The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-21
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Save the liquid manure.
Feed only what the cattle will eat
up clean.
Always aim to sell a finished prod
uct from the farm.
The inferior animal requires as
much feed as the higher-priced one.
Sour soils need better drainage.
Thing always pays If properly done.
Arrange things in the barn SO as to
make the chores as easy as possible.
Get the spraying apparatus ready for
use. Effective treatment must begin
early.
Sheep like other animals enjoy va
riety in their food. Feed a little wheat
Dra0 occasionally.
Clover, the foundation of agricult-
ural prosperity, must ever prove the
salvation of the farmer.
Above all others the farmer who is
supplying crea to the creamery
needs a Babcock tester. -
Something growing on the soil and
something ~decaying in the soil is a
good rule for the farmer to follow.
When you notice the shoe to your
horse is a little loose, don't delay fix
ing it. 1t may save the horse a bad
sprain.
Blanket the horses when they are
exposed to hard winds. A bad cold
will prove a poor thing for the horse
and you too.
Animals which are selected for
breeding purposes should be fed and
cared for SC as to induce the most
thrifty habits.
Start your tomato seed, also celery.
cabbage. egg plant, endive, lettuce.
onion, ETC., indoors and have the plants
ready to set out in May.
As a part ration corn is a good poul-
try feed, but as the sole ration, such
as the practice of some farmers, it is
n of the worst possible feeds.
When things go wrong. don't scold
the wife and children. If you must do
something to relieve your feelings go
out and take a few kicks at the horse
block.
The future usefulness Of a COW de-
ponds largely upon the way she has
been brought up. Good breeding, of
course, but more important still. good
bringing up.
1t Is a mistake to neglect the things
that are in trying to find out the
things which may be but are no yet.
Many an impractical investigator
commits this blunder.
Don't permit the blacksmith to nut
on too heavy shoes. They are a need.
less burden to the horses and add
strain to every muscle and tendon. and
really wear no longer than the light.
er shoes.
The dairyman who treats his COWS
right is no ashamed to look them in
the face, neither is he ashamed to
look his customers in the face if he is
giving an honest article in an honest
measure.
Cotton seed hulls are not desirable
feed for cows, but they are being
worked into some of the patent dairy
feeds that are bringing good prices in
the market. Watch out for them if
you are buying any feed for your
cows.
Reading Meadowbrook Farm Notes
gives one an appetite for the farm
work. 1t is sort of short course in
farming, and is the best kind of a
preliminary to the reading of a good
farm paper, which of course you have
coming regularly to your home.
A pecan tree at Raleigh. N. G
which is IS years old, has borne a cron
every year for. the last 20 years. In
1895 the crop equaled 300 pounds. in
1907 it was more than 400 pounds.
Estimating the selling price of the
nuts at rs cents a pound, 400 pounds
would bring 500. A profitable tree.
surely.
Scours in horses is very annoying
and units them for hard work. If
change Of diet and short rations do
not correct the disorder try giving
four drains powdered sulphate iron,