The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-02-19

It will pay to have the garden plo !
all cleared and ready for blowing this
fall. III fact, won't it pay to pillow 1t
as soon as the crops are off?
Those contemplating the erection OF
beet sugar factories will do well to re-
member that for expert assistance and
management small factory will cost
quite as much as large one.
The secret of winter eggs is: Hatch
the pullets early and keep them grow
ing; have warm quarters; do not crowd
too many in a small place; keep them
exercising, and feed properly.
If any of our readers neglected to
repair and oil the harness last spring
when it should have been done, they
should make note of the fact and at
tend to it at the first opportunity.
Again we say radical changes in the
food of animals should be made grad
ually as possible. This is especially
true of COWS, for sudden changes effect
the quality as well as the quantity OF
the milk.
Corn and alfalfa go splendidly to-
gether, especially for feeding fatten-
| ing animals. Corn being deficient in
protein, and alfalfa rich in the same
ingredient, serves to more nearly bal
ance the ration.
Hauling corn fodder up from the
field every few days as wanted during
the winter is, in most cases, very
slavish and unnecessary operation.
No time should be lost now in getting
it into NOV or stack.
On many farms we see the stock still
tramping over the meadows as it has
done ever since haying. We never
thought it paid to thus secure little
fall picking at the possible expense Of
the hay crop the next year.
Here is the way prominent stock
, man puts it: We are going to have the
: best times we have seen in fifteer
!, wears, and the stock-raising interes
!, will, with proper management, hav'
! its full share in the general prosperity
e One objection urged against winte
1 dairying is that it is so much trouble
: to raise the calves when they canno
be turned out on pasture. This dill
@ ficulty is not serious one if you hav
= a good, warm barn, clover hay an
J. ensilage.
it Those of our readers who took on
q advise and saw that the pigs and shoat
received through the summer fal
proportion of bone and muscle form
ing foods, have now a staunch fran
upon which to lay the fat produced b
q corn diet.
~ Professor Plumb hit the nail fairl
's on the head when he wrote that tn
~ farmers of Indiana ought not to allo
. a pound of skim milk to go to vast
u. from the creameries or farm diaries
At y, It can be fed to great profit to grow
W ing pigs, for it will assist in rapid ies
y development. What is true OF ski
3 milk in Indiana is equally true OF
:. elsewhere.
io The use of butter which contain
L. L. neither salt nor coloring matter is sa
u, u, to be increasing in New York to sue
~ an extent that it may now be obtaint
Nv at some of the best hotels and resta
ns rants, while other houses are usil
gu gu butter containing about half the usu
~ salt. Of course, customers can Sc
~ son the fresh butter to suit their ov
oo Individual tastes. Hebrews are t
~ largest consumers of unsalted butte
.re A bunch of hungry hogs will do
hit good job turning and timing coars
straw manure if some grain is SOY
"a. upon it. Occasionally, their root
in propensities may be utilized IN 9th
for ways. A Maine farmer is said to
as move stumps by fencing them in, ms
,cs ing holes under them with crowds
zee placing grain in holes and turni
.ba hogs into the enclosure. In root
,av among the roots, the hogs are said
Is root the stumps out by the roots.