St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-08-30
Notes.

The average product per acre OF Inc
leading crops is steadily becoming less.
The nature of the soil and season should
determine, to considerable eAteh'' 'h0
manner of managing it.
Good roads cost money, but there Is
nothing for which money is expended that
brings more satisfactory return.
While a good rich soil is one essential
in having good garden, thorough Guilt
walton in good season is equally lmpof-
tant.
Fruit trees should not be set out wien
lust lea6ng out either try to do this
earlier or defer until the leaves are fully
developed.
We live in progressive, intensive age,
and the profession OF agriculture must
keep abreast, or ruin follows Sc less
land and more brains.
The mulch applied as winter protec-,
ton to trees or plants should be removed
and the soil stirred in order to induce
vigorous, thrifty growth.
What progress are you making toward
conserving the fertility Of your farm DO
not fatter yourself that your lana Is 50 IT'LL
that it needs no fertilizer.
| No farmer can manage to the best al
vantage without knowing the cost OF the
various kinds of crops he is growing
This can only be done by keeping &C
counts.
The abandoned farms of the East,
the ''turned out fields of the South, ana
the turnout, WORKOUT farms OF LIE
older States of the West are standing
monuments of mans grasping nature, OF
his robbery.
Now that intensified agriculture IS
the order of the day, there Will be more
necessity for study and thought TO Keep
even with the advance. The number en-
Gagged in agriculture is constantly decreas-
ing in proportion to our population.
With our increasing population, de-
creasing acreage of new land, and RAPID
deoletion of fertility in the old States. men
must enter the profession of agriculture
expecting to study, if they are to succeed;
Brains have got to be mixed with hard
work to make farming pay.
In the first days of our republic, we had
a Washington who found greater deiish.
in cultivating his homestead at Mount
Vernon. than in welding the sword. OF
the civic scepter of his country. We had
q Jefferson who left with regret and re-
turned with delight to his rurul home and
rural labor at Monticello.
5 It is not only necessary to be IN posses
, sion of a knowledge of the elements by
t which we are surrounded, the constituents
of the soil, ETC., in order to mature gooc
crops, but also to keep posted In regard 10
s the supply and demand of our markets. so
= that the crop when successfully garnered
t may with equal success be disposed OF.
Scholarly attainments, unaccustomed t.
: practical agriculture, have gone into tn
y field, put their "book farming" into prac
tice. and far excelled the success OF thel
' neipbbors who farmed as their father
e did. No reflections are to be cast upon IN
= good old ways of our forefathers, but tn'
agriculture of to-day must be ahead Q
. the farming of those days, or the farme
v fails.
< The profession of agriculture present
d as wide field for the high developme1n
: of the mental faculties as any OF In
learned professions. 1t also gives oppor
q tunity for as deep research and lnvestlga
q ton. Anyone need have no fears that h
can not employ all his mental attainment
9 in his chosen profession should he sele'
It that of agriculture. Fall into line' an
d keep time to advancing agriculture, an
is give the boys and young men chance
10 honor the profession.