The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
FARM AND GARDEN.

dreds and thousands of farmers who
have natural taste for fruit-growing,
and to whom farming has become a
drudgery- especially that class who are
not strong, to whom a change is de-
sirable and necessary. To these we
would say, if you are living within
three or four miles of a good home
market, and cities not far away by rail
or steamboat, change to fruit growing
will be both profitable and pleasant.
The first thing to do is to rent out most
of your land or let it out on shares, re-
serving your home, and say ten to
twenty acres of land for your fruit
growing operations, and if you have a
love for the business, and go at it sys-
tematically and theoretically, you will
make more money from ten acres of
land than you have ever made from
your farm, and that, too, with less real
hard work.
Plant only leading, dwell tried sorts,
that are hardy and productive, give
them good cultivation and plenty of
mulch, and you will reap a larger re-
ward and. too, this kind of work
makes less hard work for the women
| folks, and, besides, supplies the table
with fruit daily throughout the year.
There are farmers who have no liking
| for growing fruit but, as a rule, these
| have sons or q son who have, and who
| do not like farming. These are very
anxious to keep their sons on a farm,
away from the city. To such we say
| let such a son have the use of a few
acres to grow small fruits and the
| longer he is engaged in it, the more he
viii like it, and consequently his at
| tachment for home strengthened, and,
too, by this the table is supplied with
luxuries you would not dispense with
after one seasons experience. There
are so many inland towns not supplied
with fruit and vegetables that we advise
the readers of this paper to take ad-
vantage of such openings. Fruit Re
| cOrder..
TREATMENT OF SICK ANrMAIs.-The
Live Stock Journal says: ''Nearly all
! sick animals become SO by improper
feeding in the first place. Nine cases
| out of ten the digestion Is wrong.
| Charcoal is the most effective and rapid
| corrective. It will cure in a majority
of cases, if properly administered. An
| example of its use: The hired man
| came in with the intelligence that one
of the finest COWS was very sick, and a
kind neighbor proposed the usual drugs
! AID poisOns. The owner being i'll, and
| unable to examine the COW, concluded
| that the trouble came from over-eating
! and ordered teacupfuI of pulverized
| charcoal given in water. It was mixed,
placed in junk bottle, the head held
| upward, and the water and charcoal
| poured downward. In five minutes i'm
| provement was visible, and in an hour
the animal was in the pasture quietly
| eating grass. Another instance of equal
| success occurred with a young heifer
which had become badly bloated by
| eating green apples after hard wind.
! The blOat was so severe that the sides
were almost as hard as barrel. The
| old remedy-saleratus- tried for
correcting the acidity, but the attempt
| to put it down always caused coughing,
and did little good. Half a teacupful
| OF fresh powdered charcoal was given
| In six hours all appearance of the bIoat
] had gone, and the heifer was we'll,
STARTING SWEET POTATOES. Sweet
| potatoes are started in a moderate hot
bed or forcing pit. When but small
number of plants are wanted, make a
| bed of fresh horse manure twelve inches
| thick and two feet wide, and longer
| than the frame to be used. Then cover
| with three inches of old rotten manure,
! put the frame IN its place. and spread
| in 1t two inches OF very light, sandy
soil; rake level, and place the tubers
! close together over the surface. Small
! tubers may be used whole; large ones
| should be cut once lengthwise, and the
| cut side laid down. Fine soil is then
| sprinkled over, and between the seed so
! that 1t is covered about one inch, Put
| the sashes on at once, and keep the bed
rather wet. There is little danger of
| keeping the bed too warm as long as
| sprouts have not started; after these
| appear above ground the bed has to be
| filed up again with two or three inches
of fine soil or mould. When the sprouts
| have pierced through this layer plenty
| of air has to be given during the warm
! days to make strong and thrifty plants.
| In about five or six weeks from starting
! the sprouts are large enough to be sepa-
rated from the tubers, and fit to be
! planted out. After this is done other
| sprouts will start which can be pulled
| IN a week or ten days. In this way
! three or four crops of slips are raised
| ftOm the same tubers. When sashes
are not at hand and the plants are not
wanted early, frames covered with mus
] lin may be used instead, and tie whole
| covered with boards in cold nights.
| The young plants are very sensitive to
cold, and should, therefore, not be
planted out before all danger from frost
| is over.
| PLANT A GRAPE VINE FIRST. Not one
farrer in twenty will buy grapes OF
other fruit, except apples for himself
| and family but grapes are SO easily
| and cheaply grown that no family with
a square rod of ground should be with
out few vines. Grapes can be got in
| bearing earlier than any other fruit,
| excepting strawberries; and with we'll
rooted layers 1 have had one bunch OF
! grapes the first year after setting. Yet
many a man spends $50 or 800 in set.
| ting an apple orchard, which will not
bear till SIX or eight years after. who
would begrudge s. for a dozen of vines
OF the choicest grapes, which he might
| eat within two years and have an abun-
| dance before five years had passed.
| do not object to extensive and early
| planting Of apple orchards " this ought
! ye to have done, and not have left the
| other undOHe." It seems to me that
| the first duty of settler on new land
is to plant Immediately half a dozen
| grape vines, and after that as many as
he can afford. Fresh fruit is a neces-
sity to the health of family, and moth.
ing Is more quickly, easily or cheaply
grown than grapes.
In breeding swine. many persons
make the mistake of thinking that
young pigs should be fed so as to be-
! come fat and stay fat. The result is
that the pigs are not fed food that is
muscle and bone forming, and being
carbonaceOus, destroys the strength of
the bones and weakens them, so that
the pigs are weak kneed, splay-footed
and g-iointed. Feed to keep in good
growing condition until the time when
it Is desired to fat them for market, and
then push them along vigorously.
HUMAN SACRIFICEs IN BABYLoN.-An
important communication to the English
Society of Biblical Archaeology, by Rev.
A. II. Sayce ''On Human Sacrifice
Among the Babylonians," shows by the
translation of two Accadian tablets that