The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-06-02
HERE AND. THERE.

More corn and hogs and less col
ton will bring prosperity more speed
ly and certainly than the election q
any man, or set of men, to Office. Poll
ties may justly claim some of our time
but a studied, steady, constant effOrtto
make a living at home is the thing most
to be desired just now.-Terrell tTex.l
Register.
1t is not alone to kill weeds that
we scratch old mother earth with steel
fingers. Bless the weeds anyway! iOr
to them above all else we owe our
knowledge of the value of cultivation.
If there were no weeds most peoph
would quit cultivating.
Every really good farmer is scisD
tific farmer. lie may not know It b
may even ridicule scientific farming
but he goes right on applying scientific
principles to his work, and his neigh
bors point to him as successful, CON
nonsense farmer.-Iexas Farm aHd
Ranch.
1t is gratifying to note the indS
tions of returning reason on the partd
southern farmers. News from ever
part of the cotton belt reports de-
creased acreage in cotton. This o.
course, indicates an increased produe
ton of more profitable crops -Iexa'
Farm and Ranch.
When the young pigs begin to eat
they should be encourage all that !
possible, by preparing small door, o.
gateway, from the pen or yard, where
suitable food may be placed in small
trough, and increased until they VIII
receive their whole support from thaI
source, when the mothers may be drsd
off gradually and removed entirely :
Wisconsin Farmer.
AS long as the world remains prety
much as it is there will be large nun
Der of men SO utterly incompetent thS'
they can not live by any other means
than by farming. This will keep ins
general average of agricultural success
below par, but shows that farming !
the easiest way known among mei
which an honest living may be haa-
Texas Farm and Ranch.
Discussions are often heard Is y
whether roots or leaves push nrssn
spring. Roots do, as may be seen D
the case of seedlings, the roofs y
which are often many inches long =
fore the tops start. Bulbs in glasSa
are also good examples. The roOs
will have most filled the glass oel0,o
the top shows. 1t is of much nSs =
gardening for one to understand ~
Rural World
This time it is Texas that = 4, !.
trouble with the vivacious little y
glish sparrow, the Red river farll' ..
complaining that the birds eat inc - q.
faster than the said farmers eau 3.
them. And yet there seems no nsss
sity for despair. Make sparrow H. g..
fashionable article of diet; tnen =.
the small boy loose, and the spa !,
must in no great while disappear :
completely as the buffalo has 0i''f
peared.
Few farmers have somany 40 IN IN
pigs, and a spraying apparatus n.
which to apply kerosene emulsion, m
all can cheaply overcome nee y d
animals by simply using any SOFT .s 4.
as lard, ETC., rubbing the same Oss a,s "
backs and around the ears. NO 20 81
| ingredient is needed. A nelgnDoi' aud
DAYS since, used ashes, unleaenesd,,, En-, =
then applied water, which, indeed a. ss
the lice, but also removed tne -
and some of the hide.-A Farmer. "A
There is more interest manii y 4.
by farmers at the present tlms 4
versified farming than ever before. M
! is generally recognized as cer'aiD soru.
the cotton acreage must be cut aV ,ssl
or bankruptcy will follow anu = 4
there is but one sensible way = ,s,os
and that is to engage in the proa1 MA
of such a diversity Of crops anu al 4
as TO make a large cotton sfgp u
the question. This Is all rlsha ...,,i
hered TO, aud will tall Ia 800 800
prosperity, -Tsxas Farm ~"