St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-04-02
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

To make success of farming avoid
extremes.
Have the sheep barn light and we'll
ventilated.
Breed from pure, good poultry stock;
get rid of your culls.
Are you doing anything to have better
roads in your neighborhood?
Poultry needs shade as we'll as SUD-
shine; plant at least one tree i'll your
yard.
With sheep and clover the poorest soil
can be made rich. Both return to the
land more than they take from it.
A farmer says he finds grub hoe the
best thing for prying off boards in tearing
down barns, sheds and other structures.
Plant plenty of sunhowers; the seed is
not only relished by the birds, but is
productive of health, and the plant fur
nlshes shade.
The dairyman who does not make bis
COWS proftably productive when their
care and keep are the most expensive
will not make the dairy pay.
You cannot change your system of
farming at a bound--you must do it
step by step. If your system is wrong
take the first right step now.
During the cold snaps watch your
watering vessels. The water should be
turned out each night and replaced the
next morning with slightly warmed
water.
Regularity in feeding, watering and
milking are important items in securing
good results from COWS, and comfortable
shelter, with bedding enough to keep
the animals clean.
Corn husks do not make feather
bed, but if clean and dry, and stripped
up fine, they are much better than straw,
and will last many years if taken out each
summer, shaken up and we'll aired in a
bright day.
Study the markets and see if you can
not learn of something that is not in
sufficient supply in your market, and
then see if you can grow it. That is
the way in which the especially farm
ers" have grown rich.
In warming the cream up to the
churning temperature it should be we'll
stirred before it is tested with the Their
mometer, for cream conducts heat very
slowly and while one part of it might be
just the right temperature the rest might
be too cold.
There are some ways at least in which
more protection would help the farmer.
If he would protect his cattle from cold
storms and winds. his poultry from ver-
min, and his tools and machines from
sun and rain, it would increase his in
come and reduce his expenses.
A noted western man riding across
the country and noticing thousands of
acres of cornstalks standing in the field
from which the ears had been jerked
said: "The farmer is conducting the
only business in the world thay allows a
man to lose forty-fve per cent. of his
capital stock and at the same time
live.
A correspondent in the Practical Far
mer recommends giving COWS a teaspoon
full of sulphur once week to make the
cream churn quicker. John Gould, in
the same paper, says it might effect the
blood of the cow sufficiently to neutral
ize the abumen contained in the milk,
which is the principal cause why cream
is tardy in rising.
Market gardeners put on their manure
as fast as they draw it home when they
can, but that which is put on at the
time of the spring blowing must be well
composted, and the heaps worked over
two or three times, they say, to give the
best results. That put on earlier be-
comes mixed with the soil by the action
of the weather.
As many farmers will need new tools
next spring, how would it do to try the
cooperative system OF buying2 Small
tools, such as every one wants Of lis
own, could be bought by the dozen.
Seed drills, pulverizing harrows and
many others not needed often might be
owned in partnership, thus saving the ex.
pense of each man owning his own. Can
it be done without the likelihood Of
future Quarrels over the using9