The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-01-21

N.Y. FARM
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Don't go away from home now with
out the horse blanket-and use it.
Select the show birds early and feed
and groom to get in prime condition.
Sheep when crowded into dark,
poorly-ventilated stables will not
Grade up your herd by getting {"
pure bred sire and using the tester
and scales.
The rich barnyard makes the poor
field. Get the anu out where 1t
will feed the soil and do good.
Keep the horse under as even condi-
tons as possible. He is a sensitive
creature and feels weather changes.
Keep the horse stable as clean and
dry as possible, and don't forget that
sunlight is tonic which the horse
needs.
Every farmer must be an expert
menter to a limited extent if he would
make the success of farming which 1t
is his privilege to do.
Get rid of the idea that n COW is
as good as another. Only the test "a
prove what each COW is doing. Keep
a record and weed out the Improbable
cows.
One large feeder of sheep figures
that he Ices not come out even on
his feed bills, but he counts the clean
ing his fields get and the manure
which is dropped is profit enough.
The time to begin the development
of the dairy COW is several generations
| before she is born. But if you cannot
| do that, you can at least treat the
| heifer calf right and make her all that
10 possible.
In setting out the new fruit e be
sure and leave plenty of space be-
tween them. You must make allow
ance for the growth of the years
Crowded trees interfere with one an,
other and have their fruit bearing
possibilities checked.
MI -o1 oovn 10 yOnndn nyHf nj
horses that are well bred and free
from blemishes. Why raise any othel
kind? AS has been repeatedly said /
takes just as much time and trouble
and feed to raise a poor horse as
good one, and see the difference II
the prices for which they are sold.
fhe following treatment for Sal
Jose scale is recommended by tn
North Carolina Experiment station
AS o O as the leaves fall, spray tn
trees with scalecide Zone gallon d
luted with IL or Is gallons of water
and then, in the early spring, Civ
the trees a thorough coating wit
, the lime-sulphur mixture.
The story is told of one farmer 1
Illinois who went to a county fai
This is not strange. but when th
, Judges came to the stall where he wa
feeding his horse and gave it a pr
. MUM he was surprised! He simpl
put his horse up in a stall for tn
day and they supposed it was el
: tered in the competition. Must hav
been a pretty good horse.
Clovers, alfalfa, cow-peas, SOY bean
Canadian peas, ETC., are the ma
1esh-forming foods. Oats, as a sing
food, approaches nearer a balanced I
ktion for young stock than any othe
with barley a close second. What Il
farmers need to grow is some of Il
fesh-formers above mentioned wi
which he can balance. up his che;
corn and not be obliged to buy bra
shorts, oil meal, or cottonseed me-
to get the full value of his cheap q
formers.
The experiment stations in mo
than one state have taken hold of t
in question of cloth ventilation for t
poultry house. Perhaps the most
fective arrangement is that which h
been put into use by the Maine
pertinent station, where fowls are p
mitted to sleep in a rOosting chamt
that is separated from the rest of I
= house by a cloth curtain that is pull
down in front in the winter. Pr
., Woods says that the fowls behind t
i are warm and comfortable and tt
water does not freeze in the chamb
!. In the morning there is no smell
: this chamber, the air being pure. I
window to the hen house is allowed
remain open except during the driv
storms, when the SNOW might come
tn None of the birds in the rOosting pli
us have colds, and, OF the other ha
contagious diseases do not spre
When the cloth is used the fit
should be 10 tight that the air