Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-12-21

Why so many WindOW-pIaIltS
show long, white, leafless stalks,
with a tuft of leaves on the end, is
too great heat and too little light.
All stock should be sheltered du-
ring cold damp weather. Good
shelter saves feed and keeps of
disease.
a nail of milk standing ten min
ufes exposed to the scent of a strong
smelling stable, or any other often |
sive OdOr. will imbibe a faint that |
will never leave it.
Instead of the, withered things |
commonly found in bins or on the
cellar bottom. beets, carrots, ETC., as
fresh and crisp as when dug, can be
had all through the winter by put
finc them down in boxes or barrels
in lays of sand or dirt.
Grain and stock-raisang must go
together when it is proposed TO keep
mn the fertility of the soil.
Plantsunfiowers about your drains
and kitchen windows. They will
thrive where scarce any other vege-
fable will live. You never knew
a case of fever or any kind of mala-
rim in a house that has sunnOWers
growing about it.
If YOU desire to raise American
elm. scarlet and silver maple trees,
do rot forget that the seed rlpeiiS III
the spring, and should be soWn as
soon as gathered from the trees.
Most of the diseases OF cattle are
caused by wrong treatment-too
much feed at one time, too little at
another too rich at one time, too
moor at another, etc. If all cattle
and horses were fed, and watered,
and used properly, there would De
When the fruit Of strawberry-beds
is smelling, plentiful supply OF
wafer. in the absence OF ram, VIII
| have a marked effect in perfectlng
and increasing the product.
AS a rule, no variety OF apple can
bear large crops annually except on
rich. deep soils, or where made SO
| nv enriching materials annually,
and even at the expense OF the lie
or age OF the tree.
Won can take field that has be-
come so exhausted in fertility that
it will not produce q profitable crop
IF ANYTHING without heavy dress
inc OF manure, and in two years
time make it fertile with clover
alone.
animal life.
For twentv-four hours after far
rowing SOW should be fed on soII
food or Stops, which should De gwen
in warm though not not STATE a
mash of bran or meal answers very
we'll,
carcass and 1873 per cent Offal, while
q fat pig represents 1914 per cent
carcass and 1871 per cent. offal.
Peas and beans contain nearly
double the fiesh-fOrming matters
) that are found in corn, wheat, oats
or barely, but far less starchy ano
heat-giVing matters or fat.
? The best way to feed carrots
) IN horses is in conjunction with
oats. If you arc in a habit o
f feeding four quarts of oats to
l moss Give two of oats and two o
[ sliced carrots,
: Parsnips contain almost twice a
: much dry matter or real toOd as tur
4 niDs. and this of superior quality
4 Carrots, again, contain about a
r much drV substance as mangolds
Int are richer in sugar and OF bette
5 feeding quality. n.ouob
ards in grass for years should tr!
t thorough cultivation one year ant
t see what the effect will be.
The man who lets his sheep wan
y der about the pastures without see
r. inc that they are all awe ana WEI
t at least once in every two Gays /
S pretty sure 20 pay heavily Tor III
shiftlessness.
y should be changed every year,
e Make your farm SO Va!uapie o
constant improvement, skllltul GU
d ture. good fruit, ornamental shrut
Y berV. and pleasant surrounding
e that no money will tempt you I
Gates, instead of bars, should b
n proyided on every farm. They saw
q much time.
when cut early. Then young Glove
Is il ALWAYS growing among 1t, an
it consequently when cut later
makes more hay. Curing 1t in cOcF
Of makes more work, and wages al
w hiUh- and are mostly hurried, an
e. if the weather is wet it Is apt
b. mold. so that on the whole 1t Is De
to cut it when the heads are ma
n brown and let it lay till IL Is III
is haul in the barn. If spread eVenl
t. over the land it will bleach troi
Is getting wet, but if wet several tlhl'
j. animals will eat and do Weili Wher
or as, if it is mOldy, no animal snOul
p eat it if they would.
The quality of both butter an
ne cheese depends much upon the qua
ne ity of salt used.
n, the meanest single boiled
OF Iime-Water becomes as good as Il
I'd best, according to those who NAY
ne tested the matter for years.
Refuse from the kitchen ougl
n not to be thrown out near the hOus
in but should be deposited on the III
nure heap.
Hungarian grass, cut green al
of well cured, is used by some go'
&c Vermont dairymen as food for bu
ITS ter COWS, and they claim that 1t n
ly the effect to give butter the tr'
ng summeryellow.
y, 1t is claimed that young eau
on can be kept growing finely and fast
he bV scalding the meal, which obN
at ates all danger from securing; al
} cattle in yearsmay in the mann
ep be carried through the winter, fro
De- grass to grass, in just such conditl'
IA M to flesh as may be desired.
Buckwheat and suntlower see
an onerate similarly in respect to glO'
re- ing the plumage, but as buckWeat
ed very heating the preference is CIV
or TO sunflower seeds. The. virtues
the latter are SO pronounced ana
rs, value so manifest in the. poultr
yn ward that many farmers raise or
rk of sunfiOWerS every season Ior
sake of their seeds.
GU The Russian sunfiOwer differs fro
I'd; the American sort i'll that its t1ow'
GU are nearly or quite double in sl'
and far excel the American IN |
let yield of seeds.
en The old dead wood in the Fa'
en herrv-beds should be cut out eve
ed season. as soon as thecrOpS is gath'
lth ell. to give strength to the you
ny shoots for the next years Oearll
to I'm the spring remove the weak
suckers, leaving five or SIX ot
-eh strongest in each hiil'
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