The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
The earlier potatoes can be gotten in,
the better.
Clean straw is good for the hens to
in.
One advantage with ducks is their rap
i'd growth.
Put turpentine in the drinking water
to prevent gapes.
Some recommend soaking corn il ker-
osene for cholera.
If not already there, get onion seed
into the ground at once.
Hard coal ashes make a nice cool
mulch for eurrant bushes.
Generally on the farm there is no ne
ccssity for buying extra foods.
1t isn't SO much what you make on a
farm, as what you save, that counts.
Geese eat the grass close down to the
roots and often kill it out in this way.
Poultry will readily digest bones il
they are broken fine enough for them to
eat.
Potatoes do much better if planted
while the furrow hill or drill is fresh
made.
When hawks bother the chickens a
few brush piles will afford a good pro-
lection.
Agriculture needs talent, energy and
persistence if it is rescued from its pres
emit condition.
Curd IS good for young poultry of all
kinds and can be fed to the laying hens
to a good advantage.
Hens will lay more eggs without the
roosters than with them, but of course
the eggs will not hatch.
Feed only what is eaten up clean and
at certain hours in order to keep the
fowls from getting too fat.
To save feed by starving animals, is
the act of a miser, who starves himself
to death to save money to live upon.
The planting and grating of all kinds
of trees and shrubs should be immedi-
ately attended to, if not already done.
Mass your flowers. Put the pansies all
together, the pholx together, the asters
together. They show off well this way.
If you have the right kind of horses
the buyer will come after them; if the
wrong kind you will have to hunt a
buyer.
Unquestionably wood ashes fed to the
hogs are excellent asea remedy for GER
tain conditions that vol surely result in
disease. ~
AsingIe weeping birch does not look
| bad on a lawn. It's white bark, weeping
| branches and finely divided leaves are
unique.
The sowing of succession lots of peas,
beans, spinach, lettuce and corn, may be
| done every ten or twelve days for a
month yet.
Leaving the manure in the barn-yard
will allow a considerable portion
of it to leak away and often be carried to
the bitches.
Use good composted or well rotted
manure for early garden crops; II yoSs
must use green manure, cover IT Weh
with the pillow.
Some people who give the cattle the
best of care neglect the hogs. The hog
will repay good care as well as othel
kinds of stock.
Don't forget to SOW some flower seeds
fer the wife and children, or at least pre-
pare the grouasatt for them as you would
for an onion bed.
Guard against constipation in swine.
The fat-forming foods tend to produce
c-ostiveness. The opposite kinds of food
tend to prevent it.
If turkeys are fed only once a day Jet
It be In the morning, rather than al
night; with a good range they generally
have full crops at night.
You can still plant rhubarb and aspar
agus beds, if not done already, aud
strawberry plants may be set out, but
the sooner these fsings are done the bet
ter.
"A little ditch here and there or To
cutting away Of a ridge will often drai
away the surplus water. Such worl
may not be but a few minutes, but vii
greatly facilitate the drying OF the soil
It is always best to label everythin
YOU plant in the flower and vegetabl
garden, especially if there are severs
varieties of the same kind OF flowers 9
vegetables, in order to avoid confusio
later in the season.
! There is profit in really fine produc
J lions, be they butter, eggs, fruit, vege
tables or meat of any kind. A gilt
edged article will sell at a good price |
a glutted market. Care aud the use
/ ones intelligence will produce I'm
articles.
!. Every farmer ought tbKnoW at the er
: Of the season what work has paid hi
! best, what work has paid least, and VIII
has returned no profit whatever. We nee
more of business methods on the far
: and less haphazard work-some of whit
is very likely carried on Of q loss.
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