The Opelousas courier., 1892-07-02
Farm AND GARDEN NOTES.

Hefp at home doesn't cost half as
much as it does IN the road or on the
train.
Protecting tomatoes with bags has
been tried VITA good results.
If you would keep up2with your sea
sons work haul out youtts manure now.
We must learn to let our crops SO
that in marketing they will cost the
least money.
Poverty is illustrated by the con-.
dition of the roads aud the farms that
bound them.
The clay floor of silo may be rem
.dered rat-proof by painting it with a
thick coat of gas-tar.
Cleanliness and comfortable quarters
are important items in keeping the calves
in a good thrifty condition now.
Supply your hens with pure fresh
water. In cold weather it will do no
harm to have the chill taken off.
1t is a very foolish error to suppose
that fine fowls are more susceptible to
disease than the common dunghill.
The great size and extra egg-produc-
t~iveness of the thoroughbred fowls is the
result of years of iudicious breeding
from the very strongest and most healthy
specimens.
Sunlight and air are among the best
preventives Of mildew, therefore trees
land plants which are subject to its at
,tacks should be so set and so trimmed
that they will not lack for either.
The most prcuperous and best Informed
~'iairymen in tt South wouldn't use ice
iii given themIar nothing, as the butter
would quicklbapoil after being taken OF
ice, and famili@ would buy it no more.
The cream gatherer for au Iowa fac
tory says that during the niue years he
has performed this service the quantity
collected has trebled, aud the quality
has so improved that what was best at
first would o rate as poorest.
The statement is made that Ampelop-
sis veitchi, the Japan creeper, raised
from seed started early in a box in the
house, and transferred at the proper time
to its permanent place outdoors, will get
! twice as far up a wall the first season as
will a young plant grown from a cut
ting.
A well bred flock of thoroughbred
| chickens are less liable to contact dis
ease, from the fact that good breeding
| has established in them strong constitu-
tions and powers of endurance, while
promiscuous crossing and recrossing OF
dunghilIs has weakened these charac-
teristics.
To rake up and burn the fallen leavss
in the orchard, Or to put them in the
manure heap, will lessen the liability Of
the spreading of fungus diseases, and
the same is true Of all other plants.
Where fungus is very troublesome ir a ~
season, such measures may be necessary
to prevent its returning the next year
with increased power.
Success waits upon the mar who works
his land for that which feeds his stock,
when every steer carries to market a ton
| of hay in the shape of beef, and fifty or
more bushels Of corn; when every colt
or FLY, every hog or sheep does measur-
ably the same, and when butter by the
ton will represent train loads OF hay,
and grass, and oats, and corn, aud other
stuff.
Do not let that hard milking Gov
stay in the herd any longer than you car
help it, for she is an aggravation to the
mixers who soon spoil her by negleeting
to strip her clean. 1t is a most excellent
| plan too for the owner of the herd tc
take all the sthard cases. in the herd
under his special care, for he being
interested, is sure to be more charitable
toward them.
It is in the more arid parts of the
country that men LEAN how best to pre-
vent the surface-the mould occupied By
the roots-from becoming fatally dry.
In California the value of hoeing is SO as.
suredly known that even the orchards
are kept under clean shallow culture, and
not a weed is left to rob the trees. The
same care secures vegetable crops, where,
WibuOub 15y tACy HOuo 1AOsAbGUAJ A0AAs
is a lesson for other regions.
Has it occurred to you that If yot
have a surplus of any n forage sheep
are just the fellows you want to helE
equaIize matters There are no othe
animals that will eat and thrive upon SC
many kinds of food; SO, instead of pro
vidlng a forage crop on purpose for them
wait until you see what you will have 9
surplus of and then provision the sheer
with that. So that it will be clean and
wholesome they will not care much what
it is, and will take it and give you good
return in wool and mutton.
A cowboy manages his swine in this
way: The sows have two litter of Pig
i arly. The first are dropped in March,
gr3wn on milk, clover and wheat bran,
fatt med on corn, and sold at the first
demand for fresh pork in the fall. Tho
second filters come in August. They
are given summer conditions in winter
warm pens, cut and STEPPED clover hay,
roots, bran and corn, and are slaughtered
at the last demand for fresh pork OF the
season. These two marketing seasons
are when fresh pork always brings thu
highest prices.
How Mines Are Sailed.
Thn onIlihilitv Of persons who bu,