The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-09
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.
AenIcULrunAL NnTEs.


fifty cents bushel for potatoes as good
in the fall as seventy-fve cents in the
spring
Experiment with a mulch Of straw
on a portion of your wheat Geld. Many
who have tried the plan commend it
highly.
Everything which is gilt edged +"
in the way of farm produce brings the
highest prices-butter, CHEESE, milk,
fruit, and 50 on, through the whole list
OF farm products.
The farmer who wishes to avoid an
excess of labor, with improbable result,
will not spread q small quantity OF
manure over large surface OF poor land,
but will only pillow as much ~ he can
highly manure, when his income will be
as large, and bis labor nearly one. half
saved.
The superiority of "cotch oatmeal is
said to be partly owing to the grain being
cut rather glszy that is with shade
Of green upon it. Dat straw is tar less
nourishing for cattle when the crop is
allow, d to stand till it is dead ripe.
Early.cut oats are heavier per bushel,
fairer to the eye, and usually sell for
more money.
Whenever horses and cows are allowed
large range of fertile feed all st once, 1t
is the nature of the animal not to go
quietly to feeding, but to run all over
the Enclosure, examine the boundaries,
snatch a mouthful of feed now and then
as they run, and finally to come to the
yard at night, tired, overlul, having
trampled down three times as much as
they have eaten.
Winter is the time when ii is most
diff ult to produce good cOlored butter
and tree from streaks, and the harder to
come; judicious feeding will help this
very much. 1t will pay well, with some
simple apparatus, to steam or cook the
food, with q little salt through it; the
cows will eat up everything greedily. A
lumpo rock salt should always be where
the COWS can have access to it.
Colonel F. D. Curtis tells the Weekly
Rural that he should prefer ga COW with
poor escutcheon and properly formed
in the body to one with ever 80 much
width and outline of escutcheon and a
beefy and unmilk like figure. 1t NAV be
urged that COW with q fne escutcheon
would not have such an inconsistent
form; but such is frequer tly the case,
and all COVE of this style are poor milk.
ers."
There are many farmers who have ex-
ira good butter cows, and do not know it.
They have poor pastures in summer and
no shelter, and Indifferent iee,l in winter.
In the house they have No conveuiences
for making butter, the milk is set where
there are no arrangements ter keeping it
cool in summer, and in the living room,
exposed 10 the OdOrs OF the kitchen. in
winter; and neither the quantity nor
the quality are any index of T,hat COW
can do,
The best fodder corn is that grown
thickly in drills-so thickly that no ears
are developed. Let the ground b. rich
let the cultivation be thorough; cut up
when the tassels are dropping their pol
len; let it wilt on the ground; tie in
small bundles and set in smsll stacks,
binding firmly at the top, and also half
way down. Then let it stand as late as
possible before carrying to the barn. If
the crop is planted early it may be cut
up 50 early as to get per ectly dry, if it
has no ears Farmer and Fruit Grower
The hog cholera cure men are about.
as numerous as the lightning rod men
used to be. Our readers ale cautioned
against investing, notwithstanding the ap-
parently demonstrstive evidence offered
by the vendors. The so-called hog
cholera is not one disease responsive to
one kind OF treatment, any more than all
the ills that human flesh is heir to is.
These patent nOstrums are therefore
frauds, intended only to benefit the
pockets of the makers Just as cure.alls
must in the very nature of the case be.
-[Journsl of Agriculture.
There is no particular reason why
COW that keeps easy is worth any more
for that quality. The COW that eats the
most and as q result gives the most milk
is the paying animal. Itpays to feed all
that animals will eat and assimilate.
This is the season when bran and meal
are given to supplement the shortened
pasture, 1t is we'll to remember that
meal is fattening, while bran is milk.
producing. A mixture of the two is
excellent for cows that are fattening,
while at the same time the owner desires
to get good lot of milk.
Many farmers throw away the old
brine in beef and pork barrels and fish
packages. Sometimes they pour it on a
grass patch or under a tree and kill the
vegetation with it, they should pour It
on patches of burdocks or thistles, or
around trees that are worthless. 1t is
better, however, to use it for manure, in
VIII Oh case it should be applied with
Judgment. 1t may be applied to as
paragus beds, or ounce trees literally, |
but to other things 81 ariDgly. Ordina-
rily tie best disposition to make OF it is
to pour it on manure or compost heap
and allow it to be absOrbed.-[ Exchange |
Pits for roots must be made where
water will not stand on the bottom; they |
are dug three or four feet deep, six feet |
wide and as long as needed. The roots |
are stacked in these, beginning at the |
end Of the pit, and fill two feet OF its
length; space OF six inches is left, and |
another section of two feet is built up, |
and 30 on, in each case piling the roots |
up to the ground level, the space9 are
then filled in with earth, and the pit will |
present a series of sections of two feet OF |
roots and six inches of earth. The roots |
are covered lightly at first, but when |
cold weather comes put on about two |
feet OF soil, rounded and smOotbed to |
carry off water Am. Agricultural.