The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-02
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Glover is one of the very best foods fol
laying hens.
A hole in the shelter of stock wastes
feed just as truly as does a hole in the
granary.
An English correspondent advises that
tea leaves in a pan of water be kept for
drinking places for bees.
Fifty-two eggs in a year ought to pay
for the keep of a hen, and all that she
lays over this should be profit.
Sorghum seed makes one of the best
feeds for growing fowls, especially
when theyaare designed for early mar
ket.
Before any young poultry are Matched
out, care should be taken to see that
the rats about the premises are de.
stroyed. ...
The idea of cooperative farming
that is giving the workers a Sare of the
product-appears to be slowly growing
in favor.
Feed clover hay cut into small pieces
and soaked during the winter, and on
green clover during the summer with
their grain.
It is important now to let poultry out
every day that the weather win permit
and to keep them confined when it is
cold and ~disagreeable.
A cheap remedy for lice and foul air
In the poultry house is to mix a quart Of
coal tar to ten gallons of water and
sprinkle over everything.
Millet seed is a good feed for young
poultry as o o as they begin to learn to
pick up little bits Of something to eat,
and ordinarily it is a cheap feed.
Clean straw makes one of the very best
as we'll as cheapest materials that can be,
used for lining the nests. It should be
changed often enough to keep clean.
Better be a little early thau-a-Iittle
late. With poultry intended for early
market ever a few days difference will
often make considerable difference in the
profits.
Ducks should be laying regularly now,
but it is father too early to set eggs fol-
Matching. Feed bulky feeds and SEES
that they are housed at night in a clean,
dry house.
Doolittfe says: "If you wish a large
yield of section honey keep prolific
,queens and let the brood combs alone
after they are once filed with brood in
the spring"
Many good breeders believe that roup
can be inherited; that a hen once at.
Aicted with roup never entirely RECEIVERS
from the disease and will transmit it 10
her offsprings.
Vary the food. Do not depend upon
cooking everything, o on the other
hand feed everything raw One advan-
tage in fattening is that cooked food is
easier digested.
A nervous, fiery mar should never un-
dertake to teach a team to pull heavy
loads. What is wanted is to learn how
to use their power, and to do so without
getting excited.
1t is the little things connected with
the management of poultry that largely
determines the amaVnt of profit. Il is
the constant care ii looking after the
apparently little things that gives one q
profit where another loses.
A drawer is a good place to keep eggs.
A cool, dark place wheae they can be
kept at an even temperature, and where
they can be turned regularly and con-
veniently, will be found best.
Fern, Stock and Home advises in paint
ing hives that dark colors be avoided. |
for In extreme hot weather the combs in |
in such hives will melt down, while i'm q
hive that is painted white no damsge will
be done.
In the majority of cases it is. the early I
that are the most profitable. Get
breeding stock needed and feed them
up to a good condition so as to start the
hens to laying early. Early laying means
early Matching.
It has been suggested that those farm
ers who are prepared to cut and cure it
in good style would do better to kill
sheir own pork and hold it for q fu-
bure market than to sell their hogs at
current prices.
DR.. @. G. Miller in Gleanings in Bee
Culture: ssBees In cellars are always
luieter-at least mine are-just after q
time, whether cold o warm. A
still, muggy time is worst. Don't tell
me cellars need no ventilation"
In reply to the query, Elbow do you
Keep brood combs when not IN use9' the
editor of the american Bee Journal says:
The bees will take care of the empty
combs in the summer season better than
you can do it. In winter they should be
ooxed up tightly, after being thoroughly
lumigated with sulphur, if they have any
moth germs In them"