The Opelousas courier., 1892-10-22
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM N GARDEN NOTES.
Perennial phloxes are growing in pop.
%ularity.
Lilacs may be propagated by means of
grating.
Ii you want fine specimens thin out
severely the tree fruits.
0ver-crowding animals is the surest
way of inviting disease.
Bran comes nearer being a complete
stock food than an ything else.
Ii flies infest the stable scatter some
chloride of lime and observe its effect.
For pear scab, spray the affected tree
repeatedly with the Bordeaux mixture.
High-priced clothes an1 low priced
cattle will not pay the mortgage on the
farm.
Corn silage, with gluten meal aud
bran, is an excellent ration for feeding
beeves.
The California prives may be propo.
gated by cuttings planted il the open
ground.
Stock owners should be more inter-
ested in preventing disease than in seek.
ing cures.
Those who took their bees out OF
winter quarters latest this year did best.
May 20 proved to be the best time.
Recently a mare foaled unattended in
a freight car aud got along all right.
The train was running thirty miles an
hour.
A horses memory is as long as his
life, and this makes the lessons he first
learns of the utmost Importance, as he
never forgets them.
For young animals, wheat bran is a
good food, as it combines all the ele-
ments of has aud corn, aud the sugar
it contains renders it easily digestible.
To prevent bees from stealing the
wax from gratis wrap thin paper around
the wax whea it is first put on. BY
having the paper white the wax will be
cooler.
1t is to the apialists' interest to build
up q market at home, even If he Only
gets the price at which honey is sold in
the large cities he saves the cost of
transportation.
Those who plant stra wberries in July
or August can expect a small crop OF
very fine berries next spring. But they
should be well careI for during the SUM
mer aad fall and we'll manured as winter
sets in.
It is all right to plan WORK ahead for
a rainy day, but if 1t ought to be done
at once; do not put it off. A needed re-
PAIR ID tool or machine may be bat a
small job now, but use will soon make it
! big io5-
Clover or grass land newly piowei
is not good for strawberries. Fhe red
headed grub is abu ldaut IN such laai,
AMI he is 10 aid to strawberry culture.
Wait till the sol is we'll rooted bssore
putting out strawberry plants.
The French have found that the
Jersey and Devon cattle are less liable to
disease than the Dlrhams, and this may
account in part for the fact that there is
an apparent increase in the number OF
these cattle used in Paris diaries.
Buckwheat is an excellent food,
enabling the cows to produce a superior
quality of milk. Being very rich in
nitrogln, many farmers prefer the bran
OF it to that of wheat. TIE kernel ls
known to be more valuable than that of
wheat or oats.
The intelligent dairyman must study
necessarily. Every % has her peclli-
a~rtities, which must be considered, AMI
adaptations made in fool and treatment.
Success in almost everything is won BY
attention to details, an this is particl-
larry true Of dairying.
At a recent flower festival given for
charity, in. the grounds of the Villa
Borghese, just outside of the walls OF
Rome, the women students of the Roman
University were present wearing the CO..
ored caps of their colleges, like their
men felloW-studeats.