The Opelousas courier., 1895-10-12
HERE AND THERE.

Its hard work to dig out these little
plantain and dandclion weeds from
your grass plot just now. But it pays.
They arc like the little foxes" There
are homilies in plantains and dande-
lions.
1T is we'll enough toremember that
good foragt can be kept for another
year, so if there can be found no profit
able present use for it. just hold it over
and be prepared with animals to eat it
next year.
Unless the o%rchardist is careful
weeds will get a fast hold during the
fall and seed the ground for a more
abundant croI next year. Now is the
time to destaby them. Cut, and as
soon as dry c1l5ugh, burn them.
Good roads are too costly" says a
conservative paper. They are not half
so costly as bad roads. 1t is as hard
for a fool to disguise himself as for a
i%ackass to roar as a lion. Both have
tried these things and failed.
Don't SOW down your yonng or
chard in grain to make pasturage. In
the FIRST 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 sur to do mis-
chief.
-Pullets Matched 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 is not profitable to keep these
late arrivals over. Better fatten and
sell the last one of them. The early
Matched, pullets should lay in winter,
when eggs are a good price in the mar
ket or at home, and are the ones I'd
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 ,,es. Improvement still ,goes on
where will it end? Or, will it end?
Not until civilization lets her foot slip
while climbing the hill at whose top
perfection perches.
Cotton is beginning to appear in
market, and farmers are displaying
their usual anxiety to get rid of the
stuff, For this. spectators who are
interested in depressing prices should
be duly thankful, for they have
proclaimed a 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 we'll be kept by all
lovers of nature with a taste for in
vestigation. even if honey was not
used. 1t will pay any intelligent per-
son to observe the habits of these
models of ingenuity and industry, and
give him a clearer conception of the
wisdom of creative power. The effect
on the moral character OF studying
bees is salutary, as we'll as interesting.
Southern farmers can control the
price of cotton if they will. If they
set the price at seven or eight cents,
and refuse to sell for less, they will
get it. But many must sell to meet
obligations and pay rent. That is all
right. Let them sell who must; but
those who are under no such necessity
can control the bulk Of the crop and
the price. Will they do it? We will
see.
Hogs throughout Texas are doing
we'll, and the number is largely in
creased over last year, and last year
they were largely increased over any
previous year. And-mark the predic-
tion-1s96 will show an annual ln-
ere ase that will throw all previous an
nual increases far in the shade. Texas
farmers have found that they have the
finest hog country in the Union, and
they are going to run the business In
such a manner as to cause Iowa and
Wiseeasla To look ont tas ths4 hsseA