The Opelousas courier., 1893-07-22
Remember, the soil cannot be too

that is productive, hardy and long
lived.
Weeds are the enemies of the farm,
as dirt is the enemy of the house. Keep
clean.
Butter milk and sour milk are excel
lent food for poultry.
The prize-taker is the name of O new
onion which is very favorabIy re-
ported.
In broadcast seeding termination il
more rapid on rolled than on unrolled
grourd. -.
Give sucking pigs a little sweet mi
now and then. They will grow more
rapidly.
A rich, sandy llo6ssHsTnDjy1s pnderlaid with
gravel, with good drainage, is best 70,
potatoes.
Potatoes are said to shrink greatly
in storing if dug before they are fully
developed.
It is said that cholera among hogs
can be prevented by turning the anil
mails out in clover pastures.
If your fowls have the range of the
farm and have access to fresh water
they will need but little care.
If weeds are too high for sheep to
reach to top, break them, so the top is
within reach, and notice results.
Sheep, too, have cranky ways that
can't be cured. Make up your mind
to humor them as much as your wife.
Practical, successful sheepmen talk
altogether too little, and those who
know nothing practically say too much.
Vegetables can be sown on the
southern side of q fence some weeks
before they can be on the north side.
Go slow in turning cattls and hoSs"a
out, and await the drying Of the sur"
face and a bgtL1er growth of the herb"
age. ~
Thin, old and feeble ewes should
not be required to raise lambs. It is
as much as they can do to live them
selves.
Cows should never be allowed to suf-
fer from thirst. A constant supply OF
fresh water should be at all times &C.
cessible.
Potatoes are worth one-third as
much as corn in nutritive value. The
price determines the question Of feed
ing them.
In hot weather sheep lay in the
shade during the heat of the day and
feed after the sun is SHOWN. Humor
this notion.
If you mean to sell spring chickens
sell them in the spring, not In the
fall for eight OF ten cents o pound and
lose money on them.
Wherever wheat can grow rye will
thrive. 1t is a more hardy plant than
wheat, and not SO liable TO be affected
by changes in the weather. :.
A good food for ~fattening poultry
on short notice may be made Of ground
oats mixed with molasses and water o.
boiled oats mixed with meat. :.
Calves should be given water daily,
especially in hot weather. The loss OF
cattle on the ranches during the past
winter is reported as very light. :
Keep down after swarming by keep.
ing out of the hive all the queen cells
but one. If they are not all out, q
second swarm is bound to slip out. Ess
Save the waste beans for laying hens
There are few foods that are more
heterogeneous and therefore better
adapted to supply their requirements
To fatten non-laying hens for mar
ket, feed them all the grain they viii
eat. Sell as they are fat, as there il
loss in trying to exceed q possible limit
All the old hens in the flock should
be weeded out now. It doesn't pay e
keep n over three years at the most
and sthey do their best before thai
time. -Ms
The high prices for hogs last wi-tel
are likely to injure the farmers
Everybody will go to raising Them
and the bottom will drop OFT o
prices.
An Illinois ~beekeeper says he keep
bees away from the watering trough By
greesing the tops Of the latter Wild any
Kind of old grease mixed with q LITTLE
kerosene.
Don't stop the winter ration OF
short as soon as you see the first glln
mel of green grass in the pastures
There is not a great deal OF NUTRITION
in the very young grass
Whitevash and tarred paper vii
keep lice out Of tine poultry house TO
o while, but not permanently. An up
~plication of kerosene is needed severa
times during the season.
Because bright timothy hay and oat
are the best feed for horses 1t does no
follow that they would not like
change from it sometimes, or that the,
would not do better for such q change
The farmers who ere successful ar
those who never lose sight of the fac
that the farm is the home, that every
thing done toward identifying and i'm
proving the place is enhancing 1t
value.
A soil well prepared prior to plant
ing, sound seed, clean and level eul
ture-these are the things that bEin
rood notato crops. When all these OF
observed, and the bugs kept Of, ther
ia not often a serious failure.
It is poor policy to always sell th
best animals. Good stock to bree
from, a good dairy COW, q good farm
horse. will nav you to own, as well O