The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-01
Do not crowd poultry.

Spraying materials are cheaper
than In 1909.
Germany pays comparatively little
attention to poultry raising.
Prune raspberries, cutting uprights
three feet and laterals one foot
All kinds of hardy ANIMALS should
be started under cover for earliest
flower
Horseradish roots should be planted
every spring, as a better quality Of
root may be had.
There are few vices to which fowls
are addicted more disgusting or more
annoying than feather eating.
The species of alfalfa ordinarily
grown bears violet colored flowers and
its seed pods are coiIed into close
spirals.
You cannot make silk purse out OF
sow's ear; neither can you make a
fine bird out of scrub; the breeding
must be there.
The larVa of the May beetle, the
common white grub. is the worst in.
sect enemy of the strawberry, and
| breeds largely in the grass land.
The hay usually given to horses t.
supplement the pasture is OF very
poor quality, either woody or moldy,
and this results in considerable loss.
II onions are wanted from seed, buy
northern-grown seed. Sow about
three to five seeds to the inch, cover
about one-quarter of an inch deep with
| fine soil
AS soon as the ground can be
worked, plant out hardy lilies, peonies,
and hardy perennials of all kinds that
were not able to get into the ground
last fall.
If possible, give fowls plenty of
range When they are confined their
natural rations should be supplied
them in the form of chopped meats
and bone meal.
Where phosphate fertilizers are to
be applied to the soil they can be
mixed with manure at the rate of one
pound of rock phosphate or floats per
| day for each animal
Nothing will make a soil more re-
tentive Of moisture in a form avail
able for plant growth than plenty of
decaying organic matter and this is
absolutely essential with the straw
berry.
1t is not wise to allow laying hens
to get out in the snow. though it pays
to shovel away the snow from in
front of the poultry house, so that
they can get out and exercise in the
sun and air.
In some cases the pea vines are
hauled away from the factory by the
farmers who supply the peas; in
other cases they are sold in fresh
state, and in still other cases the fac
tories either silo the vines or cure
them for hay.
| Trap nests are the only means of
knowing whether hens are earning
their keep or not. Trap nests are
easily made, but they require atten.
ton two or three times during the
day. You don't want to imprison a
hen longer than necessary.
One reason why potatoes have de-
generated in the past is that the DO.
tato growers of the United States
have planted their culls and screen
ings under the erroneous impression
that such methods in seed selection
would produce as good results as any
other.
Chickens are even more hoggish
than hogs in feeding, and the individ.
ual of undersize stands little chance.
AS it gets less food. it is every time
losing instead of gaining ground over
its rivals, and shortly falls a prey 10
seeming disease when it is simply
crowded out
There have been innumerable egg
laying contests held throughout the
United States, and in every contest
and in every experiment public O,
private, it has been pure bred hens
that have excelled as layers. An In.
, crease in egg production is always the
+ result of breeding for eggs
( Since most of our cultivated crops
make their chief growth in from 50
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