The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-02-04
HERE AND THERE.

Never breed from the hens Owe
three years old as the stock. in sucf
cases is usually weak. Make up YOU
breeding pens early in the season. Ear
ly-hatched chickens will begin to lay il
October or November.
lettering the pens in which sheer
are housed with burnt clay is prac.
ticed in England as a preventive OF foo1
trouble. The clay, which acts as ar
absorbent for the excrement, makes q
valuable fertilizer and one that is east
| ly handled.
| -Cotton-seed meal and bran are the
cheapest of all food for stock, consider.
| ing their nutritive value as compared
with other materials. These foods are
cheap if simply brought on the farm
for their value as manure alone, and es.
pecially on lands deficient in nitrogen
and phosphates.
With very free horse it is desira.
BILE to cautiously accustom him to the
sound and feel of the whip lightly
drawn across him SO as not to hurt him
at all, says an experienced horseman.
This will prevent him from running
whenever you take the whip in hand,
and make it possible to touch up slug
by his side.
Calls on the necks and hooks OF
horses, or other similar abrasions, should
be washed with CASTLE soap and tepid,
soft water, and afterward with sailed
cold water. 1t will tougher the skin.
Any indolent sores should be kept clean
with the soap and water. If gals do
not respond to this treatment apply
tannin, which may be had at any drug
store.
Last year the following farm prod.
ucts were imported to the United States
to the value of $4j. $50, 900: Wool. hemp,
flax, fiaxseed, barley, horses and mules
eggs, cheese, potatoes, peas, beans, hay,
hops, cattle, sheep and other live ami
mails, barley malt, oatmeal, wheat
-four, butter and condensed milk
in the theory of rotation of crops
the farmer only follows nature. Every
one at all familiar with our forests has
observed that when a pine forests is
cleared oaks at once spring up in their
place, and vice versa, and when gap
occurs in hedge it is useless to Mt
tempt to fill it by inserting new plant
of the same species, but that some other
sort must be used.
Variety of food is essential 1t is
surprising how many kinds of food may
be put down as poultry supplies. Some
one has said: "a hen will cat any thing
other animals eat, and some things that
nothing else will" To young chicks
just out of the shall l give first hard
boiled egg, followed with bread or
cracker crumbs and oatmeal. then
cracked corn. They need frequent feed
ing-once in two hours is good rule.
-Neatness in and around the barn
saves time in having things neat and
orderly, always available and ready for
use. Neatness in the stable iusures
clean harness, in good repair, ready for
use without loss of precious hours, when
work is pressing and time most valua-
Bile. The horses are comfortable, and
when brought out for work feel active
and fresh, SO that it is a pleasure to
work on drive them.
Wherever alfalfa IS successfully cul-
tivated Bookkeeping should follow, as
the plant affords an immense amount
of forage for the lioncr makers; and, by
the way, bee farming is an industry
that is worth following for itself and it
might pay to cultivate alfalfa especially
as basis for this. A farmer in Ohio
says his hundred stands OF bees pay
him more than all the rest OF his sixty.
acre farm, and &c nes require half as
much labor,