The Bossier banner., 1893-10-12
HERE AND THERE.

~Rel1glon that Will not improve a
mans domestic animals is not the right
sort for a farmer.
Wood ashes is an almost universal
fertilizer, and yet it is a substance that
is piled out back of the smoke-house
fcz years, to become total loss.
No farm was ever properly stocked
with cattle alone, horses alone, or any
other sort alone. 1t can only be done
with a properly-adjusted variety.
1t is well enough to breed heifers;
But not so with bulls, for they should
be well matured and vigorous for best
results.
There is no money in putting extra
weight on hogs to be marketed in the
immediate future. Additional fat only
means a lower price as things are
now.
Don't try to stimulate egg produc-
tion with irritating condiments. They
do more harm than good. Plenty Of
plain, wholesome food is what is
needed.
The poor mans cow is proverbially
a poor cow, but there is no reason why
it should be. 1t is Just as easy, and a
great deal more profitable to have
good COW than poor one.
A bride recently invented for kick
ers is useful. 1t has rings for the reins
attached just below the rosettes, or
where the check loops up, and pulling
raises the horses head higher and high
er so he can not kick.
Any part of the farm, or any sort
of stock which is not profita ble'is tax
on all the rest of the farm. 1t should
be the aim of every farmer to make
profit, be it ever so little, from every
department.
Probably never before this year
were hogs turned into the wheat field
to harvest an abundant crop, and it is
to be hoped that this will never occur
again, if brought about by the low
price of that cereal
Those who raise eggs for markes
should keep but one breed; or if more
than one breed is kept, the eggs should
NC oooO1 bCNA 40 W bAHS N~-
color. All white eggs or all tinted
eggs sell better than streaked lots
Looks go long ways"
Much can be learned by observing
nature. A horse will never stand fac
ing wind in a pasture, but will al
ways turn his back. A horse heated
by driving can be foundered in few
minutes by standing facing the wind
or in draught.
1t is to be hoped that the expert
ment stations will give us more slaugh-
ter tests of wheat-fed hogs. The low
price of wheat has opened a new held
for feeders, and the stations can help
settle some of the questions which
have arisen in connection with it.
If combined capital does not con-
slider it advisable to crush them out OF
existence, the cotton-seed oil mills now
opera ting in every locality where cot
ton is grown extensively will continue
to benefit the producer of cotton, while
remaining prosperous themselves.
Hardly any animal on the farm is
uOTe pTOHJd Dlc bldH GIiC odiAO oN
brood SOW that has been bringing two
litters year for several years. Let her
indulge this semi-annual habit, and en-
courage her by liberal treatment, ana
she will do "the square thing"
Many farmers breed horses to suit
their own prejudices, regardless OF any
market value, while those who make
horse-breeding profitable breed for the
markets big, heavy draft horses or
large, stylish coachers. The grade
mares make the finest farm teams and
the geldings sell at top prices.
1t is said to be so dry in some parts
Of the country that farmers have to
soak their pigs in the river before they
will hold slop. While it is hardly that
dry. yet this may serve to keep in mlna
the fact that pigs should have more
liberal rations of slop or other teed
now that pastures are shortened by tne
drought