The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-11-07
FARM HINTS.

items from the last number of the
american AWicudmi isl;
YoUNG PIGS, like all young, growing
animals, should have abundance Of
food, and the best of care and treat
mcnt.
SHEEP KILLING DOGS + apt to be
around Mt this season. Put bells on
two or three sheep in each flock.
Keep II gun loaded ready for the
dogs.
Manure in tho nursery and orch
ard is needed, in order to secure the
best results, and the foil is IL good
time to haul and spread it upon the
land.
SPRING PIGS, if not in unusually
good condition, can probably be win
tered over with profit. Pork can
hardly fail to be much higher next
year Than now.
FArTENING PICS should be pushed
forward as rapidly MS possible this
month. 1t is IL great mistake TO de-
Inv snutting them up to fatten until
cold weather sets in.
SwtEE.-Do not fall into II com
mon mistake of ~neglecting these
useful animals because pork is very
low. A reaction is sure to come,
and good pigs will be profitable
stock.
Potato Tops arc well worth draw
ing to the yard to absorb the liquid
manure. Allowing them to remain
scattered over the field until spring
is u very slovenly practice,
STEERS intended for winter feeding
should now bo allowed II little grain,
say two quarts per day. They should
be pushed forward now us rapidly
rs possible before cold weather
sets in.
WEEDS and rubbish are best got
rid Of by setting fire to them. They
burn better now than in the spring.
Be- careful that the fire does not
spread to fences or the woods or
mucky land.
PLANTING mny be done this month,
when the weather is mild. Rasp-
berries and blackberries do better
when plantei in the fall, rs the buds
start early, and when set in the
spring they are not apt to make us
gooi growth,
DTcHEs,-On low, moist land, the
full rs IL good time to cut bitches and
clean ont and deepen old ones. I'M
~dordraining on uplanda is usually
best done IN the spring, or late i'll
the fall or early winter, whom the
ground is saturated with water.
CLEAN up.-pieces of boards,
broken rails, barrel slaves, etc,
should be gathered up before they
become saturated with the fall rains.
A few hours labor III strengthening
up would add much to the appear
ancc Of many n farm. Nothing pays
better than neatness, system and
order.
Do not sell the best ewes or lambs.
Sheep are scarce, and butchers are
picking up all the good sheep and
lambs they can find. Never let u
butcher go into your flock until You
have selected out all that you intend
to keep.
RAsrDERRIEs and blacbberries when
planted should have the canes cut to
the ground, otherwise they are aptto
fruit the first year, and this often in.
lures the plants for future bearing.
Set rnSpberries four to six feet apart,
and blackberries six to eight feet.
MmcH COWS, if we'll fed, give very
rich milk Mt this season. AS the
pastures fail, the cows should have
plenty of food at night in the yard
or stables, Wuch us corr fodder, hay,
bran, soft corn or corn meal, beet
tops, cabbage leaves, pumpkins, etc.
LANES should be kept in a flock by
themselves, and have the best of care
and feed. If not already done, they
should be dipped in & solution OF
carboIic soap, to kill ticks. This is
especially necessary with the long
woolei sheep. In cold s'ormy
weather, put all, and especially
lambs, under cover.
SHEEP for fattcning in winter
should now he selected and pushed
forward rapidly. On good feed,
with II little hay and grain, they
will often gain more in The month OF
Octob T. than during the next Fix Oh
eight weeks. 1t rarely pays to try to
to fatten Merinos in winter, until
they are three years old.
SnEEr.--lf you intend to raise
early lambs tor the butcher, seltc ct
ont the largest and best common
Merno ewes from the flock. Give
them the best pasture and a little
grain, say It half II pound each per
day. This will cause them to take
the ram in q few days. Use the pure
bred ran.-eiLher Cotswold, Leices
ter or Southdown, Is may be pre-
ferred.
FAREowING sows should have Il
warm, dry pen, with a rail round the
INSIDE about twelve inches from the
ground and six inches from the sides.
For two or three days after farrow
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