The Bossier banner., 1893-10-19
HERE AND THERE.

The milking machine may milk all
night but that is not all the case re.
quires.
1t does not pay to feed two cows,
and in return get only the milk that
one ought to give.
| Prof. c. V. Riley has given notice
| that the seventeen-year locusts are due
the present year.
1T requires 800 good milch cows to
run successful creamery. Don't for
get the number or the kind
"A milk tester and thermometer,
even in a family dairy, will pay for
themselves in about two full churnings.
| Horses require large amount of
exercise to keep in condition; cows, on
the contrary, require very little.
| Feeding values are given as follows
for 100 pounds: Wheat bran, 81; good
meadow hay, SIS cents; wheat straw, 81
| cents.
| Young animals should be given
good care, for if they are stunted
while young they hardly ever get over
it.
Green corn is poor feed for horses.
Better feed lots of good hay and chop
| feed than commence on new corn too
| soon.
| Prof. W. A. Henry thinks that
farmers can better afford to feed their
wheat to stock than to sell it at pres
ent prices.
| Our production of wool for 1891 fell
| short of meeting the nations total con.
sumption by little over 200, 600, 600
| pounds.
Even at the low prices that horses
| now command it takes more bushels of
wheat to pay for horse than it ever
did before
| Waldo F. Brown is authority foT
the statement that to burn off instead
of turning under stubble will largely
increase the yield of grain.
| 1t would be good plan to lay in
supply of wheat bran for winter use,
while it is cheap. It is a good and
cheap feed now, for wheat is lower in
| proportion than other cereals.
During the past three years it has
| bCCh uIlCAly 1AlpOoSIDlc W supply Iuc
domestic demand for mutton, in fact
most of the year not single market
has receipts sufficient to supply the de-
mand.
| Corn left standing in the field after
it is fully ripe is subject to consider.
able loss. The ordinary farmer can
not afford to indulge in any preveRt-
able loss.
Good wholesome food in proper
| quantities is a better preventive of dis.
ease in animals and men than any
apothecary stuff ever invented. twill
pay to remember this.
| -Coleman's Rural World says that
this year wheat straw is worth more
than the wheat grain. Wheat-growers
make note of this.
Wheat ground should be plowed
early SO that the loosened soil may be-
come settled again. Wheat does not
stand well on loose soil. The ground
should have one or more good rains
after plowing to put it in good condi-
ton for the seed.
| -MlIcn COWS require something De-
sides exercise to cause them to do their
best in milky way. Therefore bad
pasture can not be made good by in.
creasing it's area. No COW should be
required to travel all day to fill herself
with dried herbage.
| "A Missouri farmer has found that
his straw is worth more than his wheat
He made $50 bushels of wheat on 35
acres, about Is bushels per acre. At
the ruling price this brought $12 per
acre. The straw weighed two tons per
acre, and was worth sS per ton, or s16
per acre. Total value of the grain, s403;
| of straw, $52S
| There is no prospect of any general
rise in the prices of farm produce.
There will be local fluctuations, OF
course, from various causes, but the
main hope of profit from the farm is in
studied practical economy-decreasing
the cost of productions; producing
everything possible for home consump-
ton; watching the current of supply
and demand, and taking every possible
advantage of both, and marketing
products as nearly as possible, ready
for the consumer. There is no reason
able hope, present or prospective, of de-
cent profits from growing and selling
cotton. corn, oats OF whe2 t.--TeEss
FEgm and Ranch.