know a good from a me
OGRE article.
t so Peanuts are largely used to az
n be terate chocolate, and. so far as VIII
must somcness is concerned, this adultcra'
pro- is not Objectionable, as the nuts cont
the a great deal OF starch and oil, thus
the sembling the cocoa bean, although
nan nuts have not the heterogeneous princi
nine the bromine. to which nutritive qu
time ties of the cocoa bean are largely (
have In some Southern families an imita
will of chocolate is made by crushing
, the properly roasted peanuts in mo
, are with sugar, and tiayoripg With Oh
out monov vanilla,