The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-07-27
HERE AND THERE.

Any saving of time is a saving of
expense. 1t costs more to haul load
to distant field, sometimes, than it
does to spread the manure and harrow
it into the soil.
There is no economy in continually
dosing hogs to keep them healthy; good
sanitary arrangements, with good wa
ter and feed, are more necessary as well
as more economical.
1t is only the thoroughbred cow
that gives over fifty dollars year
profit But few cows afford profit
when the dairyman pays no attention
to the breeding of his animals.
Keep the sprayer at work in the
destruction of insects. Paris green is
fatal to all insects that eat it. The OBJ
ject should be to get the solution where
insects can not avoid it when they at
tack plants or fruits.
One of the most important matters
in the summer is that of providing
plenty of fresh water for the stock. 1t
will not do to compel cows to drink
from pools that stand in the fields, as
the water must be pure if the milk is to
be free from odors and impurities.
If lime is broadcasted literally over
the poultry yards, or grounds occupied
by poultry, it will serve as an excellent
preventive of roup and gapes, and when
busted freely in the poultry house at
least once a week it will drive lice
away.
There is little time in early sum-
mer when even the best farmers are apt
to get rushed, because the weeds grow
so fast. Rather than let them get ahead
of you it will pay you to hire extra
help for awhile. The crops will be
enough better to pay the expense.
Lambs may be fed in small pens,
which will permit them to get at the
food without allowing the sheep to en-
ter. A mess of ground oats, given twice
a day, is the best food for promoting
rapid growth of lambs, and they should
also be kept dry at night.
There is class of farmers that
raise cows to sell to the dairymen, and
they could make their business more
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A cow that is known to be sired by
Holstein or Jersey bull will command
high price compared with a COW
whose breeding on both sides is UNI
known.
The best way to regulate the quail
ty of the milk is through the body Of
the cow, for then she will not be re-
stricted in food, and will give larger
yield of milk. To get the solids into
the milk feed on rich food, of varied
kind, in addition to that secured on the
pasture. Above all give her an abun-
dance of water.
-Cotton-seed hulls, reduced to ashes,
should contain 900 pounds of potash to
each ton of ashes, but ton of hulls
will produce only pounds of ashes.
In every 100 pounds of the hulls, used
as food, are 7.25 pounds moisture, 1.54
pounds fat, 3.75 pounds crude protein,
II. IS pounds non-nitrogenous extractive
matter and 1888 pounds crude fiber.
To make a nice little run for a
brood of chicks take two boards, one
foot wide and the other six inches, set
on edge two feet eight inches apart,
and fasten them together by mailing
four laths from edge to edge Now
tack yardwide muslin on top, leave
one end open to put against the front
of coop, and make door for the other
end, and there you have it.
Plaster is a special fertilizer for
clover on some soils ahOut two bushels
being sufficient for one acre. 1t should
have been applied early in the season,
but where the clover does not seem to
thrive the application of plaster now
will prove beneficial. 1t is cheap, and
will not injure any kind of plants. 1t
is excellent also for pease and beans,
and good results have been obtained
srem II when used In the hills tef oevs'