The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1894-09-08
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Train up colt in the way he should
go, and when he becomes old he will
not depart from it.
Fall lambs conditioned and mar
keted in the spring is the highest
priced meat sold, and this is profitable
to the seller.
in Virginia, near Norfolk, the cleo
trio railroads are running cars to trans
port garden produce from the farms to
market, taking them at least twelve
miles back in the country.
No self-respecting COW will pay
more for her feed and care than it is
worth. Her milk is her capital, and if
you get it You must pay for it, and you
get what you pay for and no more.
The best way to checkmate low
prices for feed stuffs is to keep good
stock to eat them. 1t is bad policy for
the farmer to do the hard work, and
let the commercial feeder make all the
profit.
"A Memphis man has patented an
electrical vegetation exterminator,"
which is designed to kill the rank
vegetation which grows along railroad
beds and highways in tropical coun-
tries.
To make sheep pay, keep a close
| and accurate account with them, then
if the result shows no profit you know
what the matter is, and can remedy it.
Unless you keep such accounts you
don't know whether they are profitable
or not.
If there were as much pains taken
for the feeding, care and comfort of
boys on the farm as for the fine colts
and calves, it would not be long until
the country would be fairly covered
with progressive farmers.
The present cotton-seed oil product
| is estimated to be worth about SIG. OO0,-
600 year; the oil cake brings in about
SIS, 100000 more, and the lint and bulls
| produce about 81 ,000, 900. Thirty years
| ago the whole seed crop was thrown
away as refuse. -es-sss---.'
-Pneumatics are all the go. Pneu-
matte tires for vehicle have passed the
stage, and pneumatic collars for the
horses to pull by are the latest applica-
tion of the principle. Pnuematic pro-
pulsion has been in use long time,
and promises great results in the flu.
| ture.
Selling cotton seed for S14 per ton
! and purchasing the meal, at $40, and
the hulls at s4.a5 per ton, are not profit
able transactions for the farmer. On
worth more for that purpose than the
oil mills pay for them. But at present
prices for oil the mills can not pay
more.
Before storing wheat or other
grain in bins, take an old pot, and put
in it few pine splinters and pound
or two of sulphur. Set this on fire,
close every opening. and get away from
there. Next morning there will be no
living insect or vegetable germ left to
affect the grain.
| Most swine diseases are caused by
keeping the animals too closely con
| fined in filthy pens and feeding them
too much heat-producing and fat-form-
ing food. Give plenty of range, espe-
cially while growing, and plenty of
green feed, and when necessary to-con-
fine keep pens clean. 1t will pay.
The loss to stock from drinking
foul water is unknown, but. there is
every reason to believe that it is very
large. A bunch of beef steers drank
from pond in Iowa ia which there
was a carcass of a calf which had died
of anthrax. Thirty-seven per cent. of
the steers died of the same disease.
Black prairie land will probably
yield more tobacco to the acre than
any other kind of land, but it will not
possess so fine quality. On such soil
it grows larger, has coarser stems and
a heavier leaf, and is not so good for
wrappers or fine cut or cigarettes and
cigars as the upland tobacco on sandy
soils.
Tuberculosis among high-bred cat
tie is becoming somewhat alarming.
The best authorities attribute the
prevalence of the disease to close in
breeding and pampering. Recently
nearly the entire herd at the Wisconsin
Agricultural and Mechanical college
were destroyed because the disease was
found TO exist in nearly every individ-
nal