The Opelousas courier., 1892-06-25
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

rAkA AND GARDEN AORES.
The best layers poor mothers.
Small hen turkeys bring the best prices
at this season.
The willow, elm. poplar or Locust
should never be planted close to wells
or drains.
Professor Bailey says that tomatoes dc
not mix IN the fields.
Feather pulling is largely the result of
id!eness with the hens.
Too much corn and too cold quarters
will often be the cause of no eggs.
The best way of feeding oats is to scald
well and let them stand over night.
Linseed meal added f, the skim milk
makes a good ration for alves or pigs.
In winter hens must have materials
supplied to them to make egg shells, as
well as materials to fill them.
When the hens appear droopy it is a
good indication that they are suffering
from lice, indigestion or colds.
Ducks will begin laying when about
six months old, but, as a rule, the eggs
should not be used for Matching.
Keep the chickens in the broods grow
ing rapidly by supplying them with a
good variety Of food and feeding regu-
larly.
Look out for scaly legs. These are
caused by an insect that gets under the
scales. A bathing with kerosene and
milk, or rubbing with kerosene and lard,
will cure in a few days.
If after the action of subsequent frosts
the ground in the orchard is-harrowed
fine and a top dressing of manure put on,
we may consider that We have nearly
done our part to secure a fruit crop.
A good lock on the henhouse door,
carefully fastened nights, often has good
effect in increasing the profits of poultry
keeping. It prevents the other people
from raising SO many-off the roosts.
Henry A. DHIser says that Alphonse
Bowler, one ! the new cannas, is a
vigorous plantl6fSut of dwarf habit. The
foliage is deepnlIreen and the flowers are
very large and Il an intense crimson hue.
The French tigered and spotted and
some Other good strains of ioxinias come
true from seed. Defiance, scarlet and
Emperor Frederick, azure blue with
white throat, are both fine varieties that
come true from seed.
Felch estimates that one bushel of
corn or its equivalent IN other flesh
growing foods will produce nine to elev-
en- pounds of live weight in poultry,
and one has only to weigh his fowls to
Approximate their food cost, for cost OF
care must be added.
A good mutton sheep will always have
a good fleece, but those that make the
most and the best wool are not always
the best mutton. But to get either at
its best reqires such feeding as will
keep up q steady growth, and the more
| rapid the better the result.
Feather eating among chickens can
often be prevented by putting a small
quantity of salt in their soft feed, enough
to give a moderately salty taste. Three
heaping tablespoonful of common salt
for one hundred lens is not too much
every day, This should be tried.
There is good common sense in the
Injunction to increase the feed gradually
when preparing a COW for a test. A
month is not too long for preparation.
If too rapid increase is made, tits almost
certain to cause indigestion, of which
the least bad effect is waste of food.
It is quite an item in purchasing an
incubator to get u that is, in a manner,
self-regulating. Being obliged TO open
the drafts to reduce the temperature will
not answer When the temperature gets
too low the flames of the lamp must be
controlled by the heat in the incuba-
tor.
When it is time to take the pigs away
from the SOW, stop giving sloppy food
and roots, that her milk may dry up. II
is better to begin this as soon as the pigs
have learned to drink milk at the
trough. They should have q trough SO
arranged that the SOW cannot get to II,
and should be given sweet milk, milk
warm at first.