The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-22
FARM AID GARDEN NorEs.

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Red combs indicate vigor in poultry.
Kerosene the chicken roosts once a
week.
Provide the calves shelter from rain
and sun.
A little kerosene will help brighten a
a rusty plow.
It rarely pays to keep a dog to drive
the cows home.
Hoed crops require a thorough prepa-
ration of the soil.
Use the harrow to commence the kill
ing out the weeds.
Plant a piece of land with corn to cut
and feed the COWS next season.
Grade the wool on the farm rather than
send to market as a mixed lot.
Glover is the first crop to harvest. Be
ready to handle in good season.
Never feed a growing hog more than
it will eat up clean at each meal.
When the skinned milk is fed to ami
mails a little cream left in it is not lost.
If the soil is dry, plant deep; ifit con-
tains plenty Of moisture, plant shallow.
Cracked corr is good food for fowls,
but should not be made an exclusive
one.
The ~variegated ground ivy furnishes
a very pretty and hardy herbaceous
plant.
Muck is too dirty for bedding, but is
excellent to mix with as an alb
sorbent.
Oats cut in the milk and cured as hay
make excellent feed for almost any kind
Of stock.
Land well cultivated and kept clean
year after year has fewer weeds and is
easier to cultivate.
The moment a farmer tries to cultivate
too much land he becomes a drudge aud
farming doesn't pay.
Long Island gardeners grow cauli
flower with the head round and knobpy.
not smooth and fiat.
Take pains to destroy all the catsrpll-
lars nests you see whether on your owl
grounds or by the ROADSIDE.
If you have a number of calves in the
same lot it will pay you to see that each
gets its share of the milk ration.
Glover makes excellent silage when i
is put up properly, but it requires care
full handling and heavy weighing, or
is liable to spoil.
It pays to keep stock comfortable
Exposure, unkindness, and fretting de.
feat, in a measure, the ends for whicl
food is given, and result in CORE
spending loss.
Popular Gardening suggests that Pari
green or London purple may be useS
with the Bordeaux mixture aud thu
gain a combination useful both for in
sects and fungus diseases.
The New Jersey State Agriculture
Society, ballotting for the best thre
grapes for general use, one of each color
decided in favor of the Brighton, red
Worden, black; and Niagara, white.
From experiments made with blu
grass by the IOWA Experiment Station
appears that this grass is richer in abb
ninoids and crude protein than timothy
red top, orchard grass, or low meade
hay.
70 run d creamery or cheese factor
! well requires a large technical know
edge Of the business. Any mistsk'
made for lack of this knowledge NEAR
less money, whether the creamery be il
: divIdual or cooperative.
Dairying will always pay the farm
!, IL well managed there is . right ar
wrong way Of doing it-just as much
IS in the conduct of any other busines
There are money making dalrEmen. %
there are those who keep COWS at
loss.
Ore5ard and Garden tells that tho
3 who wish to make 4 trial Of growing
T few chrysanthemums in what is Gale
ssthe single stem and single flower sly
9 NAV put up in cuttings any time fro
the middle to the last day Of May,
= even later.
The quietest lows are the most Pr
ductive and profitable, and are rear
3 from calves which have been handle
and made perfectly docile by gen
i training and handling up to the IL
: when they cornc into profit. This gen
! disposition and doeility are inherited.
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