The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
j.ng fattening entails qgoo1
c.ean feed and plenty of it.

A thrifty sheep ought to be rely
for market with six weeks Of SoCd
feeding.
Dairying will restore the rundown
farm quicker than by any other
method.
It is the specially breeder who
makes the best profits, whether in
poultry or livestock.
One test of the profitable dairy farm
IS the number of COWS kept per acre
without buying high-priced feeds.
A good skirt hanger can be made by
rolling one or two heavy papers to-
gether and tying in the middle with q
stout cord.
Feeding has much to do with the
weight Of the fleece. A poorly fed
sheep will not give as good weight
wool as one that is well fed.
The good road is the road that Is
kept in good condition. The road
drag will put the road in good condi
ton where faithfully used. Try it.
Pretty well put: "The great prob
lem Of the farmer is this-gettirg the
crop out of the farm, getting the dol.
lar out of the crop, and happiness out
Of the dollar"
The late molter will be the late
layer. In picking your breeding stock.
select those which get through early
n begin to lay. This will raise the
standard of your flock.
When transplanting trees be sure
n cut back the tops and see that the
roots are trimmed Of all bruised and
broken parts. Many a tree is lost
through oarelessness in his direction
Perhaps the horse cannot under
stand you oaths and know you are
SHINING against Heaven, but certain II
Is he understands YOU brutal spirit
and knows you are going to get only
such service as you force him to give
Try the new system Of cloth venti
lation for the stable. All you have tc
do is to take out part of the glass
and put cloth screens in place. Also
remember that no one who has tried
the screens reports failure. Try then
in your stable.
How much a little carelessness costs
us sometimes. The chore boy left the
box off the salt box the other day anG
some of my finest pure bred pullets
OF an investigative turn of mind got
busy. Now they are dead and buried
and / am poorer and it is to be hoped
the boy is wiser and won't be SO care
less again.
1t was DR.. Henry VanDykc who
said: Do not rob or mar a tree I'm.
less you really need what it has te
give you. Let it stand and grow in
virgin majesty, ungirdled and I'm,
SCARED, wkile the trunk becomes :
firm pillar of the forest temple and
the branches spread abroad a refuge
of bright green leaves for the birds
of the air.
Charcoal, ashes or soft coal are rel
ished by the pigs, these supplying the
mineral matter the animals need tc
make them thrifty. Lacking these
elements hogs frequently show a lack
of thrift that cannot otherwise be &C
counted for. Theodore Lewis often
used to say that there was nothing
like roasted corn, or even corn cobs
to supply this craving for something
Of the kind.
Cheap seeds are in most cases not
only unproductive. but contain Juan.
titles of parasitic dodder, fungi and
other noxious weed seeds. Not a bad
idea for the farmers of a section tc
cooperate n buy their seeds on
large scale. thus enabling them not
only to purchase at the lowest pos
sible price consistent with good seed,
but enabling them by testing to know
the quality and purity of the seed
supplied.
In buying sheep, whether yves OF
rams, select the animals having large,
well-proportioned heads. width be-
tween h ears and eyes, a thick neck
a widely-distended nostril, thick. heavy
loins, crops and twists; broad, full
chest and brisket; level, strong back
and full level tanks. Such are in.
variably good cutters and carry nut;
ton of the best quality. A ram weak
in neck, lOin or twist, is entirely unfit
to head a flock.
One reason advanced by Prof.
Fraser in his address at the National
Dairy show why many dairymen in
Illinois and adjoining states did not
attend the show was that they were
too busy milking poor cows. He gave