The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-12-17

to the whole net profs--that is, yol
will get nothing for your labor.
ALLOW your corn fields 70 be FILED
with dense underground Of weeds
and your potatoes, tuFnips and on
ions with a dense Over-grovlh Of dit
to; it will not cost half SO much tc
harvest your crop, and money paid
out in the fall is an important item.
Don't be fooled with the cry oi
rotation" Dirt is dirt, isn't it?-
and if a feld~will grow potatoes. ol
course it will grow wheat. Keep
your corn in the sscora 3ot's all your
life. as your father and mine did; il
you we're to jump around from field
to field, as the book farmers advise,
your corn crop would very likely out
/ grow the granary, and then what a
tx you'd be inl
CoEoERNrNG STocK.-See how lit
tie food viii keep a COW alive. All
you save is clear gain, and it is as
tonishing bow this sort of economy
counts up
Feed as irregularly as possible
Waiting an hour or two for break
fast wills bel the cows appetites;
and it will save them anxiety if they
don know precisely when to expect
It, ] @ouldn't waste oats on hor-
sss; how do horses get along in those
countries where oats won't grow?-
BESIDES, oats make horses risky: get
them used to goi9g Without, andssbsv
will be sobereg 5and more manag -
BILE, and just as wei. satisfied to gDaw
the wood-pile or fence. 4 friend
ours, carpenter. VINO fed his horse
frugally. took it into his head that the
animal ats,the shavings wherewith he
was beddsG, which we're supposed to
serve as divisor and distender. So.
he saved all other food and taught the
sagaclOus creature to rely wholly on
pine shsvings. The horse lived some
weeks, and finally died, as the owner
believed, of fover-eating.
Never throw corn to pigs: men can
eat corn, and there has been enough
wasted on hog troughs to keep thou
sands of human beings from starva-
tiOn. Above all, never feed pigs un-
til they stop squealing. To squeal !
is bad manners, sod well-bred swine
ought to be broken of it.
Let neat cattle, so-called, lie in
their own droppings as mnch as pos
sible, for it will keep them warm
Never curry-it makes them tender.
Teach your cattle to jump; it will !
not cost you half SO much to feed |
them, and ifit costs your neighbors
more, that is their lookout. A care
ful observer says, "Cattle may be
taught to go over any fence by Cart-
full training as follows:-First, give |
them very little and very poor feed,
whicQ will make them light and en-
terpTising. As soon as they go over
the90west part of the fence after prov
ender, put on another rail and make
them jump back again, saying -
Plague take you, guess that'll keep
you outP Next day drive them out
again, repeating the objurgatiOD, and
adding another rail. In a short time
they can take care of themselves"
Cattle will live with very little care.
Stables and sheds are an expensive
and needless luxury. You will be
surprised to see how much exposure
TO snow storms cattle can stand when
they are once hardened. When win
ter sets in, turn all you stock to the
hay-ctacks. pull down the fences (un-
less you have disciplined them ac-
cOrding to the last paragraph), and
make them earn their own living. In
the spring you will have land-pike
pigs, humpedbacked COWS, and hor
ses of gothic architecture. with appe-
tites as sharp as their hips. Don't
fail to teach your stock self-reliance.
In This way the cattle will go further
before you kill them, and their meat
will go further after you kill them
pound for pound.
Have nothing to do with agrieul-
tural books or newspapers. Remem-
ber the honored adage, "the better
the scholar, the worse the farmer"
By a careful observance of the
above rules. you may dispense with
keeping an account of annual profits
and losses. Hearth and Home.
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