The Opelousas courier., 1891-04-25
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Use eggs OF good size Tor setting.
Generally, all fowls that feather slowly
are hardy.
Ducks are more free from vermin than
other fowls.
Many poultrymen believe in portable
poultry houses.
The very best products of the farm
have the least competition.
The far West has We'd with the South
in sending watermelons to the Northern
markets this year.
A wild fighting hen should never be
kept for Matching, as she will rarely prove
satisfactory as a mother.
Farm work is hard work, but who can
take a leisure day and feel it less in his
business than the farmer?
AS 8 as an animal is matured it
ceases to be profitable to keep, unless it
is a work saimal and possibly sheep.
Do not expect any farm animal to
upick up" fs living. IT you do it need
not surprise you if the crows should pick
its bones.
Beef or pork cracklings, mixed with
cornmeal or wheat bran and baked,
makes an excellent feed for poultry OF
all kinds.
Pigs must be kept constantly thriving
TO do well and maintain health. This
can be done by giving them plenty OF
good food.
For a general farm fowl there is moth
ing that will excel the Plymouth Rock
chicken when both eggs and a table fowl
are desired.
Trees for planting that have been dug
and properly cared for will grow the
better for being planted after the soil has
become dry and warm.
Never use a long, gangling, overgrown
rooster for breeding. 1t is nearly I'M
possible to fill them up and they never
make a good table fowl.
Tf6e little chickens that are kept in
the brooders should be watered regularly.
lGive them what they will drink without
getting themselves wet.
Geese can be picked regularly every
six weeks after the first of May, and the
feathers secured will pay we'll for ths
trouble Of keeping them.
Rubbish under which rats can harbor
should not be allowed near the poultr.
house or yards. Rats often prove yer,
destructive to young poultry.
An expert says the Florida piss,
pilates, Enough immense in extent, arr
disappointing as to richness, and the
!, proportion Of high grades is exceedingly
small.
The future of dairying must be in tn
line Of perfection. Every man must tet
that upon him personally depends tn
! perfectness Of the methods that are I
prevail.
7 The theory that good apples can nc
/, be grown IN the South seems to b
!. d%isproven. Apples ten and twelV
e inches in circumference are raised
& far toward the equator as Souther
g Florida.
Q Be on the lookout for feather-eatin
hens. II a bird shows any signs {
'r being plucked, watch until you d
n tect the offender; then the best an
!. easiest way tos1ottle the trouble is
n fatten and eat her.
If the milk has a stcowy" odor 1t IS
cause 0 have got manure in it; that {
ae ways makes a very stcoWy" odor. y
In 7, remedy is to keep the milk and T
~ manure in separate accomplishment
De straining the manure out OF the mi
though; that kind Of odor doesn't STR
out.
10 insure the purity of the Jersey, !
lss Legislature of the Isle of jersey for
10 nast one hundred years has forbidden
u introduction on tie island of any amin
Il The bovine race except steers. Ira
lion has it that the jersey has been n
IS i distinct breed over three hundl
years.
IF your COW, after behaving like q L
ing for months, surprises you with q H
ne aonst kick back, but find out why
az Kicked; she had a good reason for
oD- alse she wouldn't have done it. Perm
one Of her teats may be cracked
g scratched and very sore, OF her uo
2 may be infamed.
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