The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-23
AGRICULTURAL notes.

Pure water il first requisite fer
man or beast. A good well, or cistern,
proviiei with q Universal~rorce pump
will I found one of the mSt profitable
things in the barD-yard or hOuse.yard
Thistles sud many other weeds may be
destroyed by cutting just before or while
in Uli bloom They should he cut as
closely a. possible, and in the case Of
tbistes, # cut Just before q rain, all the
better, as the hollow stems viii fill with
water, which is said to rot the roots.
The labor required to kill 100 weeds,
well grown and firmly rooted, will Kill
10000 when just sprouted. 1t is easier
in every respect to 90 over your ground
three times when weeds are in the
earliest stages Of their existence, than
once after they have become firmly es-
tabl> ed.
Moderately fat animals are the most
pro6rabls. Every excessively fat AMI
nal has been led at loss during the
latter part Of j.s feeding. When az
animal is ready for market, sell It; IL
there is iced lift. buy some more lean
animal. and feed them. The nimb {
sixreHcs" bring The profit.
Young fsll pigs should have plenty Of
milk, sud, : the food Is made milk
VAIN, " they VIII thrive the better for it.
Small potatoes, boiled and mashed in
skinned milk, with a little bran, will
make them grow rapidly. Feed 2 little
at time and often. The young pigs
stomach Is very small, and overlooking
causes indigestion and prevents growth.
There il d good deal Of noUrishment in
many Of our weeds, and hogs will thrive
en- them; but, asks some one, don't the
seed get INT the manure and so to the
land again? Not if the manure is piled
and worked over twice and allowed to
heat between the rkings and again
after the second working before spreading
the fermentation will efectualy de-
stroy the vi atty OF all seeds, and the
manure made fine and mellow by the
process.
The Gardeners Monthly gives this
advice ia the packing OF choice pears for
transportation "a pear should be put
in clean paper and laid in dry moss. An
nch in thickness OF moss should be be
tween each pear, and after all are in,
then the box iilled tightly with moss.
II one decays then the moisture is quickly
absorbed by the dry moss, and the Others
are q affect d. BESIDES the moss gives
an Observation-Disclosures the shock of the
blows of the baggage smashers, who sci
dom deliver box without first knock
ing the spots out OF -
A herman saws in the PlOughman
al was so much annoyed with the little
pests, hen lice, that could not 90 into
the hen-house without being covered
with them. ! was told that stramunIum
(called by some benbane or stinkweed)
would clesr them out. | got the weed
and hung on the rOOsts and strewed il
about the house and in the nest boxes,
aud to my great joy they soon disap-
reared, and have not seen one since II
Is now six or seven years since COM
menced TO use it. cultivate this weed
for the purpose OF using in my hen
houses"
Poultry-CuIl out undesirable fowls
and keep only good ones. Pure-bred
fowls are a. profitable, in their way, a,
other pure-bred stock. Feed young pull.
lets with boiled potatoes, mashed in the
water they have been cooked in and
mixed. while hot. with corn meal and
cracked wheat. Feed this warm, anC
evey week give some of the " Imperial
Egg Food with some or Rowker q CO..,
NEST snd bore -four along with the food
This will give eggs ali through the win.
ter. The culled fowls may be coopec
snd fed on scalded SKINNED milk, witt
corn and cat meal, for three weeks, wher
they will be as tat as they can be made
to teed any longer is waste of time anc
food. This food makes sweet and white
o fish and fat. When led for market
give enly corn, which makes the yellow
fat 30 much desired by the poultry deal
ers.