The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-17
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES

Farm and Vineyard.
FARM II GARDEN NOTES
When rye is fed to horses use a laxa.
tive with it.
While oil cake is injurious tolmares in
foal corn is not.
A poultice of fresh Stacked lime and
lard is said to be a sure cure for lumpy
jaw.
K~nee-sprung horses, should be shod
with a shoe the heel of which is thicker
than the toes.
It is poor policy to turn the horses out
in the pasture at nights and let them Sc
cure their own food.
The rule of express companies in feed.
ing horses is ten pounds of hay.and four
quarts of oats per meal.
Prepare suitable sheds and atconstant
supply of pure water, before you ar
range to go very extensively into the
sheep business for the winter.
Labor-saving machinery is a drawback
instead of an aid to the farmer, unless
the labor thus released is turned again
into other productive channels. q
A road tax may be burdensome, but
in fact it is not near so much so as the
tax daily imposed and paid by every
farmer vino hauls produce to market over
poor roads.
When buying trees for your orchard
this fall, be sure to learn how they have
been p~ropagated. If not grated on
whole roots of seedlings, have nothing
to do with them.
Exercise more care this season in GULL
ing out the ewes. Retain only the best
for breeding purposes, use the best sire
YOU can obtain, and make the flock pay
even better the coming year than You
did this.
The smaller industries of the farm
often pay a better ratio of profit than
the large ones. Give attention to the
fowls, the bees and the garden, and the
aggregate profit from the three will be a
snug little sum.
In order to distribute manure evenly,
so that all portions of the field will be
equally benefited, it must be made fine.
It is not economy, although it may save
a little labor to throw the manure out in
Jumps and grasses.
The value o fscienti6e workin the inter-
ests of agriculture should not be UNDER
valued, nor the honest effort of the un-
learned farmer. But practice, in COM
bination with science, furnishes the best
means for the end desired.
Those who have poultry to sell this
year will be sure to get a good price for
| them, for there is none in store. And
those who know HOY to raise the best
poultry will get almost any price their
| consciences will allow them to ask.
The best way to save the valuable
droppings of the hen house is to gather
them up daily and cover them with dry
earth or gypsum to prevent the escape OF
ammonia. Wood ashes or lime should
not be useSa as they set the ammonis
free.
Where feeces of wool are brought to
market filed with burrs, seeds, chaff and
ether dirt it is evidence at once OF Q
shiftless flock master and a poorly tended
flock. Buyers know they can purchase
such at their own price, even below Its
real worth.
Before you turn the horses out for
rest in pasture, as you should do aftel
harvest, take off his shoes. We know
some good farmers who even keep their
plow horses unshod, saving money and
keeping the feet in good condition al
the same time.
In using manure from the poultr.
house in connection with wood ashes
the best results will be obtained IN potI
garden and orchard by applying, at diff
ferent times separately, and a week o
tan DAYS apart. The chicken manur
should be removed every day and mlxe'
with plaster to give the best results.
Brown rot or gray rot Of the grape
also sometimes knoVn as downy mlideW
i due 10 a fungus which thrlves i
warm. wet weather. Spraying witt
Bordeaux mixture or ammonia carbonate
il a sure cure. The vines should o.
sprayed every ffteea days from the frs
of July till the fruit begins to turn blue
The aathor of aCommon Sense in tn
Poultry Yard says that he IS satisfied
from his W experience that less thar
An acre and q half for each hundrec
hens is not good economy. On les
chan an acre it is difficult to carry on
The rotation of crops that is absolutel
necessary, and the fowls do not acquir
the vigorous health that il so desirable
It is useless for q beginner to try an
experiment with hens. There is n
business which is more injured by con
slant changing, trying to find somethin
better. and discauding the old befor
ANYTHING better is obtained than tn
poultry business. All breeds OF fowl
have some good points, and the ides
one. satisfactory in everything, has nc
been discovered, and this is not II
worst Of it. There is very little chane
Of ) fowl being discovered which wi
Be al excellent layer and reach q goo
weight for table use.
During the last financial year the Ger
o-au al o99 90,