The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Set all the hens you can.
Peaches like q mulched soil.
You can't get your seed too clean.
Have the coops ready for the early
I chickens.
Do not feed your poultry altogether on
soft food.
Turkeys, ducks and geese need plenty
of pasturage.
Perfect cleanliness will lessen the need
of disinfectants.
Small, unmarketable potatoes are just
as valuable to feed.
Scurvy leg can be communicated from
one fowl to another.
Grass seeds cannot be sown too early
after the snow leaves.
Sealded bran makes a good feed for
poultry at this season.
Boiled potatoes and wheat bran make
a good "mash" for pigs.
No matter what the blood, no animal
will thrive without care.
Apples enough were raised last year
to feed the cooling moth.
IL you can't have shade trees In your
pastures build open sheds.
One advantage with rye is that it fur
nishes very early pasturage.
If muddy, sponge of your horses legs
before leaving it in the stall.
Only the smooth, hard sort of peas
should be planted very early.
Manure only sufficient for one acre is
half wasted if put on two acres.
1t does not pay to put in crops before
the soil is put in proper condition.
Whatever is brought on to the farm
adds to its fertility. and vice versa.
The cabbage worm can be subdued BY
applying Stacked lime dust, sifted on.
Thoroughbreds are good; but a thor
ough head is the best thing on a farm.
If stables were properly fumigated in
summer, lice would be scarcer in winter.
Roup is contagious; all sick fowls
should be separated from the well ones.
An animal that is not sheltered in cold
weather will probably eat a third more
than che that is, and not do nearly as
well either.
Applying q good whitewash and
changing plan of keeping hens nests
clear of lice. Putting the whitewash on
hot makes it more effective.
1t costs money to build good roads,
but such expenditure will be repaid in
the lessened wear and tear on horses and
wagons land on the drivers good nature.
One advantage with poultry is that
the most exacting work with them
comes at a time when it Can be given
with the least interference with the 9th
er work.
Keeping plenty of clean sand in the
yards will help to keep out that part of
the premises clean, while, in addition, it
will aid in supplying the fowls with
plenty of grit.
If the hens do not seem to relish their
food, in many cases a good remedy is to
make them take plenty of exercise-this
is apt to be the case now more than at
almost any other season.
One advantage in having the larger |
breeds of ducks is that they are much |
more readily confined. A woven wire
fence two feet high will ordinarily be all
that is necessary to keep them in.
While rye makes a very good feed for
poultry, it should be fed with other ma
t~erials, as it is not a good feed to give
alone. A patch of rye growing neal the
house will supply a good green
food.
With the small, quick-growing breeds
poultry April is plenty early to hatch,
and if kept growing they will readily
mature by November. The larger, slow
.er-growing breeds should be Matched
earlier.
Don't get into the old style of keep
pigs nine months in the year-part-
ly for their melodious music and partly
to have a scayenger on hand to eat up
pumpkins, small potatoes and corn in
the fall.
Sheep will improve the land if the
management of the pastures is intelli-
gent. If the sheep are pastured upon
that is so short that they will
destroy the roots there will be no i'm
provement.
Hens need to work. Thousands of
poultry ralsers get no eggs, because the
lens do not have to work for a living.
They need exercise. Keep some chaf or
straw N the floor of the hen house
scatter some wheat or barley among
It and the hens will not be standing
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