The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-10
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Farm AND eARDEN NOTES.
Don't your well need cleaning2
Choose a cool day for picking apples.
Keep right on cultivating the straw
berry patch.
Fight weeds, briers, ETC., until they
cease growing.
Now is a good time to make mutton
as well as pork.
Put implemesds under cover as soon as
done using them.
For permanent pasture, timothy does
not do we'll alone.
The best egg-maker is good food.
Feed the hen no other.
The same fence should not enclose a
young orchard and cattle.
Get your ground ready for those trees
you mean to set out this fall.
Save seed from any novelties that have
proved satisfactory with you.
Harvest the onions as soon as ripe.
When dry store in a cool, dry place.
Black cap raspberries do better set out
in the spring. Put others out this fall.
Stop cultivating the grape vines. The
wood must be given a chance to harden.
Put no twind falls" in the barrels of
No. / apples. 1t will pay in the long
run.
If there is marsh hay near you get some
in readiness for covering the straw
berries.
Currant and gooseberry cuttings will
do better set out now than to wait till
spring. Try it and see.
Begin your intense farming this fall by
burning all the weeds about the place be-
fore they shell their seeds.
If you can put out some grape vines
this fall do not wait till spring, you may
be crowded with work then.
You-need not wait till the frost drops
the leaves from currant and gooseberry
bushes before making cuttings.
Where are the mower and horserake2
Better have them housed to-day. They
will be of better value next season if they
are.
While the corn is curing in the shock
is a good time to get out the manure that
has been accumulating during the sum-
mer.
by the way, do you make your wife
an equal partner in the farm plans3 She
| NAV be the stbetter half of the firm if
you will.
Every farmer should look over his
farm often and examine his fences so
that his stock will not destroy his crops
or be found in his neighbours lot.
When a man wants an idea, he
scratches his head. When a farmer wants
q crop he scratches his land, and the
harder he scratches the better the crop.
Don't let any green tomatoes 60 to
waste. Apples are scarce and green
tomatoes make excellent pies-are good
fried, are good several ways. Save
them.
Very often the surplus product of a
farm can not be more proitably invested
than by putting into under drains, till
the thorough drainage of the cultivated
land be accomplished.
Where thorough and clean culture has
been practiced n can see how the crops
Law hold of the fertilizers and are CORE
spondingly larger. Itpaysto be energetic
in fighting the weeds.
The size of the tile should be il 1ro-
, norton to the length of the drain aud
The amount of fall in the ditch. But the
flooding of a drain tile depends somewhat
ON the depth to which 1t is sunk.
A correspondent of the Orange Judd
Farmer complains that on his farm
manure has been a detriment rather than
Il help to his crops. The number Of
farmers that have this experience is very
small.
Flax seed that has been exposed in the
Aeid to the suns rays until it is dry to
brittleness, still holds q latent moisture,
which will develop when the seed Is con-
fined in a mass and result In heat and de-
composition.
A farmer should take care to keep easy
and safe ways of ingress and egress to
his cultivated fields. More wagons are
broken down by going through deep fur
rows or over ridges than ny twice the
travel on smooth highways.
It ia time that western farmers were
taking warning from the experience OF
their eastern brethren. When they are
under the necessity of buying fertilizers
TO keep up the fertility of their lands
thew win sing q more dcleful song than
they do now.
The Watch as a Commas.