The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-03
SOUTHERN FARM AND HONE.
AsaICULTUaAL NOTES.

The hogs OF this country are double
the value OF the sheep and half the value
Of the cattle. .a.
To save the posts from decay, dip the
ends TO be set in the ground in petro-
leum or paint, or char them.
Sheep fstten quicker when loose 10
pens of half a dozen, thSn by any
method of stslling or tying up each
sheep. ..-
Law plans for the year withou. delay
The forehAnd msn works to great sdvau
taee. He loses no time; everything is
done at the proper moment. W.
Pick up the odds and ends that are
going to waste around you. Hidss,
horns, hoofs, bones, wax, moss and many
other trifes have cash value.
A farmer by the name of Dunning, in
Cook county, Ill raised last year one
hundred tons of squsshes from forty
acres OF land, and had q good corn crop
besides
A small quantity of superphosphste
dropped upon potatoes when planting
incieases the yield, and is remedy
against worms and insects, by which scab
and other diseases are produced.
As soon as warm weather comes on
lice and ticks become active, and annoy
the animals greatly. A mixture of lard
and kerosene oil, put on the back and
brisket of COWS, calves and sheep will
have good effect.
If you own but forty acres OF land, or
only ten, be content with it. Improve
il in every possible manner. Push pro-
duction to its utmost limit. You viii
soou find that 'little farm well titled"
is better than gold mine.
Whether the evening or morning milk
of the COW is the most solid in butter, Is
what is engaging The attention of scien-
fists. 1t is claimed that the evening
milk produces nearly twice the butter
that the morning milk does.
Never try to beat colt into doing z
thing; or, If nervous, ne mSy turn out 8.
vicious horse, and if stupid, he msy
become stubborn. Remember that by
patience and ge0tleness he can be got to
do anything that will not hurt MIN.
Farm harnesses should often be well
washed ia CASTLE soap, and after being
nearly dried, treated to liberal amount
of the best neatsfOot oil, well rubbed in.
/ to perform the work properly the har-
ness sh Juld be taken entirely apart.
In order to properly fumis ats the
poultry house, put into burning sulphur
pound Of old tobacco leaves, or piece
of common resin twice as big IS an egg,
and close the house perfectly tight. In
sects can not live ia that kind of al
atmosphere. =
To make hens lay the whole year, give
esch hen hglf an ounce OF fresh meat
every day, and mix q small amount OF
red pepper with their food in the winter
Give them plenty of grain, water, gravel,
and lime, and allow no cocks TO Iun
with ttem.
Fsttening beef animals pays; but
trying 10 tstten inferior animals IL 3
waste of energy, time and labor. The
animals should be selected with special
reference TO the rapidly with which
they will iatten; to the quality of the
beef, Eneness of bone, c0mpactness q
body, and small amount Of off4l which
the CARCASS will yield.
The man who plants an apple orchard
does not expect 70 get any return o.
consequence until it il ten or twelve
yesrs Old; but be plants for all. He
knows that, ii be wants to sell bis lana
before the trees bear truIt, the statement
on the sale bills that the arm contsins
'an orchard of fruit trees Just coming
into bearing" will help the bidd nR
wonderfully; and it will be the same
with trees when once the exact pOsitior
OF the timber question is understood. A
piece of woodland properly planted ano
well located will come into use De ore an
apple orchard will; AMI farm OF one
hundred acres which could advertise
that 1t had i've acres OF young forest ten
years old would bring tar more than in
-terest on cost.
Country folks are in general 70 fully
occupied with affairs that they have Ne
time to discover how Lonesome they
really are. So Jar as this is concerned
we think it 8 misfortune. We Sre too
busy; We work TOO hard We take toe
few or no holidays; read and think too
little, snd DO not spend cuff eient time
In social caltgre. There is no reason
why those who plough the soil, or WHOSE
talk Is OF bull0Cks," should not expert
ence the retnements which are the result
of formal social lie. In business. a.
bargains, in pursuit Of dollars, no man
rs seen at his best. He is thorny, spinv.
with his back up, "a p0rcupine's might
be, at1 hK business. Let one dot his
working Clothes, and enter a rom full
OF his neighbors - men aud women.
youths and msidens-and he is a man OF
another kind. He naturally fails into
the ways of an intuitive kindness: the
doing TO bis cpmnsniou what he won Id
that be sh5uld DO 10 him. He "lets
himself out" to please, and, after a.
evening tpent in social converse, he
Ietlres with many rough corners and
asperities toned down. For 9 few days
the influence remains. 1t would be per.
ma emit II it could be reinforced now and
then, and the good results would be
most agreeable aud useful There il no
diff 'ulty in bringing these good influ-
ences TO bssr. Two or three D srsons with
energy and some magut tism about them
can put rhem in motion with esse. Now
Is tue time to begin the effort. -1Rursl
New Yorker.
DOMESTIC RECIPRS