The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-27
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.
AGgrCULrURAL NOTES.

for lice.
If you want manufacturing establish$
ments to come to your towns, reduce
your taxes.
The worst whisky is made from spPles.
The next worse from potatoes, but that
is bad enough which lie made from corn.
Farmers this year should make de-
termined effort TO raise the mortgage on
their farms, whatever else they may at
tempt TO raise.
Potatoes cut ten days or two weeks
before planting, and sprinkled with
plaster, will sorout earlier and grow
better than when cut and planted on the
same day,
The finest wheat in the world is grown
in Barbary and Egypt, fact which has
always existed and always will, on ac>
count eff climatic influences. The Scotch
is the poorest.
1t is reported from jersey that the
demand Tor the island cattle is in excess
Of. all previous experience. France and
America are competing with England
for any choice specimens.
l urge farmers TO associate that they
may have their inspirations kindled.
Farm lite develops steadiness of char
acter; but isolation not only dries up
human sympathies, but the intellect be-
becomes moldy, unless spirit OF inqui-
~ is awakened at some time of life
[ Hon. Jas. Wilson.
1t is stated thrt q Minnesota miller
has invented an entirely new process OF
grinding wheat, which does away with
the milistones now in use and substitutes
therefor vertically running granite disc
in direct combination with a circle OF
French burr. This new process produces
so per cent Of nliddlinge.
The Island of Jersey, in the English
channel, produces a remarkable variety
of cabbage called the Jersey-cow cab
bsge, which grows to the height of three
or four feet, sud is cultivated for fodder.
The stalk, which is tall and very straight,
is often made into walking sticks and
when smoOthed eff and vanished il is
similar in appearance to bamboo cane.
Three or four bushels Of corn meal,
with a quart of salt, in hogshead of
water, stirred occasionally for three or
four days until it ferments, is much bet
ter and far cheaper than feeding either
meal or corn to growing pigs. You can
add bran or middlings or slOps to it;
and when half used, fill up with water,
ami 50 repeat adding meal when needed
and a little salt. This will bear a good
deal OF thinning, and it's the cheapest
method known of making pork.
Many orchards become unrroductive.
To restore them to productiveness SOW
them in clover, and when the clover is
well established turn in the hogs and
sheep. Their droppings will fertilize the
ground. They will pick up all the worm
falls, and this will wonderfully lessen the
destruction OF fruit by worms. Top
crossing OF rotten manure, leaf mold,
ashes, lime, etc, are very beneficial to
orchards that have been in bearing for q
few years Orchards can only be kept
by good care, good manuring and good
pruning. Labor is indispensable to sue
cess in fruit culture, as in all other
things.
Never put the hands into butter.
There is 10 excuse for doing so, and
every sense of cleanliness fJrbids it.
Even if the hands are clean, still as but
ter absorbs any and every impurity with
which it comes in contact, excessive per-
spirati0n OF the hands, or any humer Of
the blood might thus be i'm parted TO the
butter. A wooden ladle should be used
TO lift the butter from the churn or to
turn it over while being washed.
Previous to 1888 there were but few
L. Is
inferior order. It is well known that
Washington introduced into the United
States q superior breed OF mules. As
soon as it became known that this illus
triOus statesman and farmer desired 70
stock his Mount Vernon estate with
mules, the King OF Spain sent him jack
and two jennles from the royal stables
and Lafayette sent jacks and jennies
from the island OF Malta.
Agriculture can not be carried on by
any rigid rule. The soil Of no two fields
is precisely alike, or would be alike
benefited by the same treatment. Ne
two seasons are precisely alike. All is
variety, change. Intelligent farming is
Learned TO adapt methods TO condition
and circumstances. There sre fixed
principles that apply to esch condition.
The man who masters principles can be-
come a MASTER in practice. Modify all
principles according to the soil and
climate.
Malt is eagerly eaten by all kinds OF
live stock, on account of its sweetness /;
but the result of many careful expert
ments has shown hat the benefit derived
from feeding it do not repay the trouble
and cost in mailing the grain. Every
advantage from the mailing may be
gained BY simply adding a little mo-
lssses to the fodder or grain, and this is
much cheaper. In mailing grain there
is loss of substance, as well as change
of its form in termination, and this
reduces the actual value of the grain,
although it renders it more palstable.
Pomologists generally disspprove of
raising wheat and other similar kinds of
grain in young orchards, on account OF
the tendency OF such crops TO dry up
the soil in summer, leaving the trees to
suffer for want of moisture. In wet
soils the grain might be beneficial In
stead of injurious, especially in wet sea-
sons still, as rule, we should prefer to
plant the land in orchards with some
kind of crop requiring cultivation in
summer. Potatoes, peas, beans or otter
low growing kinds are preferable to corn
and table crops.
Regarding borers in peach trees, says
the Country Gentleman, it is useful to
heap q peck of dry Stacked lime about