The Bossier banner., 1892-08-04
HERE AND THERE.

The great problem before the farm.
er is how to get the largest product
from the least area of ground with tho
minimum of labor. The first essential
for accomplishing this is rich SOIL
Southern Farm.
Cheap pasturage is one of the great
essentials in sheep-keeping for profit
Give sheep good, wide range, WHERE
they can pick up plenty of nutritious
food for themselves, and they viii not
put you to much further expense in g.
ting them for market.-Stockman
Some one asked us the other dayH
we ever saw a good farmer who was
poor man, and we have been looking
and thinking ever since, and can na
yet put our hand upon one. WeWaR
der if there is not a moral in this some
where?-Southern Farm.
The corn crop is almost always
paying one when it's simplest demands
in the way of cultivation and fertiEzing
are complied with. On poor ground
without manure and not well workea
can not be expected to give a generdR
return. Home Journal.
The weight of the fleece and u
quality of the mutton has more % q
with the profit in sheep-keeping than
has the tariff. Both of these have been
largely improved during recent years
but there is yet room for some fnrtha
advancement National Stockman.
If you permit your fowls unlinlsea
range, do not neglect feeding tLen
every evening. Unless You do this thel
will soon become careless about return
ing home, and cause you no END o
trouble in looking up their hlalns
places, and loss of eggs into the baf
gain.-Southern Farm.
Artificial fertilizers are good IN tas
garden, by reason of their freedom
from weed seeds at least, and rotation
of manures, from the long-continnsa
application of stable manure rich u
vegetable to the artificial fertilizer =
pecially strong in the mineral clemens
may be just what is needed, and Prov
as great a benefit as ever did the mea,
cd of a rotation of crops.-Farn am
Fireside.
Whether you count, in comparlaeA.
the labor, or feed, or the house, the nea, ,
will draw ahead of any other KIND =
farmstock when it comes to result = |,
dollars. Say good COW costs s'V' sus -
you make a profit on her OF SO yea,'
that's so per cent. on your investmen.s !.
Now $50 will buy 100 large pulie1ss Y Z
the fall, and in one year these puiiss.
can be easily made to pay prohs W.
cost of feed of s125.-Stockman.
The value of salt as fertilizer oe
pends less on what it furnishes than -
the soil fertility it makes avallas's
Most farmers, who have used mlhs's
fertilizers, especially phosphates' - h,
series of years have a lot OF unusspa;' \;
fertility stored in their SOIL An app.
cation of salt early in the season lna'
do as much good for a year or wv $, :
the more costly fertilizer they have -
accustomed to use.-Home and FaLln.
Lookout for your "store bills 3 y
not have any if you can possibly ~, y,
it. The more willing merchant 2 !
have you run on account the mors 81, -
son why you should not do 1t nesI 80
up your mind that you can nOs q. q.
profit by it, and, if it will be sucn ~ !,
thing for him that he is anxious - 81 !,
probably it will not be very good 1l's' ~,
for you; and whenever farmer gss
the point where ne lets his mess,.s !
"earry" him, he II gone up q - 80,
future susaess is eepeerpea. s~sess''''
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