St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-05-28
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Plant the garden when the cherry
blooms.
Weeds gre not necessity, but
costly luxury.
Make good seed bed before plant
Ing corn. potatoes and garden.
If you doubt whether pig enjoys
grass give him a chance to show you
The time is fast approaching when
the dairymAn will find he can't afford
pasture.
The brOots SOW needs a mixed diet
in which scere is plenty of food rich
in protein.
Feeding COW milk to young lambs is
a very dangerous practice, and is very
apt to kill item.
Bad weed seeds in screenings OF
otherwise fed to sheep or poultry are
generally G3ne for.
Glover ss1wn without a nurse crop
should be sown very early in the
spring in mellow seed bed.
You ca1t tougher a horse to the
spring wosE in day. Start in easy.
Think how 1t is with your own shout
ders.
shearin= sheep too closely, even
when the weather is warm, is bad
practise, as either a chill or a sun.
scald is liable to result.
A mixture of little salt, charcoal,
ashes and air-slacked lime has good
effect upon parasites of the digestive
system of either young or old pigs.
Enough extra time is wasted every
year with matted and sodded over
weeds to keep our fields clean several
years if the work had been done in
time
Onions are one of the crops that
need regular and heavy fertilization
of the whole ground. and one cannot
make mCzey with onions If planted
wide enough for horse cultivation.
Keep e full record of your farm
opera tions this year.. Unless you do
this you Will profit little in experience.
If you keep a correct record, you may
profit in both experience and finance.
Weeds will always be in the land
to a certain extent unless every farm.
er will clean his grain and work to
destroy them in place of sowing the
seed and trying to cultivate the weeds
out.
Teach your boy how to shoe horses,
sharpen piows and use tools intelli-
gently. He will take pride in making
the needed repairs around the home
If allowed the use of sharp tools and
encouraged to make the home at.
tractive.
A practice that Is in high favor
among prominent asparagus growers
Is to cut down all plants, including
volunteer growth, in early spring, to
force the beetles to deposit their eggs
upon new shoots, which are then cut
every few days before the eggs have
time to hatch.
Standing in the barn will spoil a
horse sooner than good steady work.
When you see his legs begin to stock
up, hurry and get him to work at
something, If it is nothing more than
exercising in the yard every day.
Keep, that up till you have some real
business to do.
To make hogs OF 225 pounds at
seven months or $50 pounds at eight
from early March farrows is more
profitable than to have pigs come in
April or May or later, since the early
pigs are ready to make use Of the
pasture while 1t is at It's best and es.
cape stormy cold weather before fin.
ished.
AS a ruie 1t Is not a good practice
to plant potatoes after potatoes on the
same land The crop is more likely
to be diseased, and the yield not as
good as If planted on one or two
year clover sod, or after corn. The
spores (or seeds) of fungus diseases,
such as blight, scab, ETC., will remain
In the soil for year, at least, after
the potatoes are harvested.
There is no other food stuff to be
found more constantly upon our
tables than dairy products, and none
that are more worthy to be there;
and it only rests with those who
have the handling of such products
under their direction to realize and
keep in Elind the fact that these prod
ucts are to be used for food and that
they must use good judgment and
proper care in handling them or the
value Of having a sanitary dairy barn
will be lost.
1t often happens when lambs are
born in cold weather, especially twins,
that they are too weak to nurse, and
it is not always an easy matter to
suckle them on their mother, but they
can be given cows milk from a bottle
with nipple attached very easily. 1t
is very essential that the newborn
lamb should have nourishmen> as
soon as possible, to give it strength.
A little cows milk given 1t at such