The Bossier banner., 1892-04-07
HERE AND THERE.

"A first-class morning meal for An,
fowls is very quickly and easily m.
vided by pouring two gallons Of boiIb,
water over one gallon of corn-meal: Dut
in some salt and stir welL-Faymen
Home Journal.
If you live on farm, raise potatoes
sort them for market; if you don't know
what to do with the small ones ir
boiling and mashing the N and feeding
to your chickens while hot-FarnerS
Home Journal.
"A fruit farm requires more emery
and watchfulness than a farm for i'm
stock and grain. But occasionally the
receipts will be immense. and, with
care, the average will be well SUSTAINED
near a first-class market 4Fsrmsrs
Home journal.
Owners of valuable horses should
be careful not to keep them shut up il
too warm and close stalls this tine d
year, for plenty of good fresh air is one
of the best things to prevent seriom
attacks of epizootic and other bloOddis
orders that are so prevalent-Banl
World.
The idea that the earth must b
moved deeper to produce great cropsb
not a fact of universal application; no
more is it that the exhausted surface
soil can be improved everywhere and
always by burying it for year Or two
beneath ten or twelve inches of infeFtls
soil plowed up from below. = RnriI
World.
Luckily for the prosperity Of the
whole country the question Of roads
has at last been taken up in Ameria
by thoughtful men who are full ofsn
thusiasm. 1t has been enthusiasm that
has accomplished every reform Of ever.
kind since the first reform was made
and enthusiasm will some time tFiBg
good roads. Rural World.
Strawberries need manure, water
culture and mulch. Each is important
in order to grow the crop. When grown
they must be picked and shipped by "a
honest transportation company 10 an
honest commission man or firm. All
along the line one has a chance to lose
Eternal vigilance is the word-uot
guess work Farmers Home Journal.
The first glimpse of farmers
homestead gives us an index to the
character of its inmates, No matter
how plain the dwelling. if it be adorned
with flowers, vines and blossoming
shrubs, we know that it is the abode Of
taste and true refinement. Nor does
this necessitate any great expendituEs
either of time or money.-CouDtry Gen
tleman.
Better work may be done By the
plowmen- of the west. but it must .
under the eye of the farmer, who, Y
practical experience, knows how y
ought to be done. and has reason WY.
1t does not follow that we are slot o.
chunk-heads because we do not ploS
deeper always and everywhere, and ys'
better blowing would be good ever
where.-Rural World.
Some one says there are three thing
that our common schools should q
compelled to do: First, get the young Y
love with land and home; make hcme
so intensely interesting that the cnll'
dren prefer it to all else; second teaea
them to make agriculture proitaoal.e'
and, third, make farm life intellectaaily
and morally on level with the pew
possible life elsewhere. Rural Worlu'
An orchard of trees carefully piang
ed and cultivated, each tree erect wen
pruued and shapely, is a hanasOms,
sight. particularly when in blossom anu
when loaded with fruit. It. speaks ~
itself, and it speaks for the owner ~
honest commission man also speaas
for himself, and a swindling one speaAs,
through his fine clothes, rings ~.
jewelry, and swell tSlk.-Farms''
Home Journal
Glover hay, early cut and proPe.y
cured, contains 8 per cent. OF ALBUMIN,
oids or fesh-forming clements y. Z.
good. bright straw from wheat "a. ,
or barley contains per cent WIZ ~
good timothy hay contains aocn. 4. e
per cent. Therefore, one tep OF clOsss "
hay and one ton of good straw Won. y.
have, when mixed. almost exactly =. y.
feeding value OF two tons Of ths ps''
timothy hsy.-Rural Wotld,