St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-07-19
FARM, HOME and FlRE-SlDE
From the PROGRESSIVE FARMER

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The real reason is that it re-
quires more intelligent, direct
and personal attention. This IS
also the reason why good farm
ing will not be done so long as
the share-cropping system exists.
Still this system will continue
until the lands become so poor,
or conditions become such, that
the low yields produced will no
longer support the cropper and
the landowner.
HOW TO CURE PEA HAY.
Begin moving when the peas
turn yellow in the pods. Now in
the mornings till noon; if posi-
BILE, run a tedder right after the
mower to keep the hay tossed up
and hasten the whiting. Rake
into wlndrows that afternoon.
Next morning turn the windows
with the rake while the mowers
are running on other parts.
That afternoon put this hay in
to cocks as narrow and tall as
will stand well. Then, as soon
as you can take a handful of the
hay and can twist it and can
wiring no sap to the twist, haul
the hay to the barn and let it
settle with it's own weight with
out tramping, and then let it
alone and it will cure all right.
If it heats some, let it heat. II
you go to stirring it to cool it,
you will let in germs of mold
from the air and will have moldy
hay.
Now, | have cured it in this
way many years and never made
any moldy hay, but had it come
out with the leaves on and green
in color, and far better feed than
the usual assortment of sticks
that many make by letting the
hay lie in the sun to bleach and
the leaves to get dry and crisp.
In fact, I have found curing pea
vine hay as easy as any other
hay if you simply let it cure and
and do not monkey with all
sorts of scaffolds and contrivan-
ces that merely dry the hay and
lose the leaves, the best part of
the hay.
HOW TO GET RID OF THE
FLIES.
Try as you may, you can't get
all the flies. Even the most
careful and clearly householder
will have too many flies to risk
having no screens on his doors
and windows. AS for the large
majority of farmers, who are as
yet unwilling to take the pains
to remove the manure weekly
and trap or poison the remaining
flies, they will have pests liter
ally by the thousands.
Now, there may frequently be
some good excuse for not haul
ing out the manure, or not trap
ping or poisoning the flies, but
ignorance, Incidence and pow
erty combined are not enough to
excuse a man for not screening
his windows and doors. No, it
is not expensive to screen your
house. It will cost you from 10.
to 20 cents to tack mosquito net
ting over the outside of each
window frame. Is that expen-
sive? If you say it is, at what
do you value life and health?
Mosquito netting will last for a
year, and is really better than
wire screen, because the little
fbres %protruding from the
threads make the meshes fine
enough to keep out mosquitoes
as well as flies. Ordinary wire
screen has fourteen meshes to
the inch. 1t takes eighteen
mesh wire screen to keep out
the mosquitoes. So far as ex-
pense is concerned, when we
consider the fy-borne typhoid
fever, and the first and second
year babies that the doctors
have been polite enough to say
died of summer complaint, in
stead of fly complaint, we find
that we cannot afford not to
screen our doors and windows.