Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-11-17

The sheep is more at home on the
open prairie than among the fences.
Remove the seeds from the pump
kins before feeding them to the cat
tie.
Where butter has not the natural
yellow color. it is well to use colorine
matter.
The best time to cut the tails as
well as castrate is when the lamb Is
a week old
Gull out the hens carefully. and do
not keep more than you have room
and feed for.
Sheep return to the soil 80 per cent
of fertility OF food eaten Sheep ma
nure Is valuable.
A great deal more money is usually
spent in wintering farm work horses
than is necessary.
Should maggots get in the animals
wounds, kill them by light applica-
ton of chloroform.
Whole grain makes best feed for
sheep. Cleanliness. pure water and
salt are a necessity.
Provide the hogs wallow. Nothing
serves this purpose better than a
stream of running water.
II the pig is stinted in its food at
any stage OF its life. it can never be-
come a perfect pork-producer.
As new oats come In. give the cows
some of them each morning and even
ing cut green as a soiling crop.
II pays to maintain heavy dow of
milk. even II expensive feeds must be
given the cows at certain seasons.
Stock beets planted on rich soil In
drills and well cultivated often yield
from twenty to forty tons per acre.
Use clover and. alfalfa hay, supple
mented with roots OF ensilage for
succulence. II you want an excellent
ration.
Corn that yields well in one locality
will often make an entire failure In
another locality where conditions are
different
Probably the poultry plant on the
average farm is usually the poorest
equipped and poorest planned depart
ment on It
Remember when you pillow in the
orchard that the roots are very neal
the surface Three inches is plent,
deep enough
Many an animal sold for high pric,
because Of its pedigree. should 60 Il
the butchers pen instead OF at tn,
head OF herd.
II ewes udder is hard or show ten
dency to gafget. use unsalted lard
give it vigorous rubbing and give AMI
NAL good dose of salts
The nature and conditions OF tn,
soil in which tomatoes are grown ha
much to do with the size OF the crol
and health Of the plants
Tankage. by-product OF tn
] slaughter houses, is q whoIesom,
feed for all kinds of live stock. bu
its greatest value is for hogs.
Patches OF roots should be annual,
grown for the winter food OF swine
II will prove a valuable aid In prc
ducing good. fat winter porkers.
AS a silo win last many years II 4
not wise To use material In buildin,
that will soon decay or is apt to war
or shrink. and thus throw the silo ou
of shape.
Young colts that are put ir the stal
and given all the hay they win ca
soon become pot-bellied. their hal
grows longer and harsher and som
Of { stands the wrong way.
Usually It Is not advisable to pa.
ture new seeding. but often weeds ca
be destroyed by giving sheep the ru
OF the fields for few days withou
material injury to the seeding
The turkey is a native OF Amer,c,
and, like the Indian and buffalo 4
their wild state. cannot stand ciyiliz,
| ton and In their domestic state wi
only thrive under certain conditions.
Where there IL an abundance q
good well-cured alfalfa hay. II Ia a
most impossible to select a concer
trate to go with It that would NO
make an acceptable ration to the COW
The fall. after all Of the garde
plants have been killed. Is the bes
time to clean up the trash In tn
garden and burn II to prevent insect
from spending the winter In II an
be ready to lay eggs next year.