The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-10

oGAo" dAu ICluSI 1ldy duu
chips, corn shucks, etc. Save the ma
nure and apply it judiciously to your
lands, and you will find in it satisfac-
ton and profit.
DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE.
To rest and strengthen and maintain
a healthful condition Of the mental
man, the mind needs diversity of
thought and must have it. To develop
and maintain a uniform healthy condi-
ton OF the corporal body, there must
needs be a constant diversity of exer-
else. And to attain any high degree
OF prosperity and wealth, as a farming
section, we must practice a diversified
agriculture. The one-crop system will,
if long pursued, in time bankrupt any
country or any people. In diversifying
our crops we are enabled to practice
intelligent and profitable systems of
rotation of crops. 1t is this intelligent
rotation that will maintain the f%ertili-
ty and productiveness of our farms.
1t is better to trust the market with
several different crops than the one.
The n may bringa price not above the
cost of production, while it is not like
~ that this would prove so in the case
of two or more crops in the same sea-
son. If one product is unusually low
in price, another may be higher in the
same ratio, and thus values and profits
may, when all the products are COM
bined, average well for the grower and
seller. Several chances are better than
one chance. 1t is a reckless farmer
who will risk his fortune on one crop
alone. The true plan is to make, as
nearly as possible, all ones supplies on
the farm, and besides, a surplus of
each or many crops to sell for cash.
SPARE THE BIRDS.
If it were not for the birds, the
worms and bugs would destroy nearly
all our fruits. The birds consume some
fruits, of course, and spoil a good deal
that is not eaten entire, yet they do
not average the great destructiveness
that they usually get credit for. They
have a right to a certain share of the
crop by reason .of c~empensating
ices, for they a for the owner far
more than he would otherwise get as
his share if it were not for them; in
many instances entire crops would be
destroyed by insects, but for the serv-
ices of the birds.
Spare the birds! Do not kill them
maliciously or wantonly or just for
fun and recreation. They are created
by our Heavenly Father for a
useful purpose and serve a useful
purpose in the economy of nature.
The birds are the farmers friends, and
are human b~enefactors the world over.
They were created for a purpose, and
they perform their natural mission
well and with profit to the agricul-
turist. As the birds reudecreased, in
the same ratio will the destructive
forces of insect life, that depredate up
on vegetation, be increased.
.sBUYING CORN"
In the south "buying corn by the
farmer to make a crop is becoming to
be almost synonymous with inviting
bankruptcy. Buying corn! Buying
western corn! Buying corn to feed
mules and "niggers' to make
six-cent cotton! What q commentary
upon southern agriculture! Where
is pride and judgment, common
sense and experience? The amount of
corn-western corn-sold in the cotton
states annually, and bought by the
farming class, is a reflection upon the
of our people. Wipe out
this stain by raising every grain OF
corn used in this fruitful southland.
HAY AND GRASS.
Some time ago the New York expert
mental station published that as q re
suit of investigation made at that sta
ton. there was 1920 per cent. less di-
restible albuminoid in hay that was
4 year or more than in new hay.
The report further stated that bran
and corn lose in digestibility with age.
1t is well enough to make expert
ments along this line. But what farm
ers and purchasers of hay will be more
in than the above. is the
average nntritive quality OF hay and
its digestible quality, regardless OF the
length Of time it has been cut. Aplant
nav possess more nutritive value at .
matured age, judged by chemical
but in actual practical feed
value may possess less worth than
i more Immature crop, since the young
& and more tender and less woody
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