The Opelousas courier., 1892-10-08

on the farm poultry costs b,,t l,t,,. =.
4 Il can have q good range.
hsen IN summer it is best to have ar
aiar hours tor feeding the poultry.
Inere is q good reason for eyerv,b;,r
anu success or failure in sheep are no.
rows that are fed and care1 for need
no special forcing or feeding for health
and growth.
Unless care is taken there is ALWAYS
more o1saess risk of the turkeys aetting
beyond control.
This isa world of progress. and the
sheep industry is in closest touch with
human industries.
The amount of wool a sheep will grow
depends upon the breed and healthy
uniform food supply.
II pastures are very rank, il woald he
wen to NOW them for hay, and let the
sheep have dry, healthy pastures.
A neglected and poorly fed flock Of
poultry will breed lice faster and more
surely than almost anything else.
Steel wire fences solve the dog cues
ton, and corrugated iron roofing solves
the shelter problem. This is the iron
age.
NJ profitable, economic, progressive
farming IS found In the world that has
not sheep applied to the situation in
some form or other.
Chicken gapes can be prevented by
keeping the young chicks out of the
wet grass until about three weeks old.
A cure is somewhat uncertain.
If you see your young chicks gaping
or shaking their heads, examine the top
OF the heads aud neck for lice. You
will doubtless find what you look for.
Choose a sandy soil as a location for
the poultry house and yards. It will
keep dryer, and accumulate less surface
filth. Damp clay soil is an inducemens
to roup.
Professor Fletcher, Dominion Ento-
mologist, says that June or Kentucky
blue grass does not make q good head
until the third or fourth year from low
ing.
If you have chicks of q new breed,
watch them as they develop; they may
be better or they may be inferior to the
old breeds with which You are &C.
quainted. y
Do the birds walIow under the yard
fence and escaped Try mailing ON It's
net with six inches Of it left on the
ground at right angles to the fence. and
inside the enclosure.
Al good feeding floor for the hogs win
more than repay It's cost in a single sea-
son by the saving OF grain. 10 feed
good corn on muddy grolad isa practice
that is about out of fashion.
The farmer who wages warfare upon
birds often destroys his best friends.
They do more to keep down III insect
enemies than all the insecticides and
spraying devices yet invented.
Meat scraps should be fed to the lay
ing hens il some form at least twice a
week; it helps considerably toward fill
ing the egg basket, and is q preventive
to feather pulling and other vices.
The successful manufacturer always
knows the cost of producing any article
chat he puts upon the market. When
he cannot produce for less than selling
price he changes his methods or stops.
There il not much difference between
the cost of the food needed to pro-
duce a pound of butter aud that required
for a bound of BEEF. Then If the beef
cattle must be housed and cared for the
same as the dairy cattle, there is. of
course, the best profit in butter produce
ton.
Professor Roberts, of Cornell Univers-
ity, said In speaking of growing fodder
corn: Twenty tons Of anu Is too
much for an acre of land. Five tons 10
enough. T would Just as soon think OF
putting five bushelsof oats into a horses
Manager at one time, as twenty tons on
an acre"
Are you sure that you are running the
farm ssfor all it is wortha" Could not q
few more calves be raised or pigs be
kept, or q few sheep be added, or tho
poultnl yard be better ille1 with more
and better stocka Are there not waste
places now growing weeds that could be
made to grow profitable cropsa Think i
over and see how much idle land and
- +sna uns, have