The Opelousas courier., 1891-02-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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Mature plants for winter work.
Harvest ice and fuel crops early.
Feed and water stock regularly.
Arrange to farm better next year.
Lay your plans for next wears work.
See that each fowl gets its share OF
feed.
Carefully save all the meat scraps for
your fowls.
Now crowd the feed if you are fatten-
ing beef, pigs or poultry.
Never allow your horses to stand in
the wind or cold unblanketed.
Remember that sand, gravel and like
substances are essential to fowls.
Watch prices and prospects, and
market your produce OPPORTUNITY.
Wise stock raisers now try to grow
meat rather than to accumulate fat.
Land plaster, carbolic acid and kero-
sene are all good for the chicken house.
Do not forget that hens learn to eat
eggs by having the broken ones left in
the nest.
Do not neglect to place clean, pure
water every day in accessible places for
for your fowls.
Starving OF freezing an animal is one
way to render farming both improbable
and unpopular.
Make the most profitable use possible
of all by products, for in these often lie
the profits Of farming.
Organization and cooperation are
potent factors for farmers; give them
your encouragement and support.
Alternately starving and gorging a pig
does not make ga streak Of fat and a
streak of lean" Feed regularly.
twenty-five or thirty pounds of granu-
lated sugar syrup is sufficient winter and
spring food for m colony of bees.
In NO place will it pay better to feed
out refuse, cabbage herds and other
green stuff than in the poultry yard.
While generally it is not advisable to
make a speciality Of hogs, yet, neverthe-
less, they can be kept on every farm with
profit.
Even in winter it will be found best
TO change the materials in the nests oc-
casionally, in order to keep them from
becoming foul.
If pigs are to be sold before they are
matured care should be taken to have
them in a good growing condition In
order to realize fine prices.
On hardly one farm in ten is any pro-
vision made for saving liquid manure,
that valuable fertilizer which is nearly
equal in value to the solid portion.
The principal reason why fall pigs are
not more profitable is because sufficient
care is not taken to receive a healthy,
thrifty growth during the winter.
Hogs never should be allowed to sleep
on the manure piles, it induces mango as
well as an unhealthy condition in the sys-
tenn, that it will be found best to avoid.
Let fowls now have full sway among
the grass, shrubs and orchards. They
will enjoy the exercise and make havoc
among the grubs, slugs, T and other
insects that are injurious to vegetable life.
Moreover the diet is cheap and healthy.
Covering strawberries, spinach, kale,
pansies, ETC., should now be attended to
at once if it has not been done already.
Bear in mind that the covering should be
light, evergreen boughs are the best;
salt sedge or thatch next, and coarse,
horse anure next.
How delighted most farmers would be
to own a cow that would give a pound
of butter every day for q yearl But
such cows are not difficult to find if
properly fed and cared for. And still
we can't induce one farmer in twenty,
perhaps not one in a hundred, to find
out what either his best or his poorest
is worth to him.
Black currants are not go much used
In this country as in England where their
merits are better appreciated; they are
very hardy and prolific and make jellies,
tarts and preserves that are esteemed o
great delicacy by the English. The Xix
ing for the raw fruit must be acquired
by practice; few people relish them the
first time they eat them, but become very
fond of them after q while.
The native hemlock IS, to our eye,
most beautiful of eyergreens. For hedge
IT has no equal-making a beautiful and
compact outstanding shearing per-
fectly into any desired shape. It is
easily transplanted, and when Its new
and bright green foliage appears it Is
exouisitely beautiful. It makes hand
some trees In isolated positions and Is
among the best of windbreaks.