Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-06-16
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Phosphorus is an element that is
essential to plant life.
How are the farm implements? Any
of them need repairs?
Look suspiciously at eggs that have
been laid in stolen nest.
The Gamma, like corn needs moisture
and heat to develop properly.
Don't let the weeds get start
kill 'em while they are a-borning.
The horse is known by its years.
but the mule is better known by Its
ears.
Breed the kind of animals the
market demands-not what you Ike
best.
When you hoe corn. thin it out TO
not more than three good stalks to
the hill.
The ewes must have plenty Of PAL
atable food both before and after the
lambs come.
A flock of so hens, or not more than
100, properly fed and cared for will
pay handsomely.
| III the butter is packed in Jars or 9TH
er receptacles. they. too. must be ster-
ilized as above stated
The ashes Of the elm, oak and beach
are the most valuable for applying to
farm and garden crops.
Cattle should not be pastured in
the orchard, a sthey pack the ground
hard and bruise the young wood.
After trees are planted. mulch with
one foot of leaves or rotted straw;
water if season should be hot and
dry.
| The calf should be kept in the pen
and not tied out on grass until the
weather is warm and the ground is
dry.
Enormous yields of potatoes can be
secured under irrigation, provided the
moisture in the soil is uniform and
continuous.
Tobacco stems eoncain large guam
titles of potash and are worth eight to
ten dollars per ton for topdressing
grass and grain
You will get more fruit by spraying
thoroughly and the quality viii be
such that you can sell more Of it as
first-class fruit.
Good orchardists say that an or
chard neglected for one year without
spraying or pruning and cultivation
puts it back fully three years.
Five dollars invested in package
material will pay many times the in.
vestment in the better prices the
fruit win bring when properly packed
Plan to raise a fine flock Of general
purpose standardized birds this sea
son. They will yield much more sat
isfaction and profit than mixed
: flock.
Western alfalfa is ground into verJ
fine meal form and after being mixed
with molasses is sold to western dairy
, men and poultry raisers for from $50
, a ton up.
I II there is no other chance to ge
sunlight into the COW barn 1t nigh
not be much of chore to cut few
: openings in the south OF west side an,
t put in some windows.
; To feed 80 laying hens one month
will require zoo pounds of oats ant
cracked corn or 800 pounds of whea
1 screenings, in addition to the rye ant
8 grass pasture and ground meat ant
i bone.
|. Two perennials which are compars
lively new and most beautiful an
t satisfactory are the Burbank dais
, and the lovely cherry-red, hardy cal
r nation pink. You make no mistake Il
II ordering them.
The leguminous crops grown on tn
farm are the clovers-red. mammoth
a white and alsike-alfalfa. peas, bean
: and vetches. Much Of the farmer
: prosperity depends on the use b
\ makes of these plants.
Ten million dollars Is a neat sur
to pay each year for the ravages Q
: one animal. yet this Is the figur
: given by the United States Depar
ment Of Agriculture as the damag
q done by the pocket gophers.
A practical method Of keeping an
mails. as dogs. pigs, chickens, an
q cats, from injuring the hotbed an
Q its contents. is section Of wire fenc
8 cut to the size of the bed. with a d
q tachabie clasp on the four sides.