The Opelousas courier., 1891-04-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Set all the hens possible now.
Caste --oil is a remedy for warts.
Do not let the buckeyes get chilled.
Feed the ducks plenty Of bulky food.
Whitewash is better than paint in the
poultry house.
Geese need a good pasture and plenty
Of water to thrive well.
When currying the horse do not rab
too hard, for it is painful.
The all-the-year-round cow is the ons
chat generally best fills the bill.
II your neighbor succeeds better than
you do, find out how he does it.
Never break off a limb on a valuable
tree; always make a smooth cut.
Some one asks: HAre we going to the
dogs?" No; but the sheep are.
Don't be satisfied with merely raising
0 few hogs, but raise good ones.
"A bushel OF potatoes often commands
as high d price as a busheI Of wheat.
4 good farmer will drive his work in
stead Of having his work drive him.
The farmer has heretofore scattered
bis energies over too large D surface.
In judging wool. the rest of the feecs
ID compared with that on the shoulder.
Il pays to grind grain for the stock;
and il pays to feed it with cut fodder.
The older the tree the more difficult to
transplant and the more uncertain of sue
cess.
The farmer that has eggs, ponltrf aud
good butter To sell does not neel to go
into debt at the stores for the little
necessary running expenses. But, of
course, good management is necessary.
IT separators are To be uscil which
shall they be, wood or TIM / believe
the general decision is til it fin IS prefer
able with wide frames and wood with
the Z supers, says . correspondent in the
Reekespers' Reoieg.
It has been found that corn-meal and
middlings will not make four cent
pork at q profit in New Hampshire; but
that twenty cent skim-milk will do it.
The Wisconsin Experiment Station has
found that to mix meal and milk pays
far better than to feed either exclusively.
ii good rule in farming is to use the
land that every crop shall make d margin
Of profit, and shall leave the land richer
at the close Of the course Of rotation than
IL was at the beginning. After this has
been accomplished during one rotation il
win be easier during each succeeding
one.
Turkeys like a variety of food, though
do very well upon corn, which they
never refuse while in health. They are
very fond of d mash of boiled potatoes
and Indian meal, and thrive admirably
upon It. What ever the proYender, it
should be fed regularly, and the birds
be kept thriving from the shell to the
butchers block.
Z. /. Lamborn says that the carnation
the future must be q large and perfect
lower that will give perfect calyx sup
port to its petals. The flowers must be
N long stems, stand erect, fragrant in
he highest degree and well fringed.
rhe plant must be of d branching, dwarf
sh habit, q vigorous grower, ii early
ind continuous hIoomer.
II the face of depressing circumstances
he brood SOW may prove to be the most
'aluable animal on the farm before the
ear closes. About the worst move the
armer may make will be the neglect of
is brood sows. This is an ssofp year
q the business, but the man who keeps
teadily Oh At bis work with bis breeding
took viii come out best in the end.
Among the farmers Of central Illinois
here Is nearly 8 unanimous verdict that
rain-farming does not now yield any
aargin offproft; but among The agricul-
1ral industries which do give good re-
they mention sheep raising, horse
reedlng Zone man engaged in this saws
aat every horse grown 20 maturity will
Ferage &60 proit3, planting orchards.
g raising garden products.