St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-15
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Train up colt in the way he should
20, and when he becomes old he will
pot 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.
I'm 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.
The best way to checkmate low
prices for feed stuffs is to keep good
stock to eat them. II il bad policy for
the farmer to do the hard work, and
let the commercial feeder make all the
profit
"A Memphis man has patented IN
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 . close
and accurate account with them, then
If the result shows no profit You know
what the matter is, and can remedy Il.
Unless You keep such accounts You
don't know whether they are profitable
or not
The present cotton-seed oil product
is estimated to be worth about SIG, 000,-
600 year; the oil cake brings in about
81, OOO, 900 more. and the lint and hulls
produce about 81 GOT, 600. Thirty years
ago the whole seed crop was thrown
away rs refuse.
-Pneumatics are all the 70. Pneu.
natic tires for vehicle have passed the
stage, and pneumatic collars for the
horses to pull by are the latest spplica-
ton of the principle. Pnuematic pro
pulsion has been in use . long time,
and promises great results In the fu-
ture.
Selling cotton seed for 914 per ton
and purchasing the meal, at SO, and
the hulls At 94.25 per ton, are not profit
able transactions for the farmer. On
land needing manure the seed are
worth more for that purpose than the
oil mills pay for them. But Ut present
prices for oil the mills can not pay
more.
Before storing wheat or other
grain in bins, take IN old pot, and put
in il = few pine splinters and . pound
or two Of sulphur. Set this on fire,
close every opening, and get away from
there. Next morning there win be NO
living insect OF vegetable germ left to
affect the grain. i.t.
Most swine diseases are caused BY
keeping the animals too closely con
fined in aRhy pens and feeding than
too much heat-produeing and fat-form-
ing food Give plenty Of range, espe-
cislly while. growing, and plenty Of
green feed, and when necessary to con-
fine keep pens clean. It win pay.
The loes 70 stock iron drinlking
foul water 10 unknown. but there il
every reason TO believe that It i vegy
large. A bunch Of beef steers drank
from . pond in Iowa in which there
was . carcass Of . calf which had died
Of anthrax Thirty-sevea Per cent Of
the steers died Of the sa0e disease
Black pesirie Land VIII probably
yield more tobacco 70 The oege than
any Other kiad of la1d. bat Il win not
possess % Ans quality. o. such sofl
Il grows larger. has eoaxaer stems and
. heavier lea4, and = not - good 1og
wrappas q 11s cut q cigarettes and
cigars . IL upland tehoeeo o. sandy
snils
-Tuhsreulosis amoag higA-hged cat
tie h becoming someWhat alarming.
The best authorities attribute the
prevalence Of the disease to close IN
breeding and pampsrine. Recently
nearly the entire herd ct the Wisecnsin
and Mechanical college
were destroyed because the disease w1s
found to exist h nearly svssy indivi1r
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