Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-08-18

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Named your farm yet?
Salt the steers in the pasture.
Cats are a source OF grave danger
to chicks.
Bookkeeping is profitable adjunct
to poultry raising.
Fight the weeds of all kinds and
keep bad ones from going TO seed
II you want to kill weeds. cultivate
or hoe them when the sun shines hot.
In producing milk you get no profits
until the cost OF the feed is covered.
The boar should always receive
some consideration as well as the
SOW.
An electric power is the most con-
venient power for operating a power
churn.
Demonstration plays very promi-
uent part upon the prolificacy Of
animals.
Have regular hours for doing the
milking and milk the cows in the
same order.
The market garden furnishes a
large amount of waste products which
may be utilized for poultry food
II you buy homer that has large
warts on its beak you may be sure
that it is more than two years old
More live stock is an economy in
the production OF the worlds food
supply rapidly being forced upon us.
Cream should be kept at a uniform
temperature and that should be as low
as possible as long as it stays on the
farm.
Any person who can secure seed Of
black or honey locust can readily
grow his own trees OF these two
species.
DO not let the little colt follow the
dam while she is at work. II the dam
becomes heated the milk is injurious
to the colt
Remember that rape may be sowr
any time In July. II grows very fast
II moisture is valuable and soor
makes feed
Much depends upon the selection OF
the dairy COW. Do not expecr the beel
type of animal to I'LL the requirement.
Of the dairy
During the warmer months horses
doing the ordinary farm work derive
much benefit and comfort. If given 9
pasture lot at night
The time is here when thought mus
be given to the comfort of the COW,
II their owners expect to sleep with ne
twinge Of conscience.
Do not change the work horse from
grain to grass too suddenly. In fact
horses on heavy work every da,
should have very little grass.
MIX with clean. dry hands. never al
lowing the hands to come in contac
with the milk. Do not allow dogs an,
cats to be around at milking time.
An authority says that potatoes
should not be planted In hills. II 4
much better to plant them in deel
burrows and keep the ground level
The eggs laid by the pullet in tn
first vigor Of her life and the egg
laid after rest OF the hen are tn
eggs that produce the strongest chicl
ems.
Keep the turkey hens with thei
broods away from the old turkeys Q
the flock as the latter are sometime
spiteful to the young and may injur
them.
From early spring until Angus
SOW a few rows of summer lettuc
every two weeks or so. and thus tr
to provide continuous supply of goo
heads.
The cost OF a concrete floor ca
often be saved in the amount OF Re,
tilizer that is kept from going I
waste. 1t also makes more san
tary stable.
Steers fed on clover hay win nc
only consume more roughage. but ais
more grain than those fed on timoth
hay II grain and roughage are fed a.
cording to appetite.
There should be placed in every of
yard and pasture a box with sal
charcoal. air-slaked lime, bone mes
and hardwood ashes, so the pigs ca
help themselves at win.
II has ben found that the seeds 9
many weeds win retain their yitalit
for fifteen to twenty-five years. moss