The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-08-13
HERE AND THERE.

The great problem before the farm
er is how to get the largest product
from the least area of ground with the
minimum of labor. The first essential
for accomplishing this is a>rich SOIL
Southern Farm.
Cheap pasturage is one of the great
essentials in strengthening for profit
Give sheep good, wide range, where
they can pick, up plenty of nutritious
food for themselves, and they will not
put you to much further expense in fit
ting them for market.-Stockman.
Some one asked us the other day if
we ever saw a coed farmer who was
poor man. and we have been looking
and thinking ever since, and can not
yet put our hand upon one. We wcn-
der if there is not moral in this some
where?-Southern Farm.
The corn crop is almost always n
paying one when its simplest demands
in the way of cultivation and fertilizing
are complied with. On poor ground,
without manure and not well worked.
can not be expected to give a generou'
| "Reminiscences Home Journal.
The weight of the fleece and tn
quality of the mutton has more to dc
with the profit in strengthening than
has the tariff. Both of these have been
largely improved during recent years,
but there is yet room for some further
| Recommendations Stockman.
If you permit your fowls unlimited
range, do not neglect feeding them
every evening. Unless you do this they
! will soon become careless about return
ing home, and cause you no end OF
trouble in looking mp their hiding
places, and loss of eggs into the bar
| gain.-Southern Farm.
| Artificial fertilizers are good in the
garden, by reason of their freedom
from weed seeds at least, and a rotation
of manures, from the long-continuet
application Of stable manure rich in
vegetable to the artificial fertilizer es
pecially strong in the mineral elements
may be Just what is needed, and prove
as great a benefit as ever did the meth
cd of rotation of crops. Farm ant
Fireside.
| Whether you count, in comparison
the labor, or feed, or the house, the hen
will draw ahead of any other kind o
i farmstock when it comes to result il
dollars Say good cow costs $50, ant
you make profit on her of s25 year
that's 50 per cent. on your investment
Now $50 will buy 100 large pullets il
the fall, and in one year these pullet
can be easily made. to pay a profit owe
cost of feed of s125.-Stockman
The value of salt asa fertilizer dc
) ponds less on what it furnishes than o
|, the soil fertility it makes available
Most farmers. who have used minera
, fertilizers, especially phosphates, for
series of years have lot of unusabl
fertility stored in their soi3. An appl
cation of salt early in the season ma
, do as much good for a year or two a
the more costly fertilizer they have bee
accustomed to use.-Home and Farm.
Lookout for your ''store bills II
| not have any if you can possibly avoi
. it. The more willing a merchant is
have you run on account the more re;
, son why you should not do 1t. Max
4 up your mind that you can not bot
/ profit by it, and, il 1t will be such goc
0 thing for him that he is anxious for !
t probably it viii not be very good thin
o for you: and whenever farmer gets I
r the point where he lets his merchaI
h carry" him, he is gone up as far |
S future success is concerned -Southc'
o Farm