The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-10-01

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Lieutenant Governor and President OF the
| Senate.
! II. G. DUPRE
| Speaker Of The House OF Representatives
! j. Y. SANDERS.
| Governor of the State of LouisIIlA-
JOHN i. MICHEL,
Secretary ii state.
When the LAMBS have just been
weaned they require the best possible
care and need good pasture.
Phosphoric acid tends to increase
| fruitfulness, but a liberal supply of,
| potash Is of almost equal importance.
The grain for calves should be fed
first while the calf is quite small
with little bran to aid in learning
to eat
| A few hens carefully watched and
literally fed are more profitable than
large number forced to forage for
their living.
| When you see many bees hunting
around hooks and corners. you may
be sure there is robbing going on
somewhere.
| A good horse used in common
sense manner should live to an old age
and be in condition to perform good
work at all times.
During the hot weather the garden
should receive very frequent cult1va-
ton to keep down the weeds and
conserve the moisture.
| There is no reason why a man with
an acre patch of potatoes should not
spray for blight. the same as man
who has ten acres or more.
| AS a rule, no cultivating should be
done N the orchard during the next
two months If the soil Is in good
filth and clean of weeds II is best not
to disturb in hot dry weather.
| The cowpea will thrive under unfa-
vorable conditions of soil preparation.
| IL is, uCWeSeI, d pletuL tli'iI iSSPNH"'
most readily and profitably to thor
oughly deep breaking and pulveriza-
ton of the land.
| The difference between the dairy
| farmer and the exclusive farmer IS
usually the difference between
monthly milk check and monthly
grocery bill. &
| Asparagus is subject to the attacks
of number of fungi. the most wide
spread and destructive being the rust.
fungus long known in Europe, but
observed here within recent years.
| Good ventilation and good drainage
are absolutely necessary in keeping
calves, or indeed any other animal,
healthy, but more particularly young
stock.
Asters suffer from root lice, which
| invariably kill them In short time.
| If undisturbed. These lice also at
tack chrysanthemums, clematis, and
like plants. Where those pests are at
work, there Will be ants also.
Young animals make much moro
rapid growth in proportion to size
than older ones, and the ratio is de-
creased as they approach maturity
but they eat much more in proportion
| to live weight and the flesh contains r
much more water.
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It Is a law OF nature that all planysr.
must have a season of rest from &C
tive growth In the tropics this is
done in the dry season. No plant
can be forced into continual growth
without weakening it and finally kill
ing 1t.
A good many farmers who have
COWS are now aware Of what splen-
did investment of time and money 1t
would have been had they sown plot
of ground to peas and oats last spring
to supplement the pasture that Is now
getting parched by the extended
drought.
A few one-year-old hens and
flock of young early Matched pullets
we'll cared for and carefully culled
will yield more winter eggs than
flock twice the size consisting of
mixture of old and young hens. late
and early Matched pullets, some half
moulted, etc.
AS the sire is half the flock In the
sense of his influence upon the lamb
crop the few extra dollars required to