Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-05-04
Around The Farm


. THE best farmer is the farmer VINO
c~ultivates himself.
The Massachusetts, Horticultural go
ciety appr9p1iates for prizes, this year,
the %princely sum OF S4015.
A MINNESOTA gardener asserts that
skinned milk, sprinkled on the infested
bushes, is death to cufrant worms
THERE are more than 150named varie-
ties OF wheat, but in many cases the dis
tinctions between them are very slight
SHEEP will eat what no other stock
will eat, and thus save the labor required
By the thrifty farmer to keep down nox'
ious weeds.
IL the San Jacinto valley, California,
wheat has been an uu,aillne crop Tor
twenty. six years, even producing a fine
crop last year in spite of the limited
rainfall.
THE Stockton Independent says that
attempts have been made in the different
| portions Of California to cultivate cotton,
| but in most cases the results have been
unsatisfactory.
PROF. BEAL tells the Michigan Farmer
that, for a prime, long lived orchard,
where the soil, drainage, climate, etc,
are all favorable, he would rather set the
trees more than forty feet apart than
less.
A CALIFORNIA physician cleared his
premi.es of rats by saturating one with
carbolic acid and turning him adritt,
He thinks kerosene or any other strong
smelling liquid would have the same
effect,
ADMINISTERED in time a dose of paint
will save farm implements from an ex'
pen.iye attack of ricketts, when other.
wise they would become, by exposure
loose iointed and brittle as to woodwork
and rusty as to iron.
Coop dairymen contend thst milk j
partly absorbed when kept for a IQn3
time in the udder, also asserting tina
cows MIXED thrice daily produce NOR,
milk and butter, than if they were onI,
MIXED twice a day
!, A COW can yield a far greater weigh
: in butter than she can store up in tai
An animal might give the product q
two pounds OF butter a day, while one
half that quantity could not be laid 0
in fat, if fed for the purpose
THIS is the time when unthrifty farm
erg save ten cents by refusing to in7e.
in a paper Of tomato seed, because tim,
are 50 hard and money scarce, and wht
: the country peddler comes around at II
end of the summer it will take the ptij
' of an acre of wheat to pay him Tor VIII
! might have been raised On a dozen steI
square. Such economy is the road
I poverty and beggary.
a FARMERS TO THE FRoNT.-No Co
n necticut legislature in late years has h'
50 large q proportion OF farmers and
, very small a proportion OF lawyersas Il
h present, yet it secms the nearly unaI
nous opinion throughout the state tn
it has accomplished more work Of
practical, needed kind than any Of
4 predecessors in recent days, There b
=. been less "chin.chin," less useless VI
n biage, less discussion of fine points Of
At practical importance, and less prophec
70 about possible contingencies than usu
n but more of the work for which legis
IN tors are elected and paid. This is
ID thoroughly utilitarian country, and wi
~ the vast bulk of its inhabitants want
at plain, practical common sense, in We
40 and deed, not f%ne,spun theories or G
ID CANT verbOsity.
No foot, no horse;" although ev'
a farmer knows this maxim, it seems as
ir many (by the size they keep their a
n mails feet at) expected to double tn
or teams by a contrary Interpretation OF
i'd A hoof spread out Of all likeness to
<. original form, cracked nearly to
az quick, the frog pared till it ia as THO
IN paper; the sole cut away till the +
ne touches the ground at every step, I
ess turned in, and sore knees from freqn
lid stumbles, are no credit to a farmer d
all adays. If every man who il guilt,
oh causing the above. defects were compe
to keep his own feet in a similar man
its there would be a revolution sOmewh
ng It is not necessary to employ a iarrie
at, trim a horse's foot. A plank to stand
lly a sharp twe-inch chisel, and a {
mallet, in the hands of q careful
'av will. if used once a month, keep hoD
Al perfect order and improve them
stantly.-[Moore's Rural.
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