The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-07-02
HERE AND THERE.

Every horse that is expected to
work on the farm during the spring and
summer should have a collar and set of
harness properly fitted to it. This will
lessen the risk of CALLED shoulders.
An observer says that in raising
squashes the main vines should be kept
pinchcd back to encourage the forma-
blossoms on the main vine are male and
those on the laterals are female So Of
course, only the laterals bear fruit.
"A farmer in Cavan county, Ireland,
applied half a ton of salt to an acre OF
oat stubble in January. In spring he
planted potatoes on it. The potatoes
on this sailed land were good crop and
free from disease, while those on I'M
sailed land were hardly worth lift
ing"
Let the farmers wives and daugh-
tcrs study the science of poultry raising
if the farmer himself has not the time
or inclination to attend to ii. We know
that in the greater number of cases the
farmers wife does not need this sugges-
ton, for she has learned the value to the
household of the poultry yard.
In feeding milk cows on cake or oil
meal an experienced authority says you
must begin gradually with one-hah
cornmeal and increase to two parts of
the former to one of the latter. The
amount fed must be regulated by obscr-
walton of results. Buy the steam-coolxcd
linseed meal if possible.
AT the beginning of growth n plant
lives upon the substance of it's seed, but
out for something more. That is when
and where we need available plant
food. The food may be there for the
plant, but it is not available" if the
soil is coarse and lumpy. That is why
we need filth before planting.
Never allow the pigs to sleep in the
manure pile. They choose to do so in
cold weather il allowed the privilege,
because of the warmth generated in the
manure while undergoing decomposi-
ton. The escaping gases are decidedly
injurious to the pigs and are prolific
SOurcc VI SoAuc VI tiic LAoSt ldttil ills
eases.
We know of a gentleman who has
seventy cows and four hundred hens.
He cares for them both in the very best
ways, and his hens pay him the great
est profit. He does not crowd them, he
feeds them properly, and he has
stream of eggs going to the market all
winter when the demand is great and
the prices high. Enough early chickens
can be raisen to supply the table with
delicious broilers, which is a whole
some change from the old-fashioned
diet of salt pork.-Cor Farm Journal.
Here is an immense amount of good
advise from an exchange, in a small
space: "Drink nothing without seeing
it: sign nothing without reading it. and
make sure it means nothing more than
it says. Don't go to law unless you are
forced to and have nothing to lose. In
any business do not wade where you
can not see the bottom. Put no de-
pendence in the label of dog; and
count money before you receive it. See
the sack before You buy what is in it,
for he who buys it in the dark asks to
be cheated"
Did you ever notice what marked
influence feeding has on the shape and
character of hogs? Pigs that are liber-
ally fed on a variety of wholesome food
though perhaps their ancestors are
not perfect specimens-develop into
shapely hogs, much superior to the par
emit stock; while pigs from ancestors
perfect in form degenerate in form and
character below the parent stock, if
poorly fed. The professional hog-grower
is cognizant of this fact, and improves
his herd by proper feeding as we'll as
by proper principles of breeding.