The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-07
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heterogeneous food for the sows that
are in pig.
Salt the cows every day rather than
al long and irregular intervals.
A steady man and q steady old
horse are needed to break the colt
right.
Don't let the flock run down in con
dition. Well-fed poultry are poor sub
jeets for disease.
Feed regularly. The poultry will do
better and will show their apprecia-
tian in the fuller egg basket.
Profit by the mistakes made last
year. Don't fail a second time in the
same way and on the same thing.
Better a small farm clear of debt
and well worked than a great big one
burdened with debt and not half
worked.
The cow with the finical appetite
will not prove the profitable cow. The
COW must be a hearty feeder to give
a generous yield.
Can't afford q tank heater? Well,
you certainly can't afford to let your
cattle drink the water through the hole
cut in the ice in the tank.
OF course you cannot dip the sheep
now, but you al sift insect powder
into the wool and rub it well in. This
will knock the ticks and give relief to
the sheep.
What are you doing to make your
locality better? A good question to
ask yourself during these days when
you have time to think and leisure to
doathe kindly deed.
Nave . few nut trees on the place.
They are slow growers, but once es-
tablished they will provide your chill
dren and your children's children with
reason for thanksgiving to the planter.
The reason beef cattle are harder
than dairy cattle is that they have
more fat worked through the muscles.
TIE dairy cattle put the fat into the
milk or deposit it around their intes-
tines to be drawn upon when needed.
This country imports $500, OOO, 900
worth OF tropical fruits each year.
Which leads us to ask how much Of
THU fruit hunger of our people might
be supplied by a better fruit produc-
tion at home! Are you helping to sup
ply the need?
I takes variety of feed to keep the
appetite keen and working to the full
limit. Remember this in your feed
Ing When steers begin to fuss over
sn4pped corn give them a change once
q day OF c~orn-and-cob meal, and along
toHard the finish, deal out two pounds
of~dl meal once a day to each steer.
u you haven't a workshop in which
you q put a little stove to give you
comfortable temperature in which to
wdek while repairing and overhauling
the machinery provide one at once. 1t
msZ mean . little outlay, but it will
mi Q than come back to you in the
IA lity and base with which you can
MAKE your repairs.
he Book Farmer d generally the
prd Eressive farmer. To be sure there
mag be sometimes too much science
and theory and not enough practical,
GOdd common sense, but the farmer
who has the are grace Of combining
the two is the farmer who is raising
the average OF farming and proving
that there is profit and pleasure in
the vocation.
~ groups Of three. Try them:
Three things to wish for-health.
friends, and a cheerful spirit. Three
Thugs to delight in-frankness, free
dos4. and beauty. Three things to ad.
mite-power, ~gracefulness. and dig
nitt. Three things to govern-tem-
per tongue, and conduct. Three
things to hateEcruelty, arrogance, and
undction. Three things to love-pur-
ity, truth and honor. Three things to
be~brave. gentle, and kind.
Georgia h On the road to agricul-
tur4 prosperity. for an educated peo-
pie means better farms and better
farming. The legislature Of that state
last rear passed IN act establishing II
agricultural high schools as branches
of tha State College OF agriculture.
These schools receive from the state.
cad, about $4,000 1 year, but each
coI murity In which such Z school II
lOc1te must furnish mot less than 200
acrsD Of good Land md the necessary
equipment. The people OF Georeia
haso responded enthusiastically to
thu Yenuirement and over 4 million