The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-03-27
How to Make a Good Farmer.
From the Columbia Heraid.l

.as NEAR MEMPHIs, Feb. 25, 1868.
Mr. DEAR GENIE Your agreeable
note Of yesterday's date is at hand, and I
hasten to reply. am gratifed that you
are going to turn Jour attention seriously
to the great business Of fAgriculture. which
by the way you viii End a great and noble
professiOn-infnitely superior to that OF
the quibbling lawyer or the poisoning doc
tor. Take the American Farmer, BaIti-
more. Nd, and the Southern Cultiyator.
Athens, Ga. Send two dollars to each.
and get them for year. Address them
as | have written above. You will not re-
gret it, assure you and my cousin Nan
ME will not regret it for she will find many
excellent housekeeper's hints in the Guilt
vator especially. Let me recommend sew
eral books also. Get "Barry's Fruit GAR
den,'' 81 10; "Copeland's Country Life
IS; agricultural Annual for '67. .68."
s Horticultural Annual for $780,"
81; Gardening for Profit" 81 IS ;"Ten
Acres Enough - 81 rs. Total. SI2 25.
Send to Orange Judd d Co, al Park Row,
N. Y, and the books will be sent by mail.
The first thing to do before starting
stock farm is to have the wherewithal TO
feed your stock, and first class comfortabIs
barn in which to shelter, with proper boil.
er very efficient one car be gotten up
for $50. to cook all your feed. Nineteen
pounds Of cooked meal is equal to ffty
pounds of raw corn. A we'll sheltered and
properly bedded animal eats more than half
as much as one standing freezing under a
fence. Stock raising is not only profitable
"a business Of selling fine animals, but il
gives the proprietor the opportunity all
others of enriehIng his lands. But I'll not
discuss that at present. Wen see how
you are to provide food In advance. Your
! land, | have heard, is rich, Letit be your
constant study 10 make it richer. IF you
make Fifty bushels of corn this year, strive
70 make 60 next year, and so on. This is
farming with the lights Of science IN view.
Making go bushels this year and 40 the
next and so on to starvation, is simple bull
headed ignorance worthy to be pFaciieed
only by negroes, not enlightened whites
But 1 must cease FbilOsopbiEing.- A car
peuter or blacksmith, engineer or surgeon,
to do good job, must have good tools
the same with the farmer. For every g
acres of corn you mean to cultivate provide
yourself with & No. 3 Brinly steel piowr
| (get it from OrgiT. Bros. q Co.. one two
horse harrow, will answer for your place
For every twenty-five acres Of corn get 8
horse hoe. (R. G. Craig & CO.'s) You
must have a strong we'll fed team. The
preparation Of the land for corn is tie mair
part Of its culture. If the ground i scugt
and does not brssk well, which viii b
very likely the case, put three mules to you
pIow, haruessed abreast, two walking OF
the '.land'' one in the furFOw, aud go dOwr
not less than twelve inches deep. Breal
ten acres and then plant Harrow the sur
face smooth, aud then with a heavy chair
to make a mark, (uo more lay of yOul
rows four feet apart. and cover with hoe
This is hard aud tedious work, but when
/ tell you that your work with the plow il
Dow. over with that crop. you viii see tba
you have gained. AS soon a. the corn i
we'll up, start your horse-hoes, and run tn
bars pretty closely. In > week or ten day
20 tbs other way. aud with hand no,
eIsag the hills Aad thin 10 3 stand. Th