The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
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DO not tempt your cats to. sin by
allowing them the freedom of your
poultry yard.
1T will not pay to -. to fatten Il
lean hog in mid winter W. =. you have
food that is in the way AZ. -srou feed it
to get rid Of il.
"A good time to lay plans for the
future and store the mind with useful
facts is after seeing all the stock COM
fortably housed and literally fed for
the night.
--Overioading young teams is the
most common cause of baking: A
horse that has never failed to make its
load move will never fail to do its
best. Never overload.
One effect OF hard times is to dem
onstrate the superiority of agricul-
tural over all other industrial pur-
suits. The grand army of voorhees,.
houseless. and hungry is not composed
of farmers.
Lord made SOUR apples, but we don't
believe He supervised the construction
of the man who expects to buy inp1e-
ments and machines with sense enough
to come in out of the rain without the
owners aid.
DR.. Miller, in Gleanings, says he
thinks that queen1ess bees will store
honey almost if not quite as we'll as
those having queen, providing they
have emPty con, his to store in. But if
combs have to be built, q ueen1ess bees
seem a good bit behind.
-Currant cuttings should be fifteen
inches long, and all buds carefully
taken cut, excepting the three at the
other end. Plant these cuttings into
the soil six inches. and they will do
we'll. Proceed with gooseberry cut
tings in the same manner.
There is no reasona BILE excuse for
keeping scrub fowls. .~hen it is SO easy
to get vve1l-bred ones. Pure bred fowls
are more satisfactory, and more profit
able because more satisfactory. Few
people will take good care of lot of
lnongrel chickens, while if they had
some modern beauties, they would
treat them carefully and we'll, and be
we'll paid for their trouble.
There is less wheat in this country
now by about II, 600, 900 bushels than at
this time last year. It seems that not
only the people of Europe, but our own
people. whom we have been want to
boast as the best-fed people in the
world, are short on the means to buy
bread. The present distress among the
poor is already telling upon the prices
of bread stuffs.
The demand for more lean meat in
the pork nO& is becoming more pro-
nounced. Recent sales at st. Louis
show that carcasses cutting more than
two inches fat on the back were held
to 4 discount of sixty cents per hundred
pounds, and those showing three
inches and over of fat, were seventy
five cents per hundred off in price.
Small hogs, weighing not over two
hundred and twenty-five pounds.
topped the market. This sort of pork
not only brings better prices, but it
costs less to produce it. as 1t is made
from a range Of food cheaper to pro-
duce than corn.
1t would be a foolish piece of bust
ness if every farm; or even one farm in
ten, were converted into a poultry
farm. That would be OVERRIDING the
thing. There is good profit in roul-
try, but it is not a business in which
everybody can grow rich at once.
What we urge is. that every farmer
should raise poultry, just SO many and
SO many kinds as he can take care of
and provide for in a proper manner.
Give fowls careful attention, such as is
required by other live stock. aud they
will pay we'll