Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-04-29
HOME AND FARM.

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HOME AND FARM.
bEEE If corn has not been planted already,
81 CT lose no time in getting it in the ground.
En- Perhaps il may prove a good plant to
make more than one planting-One early
one medium and one late-sO as to avoid
the possibility of failure. AS far as pos
sible plant your corn so that it can be Ell
tirely cultivated with the pillow and
sweep, thus avoiding hoeing-a most ex-
tpcniVe luxury, and few afford to in
dulge it.. BY this plan the cost of pro-
duction is greatly lessened. Try it.
Southern Farmer.
The late storm did great injury in ma
ny portions of the South, plowed land
and planted crops having been overflow
ed and washed away in many localities
Early planted Irish potatoes have also
been cut down once or twice, and in some
instances three times. These and other
drawbacks make it reasonably sure, that
the work of putting in crops will be usu-
ally late this season. Perhaps we can
feel reasonably sure that winter is now
over, and hence farming operations
should be fastened, by the use of all i'm
proved machinery, well as by constant
81 r labor aud in all possible ways.-SOuthern
Farmer.
ta 20 4 Few FAcrs FOR 3EK KEEPERs.-The
life of a worker bee, during the working
season, is only from six to eight weeks
duration, and large majority of them
never live Co see seven weeks.
worker bee is from five TO six Il Us
old before it comes ont of the hive for the
first time to take an airing, and it is from
fourteen to sixteen days old before IL
begins to gather either pollen or honey
All swarms engaged in building comb,
9E when they have nota fertile queen, build
only drone and store comb, and all the
comb III the lower or breeding apartment
of the hive should be worker brood comb,
except a very small quantity of drOne
comb-four inches square being amply
sufficient.
The more prolific the queen is the more
young bees you have, and the more sur
plus honey will be stored up, other things
being equal.
Never allow the combs to become moul-
dy.
Never double swarms or stocks of bees
in the fall, but attend to that and make
49, them strong during the summer by tax
ing brood and strong stocks and giving it
to the weak.
drone-laying queen should be taken
away and one producing workers put in
her place, else the colony will soon come
to naught.
As rule as soon as an Italian queen
shows signs Of old age or feebleness,
the bees themselves will ''supercede"
her.
All stocks should be kept strong in
der to be successful.
Every hive should contain about two
aa thousand cubic inches "a little more than
solid FOOT in the breeding apartment.
Beginners in bee keeping should be
very cautious about increasing the num-
Der of their swarms or stocks rapidly
until they thoroughly understand the
business.
The hive itself, if we'll constructed, is
all the bee house you need in the summer
season.-Southern Farmer.
A CHANGE IN BREEDING HoGs.-West-
ern farmers have had sad experience in
raising hogs the past few years. They
have been heavy losers by the hog chol-
Violate Driucipfp law an he
day of punishment will come. Retrbu-
ton is certain in one form or another
Nothing can prevent it.
l claim that the breeding inland in as
farmers have been doing, is one of the
chief causes of the terrible losses we have
- had. L claim that the breeding of hogs
so young, so immature-wheneYer they
arrive ut an age to copulate-is another
grievous fault, and sure TO bring retribu-
ton. Then, add to these oversights the
fact that the natural appetite and food of
the hog are entirely overlooked, and need
wonder at the appalling calamity
which has fallen upon western raised
hogs? Nature has provided the hog with
long, strong snOut, that can turn up the
ground equal to a pillow, that it may
search after its natural food. In its wild,
native state, its chief subsistence is thus
obtained, and no hog cholera has ever
been recorded among wild hogs. Where
roots are furnished at the north for hogs,
where they chiefly fattened upon
them, hog cholera IS unknown. Should
not this fact teach farmers an important
lessonT VIII 1t not pay them to plant
potatoes-ths very spring-for their
hogs! Artiehckes, ifthey can be obtain
ed are far better to plant than potatoes,
because they yield ten times as mitch, and
are not troubled by dr0uth or rot or pOta-
TO bugs They always yield immensely,
and are better relished by hogs than po-
tatoes are. If farmers will now plant
roots of some kind, and also send off now
and procure well bred male pig for use
this tall and next spring, and keep up
ANIMAL chance n bFapdfuer stool re-.
taining the best sows as breeders, till they
get to be eight or ten years old (for they
bring better pigs with agel-they will
get on the right track AID can make mon
ey by raising hogs. But if they pursue
the old fogy policy, generally followed,
they need look for no genuine success.
This is also the time 30 sow clover and
orchard grass patures for hogs. Hogs
can live on good grass well sheep
M and cattle, and farmers are behind the
times who do not supFly their hogs with
plenty OF pasturage.-Rural World.
POULTRY CHOLERA. IRoN As PREvrx
TIvE.-As general rnle, all doetoring
after the fowls attacked with the choi-
era Is useless, or nearly so. When the
disease has manifested itself, the trouble
is so far developed as to be beyond con-
troll with all ordinary treatment.
The disease Is caused by 4 specific mi
asm or poison in the air, assisted power
fully by auxiliary of n sanitary
and dietic character. These predsposing
causes are within the control of poultry
raisers, and by proper management OF
them and the systematic administration
of simple tonic and astringent remedies,
the special miasm will not infect the
fiocks.
Quinine is nearly a specific remedy
for fever and ague, and other maiariaI
diseases, any medicine can be- In
communities where these maladies pre-
vail, the people protect themselves by
regular and systematic use of the medi-
cine. So in poultry cholera, which is
malarial or miasmatic disease, small do
ses of sulphate of iron regularly admin
istered, will, in connection with proper
sanitary and dietic measures, protect the
hocks.
The sulphate of iron, or ''copperas, is
salt composed Of a chemical combine
ton of sulphuric acid and protoxide of
iron. Unlike the sulphate or copper
blue vitrol, or the sulphate of Zinc
white vitrol, the sulphate of iron is
not poisonous IN small doses. In its me-
dicinal properties, sulphate of iron is ton
lc, astringent, and antseptic. When
aSen internally it furnishes iron to the
blood, which is one of the normal ele-
ments OF this huid, besides moderately
but durably eXalting the vital functions
1t promotes the appetite, invigorates di-
geston, augments the various secretiOns
gives increased hrmness to the muscles
and operates upon the nervous centres
especially those of organic life, elevating
the YGrious functions over which they
preside, and may be said to act as a uni
Versal excitant to the functions and to
promote the vitality of the system. These
properties IL possesses as . tonic; but the
medicine is a tonic and astringent COM
bined. In its astringent capacity it acts