The Bossier banner., 1892-04-14
HERE AND THERE.

farming pays"-just whatisouu !
and no more.
The farmer who raises "a little
everything" including some eottm
does not get left when the car Of prx +
ress pulls out.
Farmers should raise more wooIml
less cotton, and eat more mutton rai.sl
at home and less bacon raised in Kanss
and Iowa.
1t is not what one eats, but what h /
digests, that makes him strong. hi
not the money a farmer handles ha /
that which he bags, that enables him
pay his taxes.-Farm and Ranch.
The market no longer demauh
great mountains of fat in hogs or prk
About two hundred pounds live weigh
makes the most desirable meat aud
is much cheaper to produce. FarnsA
remember that.
The dignity of labor" Is IN Ihs
mind that directs it, and not in thsnn
labor itself. AS well talk Of the dgfFl
of n steam engine or sausage ginds.
as the dignity of labor, as some co.,
strue it.-Farm and Ranch.
That sheep never amounts to musi
that dies when lamb. This should 3
remembered now, and provision mao
for the care and safety of the youngssen
that will be landing on our shorestrca
the mysterious land of Nowhere n :
few more weeks. World
The present condition Of theeCttor
growing industry ought to stimalai'
farmers to more effort to produce ieA
for home consumption, and TO sell .
the rapidly-increasing numbers Of uoa'
producers. hog products can be msa'
a paying business.
breeding very young boars
young sows, or to those fully matais
does not give the best results Bcl
parents should be fully matured ~
in the prime of life and In good conc
ton, but not fat. This is not c,hln
dicted by the records of eight.mona
boars.
1t is, to say the least, singular 2
incidence that farmers who bring
bear upon their business Intelligent
dustry, and are consequently reas0p'
bly, prosperous, are measurably eSeng
from the political oppression tnal
so disastrous to the shiftless ana Y
successful.-Farm and Ranch.
1t is especially important tbs' 7
sheep afflicted with the scours shou'
be separated from the main hocK whs
all are penned for the winter, oeea1
they demand dry, concentrated iss
while the healthy sheep need a l0os' y
ing diet as a corrective OF the su0a'
change from grass to hay'--ha'
World.
1t is generally believed that ~
do not need food or shelter-tnas
ture has endowed them with eaps.
ty to eat anything that may De ~. "
around loose, and a coat OF Wool =
perfectly protects them agains' y y
and cold. A number of sheep raz
act upon these theories and tnen :
that sheep don't pay. The trouo.9
the sheep are expected TO pay :.
they do not owe, and they righ'y
fuse.
No money is better laid oas
building a cattle or horse Dalh ! i
put into window glass and plenty Z q,
to give the animals light and sun'4. 7.
in their pleasant homes. II ID = s
cold cline, and the farmer IS alfssu
cold will come through, put = =.
windows double; but BY no IN !.
make a dark barn. Absences o :,
light for cows Is NO betsef SnsA
corn. .-Hoard's DaiIyman.
-The devotion Of southern isls'
to cotton growing has done 49, ~.
prevent their prosperity .apo ~ 4.
their progress than all the vicious :
congress has passed in twenty - 8,
1t is time that unfortunate lsa =
should learn that the seat o. i
trouble is not at Washington ciy J.
Austin, but much nearer home, anu y, !.
their misfortunes are not TO % ID. ss
died, as some would have them ps.s
by voting for this man or thas - -
Office, but by becoming better 's'''
-Texas Farm and Ranch.