The Bossier banner., 1892-02-18
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HERE AND THERE.

"A drowning man catches al straw
but it looks like he is haying while M
too wet.
Many farmers, with little man
agement, are able to pay running d
penses from small things that olhsnH
will overlook.
In buying breeding fowls be carIr
that the flock from which selected
free from roup or cholera II fbwnr
from a distance obtain a guarantee
these conditions.-Farmers Home jon
nal.
Does any man question the vdK
added to a county or state by its haTiH
good roads? If so, let him go to when /
they have better roads than are ioua
in his own township and see how ta {
fact impresses him. Rural World
One of the greatest drawbacks tha {
a farmer can possibly have is theA
sire to procure more land than be ca
easily pay for or properly cultut E
Many a farmer has thus been hp [
''land poor" all his life. : Farmer
Home Journal.
1t is a great mistake for farnsrsI
other citizens to depend upon outsideaI
far off help for solution of the dill
culties that meet them in the prosecR
ton of their business. Good seascnI
are not made by Legislation, neitha|
are bad crops improved by it-RunI
World.
i have often fed dollars worth q
feed into one COW and got dollars
worth of butter out of her says Il u
Adams. l have fed the same amouniaI
feed into another COW and got two do'|
lars worth out of her, and ! am golIgI
to stand by the two-dollar cow-farRI
ers' Home Journal.
The economy of brains on the faIsI
has not been as thoroughly or lnteRl
gently discussed as it ought to have
been. When one man in the same siae1
raises one hundred bushels OF corn Z
the acre, and another only twenty, w
very evident that brains and the la1
of brains has something to do with -
world. Rural World.
If you would make stock-keepM
profitable, keep no more than you =.
feed and shelter well. They can Dc w.
little profit in feeding good hay 3D.
grain to shivering cattle in oleAl
barnyard. Keep no more stock taas
you can put in good, warm stalls. we
the snow flies and the winter W.
blows. Feed is too valuable to burn@
fuel this year in keeping stock Waf@
Farmers Home Journal.
The action of the bowels OF y.
lion should be carefully observed lrg
should be kept open, but not loose. =
this purpose wheat bran is the V1
regulator, and should be fed as tne sos
dltion of the bowels seem to inalcaA
from two quarts or more day oo-
stations seem predisposed to consup
ton. in which case the bran IS inoi' 4
fective if scalded and allowed 70 - I.
A pint of oil meal a day VIII ne'ps
regulate the bowels and improve =
coat.-Rural World.
"a farm without the joint snpsi'a
tendence of husband and wife ss3
A. w. Cheever, ''is no ideal coas-s
home, and if at all successful mus s. .
rare exception. However, muen e. o.
been written about the hard ilie :. 81 !.
farmers wife, her lot on wen - s.
aged farm is not to be compares W.,
favorably with the lot OF any M Il.
class of women who work for theii :. :,
ing. as the great majority Oh -. s.su.
women of the world do at the ps''
time. Rural World "a
1t is said that the warm pau.
often prevent the most vlrnlens NJ
eases. A person who may be ID ICE. -
having received infection OF any
should speedily plunge into ,ua
bath, suffer perspiration to ensue ssaas
then rub dry; dress securely = s,ad
taking cold. If the system hasin., 49,,
any infectious matter, it will cef,1.,s :
be removed by this process 7 = ,i,ss
sorted to before the infection has o.
to spread over the syS's'a'
World,