The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Movable hen nests are the best.

FARM N GARDEN NOTES.
Movable hen nests are the best.
laying.
Young guinea fowls, if fat, make nice
table fowl.
Too much linseed meal will make the
hens too fat.
Turkeys will degenerate avery rapi1lF
by i~mbreeding.
Do not allow the poultry to run with
the fattening hogs.
One leading cause of failure is in at
tempting to keep too many fowls for the
space.
Tobacco leaves or stems put in the hen
nests and around the rooSts will help to
keep lice away.
Tarred paper is a good material with
| which to line the inside of the poultry
house in winter.
Keep the poultry house clean au1 ap-
ply plenty of coal oil to perche5, nest
boxes, in cracks, etc.
Geese and ducks should be kept in a
yard or pasture away from the well,
especially the house well.
A reasonable man never beats a balky
or unwilling beast. He isn't sure how
he would feel himself if he were doing
the pulling.
Feed one pint of oats, one and a
| quarter quartz bf bran and four ounces of
linseed meal ID a days rations to the
six months-o& colt, and gradually in
crease it as tt colt grows older.
Apples tia hre packed in buckwheat
chat for win r use keep longer, do not
lose their fla are less inclined to rot,
and il a few re affected this chat alb.
sorbes the jd hes, which prevents them
from affecting the rest.
When a COW is two years old q wrinkle
begins to form at the base of her horns.
At three years this wrinkle is fully de-
veloped. When she is five years another
will form, and after that one will come
each year. G'hns her age can be known.
At the Ohio Experiment Station they
find it profitable to SOW onions in the
hotbed in February or March, aud trans
plant in April or May. The early sorts,
such as the New Queen or Barletta,
Pearl, Burmuda, etc., gave results under
this treatment.
Sheep must go into winter quarters in
good condition if you expect them to
winter well. Look over your flock now
and if they are not all up to the marx do
your best to make them so as speedily as
possible. It will pay better to give
extra feed and care now, rather than
to have an unthrifty flock on your hands
through the winter.
! The schedule of hereditary diseases
adopted by the Royal Commission of
horse breeding of England as rendering
stations unfit for stud purposes includes
the following inirnities: Roaring,
whistling, ringboas, unsouad feet, ma
vicular disease, SPAWN and cataract.
An entire horse suffering from any of
| these disorders should not be allowed to
become a parent, the probability being
that the disease would reappear in the
offspring.
A horse led to the stable from work
or driving should have a few swallows
of water until he gets cool. Ii to be
fed at once he siould have not more
than two or three quarts of water. II
he has to stand an hour before feeding
he may have a pailful Of water. II
this amount of water were given imme-
diately before feeding it would weaken
the digestive power of the stomach,
dilute the gastric juice aud be apt 10
cause indigestion.
Carrots make an excellent TODD for
horses, particularly during sickness.
| They improve the appetite and slightly
increase the action of the bowels and
kidneys. They possess also certain altera-
tive properties. The coat becomes
smooth and glossy when carrots are fed.
Some veterinary writers claim that
chronic cough is cured by giving carrots
for some time. The roots may be con-
sidered adjunct to the irregular regime,
and if fed in small quantities are highly
beneficial.
A cowboy manages his swine in this
way: The sows have two litters OF pigs
yearly. The first are dropped in March,
grown OF milk, clover and wheat bran.
fattened on new corr and sold at the
first demand for fresh pork in the fall.
The second litters 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 the
| highest prices.