The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-29
FARM AND GARDEN.
SHALL IT BE "AI1 ooTroN'' rms YEAR :


cotton planting would now come too
late, and it is useless to demonstrates at
any time. = Cotton on the brain S
not eurable disease. All that one can
do is TO wait till those who have con
traeted it shallg have died of, giving
place to more sensible men AID a more
rationsl agriculture. We presume as
much cotton viii be planted as the labor
and means at command viii permit.
Well, whatever you DO let It be well
done, so as TO secure, If possible, a per
feet stand without replanting. Mellow
beds and even rows are essential to good
cultivation. A fine toothed harrow is
an excellent thing to run over the tops
Of beds. 1t may have a cross, bar be-
hind the middle with triangular piees
OF wood attached, point down, to make
q clean, even trench for the seed. This
facilitates the first working very great
". Never tolerate zigzag rows in your
fields, whether of corn, cotton, Or pota-
toes.
ROOT PEUErya FoE CORN AND COTTON.
+ 1t seems to be the opinion of many
farmers that root pruning is good
thing for their annual crops. 1t is true
they do not put 1t in exactly this form,
but they plow deeply and closely, and
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their cetton and corn, especially the
latter, every time. When the soil is
moist, these roots are quickly repro
dUctd, butsthere must be IN the mean
time loss of vigor in the plant. In
dry weather the effect is often disas-
trous, the plants Immediately " firing"
and all hope of a good crop being cut
of. In the first working Of corn, how
ever, run close to the row, and if the
land requires it you may run deep, and
Il the corn be as young as it should Be,
there viii be no danger OF breaking the
roots. Ali after workings should be
shallow. In some cases, a eultivator
with the front tooth out, and the frame
so contracted as to bring the first two
side teeth close to the corn, may be
used with advantage for the first work.
ing, double team straddling the row,
and working both sides at once. r
SHALL WE BAR OFF OUR COTTON b?
When cotton is we'll up it must be
worked. We must run around" it. as
the term is. Some do this with turn
ing plough, running close to the cot
ton, while others use a scooter or sweep.
is the deep, close siding, as done by
the turning plough, necessary or desir-
able? This depends upon the nature
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land IS heavy and the beds have COM
pacted by beating rains, we think the
barring off a very useful and very i'm
poltant process but on light, loose
soils and where the beds were freshly
made at the time of planting, close,
deep siding with any implement, is
worse than useless.
TEN TONS OF BERMUDA GRASS HAY TO THE
... #tae ACRE
Truth is stranger than fiction" and
nobody viii call IN question the veraci-
ty of Mr.. Howard but notWithstand-
ing these facts, we think the impression
made by the first part of the paper on
g A visit to the city of Charleston"
will be that there has been a
very great mistake made by some
body. This would certainly be our
impression did we not personally know
something of the circumstances of the
case. Ten tons of Bermuda grass
weighed in the green state) to say
nothing of we'll dried hay, could hardly
stand on an acre of ground at one time;
but when 1t is understood that four
cuttings were made during the season,
the seeming impossibility vanishes,
though the case is still a sufficiently re-
markable one. An average of two and
a half tons per acre at cutting, though
an extraordinary yield is, as the facts
show, not an impossible one.
ABOUT WATERING PoTTED PLANTS.
If there be one thing more than an
other in Horticulture that redIlires exy
perience, skill and good Judgment; it
Is watering plants. No rules that can
be given, except very general ones, are
OF much avail. But plants in pots
must be watered, and those who have
charge Of them must study the habits
OF each species, and the various other
conditions which should modify the
treatment, and learn, each for himself,
when to give and when to withhold the
life preserving liquid. If we treat all
our plants alike, we shall be sure to
kill sumo of Them Some species need
a great deal of water, others compare
lively little !; and the same plant needs
when in rapid growth q quantity that
would greatly injure, if not destroy it,
when in q dormant or half dormant
condition. Plants viii not i've long in
the stagnant water and mud of a badly
drained pot. What they want is moist
earth, sufficiently loose to allow water
and airto pass through it. 1t is not
water, as water, that the roots need,
but vapor or moist air, bearing the
elements or nutrition in solution. We
give them water in order that this air,
or the fertiliziDg gases, circulating in
the soil, may always be moist.-SOuth
Ct1rOiigliGn.
COTTON SEED CAKES FOR COWS
A correspondent of the Toledo Farm
journal gives the readers of that Jour
nal tho benefit of his experience as fol-
lows tf Won
Dairymen in this vicinity, where con-
tinued feeding of milk COWS is Fedui
site from five to seven months of the
year, who have not tested the virtue of
oil cake as an economizer in fodder, can
scarce believe how profitable its results
are especially during long, cold, severe
winters. Owning about forty COWS,
several years since, all OF which were
stabbed during the winter season, the
writer's attention was called to the
value of cotton seed oil cake as an
economizer of fodder, and q trial was
given 1t, ton or two being purchased
at st. Louis and shipped to Toledo in
January.
Several bushels were thrown into a
barrel, which was then filled with wa
ter, and when the oil Axe had become
dissolved, about quart of the fluid
was poured over the quantity of mid.
dnngs, cut hay, or whatever fodder wa,
given each animal at one feeding, great
care being taken not to give too much,
in order MOTTO clog the appetite, re-
suit which follows il caution is not ob-
served in. this respect, The consequence
was, that the cows grew sleek, we're
perfectly healthy, gave more milk. and
required far less feed than -befoTe-a
very desirable result at that time-as
the winter proved long one, and feed
ing had to be kept up until the middle
OF May. So long as I Continued t. re-
main engaged in the dairy business. L |
Hqver again gave up the use of oii-eake,
althoughit became diff suit to obtain the
cotton seed Oil-cake, and tried Iinseed
oll-cake, using it in the same manner,
with good results, although 1 prefer
the former, but would always use the
latter when that is not obtaipable.
When fodder is scarce and dear, the
value OF this experiment is great In
deed, especially in winter, and 1 would
advise AL who are engaged in the pro
duction of milk for CITY markets. to