The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-09
Farm ana Home.
AND USEFUL IsroRAArloN.
Things Farmers Should Know.


exact memorandum of ali the time
idly spent
1t is claimed that Jerseys will on
an average, "huld out their milk
longer than the common or native
cows. 1t is difficult to '.dry them
OFF, in many cases.
The estimated Number Of horses
in the United States is 500, 100000,
Illinois ranking first in number.
1t is said that the cut worm nev,
er damages crops on land where
sheep have been past1ved the year
before planting 40
A garden is a constant amuse
ment: happy combination of work
and play; "a study and recreation
a source OF health for both body
and mind. gasl
1t is said that lie, may be kept
from poultry by placing pieces of
the bark of sassafras root in their
nests '--
To destroy bugs on squash vines.
dissolve a tablespoonful of saitpe
ter or two in a pailful of water; put
pint of this around each hill.
The bugs burrow IN the earth at
night and fail to rise in the morn
ing. 1t is also good to kill the
grub in peach trees. ~
To destroy the white grub, the
pest of corn, mix one part of com
mon salt with three of gypsum; put
a Tablespoonful about each hill, but
dc not let it touch the young
plants.
As soon as the upper portions of
the straw of cereals become yellow
no further increase takes place ia
the weight of the seed. II the
grain be not cut down soon alter
the appearance of this sign, it's
quality deteriorates and ITS weight
diniinishes.
If you want to Keep your hogs,
horses, cattle, and sheep healthy.
give them salt regularly. There is
no better vermifuge than salt.
When it car be done, sheep
should be changed from field to
field giving them fresh pasturage.
Wien sheep are never shifted the
grass gets foul, particularly if the
weather is moist and the land ut all
wet, or if on close buttoned, reten
tive soils, 90
Try your soil experimentally, and
thus learn what Is needed in the
form or fertilizers to produce there
on paying crops.
lie wash used for fruit-trees at
the government gardens al Wash
ington is prepared as follows: Put
half q bushel of lime and four
pounds OF powdered snlpher in a
tight barrel, Stacking the lime With
hot water, the mouth OF the barrel
being covered with a cloth: this is
reduced to the consistency of ordi-
larry whitewasb; add at the time OF
application half an ounce OF carbol.
&c acid to each gallon OF liquid. IL
is applied in the spring.
So lorg as such large number
OF our farmers remain careless and
about making permanent
aud pleasant homes Tor their lanii-
hes, without attractions and COM
Iorts, they Will continue ,nomadic
IN their habits, while their children
will see their ,ayocations whenever
possible rf-
Sheep and swine in the orchards
are recommended to exterminaIe
the codling moth.
The ounce prefers a soft, moist
soil, and rather shady. or at least
situation. TO-"
Italian bees store more honey in
frames than the black. Their
queens are more prolific, and on
that account their spring dwindling
is much more than overcome.
Poor lland is poor investment;
SO is poor stock, poor feed, poor
Have the best, if you
have much less of it.
Cooked meat chopped up and
mixed with other feed is not only
by fowls, but gIyes back
the strength lost during the moult-
ing process.
Turkeys fatten more readily when
given their liberty than when coop
ed up. They require their accus-
toned feed OF worms, bugs, and
grass. $500
Keep hogs in the apple orchards
70 eat up all the wormy fruit as it
Irops during the season. Mr..
Meehan, a horticulturist of much
experience, says he never saw
blight on pear trees that were
white washed. He believes it to be
an absolute remedy.
The relative proportion of corn
md other supply crops to cotton is
'apidlv increasing in all the cotton
growing states, aud testimonies re
,eived from those districts are al
most universal as to the superior
economy of producing home sup
)lies. ,5
RESPONSIBILITIES is best cut in
he summe' smonu 8, as tie pores of
he wood are then filled with resin. |
which increases the durability of |
he timber. Chestnut, hickory, and |
,ak are generally Relied during The |
second running of the sap. ..z
Butter should never come in con
act with the bare hand. When in
paAa it can he easily handled with !
| Iadle and fat paddle.
A soil broken up to the depth of
.welve inches will contain full twice
IS much of the important elements
Is a soil broken To a depth OF only
TX inches. Besides, deep breaking
enables heavy rains to sink rapidly,
bus preventing the accumulation
IF too much water on or near the
surface. Subsoiiing land is a great
to drought, as it forms a
for moisture too deep
lown to injure the crops, and be-
-ond the direct agents OF evapora-
ion.
Potatoes require less manure
han garden vegetables, but will
veil repay an application of five.
hundred pounds per acre of wood
lshesg or sulphafe of potash.
The seeds OF peas, spinach,
,nions, beets, and radishes should
We sown as early as tue ground will
fork mellow and time will admit.