Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-05-24

DC CAREFUL viii CucnACoi ACA eAANSAS'
Spare some of the skim milk for the
hens.
Market your grain and forage prod
ucts on the hoof.
Get a nose ring for the young bull
while you think Of 1t.
First class eggs should weigh about
IL pounds to the dozen.
Straw is much too valuable to be
allowed to rot in the stack.
An occasional feed Of oats will be
valuable for the brood SOW.
The ewes that are sucking lambs
should be fed very literally.
In order to have good-sized sheep
grow them rapidly while young.
A variety in feeding is one way Of
keeping the flock in good condition.
Stinting in feeding is repaid by stint
Ing in milk flow and per cfpt OF fat.
Buying pure-bred stock BY mail is
coming to be more and MOI common.
You can get no more power from
your horse than you give him in his
food.
It should be remembered that a
horse can do more than his feet will
stand.
Your horse may intend to please
you but does not understand your
wishes.
Good feed will put life into horse
hundred times better than an s.
foot whip.
A runaway horse is only safe in the
stable with a good halter and the
stable door latched.
Growing pigs should not be crowded
into close. filthy quarters. exposed to
vermin and disease.
Many a man blames the Lord for
poor crop, which was really the result
of his own poor blowing.
Always water first, then a little
hay, and follow with grain; this gives
the animal chance to digest.
A good spray to disinfect coops and
brooders is a mixture of u pint car
bolic acid in gallons of water.
Lack Of moisture in the incubator is
one Of the common causes of chicks
failing to break out of the shell.
Don't be tempted to sell your best
birds unless you have some better
ones in view to take their places.
Nothing worse than damp brooder
floor to start chick ills. Cover them
with little dry earth or old carpet
Fresh poultry manure is said to
have about twice the fertilizing value
of cattle manure. pound for pound.
Another argument for the silo-it rs
a weed killer. No weed seed that
goes into silo ever comes out alive.
A yearling tree is preferred by
many to older trees. They are thought
to be safer to transplant than two-year
trees.
A cement feeding floor for the hogs
can be bulls for close around six cents
a square foot. 1t is worth the invest
ment
Screen alfalfa seed before sowing.
to separate the dodder and other weed
seeds. Dodder is the worst enemy OF
alfalfa.
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Horses are very fond of a variety.
and fussing always pays in the better
condition and greater usefulness OF
the horse.
| Recognition of the advantages OF
plenty Of horse power will increase
interest in and, extend the use OF the
farm tractor.
Unless one has the time and pa
thence to attend to the incubator prop
erly, he had better let the hen hatch
his chickens.
Cultivation Is a moisture conserva-
tor, but II the ground is dry don't run
the cultivator teeth deep; keep the
top soil stirred only.
Truck crops suffer least from fungi
in seasons that open with cool spring
and end with very hot summer, with
rainfall below the average.
Often the only difference between
gentle COW and kicker is that the
first had a little handling while a
heifer and the other didn't.
Sow a few radish seeds In the rows
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