Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-06-16

Mulch the trees
Rhuharb is a very healthy fruit.
Horseradish is mostly grown for the
packers.
Too much care cannot be given the
dairy utensils.
The calf should be trained to lead
and be halter-broke.
Don't have lot of manure lying in
the yards all summer.
Obtaining the seed is the important
thing in growing potatoes.
Parsley seed should be sown In e
protected spot. or in the cold frame
A very desirable and useful tool
which is not found ON alb farms is a
level
Sweet potatoes require a warm
sandy soil well filed with rich rotted
manure.
Turkey eggs set this month viii give
good salable carcasses for Christ
mas feasts.
Two sprinklings a week with ker-
osene oil should keep the house free
from insect pests.
New potatoes can be got earlier by
allowing the seed to sprout in strong
light before planting.
Practical farmers know the value of
blowing and narrowing land when in
the right order for working
Just one setting of thoroughbred
eggs may be the means Of working a
revolution in your poultry business
Don't keep little ducks and chickens
together If 1t can be avoided. : Keep
each separate. and they win both do
better.
The best marked heifer calves from
the largest and most persistent milk
ers should be raised and not sold to
the butcher for a few dollars.
When geese become quite old-say,
five or six years-they acquire an
abdominal pouch of large size. and
this is an unfailing sign of old age.
To have large juicy stalks OF rhu-
barb and long. straight roots Of horse
radish the ground must be fully II
to is inches in depth and finely pull
verified.
Give the setting hen a thorough
busting with insect powder two or
three times during the incubation.
This may save your little chicks from
lice and mites.
Farmers now having a silo can very
well afford to grow what roots they
need to give at least one peck Of
sliced roots daily to each head OF
stock wintered.
Sore necks in horses are due usu
ally to one of two causes, a short
collar or too great weight coupled with
the side motion as noted In a two
wheeled vehicle.
Don't be afraid to work for the eood
OF the ducks. Take a spade and dis
up angle worms in spare moments ant
see the little ducks carry OFT thu
big fat worms. 1t will do them good
! Divide the dahlia roots and star
some, but not all of them. The early
planted-out dahlias come into fiowe
during the hot weather, and they will
not give so large flowers as later-plant
ed roots.
Plow your ground deep and prepar.
the soil as carefully as you would 70,
the corn field. Nature often perform,
wonders with trees, but as genera
rule she ought to have a little inteIli
gent halp.
II you are quite sure that alfalf,
win not grow on your land try Esse,
rape. 1t makes fine hog pasture
some farmers even going so far as I,
say that 1t beats clover, which O
course It does not.
A few years ago when concentrates
were cheap, sheep and wool were ais,
cheap. Now wool is worth twice a
much as 1t was ten years ago and III,
sheep must have some rich food /,
order to grow rich fleece.
A good cutler is always a man of o,
perience. The inexperienced breede
often does not know the difference be
tween good and poor bird. He ca
easily learn by studying the standard
and IL he is not willing to do this b
should retire from the business.
It may be diarrhoea, or. what
more common, constipation. tina
makes the chickens droop. ForA d
arrhoea a little black pepper nike
in meal. scalded milk or a couple q
pepper pills will generally prove e
fectual. For constipation an abundauc
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