Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-07-21
Alfalfa roots are fine and tender.


Beef. meal and meat scrap are fed
by many poultrymen with excellent
results.
Club root Of cabbage is one Of the
most annoying yet easily controlled
Of diseases.
The matter Of growing the corn and
filing the silo is Of great and growing
Importance.
Cattle on pasture can be fed grain
and made ready for market early in
the summer.
Wheat and oats In equal parts
ground together are excellent for
chicks of any age.
As soon as the corn is up. or even
before, go over the field with weed
er or smoothing harrow.
Flaxseed may be broadcasted. but
is generally drilled at the rate of from
two to three pecks to the acre.
A small amount OF animal food Is
required by all poultry. especially dur
ing the time Of egg production
Try to see that the chicks are not
fed until at least 4S hours old; then
give water first, feed afterwards.
Failures in the sheep business, In
nine cases out Of ten, may be traced
to overconfidence and ''plunging."
The farmer who makes milk pro-
duction his business is a dairyman.
and he needs the best Of dairy COWS.
II one has pigs that have to be kept
In a yard all summer. sweet corn is
the best green feed he can grow for
them.
Barley and kafir corn are both good
poultry feed, but not essential when
one has plenty of the above mentioned
grains.
Dairymen doing a small business
connected with farming cannot live up
to the standard without increasing the
cost of milk.
The temperature in q brooder the
first week should be 95 degrees. sec
ond week 80 degrees and the third
week IS degrees IL enough
Corn silage and alfalfa make an ex-
ceilent ration for dairy cows and good
yields of milk have been reported
where nothing else was fed.
Go over the young apple trees and
cut on every water sprout with sharp
knife close to the trunk. Do it early
and they win heal this season
It is the early vegetable that brings
the big price and the man who sticks
to his hot bed and makes good use
OF 1t always gets to market first
There are several crops which may
be planted for late summer pasture
which will furnish fresh. succulent
green feed for all seasons of the year.
Two or three days after potatoes
are planted go over the field with a
barrow, and continue this until the
plants are several inches above the
ground.
AS soon as the potatoes are planted
and up sufficiently to cultivate. 1t Is
becoming customary, and necessary.
to spray with some poison solution to
kin the bugs.
The fruiting strawberries should
have all weeds and grass cut out be-
tween plants; take sharp, narrow
bladed hoe and cut the soil fine with
out disturbing the roots.
The poultry yard should be all
cleared away and tidied up In June.
and all coops and racks no longer in
use securely stored away in some shed
where they will be kept dry until next
season.
One can spread ashes. lime, land
plaster. pulverized lime rock. etc..
etc with the manure spreader by
first putting q layer Of litter in the
bottom of the spreader and the hne
material on top
A remarkable thing about alfalfa
is it's perennial youth. When one
growth is removed another one comes
on Immediately to take it's place. and
SO continually as long as moisture
and temperature conditions are IA
vorable
With the scrub hog 1t is ''root. hog,
or die" hence the long snout His mar.
row body aids him in getting through
small fence-cracks and II he fails to
find a place large enough to 60
through the fence, he can soon dig un.
der with his long snout.
1t is a good plan to keep outdoor
breeders in a house or inciosure OF
some kind If II is nothing more than
a muslin walled shed to protect the
Youngsters against the chill winds