Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-03-29
SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.
GRICrLrrRALNnrrs

70 come TO your towns, reduce
your taxes.
The worst whisky is made from spples,
The next aorse from potatoes, but thst
bad enough which is made from corn,
Farmers this yesr should make a 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 soriuEled with
plaster, will sprOut earlier sEd gr W
better thsn when cut and planted on the
same day.
The finest wheat in the world is grown
in Barbary and Egypt, a tact which has
always existed and always will, on ac>
count eft climatic influences. The Scotch
is the poorest.
1t is reported from Jersey that the
demand for the island cattle is in excess
of all previous experience. France and
America are competing with England
ior any choice specimens.
| urge farmers to associate that they
may have their inspirations kindIed,
Farm life develops steadiness Of char
acter; but isolation not only dries up
human sympathies, but the intellect be-
becomes molly, unless Il spirit OF iuqui-
ny is awakened at some time of life
Hon. JAS. Wilson.
1t is stated thrt a Minnesota miller
has invented an entirely new process of
grinding wheat, which does away with
the millstOnes now in use and substitutes
therefor a vertically running granite disc
in direct combination with a circle of
French burr, This new process produces
so per cent, OF middlings.
The Island Of Jersey, in the English
channel, produces a remarkable variety
OF cabbage called the J~ersey.cow cab
bAge, which grows to the height Of three
or four feet, and is cultivated for fodder.
The stalk, which is tall aud very straight,
is often made into walking sticks and
when smo1thed off and vanished it is
similar in appearance to bamboo cane.
Three or four bushels of corn meal,
with a quart of salt, in q hogshoad 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 middIings or Stops to it.;
and when half used, fill up with water,
and 50 repeat, adding meal when needed
and a little salt. This will bear 8 good
deal Of thinning, and it's the cheapest
method known OF making pork,
Many orchards become unTroduc.iye.
To restore them to productiveness sow
them in clover, and WHEN the clover is
well established turn in the Legs and
sheep. Their droppings will f]er,i!iza the
ground. They will pick up all the worm
falls, and this will wonderfully lessen the
d%e.truction Of fruit 10y worms. Top
dressing 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 lie kept
by good care, good manuring and good
pruning. Labor is Indispensable to sue
cess in fruit culture, Is in all other
things,
Never put the hands into butter.
There is no excuse Tor doing 80, and
every sense of cleanliness fJrbids it.
Even if the hands are clean, still as but
tel absorbs any and every impurity with
which it comes in contact, excessive per
spiration OF the hands, or any humor Of
the blood might thus be impaired to the
butter, A wooden ladle should be used
to lift the butter from the churn or to
turn it owe while being washed.
Previous to 1883 there were but few
mules in this country, AID those Of an
inferior order. 1t is well known that
Washington introduced into the United
States a superior breed OF mules. As
soon as it became known that this illus
trious statesman and farmer desired to
stock his Mount Vernon estate with
mules, the King OF Spain sent him a jack
and two j%ennies from the royal tables
and Lafayette sent jacks and ~ionnies
from the island OF Malta.
Agriculture can not be carried on bv
any rigid rule. The soil of 30 two fields
is precisely alike, or would be alike
benefited by the same treatment. No
two seasons are precisely alike. All is
variety, change. Intelligent farming is
learned to adapt methods to condition
and circumstances, There are fixed
principles that apply to each condition.
The man who mas. era principles can be-
come a master in practice. Modify all
principles according to the soil aud
climate.
Malt is eagerly eaten by all kinds OF
live stock, on account of its sweetness
bit 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. Eyerv
advantage from the mailing may be
gained By simply adding a little mo.
lasses to The fodder or grain, and this is
much cheaper. In mslting grain there
il a losa of substance, as well as change
oi its form in termination, and this
reduces the actual value of the grain,
although it renders it more palata6le.
Pomologists generally disapprove OF
raising wheat and other similar kinds Of
grain in young orchards, on account Of
the tendency OF such crops to dry W
the coil in summer, leaving the trees tc
suffer for want of moisture. In we,
soils the grain might be beneficial IN
stead of injurious, especially in wet sea,
sons still, as q rule, We should prefer to
plant the land in orchards with some
kind of crop requiring cultivation in
summer Potatoes, peas, beans or oil er
low growing kinds are preferable to corr
and table crops.
Regarding borers in peach trees, SAVE
the Country Gentleman, it is useful 10
heap a peck of dry Stacked lime about
the peach trees after the grubs have beer
picked out and before the earth is drawn
back to the tree. The lime kills any
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