The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-05-15

sideratiCn when estimating the pTOHlS
and loss.-Farmers' Home Journal.
WOMEN AND POULTRY.
We can point to quite number OF
women who have increased the num-
Der of their fowls with view to as
sisting themselves during the dull
times, the object being to have money
come in sooner than by relying on
something requiring a longer period
for remunerating them. Eggs are
daily products and enable the farmer
to procure cash either in small or
large sums according to his manage
ment Women can assist materially
in attending to some of the details
of management, although they can
not do hard work in the poultry house
and yards. They are more success
full in raising chicks than men be-
cause they are more patient and DO
not overlook the small matters. Ii
there have been a large number OF
pullets Matched it would no doubt
pay to keep them all winter If the
accommodations will permit in order
to help through the cold weather.
The greatest success of farmers with
poultry is when their wives assist
by taking an interest in large num-
bers, but the farmers should not leave
the heavy duties to be attended to
by their wives.-Weekly Witness.
THOROUGHBRED SADDLE HORSES
Breeders of saddle horses who in
tend to introduce thoroughbred blood
to improve their stock, can not be
too critical. There are some thor
oughbreds almost as poorly fitted for
improving saddle horses as would
be woods colts" They may lack the
proper form, or the disposition or
the flexible action of the limbs and
joints. Besides having these, they
may be so purely unstylish as to Who'll
ly disqualify. The old saddle families
were built on the right kind of thor
oughbreds and, as far as it is pos
sible, breeders will do we'll to con-
centrate and bring together strains
bearing the greatest amount of such
blood.
Many thoroughbred mares are be-
ing bred to registered saddle stations
and we do not say it is unwise to
do this, with the precautions men
toned. Before incorporating a filly
of this kind of breeding into a herd
she should be- fully looked over to see
what effect the outcross has had. II
she is not a good type discard her.
PREPARATION OF THE SOIL.
Quite as much depends upon the
proper preparation Of the soil for the
best development Of plants as the
use OF fertilizers. A case in point Is
that of an intelligent Missouri farm
er who lived in a section where the
idea prevailed that wheat could not
be profitably grown there. He had
trie. to raise wheat on his farm IN
the old, rough way, and could set
| but ten or twelve bushels per acre
He visited the State experiment sta,
| ton at a time when a plot Of ground
was being prepared for wheat and
became so impressed with their thor
| ough methods of soil preparation that
| he prepared field on his farm IN
| the same way, and from this har
vested a crop Of So bushels Of good
wheat per acre, the only fertilizer
used being stable manure and light
application of lime.-Epitomist.
oyERPRoDuCr1oN OF POULTRY
It has been pretty well proven that
the past is the safest guide to the
future, and If we may Judge by the
way the demand has been increasing
and the way prices of poultry and
eggs have been advancing the past
few years, there certainly is no dan
ger OF an oversupply. With all the
new plans and inventions that have
been given us by modern scientific
methods, and with all the stimulus u
good prices the year round, we have
| not yet been able to keep pace WITH
the demand, for the reason that the
demand has been, and still is in
creasing even more rapidly than tbs
supply. So the farmer who has II
mind the worthy idea of increasing
the size of his poultry operations, cal
do so wwih perfect confidence in thu
stability of prices for poultry ant
eggs.-Epitomist.