Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-11-10
Look out for roup.
Give the cows salt.
Mules ara easily raised

Take care OF your surplus garden
crops.
A small fat sheep win pay better
than a large poor one.
pound hay and one pound grain per
day per hundred weight
Legumes should be included In
every well planned rotation.
Sometimes the best live stock In
the bunch are none too good
When two years old the mule
should be used at light work
Remember that blow in the eye
is very liable to blind the horse
Corn fodder, either shredded or
whole. is splendid feed for horses.
The corn shredder is quite as valu-
able as the corn binder for the stock
men.
Storing caulifiowers is rot feasible.
for growers at least except in cold
weather.
Second-crop alfalfa is fine for the
| nice h,.4 20 x,oa4urad 4no cloaalv IN will
soon run out
The time Of watering celery, with
any kind of a sprinkling device. is an
important matter.
New corn should be fed carefully,
as fed in large quantities, 1t is apt
to scour the birds.
Government whitewash viii pre-
serve the wood of old buildings more
cheaply than paint
According to conservative reports
the Onion Set crop is much shorter
this year than last year.
The foal win soon learn to drini
from a pail. If allowed to suck the at
tendant's fingers at first.
II farm manure is used judiciousiy
1t will effect a permanent improve
ment in the yield OF wheat
4
Onions should be stored In q dry
cool, building where the air win cir
culate freely amongst them
II the foreign demand is as grea
this year for apples as last the bet
ter grades will bring as much
Cutting corn at so much per shocl
is nearly a thing of the past. sine
the advent of the corn binder.
II a horse has been accustomed I
drinking before eating. then it is we
to let the custom be continued.
The cost of harvesting an acre O
J corn will vary with the locality an
. amount OF help that must be hired
1 The farmer who SO manages tina
he has something to sell the yea
! around is never complaining farmer
Watch the hired man a bit and sc
| that he is not continually jerking tn
, horses and making their mouths sor'
For making plum puddings. due
, eggs are more economical than thos
{ of other fowls. being both larger an
. richer.
Cleanliness should be the motto I
z every feeder. Sheep. above all oths
s animals. detest filth and unsanitar
r yards.
II there isn't a good bull in yor
|. neignborhood, why not unite with
I few good neighbors for the purchas
o Of one7
Sheep quarters should be dry, cleo
o and well kept Also supplied wit
Z straw and litter and changed fr
+ quently.
Do you know of anything on Il
Is farm that will run into money fast
n than hogs when around or 2 cen
y per pound?
Save the timothy fields for SCI
n crop next year and increase them
d size and number while present pric
II are maintained.
II your eve aborts. take her
v once from the lambing shed. burn
m ter, bedding. ETC., and thoroughly d
D. infect the premises.
It is important that the ewes
Is got in good thrifty condition befo
p breeding time. for on this cpnditi'
s. LARGELY depends the successful prodr
. ton of the coming crop Of lambs.
rs In order to Judge whether an a
n NAL is profitable or not. 1t lie nec'
,e sary to know the amoant of milk s
Of gives and the percentage Of fat
contains.
o The best stock is the stock that
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