St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-12-12
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

| FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never skim milk for cheese.
Keep the dead wood cut out.
Scatter your Stops over the soil.
The real dairy farmer grows his own
feed.
Sell as Greet to the customer as pos
sible.
Pigs properly kept bring quick re.
turns.
If you want lettuce for winter, SOW in
cold frames.
Do not gather the grapes until they
are fully matured.
Mr.. Hale told before the Nursery
mems Association that there is no peach
that can compare with the Eiberta in
hardness.
Push the growth of the pulets now
by liberal feeding so as to have them as
we'll matured as possible before cold
weather sets in.
One reason why corn should be fed to
the fowls at night during the winter is
that it is one of the very best materials
for making animal heat.
Some hens are natural fighter and one
such among a lot of hens will monopolize
food and roosting quarters to the detri
ment of all of the others.
Any kind Of grease is certain death to
poultry lice, while the odor of certain
oils, like cedar, kerosene or spirits of
turpentine will drive them away.
The size of the incubator should be
determined by the number of hens kept.
1t is surely good plan to depend upon
purchasing eggs for Matching during the
winter.
To secure the best prices for holiday
poultry it must be of the best quality,
we'll fattened, carefully dressed, SO that
when placed on market the fowls will
present neat appearance.
While chickens may be Matched aud
raised at all seasons of the year, tue sys-
TEN of management should be changed
according to the season. No one plan
will answer the entire season.
Winter layers depend upon early pull.
lets, early pullets depend upon early set
tiers and early settlers depend upon win
ter layers. A failure of one means, more
or less, failure of the others.
The cultivated petunias of to day en-
brace three well-defned forms, viz, the
ordinary small-fowered, the granihora
or large lowered and the double. The
latter are usually grown from cuttings
taken later during September.
With the earlier Matched turkeys.
whenever good price can be realized,
it will be a good plan to sell now, The
cost of keeping will increase as the
weather gets cooler, and in many cases it
will be better to sell than to keep.
While the guinea is good table fowl
it is not good market fowl, and it is
only in exceptional cases that they can
be marketed to good advantage.
Their meat is the nearest approach to
wild fowls in flavor of any known.
Some OF the much pulled stwashes"
for peach trees by which the borer is to
be circumvented would no doubt be
effective on the Larvae if applied at just
the right time, and to be sure of the
right time apply every day from June to
September. But an examination of the
tree and a search for the boarer with a
noe and knife in April and October of
each year costs less and is much more
effective.
Water the horses early and often this
1ot weather, and especially before feed
ng, as the French breeders do. In
France some worthless horses were killed
or dissection on purpose to determine
he effect of giving water Immediately
lfter eating, and some of the grain was
ound undigested in the intestines
wenty feet beyond the stomach, and it
lad caused Inflammation of the mucous
membrane.
Manure may be spoiled by either of
NO extremes-by being keep too wet or
90 dry. BY the former it will burn, or
ire-fang, thus losing large portion of
is nitrogen, and by keeping too wet it
will leach out, losing all elements of
liant food. 1t is best (when not applied
lirectly to the land) to keep it just j
moist enough to keep down the heat.
)ne or two buckets of water thrown up |
m the pile each morning will accomplish
his.
Take the seeds of apples, pears and
herries. and others desired to grow,
liant them and give good culture, re-
moving the first year and setting them
he second year into the orchard where
he roots will never be disturbed. When
he first fruit comes top grating can be
mployed on those trees which do not
ave good fruit, and in this way hardy,
ornament orchard can be had. Many
f the trees will bear good fruit without
rafting.
Do not forget that sheep are subject
D internal as well as external parasites.
q addition to the dip they should have
little hardwood ashes or finely pulver.
zed tobacco occasionally in their food,
vhich will usually be sufficient to keep
hem free from worms. 1t is of the first
Importance in sheep-raising that the
eaith of the animals should be closely
,oked after, and we advise fockmasters
OF to neglect any item, however trivial,
aat will help toward this end.