The Opelousas courier., 1892-03-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Don't unnecessarily expose the horse
to storms and wind.
It is believed that there is danger 10
breeding from blind mares.
Save the best hay for the season when
your horses will have to work hardest.
The best poultry breed is the one you
have tested aud tried and is best adapted
to your purpose.
Two by four-inch scantlings placed
two feet from the ground or floor make
perches for fowls.
Pekin ducks are easily raised, grow
rapidly, and make flesh twice as fast az
a fast-growing chicken.
A breed generally has only one dom
inant talent and seldom excels in more
than one characteristic.
By keeping fowls through the winter
in good condition their usefulness in the
spring is greatly increased.
It is estimated by good authority that
good average comb will yield from sixty
to eighty per cent. pure beeswax.
Put away Jour surplus bee supplies
where moth will not destroy empty
combs-and they should be kept in a dry
place.
The ignorant ''foss doctor" should
be girsn a wide berth. The educated
yeteri1arian knows little enough about
his duhb patients.
In ID cases of fstulu or polI-cvil, it is
well htgive d constitutional as well as
local treatment. A sore like These mist
affect the blood more or less.
1t does a team no gooi to let it stand
tied to a hitching-post with the thernon-
eter ten de grees below z2ro, Al o2;niol
which everybody will endorse.
It is reported that there are in the
United States 10000 bee-kee,p erS haTin5
500 colonies. A veey prominent bee
keeper seems to doubs tie statement
Poultry raising as an exclusive business
has only in exceptional c1ses proved a
success; the principal Dependence for
both eggs and poultry is upon tho
farmer.
There are rlngbones thet cannot be
cured, unless a skillet veterin lrian exam
ines the case; however, there is no way
to tell that, except by trying tbs usual
remedies of b,istering ani firing.
A reliance on old aud tried varieties Of
fruits is the proper thing for a novice in
fruit culture. Many of these old fruits
are as prolific and profitable as they were
a generation ago. Let ths scientists and
the nurserymen do the experimenting
Treat the dog well if you are deter.
mined to keep him. Feed him SUCH
foods as will satisfy the whole sys.e n.
We have little DOUBT t1at some dogs are
led to kill sheep because the system
Graves for n%eurishmeat that it does not
get.
There's not a farm waera grain has
been fed, especially cotton Or linseei
meal, but the evidence may be real in
the fertility of the soil. These grains
are so rich in plant foo1 shat the AMI
mails take but a small per cent. IN its
passage through the body.
If YOU know that DIN AMI sire are
without weaknesses, we would say to a
correspondent, there IS no danger IN
close inbreeding. The trouble is that it
is difficult to know that. It is not to be
forgotten that our improved breeds are
largely the result Of inbreeding.
Some men will plow and work around
a bowlder for half a lifetime. The
cheapest way to dispose OF it, if it is to-
large to be hauled of, is to dig a pit AMI
topple it over into it. We have seea
many an unsignt.y, botlerso NJ stols
efectaally disposed of in this way.
Pigs cannot be grown probably Oh
whey alone, but when fed with cornnea
and shorts there is d marked saving
Seven pounds of whey about equal one Of
cornmeal when they are fed together, and
therefore when the formeris worth twelve
dollars per ton whey is worth eight cents
per hundred.
A growing hog will, if Of good breed
increase fully n pound in weight ever,
Cay OF its life. II it does this it j
pretty sure to leave a profit = cost 81
seeding aside from It's addition to thu
manure pile. If it does not, dispose Q
it in some way, and get pigs that will d,
this. There ara several breeds that car
be fed with profit and the grades o
these for feeding are as good as the pur'
blood.