The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-07-27

drops runs off and does not accomplish
as much as fine, light mist. Paris
green is commonly used at the rate OF
one pound to one hundred and fifty or
two hundred gallons of water for both
potatoes and apple trees. Bordeaux is
made by shaking six pounds fresh stone
lime in water, then strain and dilute to
twenty-five gallons. Dissolve four
pounds sulphate of copper in twenty-five
gallons water and when ready to spray
mix the two--Ameyican AgyieaIt.yist.
TO MAKE A GOOD Usage HEDGE.
First make the soil IN the hedge. Now
fine and mellow to good depth. A foot
deep is generally better than 4 less depth
under the plants. 1t is preferred to
have the plants set on slight ridge. four
to six inches above the general level.
Good one-year-old plants are generally
preferred to older ones. These should
be root-pruned to about ten or twelve
inches Iii length of root, and the top cut
back to about the same length enough
to take in the plant, placing the plant.
slanting with the row, at an angle OF
about forty-fve degrees. This will in
duce two OF more shoots to start from
each plant, insuring a thick base. The
plants should be set about one foot
apart in the row.
After being we'll cultivated the first
season, any that have failed to grow
should be replaced with good strong
plants the following spring. In june
of the second rear, the young hcdse
should be cut back to about two feet
high. A year later, cut it to three or
three and one half feet, and the follow
ing June to four and half feet, al
which height it should be kept perma-
nently. With a sharp corn knife, OF
piece of scythe, the needed clipping Is
quickly done. Sometimes two clippings
a year are needed. :,
Good Usage plants are generally SOLO
in the. central and western States al
about $I.5o per 1000.
| saw last spring new way OF break
ing an old Usage hedge that had been
allowed to grow. at random until It was
fifteen or twenty feet high, and OF little
value as fence The plants were cut
down to within three or four inches OF
the ground, leaving one about every
twelve to fifteen feet, five feet high
Then a strip of woven-wire fencing
thirty inches wide. was nailed to the
fve-foot posts, with barbed wire
stretched higher TIP. The closely-cut
sturnps sent up abundant sprouts, form-
ing fairly close hedge. The woven
wire made it pig-proof. and the five-too'
posts will last indefinitely as living posts
This experiment promises we'll
Usage timber for posts is probably the
most durable in the ground of any
American wood. not excepting red cedar
e. Y. T. in The Country Gentleman
SHORT AND USEFUL POINTERS
More sunlight means less tuberculo-
sis.
The all-the-year-round cow is the pay
ing cow.
A change of food is appetizing for all
kinds of stock.
1t will pay any dairyman to make
study of feeding.
Always keep a cabbage hanging up II
the poultry-house.
Regular milking will develop the milk
secrcting organs of the COW.
There is no longer profit in buttei
unless the quality is of the best.
The most successful farmers now arr
those who are intensive farmers.
The mixer should always wash ane
dry his hands just before milking.
1t is claimed that the demand for small
sheep ranches was never so great.
Under no circumstances should de
composed or mouldy foods be fed t
COWS.
1t is a fairly safe plan to cover al
garden seeds according to the size OF thu
seed.
Young pigs should be encouraged (
begin eating food before they ar
weaned.
AS rule you will find that the cost 9
| milking a COW decreases as her yels
! increases.
The gooseberries and currants shoult
be pruned SO as to form a spreading
open head.
Don't neglect giving the chicks SOM
green bone. 1t will make them grow
and thrive.
Never allow any dog around the sheel
unless you have got the greatest con
| fidence in him.
It is better to start new strawbcrr,
bed on land that has been in cultivation
a year or two.
Gull out the poor layers in the poultr.
yard the same as you would the poo
! mixers in the cow barn.
The chief advantage of creamery !
i the reduction in cost to produce causes
by the saving Of labor.
Have your stalls and cutters so ar
ranged that the cows may be kept cieal
with as little trouble as possible.
Ventilation is great thing for stock
| but of course there is vast diffcrenc
between ventilation and draught.
One reason why so many believe poul
| try to be Improbable is that they ncve
even as much as try to make them prof
| liable.
| Special poultry cars are being used b
sc-,c of the English railroads, so tina
chickens for the British market can b
rar,ened curing the Journey. One al
tendant takes care of number of tn
cars. Chickens are bought in the countr
districts of Russia or Italy and reach tn
English market alive and considerabl
improved by being well fed during til
trip.-Ncsv York Weekly Witness.
Over the Telephone.
i 1t was a neat piece of work and owe
the telephone at that.
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