The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-01-18
FARM NOTES.


The overgrown horse is seldom ;
durable one.
Eggs intended for Matching should
not be kept over four weeks. The.
must be turned every day or two.
1t will require seven pound of skin
milk to equal one pound of lean bee
for flesh-forming qualities.
One dollar per head is the average
cost Of keeping a fowl year, and
the same amount is fair estimate Of
the profits.
Hens will enjoy a change of diet
and will do better in consequence.
To keep on kicking and grumblins
is easy enough. There will always
be something not quite right. But
what's the use of spelling what is
good by spreading the bad over it.
The hen, that lays three eggs a
week will pay double the profit of
one that produces but two eggs.
A dairy cow is machine that turns
feed into milk and cream.
Give your birds plenty of green
food in almost any form. They like
it and will tell you SO by the egg
basket and flavor of eggs, also.
Most of us are very particular about
the source of our we'll and spring
water for our own drinking. How
about that consumed by the live
stock?
The community without rural tele-
phone service is decidedly behind the
times. No investment pays better.
Grain the ewes twice a day; give
hay in the morning, shredded fodder
at noon, and feed-rack at night.
FEED CROPS FOR THE COWS.
The well-known dairy farmer, Mr..
W. F. McSparran, in a recent address
TO dairymen on growing feed crops
for cows said:
Theoretically, when l feed my cows
full amount of good corn silage and
alfalfa hay my milk yield should be
satisfactory, but actually, I find that
my kind Of cows will increase their
milk, giving if add some corn meal
to the bill of fare, and increase still
more If in addition I furnish about
two pounds per day of oil meal per
COW. Hence while am personally
very much in favor of the farmer
dairyman growing feed crops to the
fullest extent of proven profit, en-
deavoring to do SO myself, yet to all
| grow I never hesitate to bring in
as supplementary by purchase any
feed needed and which my cows can
use at profit to me.
AS there are wide differences in the
feeds of commerce so there are also
in our grains, hays and folders, and
1t Is quite possible that the average
farmers first duty in the home pro-
duction Of feed crops is to improve
his standard crops to their maximum
feed value before he makes extensive
attempts to experimentation with new
for his favor. We may cut
our clover or Timothy too soon or too |
ate to secure its full or its best nu
tritlve elements. The simple curing |
If hay marks a very wide difference |
in quality between very good and
very bad
have no manner of doubt that
,on OF, clover hay, being all one acre
could produce, is of materially less
.eeding worth than ton from an
acre having grown a three ton croD.
Ill conditions Of cutting and curing
n both cases being equal. know
hat when | secure a crop of one
hundred bushels of corn per acre
lave more than twice as much feed
Is have If l am SO unfortunate as to
Jet but fifty bushels per acre.
For the production of crops that
larry their feeding elements in the
most perfect proportions and condi.
ions, a properly balanced soil ration
md soil condition are unquestionablv
Necessary.
Pre-eminently the greatest feeding
rop of America and the one tina.
nall forever give us commanding
'os1tlcn in the world in animal hus.
andry, is our Incompatible corn. II
almost as wholly indigenous to all
arts of the United States as weeds
PEA FOWL.
Can you tell me anything Of the
hating habits Of peafowl? I hava a
air, bought last spring; the hen
as laid no eggs-at all events sha t
as Matched no brood. Is it possible
nat my pair are not properly mated?
ney are three years old at least.-A
(Pea fowl are quite like
irkeys in their habits; If you have a
laie and female, they will mate in
lie time; they do not always pro. !.
uce brood each season. some never
reduce brood You must watch :.
lem next spring and see where tho
en- makes her nest. She Will, moe+
kely hide it away where it will he /.
1hcult to find it. Keep an eve on
81 II the nest is located, let the
ks stay where she lays them: if
le lays over Is in the nest (which :
quite unlikely, take some Of them I
way and put under chicken hen.
the pea hen hatch the rest. When I
le becomes broody, place food and
ater every day close to her nest
she can have plenty to eat when c
le comes from the nest. Other than 0
is DO not bother her. II no eggs c
9 laid. another season get another IL
~; the one you have may not be a II
oducer. Country Gentleman. g
FEED FOR WINTER EGGS, n
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