The Opelousas courier., 1892-05-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

ARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
How many acres 4 the fences on
your farm waste?
Improve the roads, lessen the fences.
save the manure.
How is the road along your farm!
Can it be improved? Howe
When the fowls get too fat an exclusive
feed of oats will reduce them.
There is no advantage in Matching out
goslings until grass gets a good start.
Damp quarters and stagnaat water
often proves fatal to turkeys and chick
ems.
Thorough withdrawing the hen house
inside and out will aid in killing out the
lice.
Potatoes are best kept in a cool place
just above freezing is a good tempeya-
ture.
Until the weather gets warmer whole
corn can be given to the fowls at night
with benefit.
Poor roads are the heaviest tax most
farmers bear. Reduce the tax by i'm
proving the roads.
Properly fed, a duck at nine or ten
weeks old should weigh four pounds, a
chicken two pounds.
Hens should be killed when three
years old, as ~hey lay less eggs every
year after the bird.
Good roat clean culture and few
fences will L p on the day waen farm
ing will be n se profitable.
Bantams n E be a thing of beauty, but
for practical oultry keeping for profit
generally the are a nuisance.
In fowl-cu ire, nothing can take the
place of a keen eye and a 'tquick
mind" to see that call is WELL
What did your fence corners produce
last year, Are they going to be used
the same way the coming season.
Did you ever figure on the amount of
corn you could raise on the land used in
fences and the waste land they make7
Milk, sweet or sour, is the best poultry
food. It may be fed in several different
ways. It is excellent for laying hens.
Turkeys, ducks, geese and gulneas can
be Matched in the incubator as well as
chickens, and can be raised in a brooder.
The best cross for sitting hens is a Wig
orous pet game cock with good partridge
Cochin hens, this also makes a good
table-towl.
You should never give your fowls a
bad fright, as it Injuries them. and it will
cause a falling off in the number of egggs
for a few days
The early chicken is the largest and
strongest, and will never be oyertaken BY
the ones that are Matched out late; push
the early Matching.
Cracked wheat or corn makes a better
feed after the chickens get old enough to
eat it than either fed ground fine and
made into a mush.
When it is especially desirable to Sc
cure the largest size with geese crossing
the Toulouse gander with Embder
geese will secure this the most readily.
Gather your eggs as 0 0 after laying
as NAV be. They are liable to become
broken in the nests and eaten by tbs
hens, thus laying the foundation of 4
very bad habit.
When you receive a basket of eggs fol
Matching let them rest from twenty-foul
to forty-eight hours before being set,
and they will recover from the EARRING
received while travelling.
The farmer who lets his calves AMI
colts stand out-of-docrs all day, may, b.
process of evolution, succeed in raising
animals that will be hardy, but hardi
ness will be their only virtue.
1T costs no more to raise the bes
breeds of poultry than the commol
barnyard fowl, while the returns ar
double. Get a setting of eggs from SOM
reliable breeder and convince yoursel
of the fact.
A horse that disturbs its bedding b
paving and kicking it about may b
prevented from doing this by keeping
in q large stall and united. The tyin
up of a horse is most frequently th
cause of of its restlessness, and induce
the habit of paving and kicking in til
stable.
A wash Of strong lye or potash waite
on the trunk and large limbs Of the frui
trees early in the spring viii destroy in
sects under the bark, or their eggs, i
there are any. And if it runs down t
the ground and soaks in where the root
find it, it will not hurt the tree or th