The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-23
FARM AID HOME.
FARM HINTS.


repay the cost of good extra keep than
dairy COW in full milk.
A stock dealer in western lows recently
bought 10000 bushels of corn at Lemars
st eight cents per bushel.
The agricultural papers generally are
catering into pretty free discussion on
the good quality of sorghum.
Standard apple trees should be plant
ed sixty feet apart each way, though
IN poor soils twenty-five feet may be
enough.
Clean up al rubbish about the yard
and buildings, and remove manure heaps
having alljpossIble usterialsfor com
post gathered and utilized
The London Om1ibus Company
which ten years ago led their horses
principally with oats and beans with hay,
now feed almost exclusively on Indisn
corn and hay.
The best favored meat, and at the same
time Of the richest quality, is attained
wheu the cows feed on old and rich per
nsuent pastures in summer, the favor
being particularly sweet.
Some Of our best butter-mskers claim
that rom the time the milk leaves the
COW till the butter graces the table, milk
cream and butter should be near the
temperature of so Fahrenheit.
Work not rod of land more than you
can work well. Ills easier and far more
prof tsble to reap sixty bushels from one
acre than fifty from two. Manure and
proper cultivation will eDsble you t. DO
it.
General Littledale, who has farm
opposite Liverpool, England, keeps
eighty five cows and fifteen working
horses on the produce of eighty acres Of
land. This shows what thorough Guilt
v&tion will do.
Do not work butter too much nor too
fest. Work slowly, and until all the
tsit is thoroughly and evenly alb orbed,
otherwise the butter will not be of uni
form color. Working it too fast will
destroy the grain.
Itchickens have cholera give them wet
food 'or few days, well stirred into one
feed teaspOontul OF sulphur, and into
the next about teaspoon al Of p ,wdeIei
charcoal, and 20 alternate the food for
shout three days.
Laugh at scientific or book farming
just as much as you please. yet the man
who takes advantage Of al, soil and fer
tilizsrs, studies how 10 manufacture
grain and roots, meat and fruits, out OF
these raw materials, is the one to sue
eed.
All the harvesting implements aud
machines should be cleaned and oiled
bath woodwork and iron-and store
IN dry covered place, To remove rust
Ese crude petroleum; then brush over
With linseed oil. Petroleum is g good
P-eserver OF wood.
On heavy loans of clay, clover roots
penetrate the subsoil and open it to the
feTtilizing influences of air and light It
IL rich, too, in nitrogen, and in the decay
Of its leaves and roots it gives the soil
Just what is wanted to grow a maximum
eIOp of any kind of grain.
Pure air and good water are of even
greater Importance than exercise in the
care of young animals. They are often
huddled together in houses altogether
snsufiiUient in size, and in which the at
mSspdere is almost constantly impure
from the product of respiration
BOussincsult prescribes the proper
temperature for churning to be $50 for
sweet cream, go for sour and Ga for
milk. About one,fourth OF the total
amount of butter globules which exist
10 the cream escapes collection, which
accounts for the rich taste OF buttermilk.
70 make cheap pork barrel, buy a
coal oil barrel, knock one head in; take
q bunch of old hay, set fire to it, and
throw it in the barrel let it burn until
the slaves begin to burn put it out by
Turning the barrel upside down scrape
the Goals of, and you have good, sweet
barrel.
There is no better time than the pres
ent tor draining wet ground. Swamps
sre now dry; work is not pressing every
roat of land a farmer owns should be
made profitable, and il the season is per-
nlitted to pass and this work is neglected,
q year must elapse before the opportunity
returns
On stiff clays, barley may yield q
greater produce, but it is OF a coarse
quality. On light chslky soils, tits him
kinued, rich in color, and, through light
IN weight, well adapted for mating. On
Ioamy lands and sandy msrIs it assumes
greater pIumpness, yet still retain its
mailing quality.
Farmer, read agricultural books aud
papers. attend meetings devoted "a your
calm. compare your crops with those
Of yuur nsiChbors II you doubt the
prapriety. of g certain culture for certain
crops, and desire information r,la.ive go
the field o vour labor, write To the
commissions Of agriculture.
Before cutting up corn the seed corr