St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-11-09
HERE AND THERE.

its hard work to dig out these little
plantain and dandelion weeds from
your grass plot just now. But it pays.
They are like the little foxes" There
are homilies in plantains and dande-
lions.
1T is well enough to remember that
good forage can be kept for another
year. so il there can be found no profit
able present use for it. just hold Il over
and be prepared with animals to eat 1t
next year.
Unless the orchardist il careful
weeds will get fast hold during the
fall and seed the ground for . more
abundant crop next year. Now Is the
time to destroy them. Cut, and ~
soon % dry enough. burn them.
Good roads are too coetly." says q
conservative paper. They are not half
SO costly rs bad roads It is az hard
for fool to disguise himself ~ for
isckass to roar Is lion Both have
tried these things and failed.
Don't SOW down your Young or.
chard in grain to make pasturage. In
the Hrst place. no kind Of grain should
be Gown in an orchard; and in the next.
horses and cattle have no business in
an orchard-they are sure to do mis-
chief.
-Prllets hatched after May rarely
lay until the following spring. For
this reason, when feed must be bought,
or feed used that might otherwise BE-
sold, it in not profitable to keep these
late arrivals over. BETTER fatten and
sell the last one of them The early
Matched spullets should lay in winter,
when eggs arc good price In the mar
ket or at hons, and are the ones -
keep.
The steady improvement in farm
poultry In this country has not only
| resulted In more eggs. but larger ones;
not only more chickens. but larger and
better 1.les. Improvement still goes on
where will IL end? Or. will it end?
| Not until civilization lets her foot slip
while climbing the hill at whose top
perfection percheA
Cotton il beginning to appear in
market, and farmers are displaying
their usual anxiety to get rid OF the
stun. For this. spectators who are
interested in depressing prices should
be duly thankful, for they have
proclaimed . large crop. on only FIVE
per cent. decreased acreage. and this
rush to sell confirms the contention,
and the bears suck their paws with
satisfaction.
Bees might well be kept by all
lovers Of nature with = taste for in
vestjeation. even II honey was not
used. 1t will pay any intelligent per-
SON to observe the habits OF these
models Of ingenuity and industry, and
xive him . clearer conception Of the
wisdom Of creative power. The effect
ON the moral character OF studying
bees is salutary. IS well as interesting.
Southern farmers can control the
price of cotton if they will. II they
set the price at seven or eight cents
and refuse TO sell for less, they will
get 1t. hut many must sell TO mee'
. obligations and pay rent That is n
right. Let them sell who must; bu
those who sre under mo- such neee4sit,
! can control the bulk Of the crop an'
the price. Will they do il? We vii
zee.
/. Hogs throughout Texas are doin,
, well. and the number 10 largely in
= creased over last year, and last yea
, they were largely increased over an,
previous year. And-mark tho predic
tion-leo6 will show an annual IN
crease that will throw all previous an
= inual increases far in the shade. TexA
{ farmers have t.ani that they have th
Anest bog country in the Union, an
: they ass going 10 run the business i
D such . manner - 20 esuso lowe ah
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