The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-29
FIELD GLEANINGS.

. I. -Pattlie horse upon the neck Tex
anime sthSR harness carefully. first en-
one side, then on tfle other, speakifBsEysl
encouragingly while doing so; then
jump into the wagon and give the, word
go ; generally he will obey It.
2. A teamster in Maine says he can
start the worst balky horse by taking
linn out of the shafts and making him
go around in a circle till he is giddy.
IF the first dance of this sort does not
cure him, a second viii. .,r
3. To cure a baIky horse, simply
place your hand over the horses's nose,
and shut.of his wind until he wants to
60. rrEs
4. The brain of q horse seems to en-
tertain but one idea a time /; therefore,
whipping only confirms his stubborn
resolve. IF you can, by any means
give him q new subject to think of Won
will generally have trouble in start
ing him. A simple remedy is to take q
couple of turns of stout tvine around
the fore leg. Just below the knee. tight
enough for the horse to feel, and tie in
a bow knot. At the first check he will
probably go dancing off. and after going
a short distance, yonPan ger down and
rennoTet hs=string ia prevent Injary To-
the sendshs ~ yoeE f1rther= drive. - -
A Corn CROP WITHOUT RAMA cor
respondent Of the Farmers Vindicator
says he last year raised eighty bushels
OF corn to the acre. with but one rain.
which fell on the 18th of June. He
tells how 1t was done as follows: I laid
my rows three and a half feet apart.
threw out with 3 turning plough, ran a
deepfuIrOw with d bull -tonoae in the
Egateryf are " -iefft-sixty bushels of cot
ton seed IN the bull tongue fTrsUws.
threw four burrows with the turn
RlG1ghf5EeveFsiBg= theafgsd ,=spIaiTteeI nav
Germ very shallow on the top b Ehe
EageFaad cul3vRsed shallow win short
cotton shovel, the first two plouehings.
Laid by with turning plough, running
shallow nearest the corn, deeper in the
middle Of the rows. then took long
bull-tongue and subsoiled by running
two burrows IN the middle of the rows,
leaving a small loose bed eight or ten
inches deep. I tried subsoiIing on diff
ferent pieces of land, both in corn and
cotton, and 1 found in gathering the
crop a difference of four hundred ponnds
OF cotton per scEeA in favor of the acre
.sQbsoiAed.
A BIG Corn FARM IN ILLNo1s.-Tbe
Nashville Union and lAnericaII quotes
the Western Rural to the effect that Mr..
Nj. L. Sullivant, a farmer in central
ulItlIlno!s, vas AZ the time of writing,
lEpFepariDg EGGPLANT his corn. His men
were ploughing five hundred acres a
day, using two hundred and fftv teams
/ and he had then ready about twelve
| thousand acres. DR.. Lee adds: Mr..
| SulliHant Is one of the largest and most
| systematic farmers in the United States.
who made a present to a railway com
| pany of S28, 900 to construct an iron
+road=to aaa-acress his plantation of
seras forty .thOusspd acres. He emf
I grated nom the ScfotO bottoms, near
/ Columbus, where, like MANY Ohio
farners,i he learnt the art of -raisipo
FcOrn alta small lcose lto the produc!s5rs''
At the time of the organization of the
United States agricultural society he
was distinguished Ohio farmer. vet
/ not unwilling to sell a large estate at
( one hundred dollars per acre to Law the
/ foundation of a much broader one on
the rich prairies of central Illinois. at
! the the government price for land.
: FoRE4GN BRDsFoR AMERICA. very
! deserving Institution has recently been
established in Cincinnati, under the
title of Cincinnati Naturalization So
clety, IT'S object being TO effect the intro
| ductIOn of such foreign birds as are
] worthy of note for their song or their
services to the farmer and horticulturist-
| The Manufacturer and Builder saws
The society announces that last spring
! IL expended five Thousand Z dollars
introducing fifteen additional species of
/ biEdssand that itzhas already success
'ftttty accomplished the acclimatization
OF the European sky lark, which is
! stated to be now a prominent feature OF
the sunamer landscape M the vicinity oi
I Cincinnati. Among the species which
/ It IS proposed to- introduce is the -Eu.
/ ropean tltnouse, considered abroad as
one OF the most suocessful foes of insects
| injurious to vegetation.
| $ A HOPEFUL Vnzw or zT3AuGRAFToN. =
| Col. Daniel Dennet, In an article on
I Immigration, IN Our Home Journal, has
the following hopeful views In spite
of the predictions OF politicians. ba6
= stat q EOTernm salfs, high Faxess negro
Gul9 fkIi- klqxP and ssAanditts g the m
aHai Vfa84ts==sre@ Preparing to enter tht
Eseuth. The seven hundred
thousand square miles of southern ter
ritory yet uncuitivated will be. in ,
great measure, settled mp by industri
Gus farmers from other =Iandsz--Th'
vast mlneraI-EFsotTr of The 5soutf
-HlIll= he turned to-vsfuatle account. On
beautiful south is not doomed to b,
ffetsher AftieaniE6d, oI>utter4y DESTROYED
by demaSogues, or allowed to 90 bacI
lntoea val derness ktatAs Its futures,9iiI
be more glorious than its past. It vii
yet De the garden spot, the EIory anC
Z pFieie Of this eontineffA, ii awffffsI1e nros
I Pereus and rich in due time. or tn,
sErirer does HotIs trI1Iy5 Understand tb,
''signs of the times. "
| TOBACCO IN FLoRDA.-AccOrdino I,
the monthly report of the Tepartmen
agriculture SGadsden county. Florida
has produced for ferty years a variety
grown from seed obtained in Cubf,
having small, narrow leaf, and pos
sessing to a remarkable degree the De
4 cullar aroma and delicate fragrance S,
4 highly priced in the HaRRnazoi gar. Th,
1 report adds Since the advent Of Ger
4 man buyers, an article was introduced
which produces the 'F'torida wrapper.
and IS now the main growth. It's leaves
are sometimes three feet IN length anf
twenty inches IN breadth, of a fine silk
texture, admirably adapted to use AZ
wrappers the cOarser leaves being usef
very acceptably as filters. Another
variety, medium in size, introduced
| since the war, highly aromatic, ever
s9mewhat Paugent makes a stronger
! cigar.
& aooLoR EosTRkr IN JERSEY CATTLE
A correspondent of the English Agri
cultural Gazette, protests against max
ing color a,test In Judging Jersey COWS.
COX Warning, 5n the American Asricui
turist does shhs5sanle tIn6g. The Eng
writersays: have owned hun
dreds of Jersey stock, and have never
as a rule, found the whole eolered such
large producers as many parti- colore6
ones in fact, by far the most butter
4 FHDSfHpiHs ebwT have ever possessed
WIS not only partf- ooIofed, but the mosi
/ 'ugIy and nngain1y beast of the lot. vet
her stock have never failed to show
their large, butter making qualities.
The true type of a Jersey COW is IN fact
an animal that will not make meat.
L Darn OF SodL AND DROUGHT. lit is
one of David Dicksonssss maxin1s that
power IN crops TO resist drought is II
prOpOrtionst 30 the depth of the soil. He
says A cotton plant to stand two
weeks drought, must have four inches