The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-12-06
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Get ready for winter.

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Harvest the crops now with all
possible haste.
Red oats sown this month will re-
ward the labor in an abundant crop.
Try it.
When the crops are all housed,
and the potatoes banked. fall plow-
ing may be inaugurated and continu-
ed.
Fall blowing is less expensive
than blowing at other seasons, and
the freezings and thawings Of winter
never fails to soften and mellow even
the stiffest soils.
A noted dairyman says that the
proper time to put cows up in stables
out of the frosty cold nights, is when
a man cannot work comfortably in
the open air with his coat off.
Sow rye as a soiling crop. Make
the land rich and put in one bushel
to the acre, and you will have nu-
tritious feeding from it long before
any other green food is ready.
All the signs betoken a severe
winter, Even a heavy crab-grass
crop, which is said to be a sure indi-
cation, is not wanting. Then pre-
pare shelter and forage for your
stock, and abundance OF wood for
your own freside.
Broom corn is one of the most
profitable crops now grown in Kan
sas. the farmers there having inaugu
rated diversity OF products. The
broom corn is brought into towns
and sold at $75 to $50 per ton.
Wheat will be sown largely this
season in the counties of Weakely,
Henry and Obion. West Tennessee.
We hope our readers everywhere
will see to it that enough is sown to
furnish -four for home consumption.
There seems to be much diversity
of opinion as to the tobacco crop.
In Virginia and North Carolina, as
well as in Kentucky, the crop is re-
ported below the average. In Ten
nessee the average is but little less
than usual, while in Missouri, Indi-
ana and Illinois, the crop is said to
be fair one.
The elections are now over and
henceforth farmers will give less
time to politics, and more to their
farms and TO their stock.
Plant fruit trees as soon as posi-
BILE now. Get the land we'll prepared
at once, and then select good one
year old trees, and give them the
requisite attention, and your labors
will not be in vain.-AIake out your
list Of fruit carefully. and be sure 10
get that which generally lourishes
best in your particular neighborhood. |
Mr.. L. F. Allen, in his address
before the National Congress on
Live Stock, estimates the value of |
all our varieties of domestic live |
stock in the United States and Ter
'Itories at two thousand million dol
ars, and their annual product of all
Iinds at one thousand millions more.
Gather a large quantity of leaves
or bedding horses during the winter.
They are better than hay or straw,
n this, that no horse will eat them,
IS many have done with straw to
heirinjury. They make comfortable
'eds, and whatever adds to the COM
ort Of the work animals puts money
n the purse of the prudent farmer.
There is no doubt that late fall
flowing destroys many insects that
Tould otherwise be hurtful, if not
destructive to crops, and in addition
saves hurry and trouble in spring
york: Stiff soils are most benefited
y fall blowing. Sod land can also
e plowed up and much deeper, than
would be safe to go in Spring.
Save the ashes. Make as much
{ them as possible. For many soils
hey are a standard fertilizer. One
pplication frequently shows its good
fleets for years, and this because
hey supply all the soil Ingredients
I plant-food except nitrogen. Sta
lie manure differs from ashes in
his, that while the latter furnishes
II the ingredients of plant-food. the
primer furnishes all except nitrogen.
9th are good and should be care
lily husbanded.
Thirty per cent. has been added
} the aggregate per capita of the
radcd stock in the United States
y improvements in their breeding,
uring the last fifty years. and at no
creased cost i'll their keeping. not
those improved ami.
ais as yet extend over only a
actional part Of our country. What
lall be the measure OF increased
llue, when that Improvement shall
ltend to and embrace all the farm
ock OF our entire country, remains
be seen.
The sorghum crop this year has
zen larger this year than usual, in
ct the largest crop ever raised. In
me sections it is becoming one of
e most important industries, aad r
en- promises to supersede sugar 8
ne. In Georgia, some of the ~
overs Claim, with the improved IRS9
aporator to have made syrup equal b
the best New Orleans. d. az
Red clover is said to be the pool M
nd farmers blessing. 1t is good 10
horses, mules, cows, and hogs. p
her grain sown with it is said to M N.
lard its growth and enfeeble it. pc
'sides it does best when it grows y,
d hardens with the sun and under :
? regular increase of heat from
ring to summer. Six pounds to
: acre will enable it 10 protect r,
Elf from weeks,