The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-09-13
N.Y. FARM
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The best breeding sows are the long.
bodied animals.
Second growth clover makes splen.
did pasturage for young pigs.
Put your confidence in good
agement rather than in the veterina.
rian.
The pigs should have access to a
box containing salt, charcoal and sui
phur.
Horses will do better if given the
u of a small yard adjoining the
stable.
Cut the old canes out of the rasp-
berry patch and give the young m
q chance to mature.
Exposure to the hot sun of the
summer is bad for hogs. Provide
some kind of shelter.
Mild cases of diarrhoea in pigs can
be relieved by feeding fresh skinned
milk ~thickened with wheat -four.
A great deal of fruit can be grown
on a very small plot OF ground if it
is well fortified and cultivated.
The health of the steer requires
good air and good feed; the air all the
time and the feed at regular periods.
Don't be a pessim.st. Look on the
bright side of things. Matters turn
out better than we think they will,
generally.
1t is a good rule to purchase a new
boar as often as the sows have passed
their prime and are replaced by the
offspring of the old boar.
Planting cherry trees in the fence
corners Is all right, If care is given
them. but any fruit tree left to shift
for itself will not return a profit.
You will rest better after your hard
days work IL you make the horses
comfortable by rubbing them down
when putting them up for the night.
Free range hogs are generally more
hearty and vigorous than the penned
mes. They do well in the COW pas
ture and follow up the COWS with good
results.
An advocate of tile drainage de-
clares his experience proves that it
pays ten per cent. on the investment
and will return the prircipa, in five
wears If the work is properly done.
The lOw-wheeled wagon has it's uses
on the farm, but remember that the
lower the wheel the more times it has
to turn to get there, and for this rea-
son the low wheeler is not a good
road wagon.
Have you been SO much interested
In the matter of your field crops as
to have forgotten and neglected the +
wood lot? Don't let any kind of trees
grow there, but pick the trees which
make the best f1re-wood.
lust send a batch Of vegetables
your garden to your neighbor
who did no. have time, as he said,
10 llc-t q garden. Perhaps it will
him repent Of his folly and lead
him to make good resolutions for the
year to come.
In the grading of hogs for the mar
ret reports 1t is the general rule that
he packing hogs are Of a class that
ire Of a poorer grade than the butcher
logs, and they may include old brood
and all other hogs, except the
'oorer classes. such as roughs. boars,
md coarse stays that are heavy
'nough for this class, and mo- good
'nough for the butcher hog class. {
Tenant farming may bring profit to !
be tenant, but 1t works i'll to the farm,
line times out OF ten. To be sure,
here are good and bad tenants, but I
luman nature is the same everywhere, |
nd the farm which the man does not I
wn 10 not going to receive the care
Thich the owner would give 1t. The
enant Is interested in the farm only
. the extent Of paying his rental and /
ealising - large q profit as is pos {
ible. {
Feeding and breeding are closely re-
lted. Some experimenters have '
ound that when SOW are fed very b
paringly OF on improper kinds Of food d
or some time before the breeding sea. q
On. It b often dinicult to get them to g
reed and the individuals in the litters .
~ generally pretty irregular both i
to size and vigor. On the other 8
and. sows that are fed bountifully I
STORE Throwing usually breed With 6
~ 1imcu1ty. producing large and uni 1
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