St. Landry democrat., 1891-12-19
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,

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No man is too old to plant tree.
Make fruit orchard of your poultry
yard.
A warm barn saves lot OF feed each
winter.
Kill the bug and you destroy its
pro- eny.
Wheat screenings make good winter
food for hens.
If you want to keep your help furnish
house for it.
Weeds are mortgage that may fore
close on the best land.
Cooked wheat bran furnishes bone ma.
terial for young chicks.
Portable fences are becoming more
and more desideratum.
Castor beans and all oily plants are
easily spoiled by wetting.
A sagging gate and door that sticks
cost more to use than they do to fix.
There is as much in the proper curing
and handling of hay as there is in the
kind.
Economy is no relative of stinginess,
though some people seem to think them
brothers.
A good pasture is valuable ally to the
hay stack. All that are fenced are not
pastures, however.
When pigeons are kept in small yards
care must be taken to keep au even num-
Der. An odd male will cause continual
trouble.
Young geese that have not yet COM
pleted their growth should be fed iiber-
ally from now on until they are ready to
market.
Cabbage makes good green poultry
feed for winter. All the small unmar-
ketabe heads should be gathered up and
stored away.
Giving the turkeys anu ducks good |
feed of corn regularly when they come
home at night will be strong induce
ment to keep them coming.
Eggbound hens or persistent cases of
Group rarely pay for the trouble required |
to cure. The Ratchet in a majority of
cases is the cheapest remedy.
II Western farm can afford to build |
IN irrigating ditch five or six miles long,
can an Eastern farmer afford not to
ditch his rich, DOGGY Meadow
It is not good plan to keep pullets
and old hens, fat aud lean hens all to.
yether. They DO not require the same
'ood and will do better separate.
Speculation is as dangerous to the far
ner as it is to the city man. Getting
INTO debt to buy more land or more i'm
elements is generally speculation.
1t is variety of food rather than large
quantity that fowls require. More care
s necessary in this respect when they are
confined than when given a good range.
If any farmers have gathered short
lay crop, there is yet time to supplement
he pasture by little "soiling' corn or
INLET. Be vlgilanr, however, or it may
70 too late.
The best shade for d cow in fly time is
he shade of nice clean stable. Give
ow the chance to go into stable when {
be pleases and she will soon show her
leas as to comfort and flies.
Before the winter sets in it would be
ell for the farmers to consider the an
ual loss from leaving the corn fodder
| the fields. It is an odd custom, but
entails a heavy waste and loss.
A horse that is subject to lameness in l
1e neighborhood may escape that diff
lily in another section. Tender feet
ay impair the usefulness of an animal 3
, hard stony ground, but on sandy loca- =
ons the feet may not be so easily in
red. Street car horses when taken to G
e farms often proven valuable and en- !
rely recover from lameness.
The best fruit tree to grow on the
wn is probably the cherry. When 7
ell established it does we'll in grass, .,
ough it is best to NOW the grass as =
ten as once week. A closely shaver f
wn does not drain the soil of moisture :
when grass is allowed to mature. An .
of well decomposed manure q
for the highest success. {
One objection to the matted row sys- =
n of growing strawberries is the drain
the soil for moisture in dry season.
le matted row system will never pro-
ice strawberries equal to those grown =
hills. On the hill system several /
ops can be grown, in the other only s
out enc, while the work of plowlng Z
end replanting counts heavily against .
. plan. :