St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-03-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

An early bred pullet will lay when the
hens are taking vacation.
Young hens sell the best in market,
but old ones are the best for farmers to
sell.
Never fastcn the nest, to the wall; il
increases the work OF keeping them
| clean.
Chickens are fond of.sand and lime in
the proportions commonly used for plas-
tering.
The only benefit Of Germ in egg pro.
duction is that it helps to maintain
warmth.
The popularity of chemical fertilizers
for fruit trees is on the increase among
orchardists.
Wick advises frequent Swinging or
spraying with water for plants infested
with the red spider.
In your efforts to give house plants
plenty of sun do not set them SO that
they will touch the glass.
Burn a lot of bones, pulverize them
thoroughly, and put them in a box where
the poultry eau help themselves.
Nearly all classes of fowls thrive best
IN high, dry localities, with a sandy or
graveIly soil that is easily kept dry.
Hens when moved from ore place to
another do not begin to lay until some
days after the change of surroundings.
One pound of butchers scraps to
twenty hens, given three times week,
will be good ration for laying hens.
At the Utah Station kerosene emulsion
proved the most effective remedy for the
cabbage plant louise and the flea beetle.
With little care in the mauagem ,nt
good proportion of the meat needed Ill
the family can come from the poultry
yard.
If the hens are fed three times a day,
one of the best feeds to give at noon is
whole wheat, especially when eggs are
wanted.
The Columbian raspberry is a new,
hardy variety that IS said to possess
many merits. 1t is especially adapted
for canning.
Some one says that coal tar placed in
the dri hiking wafer is a sure cure fol
running nostrils that so often atf1ict
poultry at this season.
A writer in the L,ndon Garden as
cribes fine color in apples to the soil, as
we'll IS the dilect action of the sun, with
O. norton to the wind
Without the aid Of incubators the
raising of early broilers on large scale
would be next to impossible, on account
of the difficulty in Matching.
With turkeys, ducks and chickens the
males should be chahgel annually in
order to prevent inbreediny. This IS
not so necessary with geese.
To be certain of good supply OF eggs
in winter the pullets should be at least
nine or ten months old and then be well
fed and comfortably sheltered.
Dampness Injuries seeds By promoting
the growth of fungi, which attack the
vitality of the seed: hence one reason
for keeping them in dry place.
The Seneca pear, anew candidate for
favor, is larger than the Bartlett and not
so highly colored. 1t is claimed that it
ripens Immediately after the Bartlett.
:; Unless the breeders are kept reasonably
warm, especially at night, the young
chickens will crowd together so close
that some of them will be smothered.
1t is always considered by good breed,
ers that the last, eggs OF a hens clutch
are not nearly 50 fertile as the first, nor
are the chickens so strong and healthy.
One of the best ways of feeding mid.
dlings to the poultry is to mix it with
bran and cornmeal and then scald thor
ouchly. Fed in this way it makes a
splendid feed.
The desire to save single fowl in
flock often leads to the spread of the
disease and the consequent loss of Il
larger number. In very many cases 1t
would be economy to kill the first few
sick fowls.
At meeting of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society 1t was stated that
apples grown in grass ground will keep
longer than the same fruit grown on
cultivated land. Late-keeping varieties,
therefore, should always be grown in
grass lands.