The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-08
Farm ANp aARpEn Norns

your wants.
Give your team plenty of time in
which to eat.
Breed for eggs, there is less risk tn an
in chickens.
Feed every animal by itself. Allow no
interference.
Kindness to the COW returns through
the milk pail.
oyerripe straw is useful as a mulch or
an absorbent.
Use gravel on all your walks, and keep
out of the mud.
In well ~composted manure the weed
seeds are killed.
A coz should be good for one Of two
things-butter or beef.
If the cap on the syrup can is difficult
to unserew, pour hot water on. 1t.
A company has been formed to test
growing Niagara grapes in Florida.
Cultivation should never be deep
enough to disturb the roots of plants.
Good breeding and good feeding are
both essential elements of improvement.
When stock is turned to grass, it
should continue to have a little dry feed.
Always feed the turkeys enough to in
duce them to came home regularly at
night.
Young leaves, for some reason, are
less liable to injury from spraying than
the older ones.
If the turkeys are given to rambling
much it will be best to mark them, so
that you can identify them.
Lime added to the arsenites for the
purpose Of spraying fruit trees tends to
prevent injury to the foliage.
Guineas should be laying regularly
now. Keep a close watch on them or
many of the eggs will be lost.
WICK says that frequent Swinging of
the foliage, etc, a moist atmosphere, are
the best ~preventives Of the red spider.
If proper attention were paid to grow
ing timber one-haif the timber land
might be kept to grow something else
If you have not already sown your an
nuals, such as phlox, p%etunla, asters,
c~andytuft, sweet peas, ETC., do so now.
a diversity of crops distributes work,
receipts and expenses more evenly
through the year and through the years.
In cleaning out the hay 0 give the
trash to the poultry to pick over; there
is always more or less seed they will eat.
Some ventilation is necessary in the
hen house, but in giving it good care
must be taken to avoid direct draughts.
A good way to give oil of any kind to
poultry is to pour it on the drinking
water; floating on top it will be first
taken.
If well fed from the start ducks ought
to be ready for market at ten weeks old,
and at that age should average five
pounds.
Peafowls though not generally used,
they make a very acceptable table fowl.
Their noise is Objectionable. but they are
very ornamental.
Bundle foot in poultry is nearly al
WAYS caused by having the roosts too
high. The best remedy is to lower the
roosts and use vaseline.
IA yard is best for turkeys. While
thew should not be allowed a free range,
at the same time they will not bear close
confinement as well as other fowls.
An advantage with the incubutor is
that a large lot of fowls are Matched at
once. It is very little more trouble to
look after 100 than to look after twenty
FIVE.
Cows are like other animals, and even.
men and women. They need fresh ar,
SUNLIGHT and exercise-not horse-racing
exercise, but COW exercise, in walking
around.
Put a large shovelful of manur
around each young raspberry plant and
you will derive the benefits therefrom
next season. Any attention given young
raspberries is always rewarded the follow
ing year.
Old strawberry beds should be ploWed
As soon as the berries are picked OF Il
ia he'd does no longer yield WE'LL. aud
! eron Of late potatoes may be grown on.
Il which will serve to kill out the weeds
and grass.
4 rood garden, d good orchard, and a
quality Of poultry are 81 first economy
g ! farm. Health aud strength de-
nends largely upon these articles Of diet,
and 4 farmer may and should supply
them himself.
John Thrope, a good authority, calls
ne rose Glothide Sonpert one OF the
most valuable introductions OF many
years. at is perfect as asplanf pot for
market and surpasses the Herrosa g 2
bedding rose
President j.. d. w French said at
.-,ast;ng az the Ayrshire Association
uMilk records are goo1, but more ms
~s;onarv work among the farmers who
worship At the shrine Of the SCRUB =
will be better
If YOU wish to haul out your coarse
1naunly, put it on q field intended TOT E
rraen manuriaI crop, SO as 90 pillow the
evo, under and thereby more intimately
~ The manure with the soil as well ~
to destroy weeds.
4 aardeng who has tested = g. enree
800 sslls il the Home Journal that broken
,,;eees of bone do much better than broken
erock,rv Tor draining foWer-pots. the
rlants suck tie fertiIizing quality out OF
tha bones and make such vigorous
10Th mat the giants ID pots supplied