Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-06-30

49, III
You want a quick fertilizer for po-
tatoes.
The apple tree borer is a trouble
some worm.
Get ready the lamb creep SO they
can get good start.
Wood charcoal should always be
kept in the hog pen
A small threshing outfit on the av-
erage farm win not pay.
Let the grass get good start be-
fore turning the stock on 1t.
The last Of May is plenty early
enough to turn the calf out on grass
Working out buttermilk and work
ing in salt is where the overwornns
is done.
The borer is the most common and
II is the most troublesome enemy OF
the peach.
It is a good plan to have the horses
and cows clean up their managers aft
er each feed.
Have grass paddock for the calves
so they can Craze at win and have the
exercise they need.
A farm raised COW is much superior
In most every respect to the one
bought at the cattle yards.
Don't forget the little ducks In case
of a shower, for II you do one win
be apt to have dead ducks
Belgian or yellow carrots are hardy,
make large root growth and are the
best roots for horses and colts
The most inhuman measures are
often employed for breaking up" hens
that nature prompts to set when their
owners don't want them to.
Grading Of cream is receiving more
attention by the dairy press and dairy
men than it possibly ever has in the
history of the dairy business.
1
In squads the flesh Is whitish. as
seen through the skin. but in year
old bird it takes on a light purple
shade and grows darker with age.
Trim the young tree in the orchard
right from the start Low-headed
trees are best: therefore, prune from
the top down and not from the bottom
up.
It has been shown repeatedly on
demonstration farms that disking be
fore blowing is one Of the most paying
operations in the preparation Of q
seed bed.
mix one teaspoonful of linseed meal
and one teaspoonful of flour mid
dlings. which should be thoroughly
scalded In each feed.
Seeds Of cauliflower. cabbage. let
tuce, celery and tomatoes. sown In the
cold frame about the middle of this
month viii furnish good. stocky plants
for the principal early summer crop.
Al The filters Of a gilt. which IL ths
. first litter Of SOW, are usually
, smaller and slower In growth thar
. when the dam is Of more mature age
hence much profit must not be Ell
|. pected-
; Cold frame plants are often bettel
! than plants raised In the hotbed. al
, they are stouter, thick stemmed an!
have more fine ibrous roots and arr
less liable to wilt when set out II
: the open ground.
Where prices are too low to fee,
young pigs for porkers. It is better Il
: sell them for sucking pigs, although
this plan is seldom resorted to owinl
! to the better prices which are obtain
! able for the former.
: August is none too early to decid
! which plants shall be taken into tn
window garden and their treatmen
from the time OF the decision shoull
\ be such as will ut them to make I'M
display during the winter. rather thai
get the finest present showing.
= Pigs like and need variety, espt
q cially of mineral feeds. During tn
summer on pasture they secure THU
2 but in the winter the mineral matte
Y must be supplied In the form 9
2 coal, charcoal, ashes and salt. Til
u young animals must have plenty Of e,
ercise in cold weather.
That one egg IL as good as anothe
is a mistaken idea, and II you do nc
u think so try for while the work q
. selling strictly choice eggs to q cut
o tomer-eggs from hens that hav
}, been well kept and eggs laid BY
d poorly fed or diseased hen and Sc
/ Il the customer does not complain