The Opelousas courier., 1892-09-03

fetal through life. That is equally true
of all OF our useful domestic animals
American Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Feed the poultry early in the morn.
ing.
One feed of corn daily is enough for
the fowls now.
Old geese usually lay and hatch earlier
than young Ones.
Bread wet with skim milk is good feed
for young poultry.
A dry run is absolutely necessary for
the health of turkeys.
Batter floats better when cold water is
mixed with the buttermiIk.
Air-slaked lime busted over the yards
is a good preventive of gapes.
Sweet peas should be given support as
soon as they get a good start in growth.
Generous feeding will always pay.
Any other sort is a loss both of food
and labor.
In warm weather, il the young poultry
are fed soft feed, no more should be
mixed than is eaten up clean.
Milk should not be allowed to cabber
before the cream is skinned, as in this
way a great deal of cream is lost.
Persistent losing of health and flesh
indicates that a cow is suffering from
some ailment, and her milk should not be
used.
Bran, middlings, milk and clover must
largely take the place of corn when feed
ing for lean pork instead Of a carcass of
pure fat.
In growing c%ueumbers for pickles keep
the soil moist, and pick each day all that
are large enough. We have doubled our
crop by irrlgating.
As an animal increases in age aud
weight it requires a larger maintenance
ration. That is why we get the best
profit by early maturity.
It has been shown by recent expert
ments that fresh cream butter IS more apt
to taste of the food given cows than
when the cream is ripened.
A cows simple cough may sometimes
be cured by mixing a handful of whole
faxseed with wheat bran Stops, and
feeding it morning and nj 1t.
When the colt is first iitched to a
wagon don't give a load that requires
n effort to move. The foundation for
many a balky horse has been laid In this
way.
To know if your stock is making salts
factory gain, and paying for what they
eat, they must be weighed at stated in
tervals. A good platform scale is needed
on every farm
Thirty bushels of wheat per acre is an
effective answer to the question of whether
farming pays. This average can be had
with good land, good seed and proper
cultivation and planting.
Among small fruit growers, blaekber-
ries hardly have the attention they de-
serve. We never see q surplus Of good
varieties Of this fruit. On the contrary,
the supply rarely equals the demand.
Late roasting ears are just as much ap-
preciated as early ones. One gets tile
best by planting the early varieties of
sweet corn again in August. The Early
Minnesota answers well for this purpose.
The American Agriculturist says: ITO
grow mignonette in perfection the plants
must not be closer than six inches each
way and the top bud should be pin shed
! off when the plant is two inches high.
Oats cut early when in the dough-
and made into hay, win help out the
winter feeding of the horses if you ex-
pect to be short of timothy. It makes
one of the best substitutes for this pur-
pose.
1t is not the least troublesome to make
Loor butter. AS d beginning you need
only to let the milk stand awhile in a
foul stable. Then proceed in any fashion
YOU choose; the result will be already
assured.
Everyone has noticed that when bee:
start out in the morning they fly around
in the air, continually charging the cir.
cles. It is more than probable that Il
doing this they are trying to catch II,
aroma Of flowers borne upon the wind
They determine which Is best and near
est. and then .tstrike a bee-lineo for It