Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-03-25

March, and transplant at the proper time
from four to five inches apart,
We would here do the same, only we
SOW nearly n month earlier
?. Never let the tomato beds get soaked
through with rain, for the reason that the
roots strike down into the manure and
grow up tender; transplant from the 10Th
to the goth of May.
That accords with our experience. Ex-
cept that we set out the plants from the
! LIST to the 10th of May, at some risk Of
losing plants, knowing that the early
bird gets the cherry.
3. He sets the plants an inch or two
| deeper than they stood in the bed, and
| gives level culture, and lays considerable
| stress upon this method. We have been
disposed TO ridge up at the last, especially
where vines are not staked, to give sup
| port to the plant and elevate the fruit
when the vines fall over. IL Is, Indeeu,
a question whether or no level culture IS
not best.
4. And now comes the most radical
statement. He says: l never stake the
vines-stakiEg is Injurious to the vines,
because it exposes them TO the winds. a
low support might be of benefit, but the
vine should fall over, as inclined.
Now, our theory-whateyer has been
our practice-has been that stalking was
best. Are we wrong in this? was glad
to receive these views of an old expert
enced cultivatOr., and think they are
worthy of our attention. | questioned
him particularly about the "hundred day
tomato" sent out by j. A. FOOte Of Terre
Haute, as the best early market tomato
in cultivation. Mr.. Haney had grown it
for two or three years, and his reply was
this: '"Ihe huudred-day tomato is .
dwarfish plant, medium size, and bright
red color, very productive, and does not
rot. | would not advise it for Il Late sort,
except for canning, for which l like it.
There are later varieties of larger fruit
that are more attractive, but for an early
shipping tomato it is the best l have ever
known. 1t has one fault only: it is in
clined to grow rough. This ] overcome
TO a great extent by high culture; ms
| it must have, or it will not succeed well;
| but with good culture it eXcels anything
| ever produced in this country for an ear
/ ly market tomato.
DRIvING HoRsEs.-There are many
ways of driving horses, and we think, rs
/ we see the vast army of drivers on the
/ streets every day, that it is wonder that
| there are not more balky horses than
/ there are. The true way 10 drive is to
| let the horse drive himself, the driver do
/ ing little but directing him and giving
| him that confidence which a horse alone
| gets in himself when he feels that guide
| and friend is back of him. The most vi
| cious and inexcusable style of driving is
! that which so many drivers adopt, to-wit
| wrapping the lines around their hands
| and pulling the horse backward with all
1 their might and main, 50 that the horse,
| I'm point of fact, feels the weight back OF
him with his mouth, and not with his
| breast and shoulders. This they do un-
der the impression that such dead pull
| is needed in order to STEADY the horse
e 4NaUa
should never be any pull on the horse al
all. A steady pressure is allowable, pro
| baby advisable, but anything beyond
/ this has no Justification in nature or rea-
! son. For nature suggests the utmost
| freedom of the action of the head, body
| and limbs in order that the animal may
| attain the highest possible rate of speed.
In speeding horse, the lines need seldom
l be grasped in both hands when the road
| is straight and free from obstacles.
MILK TRANsMITs INFEcTIoN.-The San
Itary Record (English) states that at Jar
| row "a cases of typhoid fever suddenly
| broke out in limited district, in twenty
different families, the cases being mostly
confined to children. The houses, Will
two exceptions, were clean and well sup
piled with pure water. 1t was discover
ed that all the families received their mill
| from the same farm, which was at once
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down with the fever. The water used il
the dairy was from a well close to cess
pit, and evidently contaminated by soak
age, as it became putrid in two days afte
| drawing from the we'll. The dairy wa
| also used as wash-hOuse and the liner
| of the family were washed in it. TIL,
person who MIXED the cows was in con
slant attendance upon the sick. The nui
sance was promptly detected by tn
health officer and Immediately abated.
When Eads' ietties are in successful
| operations, it will be no uncommon sigh
to see hogs bought at the Union yards
slaughtered cut and sailed close by, an
the balance of the cure completed in Eu
| rope The time is coming when the Mis-
sissippi valley people will furnish bot
bread and meat to the teeming millions o
Europe; and what is more, there will b
. direct trade from St. Louis to Liverpool
We hate to say these things because NeN
York and Chicago are so sensitive, bu
then we must sometimes mention unpala
table truths.-St. Louis Live Stock Rec
ord.
The average cost of producing bushe
of corn in Georgia is fifty eight cents, o
about one cent per pound. The averdg
cash market price for several years ha
been about two cents per pound. 1t cost
| the producer twenty nine cents per bush
ell to grow oats, which is less than one
third the usual selling price. COttol
costs eleven cents per pound to the pro
Queer, which is about the average pres
ent selling price. Ninety-siX per cent
of the reports say that cotton cannot d
made at profit when supplies are al
purchased at the north-and eighty-fou
per cent. think it can if supplies are raise,
at home. Only forty seven per cent. o
the hog products consumed has heretofor
been produced in Georgia.