The Opelousas courier., 1891-09-19
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Have your fowls any shaded

Spade up the runs occasionally.
No farm should be without one or two
good brood sows.
Fowls having the run of the farm will
get along with a little corn these days.
Sheep are often a source Of economy,
as they thrive on what would otherwise
be wasted.
All plants started in hot-beds should
be exposed to the air a few days before
t~ransplanting.
The little chicks will sooner be big
ones is kept shut up each morning until
the dew is off.
As far as possible, contrive to have
your crops ONE on successively-not all
at the same time.
Make pot pies of stock you do not
wish to winter, if you have too few to
make a shipment.
What a blessed thing it is that the
weather aud the growth of crops do not
! depend on politics.
Look to your sources of water supply,
and see that they are not receptacles of
f~oulness and disease.
No country is ever so prosperous as
when It's labor forces are all employed
and properly directed.
Did you mean to clean out the hen
house yesterday? Did you do IL Ii
not, stick your head into it to-nig t at
nine o'clock.
Notwithstanding the good fruit pros
poets tomatoes will find ready purchasers
and can always be made a saIable and
paying crop.
Fowls running at large should be pro-
yided with convenient secluded nesting
places known to you or they will find
some unknown ones.
We believe the sooner a sick hen is
killed the better. It saves time, saves
feed, saves health to the rest. Kill and
bury every moping hen.
Don't pull too many stalks from the
rhubarb bed; let some of the leaves re.
main, for they are the lungs that supply
life and vigor to the roots.
Some men pay a great deal Of attea-
ton to the branches of the fruit tree,
and let the roots take care of themselves.
Both require equal attention.
Don't pick the peaches too green.
Remember that this fr~uioanuot ripen
afSe.laaying the tree without losing its
navor, mems value of nearby mar
Present prices of land and It's r,ot,
will not Justify q mar in clearing rockJ-
land for pastures or fields either, unless
It is near some large town where market
gardening can be followed.
TO keep borers away from my peach
trees and to keep the trunks nise and
smooth wrap them with tar paper rom
an inch below ground up eighteen iusa-
8 when first set out and keep It on.
If you do not use q lawn mover save az.
.ome nicely cured fine grass Whefe -
can get at it next winter. Kun so,ne :
Il throurh the feed cutter and soak gu
for the fowls; they will appreciate IT,
= coat much more to regain a 1851
mound Of flesh on q steer than 70 ~ a,,r
like weight to q thrifty
chasing steers to feed, thrifty ones WI
! generally be found the more proasaols
We know Of nothing that purihes =
hon house better than fresh earsh sea
I tered on the floor. Kerosene may ~
lice. ashes or dust be good Tor a.ad
Il hatb I'M, neither Of these give the res
nass that. fresh soil does. Try II.
e The Improvement in native Wlla Iru.
% has made the Northwest more proauss,
e n tie line Of plums, cherries aP I.
rs rants, while the introduction Ok.
and apples from Russia has greatly !
i creased the production N that nne'
Y. The little culls oil Strawberries = !,
y hans imperfect on n side, VIII aa -. .
10 J tribe to the quantity Of fruit ana a.s sur
~ null down the price for the paske ]
crate more than seems possible. 2
eessful fruit men agree IN the aasscs
assert closely