The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-03

broody.
It Is easier to raise q good horse
than to pick one up when wanted.
Remember that.
Whey fed to excess may cause stiff
joints in the pigs. Its feeding value Is
about half that Of milk.
farmer is the one which combines a
long fleece with a large carcass.
II you are keeping sheep plan on a
good generous turnip crop this year.
It IL almost a necessity in successful
sheep raising.
An Iowa man at last accounts had
the corr husking record Of the year,
having husked Is bushels in four
hours and eight minutes.
A course at your state agricultural
| college will do more to interest your
boy in agriculture and tie him to the
farm than any other n thing.
Alsike clover is valuable on heavy
soil. It is q lighter growing. finer
crop than the medium red, and is
shorter lived, but it will pay you to
try II.
Begin some kind of crop rotation
this year.. Don't raise the same crop
year after year on the same piece of
ground. Give the ground a variety OF
work to do.
Don't let fine weather v e head
tempt you out into the field which Is
still too wet to work. 1t is bad for the
soil, hard on the horses and disap-
pointing to you.
Damp crib corn will prove q curse
to many a farmer this year who deaf
to the advice to select and care for
his seed corn just let matters drift
along in the same old way.
It has been proved from expert
ments that unless linseed oilmeal can
be purchased at approximately as low
a price as corn per pound no profit
from its use with corn and clover hay
for fattening lambs is to be expected.
It is the farmer who learns how to
do his work with the least number OF
moves-in other words systematizes
his work-who makes the best success
Of farming and who always has time
to take in the farmers institutes.
fairs, etc.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson
says: I'D rather not impose on q
busy farmer the keeping Of an elab.
crate set Of books, but some simple
form of accounts will be a great aid
In successful farming" To which
sentiment we assent heartily.
The spoiled horse Is generally the
one that has been improperly trained
Careful, thorough breaking should SO Cd
tablish the good traits of . horse a. to
make the acquiring of bad habits al
most impossible ave where the gross
est kind Of mismanagement wa prac
uced.
Il is q good practice in planting ar
orchard to alternate the varieties, set
ting not over two or three rows oi
one sort and then something else
This will insure heavier bearing
Through cross-pollination Of the bios
SONS. some sorts not being able t.
fertilixe themselves.
Moving the field of young alfalf.
may check the weeds but 1t will alst
check the alfalfa. The ground In
tended for alfalfa should be so thor
oughly prepared that weeds have n,
chance to start until after the alfalf,
IL we'll along and firmly rooted. Al
falfa that gets the right start vii
prove very inhospitable ground TO
the weeds.
A man must be friendly to hav'
friends. This was never more tru'
; than in the country. Try . little friend
liness toward that neighbor whom yo'
} have considered rather cold and dii
tant. You will perhaps nnd he vii
warm up to you and the friendshi
will work mutual good. Get his ideas
and IL you have anything good in tina
line share It with him.
It takes no more work OF food t
feed . Observation-Disclosures CO,
than 1t does to feed the a whic
i produces but 200 pounds. Why nc
weed out the poorer cows and get l
those which pay . good profit? A CO.
j ought to produce at least 500 pound
Of butter fat . year to make It wort
while keeping her. but many q farme
II keeping cows which will not pr
] ducs half that
! Get good bull-pure-bred II 20
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