The Bossier banner., 1892-02-18
FARMER AND PLANTER
TERSE TRUTHS
To be Garnered Up for Application at APP
Propriate Seasons

N o man IS too ola TO planG Il Jfee.
Improper diet Stays its thousands.
Clean culture makes easy culture.
II your soil is not rich, make it rich.
Clear the rubbish out of the dooryard.
No kind of stock thrives without care.
Are you planning to keepa few sheep?
ga false measure is an abOmination."
1t is poor economy to burn green
wood.
Theory follows fact and guides prac-'
tice.
See that your cellar is made frost
proof.
The better the feed the better the
product.
Save the screening of your crops to
feed.
Make things handy for doing house
work.
Kill the bug and you destroy its
progeny.
Make fruit orchard of your poultry
yard.
Don't forget to attend the grange
meeting.
1t never Injuries an orchard to manure
it.
Corn will never go out Of fashion as
food crop.
Don't expect the wife to split the
kindling.
1t does not pay to put good feed into
poor stock.
Be ready to attend the farmers insti-
tutes.
The fruit of dishonesty is not always
sweet.
Make garden Of your farm as far as
possible.
1t is not necessary to be wasteful to
avoid stinginess.
Our soil grows poor as our streams
become fertilized.
Wheat screenings make good winter
food for hens.
Any ration that the COW will thrive
on is milk ration.
The bull without horns may butt, but
he can not gore.
Cut straw is better than whole straw
for bedding.
Every farmer should be professor
of agriculture.
Wood ashes are never wasted when
used as fertilizer.
Cool your milk as soon as possible for
cheese making.
A family without garden deserves
public commiseration.
An unclean cellar is bad place in
which to store vegetables.
A market is often of more considera-
ton than cheapness of soil.
Clean out the currant bushes and
other small fruit plants.
building may not always be profit
able, but it is educational
Have all the manure hauled and spread
before winter sets in.
Ripe fruit in its natural condition is
more healthful than cooked
Crimson or scarlet Towering clover is
not new, as has been declared
1t is no longer evidence of superior
intellect to belong to profession.
Aim to grow such things as you need,
or can make use of on the farm.
The seed as well as the soil determines
the quality and yield of the crop.
There is direct and indirect stealing.
The indirect is the most successful.
How many men are there who live up
to the level of their understanding?
Give the COW something to come home
for, and she will be there every time.
Pulverization of the soil is one of the
open secrets of successful farming.
Get the manure well mixed with the
soil if you want the best results from it.
Temperance in all things and plenty
OF pure air is the secret of long life.
Make your wife happy with big pile
OF dry wood well shattered and handy.
The best tiller of the soil is the best
farmer, other things being the same.
Our bodies are made of what we eat:
hence we ought to be careful of our
diet.
The man who lives by his wits would
starve We're it not for other peoples la
Dor.
Feeding the pasture or meadow too
close in the fall is drawing on next
years crop.
The best dairy man is not one who
knows it all, but one who is constantly
learning.
Clean pastures, furnish clean feed
and clean feed makes the best milk and
beef
Destroy all weeds, and keep the
ground clean around your house and
outbuildings.
See that your cellar is clean and
sweet,if you have regard for the health
OF your family.
1t is not always the man on the bio
farm that gets the most of the labor ex.
pended on it.
The fall is good season in which To
fatten animals, but they must have
good shelter.
In ordinary cases of dry weather it
is better to stir the surface of the soil
than TO rigate.-Southern Cultivation
BREEDING SEASONS.
FOR Best Results Nature is Not ALWAYS the
Surest Guide.