The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1891-08-01
HERE AND THERE.

This year, or any other for that
matter, the clover cannot be too fresh.
sweet and growthy to make the pig
thrive and make cheap pork. Clover
pasture for the pig comes nearer filing
the bill than any other.
No nation can grow more healthy
pork than the Americans should grow
from the products of the farm, fed in a
clearly and sensible way. The filth
that is too often. allowed to enter into
this branch of meat production is the
hurtful feature.
"A man may have the most fertile
and raise the largest kind of crops, but
if he has not brains enough to know
how to go about selling what he has to
the very best advantage, somebody else
will be very likely to reap the profit,
not he.
The Stockman says: 1.-The contin-
ual squealer never thrives. He is hum
CRY for more food or else wants a
change. A pig will squeal with hum
ger standing with his nose over a
trough full of feed. The food is against
his appetite" There is lesson in this
worth needing.
The present condition of our public
thoroughfares is imposing tax on the
whole farming community in the shape
of wasted time, broken wagons, rup-
tured harness. and difficulty in reach
ing markets, much greater than an in
telligent use of the means at our hands
would require for the removal of most
of these evils.-Rural World
People do not talk to their horses
enough; horses are highly intelligent,
and while they can not talk to you, seem
to understand almost everything said
to them. have found by experience
few words, spoken kindly to horse
when frightened, will very often do
much towards quieting him, and upon a
horse which is used to being talked to it
will have a very good effect.
The season is at hand when nature,
whether assisted by art or not, pro-
vides man with change of diet; and
we all do well TO accept natures pro-
vision in this regard. 1t is not so much
the medicinal herbs and roots VIC need,
as the healthful food found in our
spring products. Look to them We
farmers If We would enjoy long life.
"A writer in turf journal gives the
following rule to estimate the height a
colt will grow to: Take a colt at any
time between six weeks old and one
year, stand him on level surface so
that he will stand naturally, then
measure the distance from the hair of
the hoof to the knee joint, and for
every inch or fraction thereof he meas
ures he will be hands high when
matured.
Set hens in a clean and quiet room.
Give dust-box of ashes lime and sui
phur. Do not set thoroughbred eggs
as soon as they come from the express
office; let them rest twelve hours.
Raise thoroughbred chickens; they cost
no more in the long run and pay better.
To make young chicks grow fast do
not depend upon raw cornmcal mixed
with water. Feed eggs, breadcrumbs
and oatmeal. If meal must be used,
bake it in bread and crumble it into
sweet milk. A little cottage cheese
may be given occasionally.
The farmer who followsa rotation
of crops, if he would keep up his land,
must consume as much as possible OF
these crops on the farm. As help to
this he will find no animal better than
the pig. He will turn the grain into
money at an expense of care in feeding
oftentimes less than cost of hauling the
grain to market, leaving about so per
cent of the grain ON the farm in shape
of manure. In feeding animals many
farmers regard the manure alone as
sufficient profit for labor expended.
That made by hogs is the richest, be-
cause they consume the richest food
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