The Opelousas courier., 1893-08-12
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,

FARM AND GARDEN Mules
The light Brahmas are excellent lay.
srs.
Green corr ensilage will injure any
animal.
sunfower seed is excellent for chick
IN feed.
Cooked rice is said to r. good for
the chicks.
A good dust-box is a valuable aid in
destroying lice.
The profit on hens should average 81
per head a year.
Ducks as a rule lay their eggs very
early in the morning.
In breeding the evidence is strongly
in favor of your sires.
The goft-shelled eggs are laid by the
hen which is too fat.
The Pekin is usually considered the
most satisfactory breed of duck. =
In the chilly weather of early spring
a warm, cosy coop is indispensable.
The best natured foal can be easily
ruined by careless and incompetent
handling.
The best milk cows will become poor
mixers if they are not properly fed
and cared for.
Picking, packing and marketing are
points to be attended to in growing
berries for profit.
The Wyandotte is probably equal to
any other breed for the combination
of eggs and meat.
To promote laying, boil wheat, oat
and barley together. and feed while
warm to the chickens.
Charcoal is a good purifier, and
should he given to the fowls or kept
where they a get at it.
The Indian gam fowl has, come to
the front as q remarkable layer and an
excellent fowl for the table.
The egg Of the black Spanish fowl ia
generally credited with being much
richer than most other kinds.
Don't catch q sheep by the wool. IL
is not the kindest way to handle them.
It hurts the sheep and it hurts the
wool also.
Keep the premises up. and things
looking neat and tidy. The extra
amount of labor to do this will never
be felt in q year.
II the mature fowls. the sitting hens
especially. are entirely freed from ver'
min, there will be only half the trouble
In raising the young chickens.
Work horses want bone, muscle and
strength, and not too much fat bettes
feed oats, bran, good hay and otheS
forage, and not SO much corr =,
Educate your horse by the sans
system you would your child; COM
mence when they are young. Don1
wait until they are nearly grown.
An experiment at the Iowa Expert.
ment Station showed that butter made
from sweet cream kept better in cold
storage than butter made from ripensd
cream.
Il is time to quit growing weeds and
paying out cash for labor to cut them
after they have gone 10 seed. Let the
aock at them early and no weed seed
will mature.
Tomatoes grown from Australian
seed are reported to be more UNIFORM
and regular in shape and the plants
rather more productive than the SANS
varieties grown from American seed.
A general-purpose sheep has both@
cred the sheep world quite long enough
The inquiry now is for a special-pur'
nose sheep, and this is in the right dl'
rection. What next?
The ssnameless bee disease" or bee
paralysis, is q disease that may become
raore Troublesome. When bees are SO
affected they dl faster in the night
than in the day PIE. 1t is sald ehat
combs may be ia En- from o sick colony
the honey extra ed, and the combs DO
then placed in a healthy colony with
out creating the'aisease.
improvements gre constantly going
an IN the line Of garden tools. Where
one has sufficient space, cultivation
and wedding may be done almost en-
sirely by horse power. By planting il
long rows SO that a horse may walk
between them. and investing IN good
tools. n may have . garden by no
maans secondary TO other resources 9