Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-06-23
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Consult with your help.
Nearly every one can grow phlox.
Good. clean runs are a delight to
the hens.
A good COW is seldom sold. except
at high price.
Are you troubled with crows about
your chicken yards?
Feed very little soft feed and you
will raise more chicks.
Clover can be grown more cheaply
than timothy or fodder corn.
Bran and meat meal help to supply
the young sows with muscle and bone
BY putting a little fine hay In the
calls mouth daily she win soon learn
to eat
Parsley IL next to lettuce in winter
marketing profltable--when well
grown.
One Of the most important problems
OF the farmer is to feed his animals
economically.
Borrowing tools. and sending them
home dull or rusty. doesn't make the
other fellow grin
Young as well as old orchards should
be plowed In the fall. and thoroughly
narrowed in the spring.
Celery seed should be sown in a
shallow drill and covered with just a
light sprinkling Of fine earth.
Don't cultivate the potatoes when
out in bloom, or coming out, unless
you want lot of stunted little tubers
II there are signs of worms in your
hogs, feed concentrated lye. one-hall
teaspoonfnl to each animal well mixed
In slop or soft feed
II sweet butter is to be made which
viii command the highest market
price, cleanliness must begin in the
stable where the milking is done.
Go yer the young apple trees and
cut on every water sprout with 9
sharp knife close to the trunk. Do
it early and they will heal this season
The proper time to set out fruit
and deciduous trees is the latter part
of October and the latter part Of
March or first part of April. in the
spring.
It is estimated that Colorado farm
ers last year received $7,500.000 FOL
their sugar beet crop. an increase o.
100000 over the product OF the
previous year.
In the opinion of many eastern
feeders, best development Of livestoci
cannot be had without the use q
roots or silage to supply succulenl
feed duriuR winter.
String q stout wire overhead In tn
COW barn and hang the lantern to thi
while milking and feeding. II can b
aid along from place to place and 4
safe handled this way.
In setting one fruit tree. or many
the ground should be deeply plowed
thoroughly narrowed and the row,
for the trees run out with the two
horse plow. Run the pillow twice Il
each row.
| A eve without milk makes q poo
mother. Feed II necessary to get III
milk Cow, and you'll and the inves
ment good one. Roots Of any kind
alfalfa hay. or a small grain feed VT
work wonders
A stout wire netting fence fastene
to stout posts set two and one-hal
feet deep in the ground and eight fee
apart makes the best hog fence: hav
board at bottom and one at top I
keep the wire tight.
Might as well give the trees plent
Of room at the start because II 20
don't they win have to be cut on
later. Thirty feet apart Is the rigf
distance for apple trees. although 4
feet would not do any harm
Every farmer knows that the graf
clover and grass. top-dressed with
thick coat Of hardwood ashes. wi
have stout straw. long heads OF plum
c'ear-skinned wheat, the clover will |
more luxuriant. and the corn stall
-touter and the ears larger, and Il
grain sound and ripe early.
When a gilt farrows in spring h
young should be pushed on. and 81
should visit the boar as quickly as pc
sible after her litter have been weane