The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-24
Dc your best and be lucky.

when they begin to get pretty large.
Next seasons work will 60 of
smoother If you think out the tasks
ahead.
Nrht is life in the home and in the
stable.
Fit the horses ration to the amount
Of work that is expected of him.
Small flocks of chickens are less
liable to disease than large 1ocks.
The head mixer still holds his own
against the numerous mechanical de-
vices for drawing the tactical fluid
from the patient bossy.
Even the farmer needs to play fair
neighbor and to the man with whom
he markets his products.
Keep the good COW as long as she
yields a good profit. Some cows out.
last others by many years. Do not
arbitrarily fix the year Of retirement.
Competition is not the life Of crop
growing. for where the crop must fight
for q place on the land with the weeds
1t cannot produce a profitable harvest.
Light is necessary to the health of
the cows, but do not have the stalls
so placed that the glare of the sunlight
will be directly in the eyes Of the pa
tent animals.
With the growing difficulty in secur-
ing competent farm help the farmer
Is coming more and more to depend
upon lab%or-saving machinery to do his
work, and 1t is bringing about a new
r upon the farm.
Quails and cartridges are good
friends of the farmer, eating a host
Of injurious insects. Do not let the
marauding hunter shoot our friends.
Post signs about your farm that no
t~respassing is allowed.
Be sure all the plows and harrows
and seeders are in good condition
There is no sort of excuse for the
farmer who discovers the needed re.
pairs only when the implement is
needed for immediate use.
These fellows who claim they can
pick the good cow by just looking at
her wouldn't do for cattle buyers for
u. The Babcock tester and plenty
Of time to try the animal are the only
methods we are willing to trust.
Take good care Of the wagon and
It will last longer. Half the money
spent each year for wagons by farm
ers might have been saved had proper
care been given the old ones. The
wagon should never be left out to
weather the Storms.
See that the food of the live stock
is palatable. for the better the animal
likes the food the greater is the
amount of saliva produced to assist
in the utilization of that food. 1t MAJ
be that a correspondingly increased Sc
erection occurs Of the other juices pro-
duced in the stomach.
Silage il merely roughage in its
most succulent form and needs the
grain ration to produce the milk. The
silo pays and it is simply impossiti"
to find a farmer who has given ORG 4
fair test who would want to kec, cows
without its help Plan to put n il
on your farm this next season. Plant
a field of fodder corn this spring and
provide the silo when the time comes.
Get three or four of your neighbors
to club with you II possible to buy the
necessary machinery. The cost OF the
silo itself is not as great as the cost
Of other buildings on the farm used
for storing feed. When you have once
used the silo you win never be with
out
The following advantages are
claimed for the grain drill: 1t saves
seed; it plants eTel.y and it gets the
seed in good dc. :, of soil where ger
mination is moo. c.. 50. Experiments
rat the Illinois s.atl> tat five to
seven more bushels OF oats per acre
can be grown with. the drill than
broadcasted. We speak of this be-
cause our readers grow more oats
than any other small grain crop. In
the sowing OF winter wheat expert
enced growers have long considered
that broadcast sowing II an invitation
Is failure. There are some exceeding
" favorable years when good crops
are grown II this way: but it II safe
to ~ that II these same years better
crops would have been grown by the
ne az the drill; while In poor years
the ydrill makes AL the difference b.
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