The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-08-19
HERE AND THERE.

The training OF young dogs should
include an introduction to a butting
ram, in order to calculate a wholesome
dread of familiarity with sheep. A few
knock downs would be powerful ar
gument for letting sheep alone.
1t does not cost cent a hog per
year to free them from vermin or to
keep them free. Change the straw of
the nest, sprinkle it lightly with kero-
sene, stir it up well and the thing is
done.-Arbas.
Those fruit growers enterprising
enough to raise good crops in spite of
insects are assisted by the insects to
good prices. 1t is the careless. happy
go-lucky, lazy, Indifferent man whom
insects harm mostly.
Pure cold water. shade and green
food is essential these hot days. Man
should know what his fowls should
have by his own requirements. When
it is 10 in the sun he seeks the shade
so will his fowls if thc.e is one with
in their reach.
The great point to be reached in Gull
tivating farm to make laoney is to
choose such crops and operations as will
not clash, but which may be combined
as part of one general whole; and
then the smaller comforts and luxuries
may be added on smaller scale as the
owner may choose.
Did you ever feed rice to your grow
ing chicks If not make few expert
ments with it. You must cook it of
course | fed one flock this season en-
tirely upon cooked rice and never had
chicks do better. After cooking I
drained it as dry as possible and gave
them the rice water to drink.
Good tools and plentiful supply Of
them are essential on the farm. Choice
work can not be done with old half.
ruined tools. Keep the tools under cover
out of season and give the wood work
a coat of paint every year. Scour and
oil all polished iron work, such as
plows, cultivators and hoes.
Many valuable horses are lost from
sticking a nail in the foot and lockiaw
ensuing, says an exchange. A simple,
but effective remedy, is to fill the wound
as soon as you can after drawing the
nail, with common writing ink The
same acid thatru your steel pen, will
eat up the iron in the wound ard cure
the foot. If promptly treated the horse
need not lose any time.
This is what veterinarian SAYS:
1.-The most skillful veterinary surgeon
can not many times tell whether a
horse is sound or not. The internal
organs are hidden from view, and
symptoms of their affection are not al
ways clear and plain. In large ma
jority of eases horse warranted is not
worth more than snap of the finger"
"A certain farmers club discussed
the question of abortion in cows until
they felt themselves in fog-as if they
knew less about it than at first. In one
respect such state of mind is good
sign: it shows that discussion took the
conceit out of the members minds, at
any rate. and that is hopeful. None
are so hard to convince as the victims
of conceit.
"A very good thing to have about
the stable at this time Of year. advises
a horseman, is a solution of carbolio
acid. If the horses have sore backs or
sore necks, put little of it on with
sponge, and then about twenty minutes
afterward put on little vaseline The
acid cleans the sore and keeps away the
flies. The yaseline is cooling and heal.
ing. Keep the acid well aapke1 and
labeled poison.