The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-11

plants is an indispensable attribute of
prosperity. Why are the lands of Ken
lucky and Ohio so much more valuable
than these of the cotton states, when
we can produce q commercial article of
prime necessity worth twice SIS much
per acre as their products It is be-
cause we disregard rotation, exclude
every other crop but cotton and base all
our chances of success upon a single
card. In an agricultural point of view
grass is the greatest boon ever donated
to man. It grows increasingly day and
night, wet and dry, cold and hot, and
furnishes the cheapest stock feed ex-
tant. have had hogs from seven to
nine months old, weighing $50 pounds,
and yet they had never tasted anything
but grass.
The land should be well drained, and
if not sufficiently rolling to drain nat
urally, it must he done artifcially.
Water must, nader no circumstances,
be permitted to stand on land devoted
to grass culture, else the grasses sown
VIII be destroyed IN such places, and
81 wire grass" will furnish q substitute
as improbable as it is undesirable.
The proper preparation OF the land
is of prime Importance. I would use q
one-hOrse turning pillow, running at a
depth Of three to four inches, follow
with a subsoil as deep rs the best double
team could draw the same, harrow
we'll and thoroughly rulverize the soil
by rolling or dragging as may be
necessary in order that the surface
may be smooth and adapted to the use
of the mower. This preparation is not
altogether necessary; in fact, clover
sown in the fall or early winter IS more
certain TO catch when sown on stubble,
the trash serving to protect 1t while
young, yet this is not neat farming and
should only be praoticed in cases of
emergency. Occasionally We have wet
weather in August and September, and
grass can then be sown in corn or cot
ton, and by Christmas a good pasture
will be obtained, provided the ground
is not too wet for pasturage st that
time. The most preferable method is,
however, to thoroughly prepare the
land as above described the exceptions
to the general rule should only be used
when better preparation cannot be OBJ
tanned. -SotttheT79 Farmer.
SALT AND CHICKENS.
In some paper 8 correspondent says
salt is fatal to fowls, and some months
since a lady, I think, recommended its
use where hens had lost the feathers on
their heads from some unknown cause
that cause, though, think to be the
secondary effects of roup. The fowls
head seems feverisb. and soon all the
feathers come of. Mine were so, and
said would kill or cure SO I mixed
mp half pail of soft feed and put in a
large handful of salt. I went out next
morning to see What the result was, and
[ found them all alive but very thirsty.
gave them some water, and the mex
evening more salt. My hens all
feathered out on their heads, and they
stopped eating each others feathers,
habit hard to break. Salt is a simple
remedy for many things. It will cure
sick headache, make cream fres re, make
the butter come, take ink stains out of
cloth of any kind, kill weeds and
worms, make the ground cool SO it is
more coDgenial to cabbage, celery, etc,
ease the itching pain caused by irritable
akin disease like itch, hives, etc., pro-
duce vomiting or stop it, Just as you
like, and many other things too numer-
GUS to mention. Still, once fed some
potatoes to young chickens and turkeys
that had been boiled with salt corned
beef and killed every one of them
O'BTiHe, an Rural SO1ttherHer.
MISCELLANEOUS
GerGnilEnas Obnoxious to Snakes
Every species of snake may be perma-
nently driven away from an infested
place by planting geraniums. In South
America the Caffir people thus rid their
premises of snakes. A missionary of
South Africa had his parsonage sur.
rounded by narrow belt of geraniums,
which effectually protected the resi-
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yards away from this geranium belt a
snake would occasionally be found. 1t
isoowell known that the whole geranium
genius is highly redolent of volatile oils
lemon scented, musk scented, and
peppermint scented. What, therefore,
is very pleasant nOsegay for man, is
repugnant to the serpent tribe.-R1trGL
San.
The Poultry World says the influence
of the food over poultry upon the guam
tity and flavor of their flesh and eggs
has not been taken into consideration /;
but 1t is now we'll ascertsined that great
care should be exercised in regard to
this matter. In some instances it has
been attempted to feed poultry on a
large scale in France on horse-fiesh, and
although they devour this substance
very greedily, it has been found to give
them a very unpleasant flavor. The
best fatteniEg far chickens is said to b3
Indian corn meal aud milk and rtain
large poultry establishments in France
use this entirely, TO the advantage both
of the flesh and eggs.
Make pen ten feet square, cover the
bottom six inches deep with woods
earth upon this scatter three bushels
OF Stacked lime, three inches of wood
earth, then six inches of lot scrapings,
then three inches of woods-earth, then
three bushels of lime again, three
inches OF wOods-earth, six inches OF lot
scrapings, three inches of woods-earth,
ani so on, until built mp four or five
feet high. Finish with woods earth.
Moisten thoroughly and keep continu-
ally damp, but keep out rain. Cat
sides down perpeDdicularly when 70 be
hauled to the field.-SoattheT71 CuItiva-
fO1s