The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-10
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If you are in a rut get out.
Every farmer ought to be an OPP
timist.
Loose-end farming brings smallend
profits.
, Keep the poultry yard tidy. So easy
easy for rubbish to accumulate.
Experiments with salt have proven
that it Is of little value after all on
asparagus.
A separator of which the farmer and
his good wife make but little use
the divorce court.
Better to feed the table scraps to
the poultry in their mash. Then all
get q fair show at them.
You do not know what your cows
are doing for you unless you weigh
and test their milk at least once a
month.
Don't blame the incubator II 1t does
poor work for yOu until you are GER
tain that the failure Is not due to your
management.
In saving the eggs for Matching
place with the large end up and turn
every day or two to keep the yolk
from settling to one side of the egg.
the eggs should be for Matching. II
the eggs are older the chicks are not
apt to be as strong as chicks Matched
from fresher eggs.
It Is not the very large turkeys
which find the readiest sale. Twelve to
IA pounds find buyers quicker than
the Is or 20 pound birds. Remember
this when raising this seasons flock.
Mere wetting Of the clover or alfalfa
does not prepare it properly for the
chickens. 1t should be scalded. This
treatment seems to bring out strength
of the feed and increase its feeding
value.
There is no doubt but that the ma
nure spreader is the thing for the
farm, but whether the extravagant
claim that 1t will pay for itself the
first season would be borne out by fact
only practical test would demonstrate.
It Is the last inch or two of the lift
in loading the wagon which counts.
Here is where the low-wheeled wagon
is a labor saver. To be sure it pulls
heavier than the high-wheeled, but
not enough more to make much differ
ence.
It is trying to the thrifty farmer to
have a shiftless neighbor. but do not
let your Impotence with his slovenly
methods blind you to the responsible
ity you bears towards him and make
you forget that perhaps you can help
him to better things. Try and show
him better methods. Perhaps. after
all, his ~shiftlessness is due more to
lack of knowledge of how to do things
than 1t Is to lack of desire to do things
right.
Large stock raisers will watch with
q good deal of interest the govern
ment's scientific reseeding expert
ments on several of the national for
est ranges next. spring and summer,
to determine under what conditions
and in what manner those portions of
the range which have been seriously
damaged by overgrazing may be re-
stored to their former prod~uctiveness.
A great deal of the range land in the
west is overgrazed and does not carry
as much stock as formerly. The
method of handling stock, particular
ly sheep. is perhaps more responsible
for this condition than, any other
cause. But all use of deterioration
and all mea for improving the forage
crop need to be studied, that the range
may be brought Into the best condi-
ton to meet the imperative demand Of
the live stock Industry.
Some farmers who are becoming
handy in the use Of cement are build
ing concrete hot bed frames. A four
inch wall is sufficient and should be
placed below the frost line. One
inch boards be used in building
the forms. The rear wall OF the bed
should be six inches higher than the
front wall to give the necessary slope
to the sash. After the forms are all
erected I'LL them with q mixture Of
one part Portland cement, four parts
clean. coarse sand and eight parts
broken stone or gravel level with the