The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-16
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL INFORMATION.
Things Farmers Should Know.

little disease.
When the fruit of a strawberry
bed is smelling, plentyful supply
of water in the absence of rair
will have a marked effect in perfect
ing and increasing the product.
AS a rule, no variety of appl,
trees can bear large crops annually
except on deep soils, or where
made So by enriching materials an
nually, ana even at the expense o
the life or age of the tree.
You can take a field that has be
come SO exhausted in fertility tina
ii will not produce i profita BILE crul
of anything without heavy dress
ing of msnure, and in two years
time make it fertile with clover
alone.
Oleander leaves are poisonous tt
animal life.
For twenty-four hours after far
rowing a SOW should be fed on soft
food or slops, which should be Civ
en- in a warm though not hot state
A mash of bran or meal answers
very well.
A lean pig contains 1913 per cent
carcass and 1873 per cent. offal
while fat pig represents 1914 pei
cent. carcass and 16.1 per cent
offal.
Peas and beans contain nearly
double the fiesh-forming matters
that are found in corn, wheat, oats
or barley, but far less starchy and
heat giving matters or fat.
Parsnips contain almost twice as
much dry matter or real food as
Jurnips, and this of a superior quail
ity. Carrots, again, contain about
as much dry subs ance as man
Colds, bat are richer in sugar and
Of better feeding quality.
Those who have kept their orch
ards in grass for years should try
thorough cultivation one year and
see what the effect will be.
The man WHO lets his sheep wan
der about the pastures without see
ing that they are all alive ana well
at least once in every two days is
pretty sure to pay heavily for shift
lessness.
In breeding turkeys the male
bird should be changed evei y year.
Make your farm so valuable by
constant Improvement, sklllful cul-
ture, and pleasant surroundings,
that no money will tempt you to
leave it.
Gates, instead of bars, should be
provided on every farm. They
save much time.
Glover is more difficult to cure
when cut early. Then young clio
yer is always growing among it,
and consequently when cut later it
makes more hay. Curing it in
cocks makes more work, and wages
are high, and are mostly hurried,
and if the weather is wet it is apt
TO mold, so that on the whole it is
best to cut it when the heads are
half brown and let it lay till il is fit
to haul into the barn. If spread
evenly over the ground it will
bleach from getting wet, but if wet
several times animals will eat it
and do well; whereas, if it is moldy,
no animal should eat it if they
would.
The quality of both butter and
cheese depends much upon the
quality OF salt used.
The meanest Ghingle boiled in
lime-water becomes as good as the
best, according to those who have
tested the matter for years.
Refuse from the kitchen ought
not to be thrown out near the
house, but should be deposited on
the manure heap.
Hungarian grass, cut green and
we'll cured, is used by some good
Vermont dairymen as food for but
-er cows, and they claim that 1t has
he effect to give butter the true
summer yellow.
1t is claimed that young cattle
;an be kept growing finely and fast
er by scalding the meal, which oh
viates all danger from securing;
and cattle in years may in the man
ler be carried through the winter,
rom grass to grass, in just such
as to flesh as may be
desired.
Buckwheat and sunfIower seeds
operate similarly in respect to
gio, sing the plumage, but as buck
wheat is very heating the prefer
ence is given to sunflower seeds.
The virtues of the latter are so pro-
bounced and its value SO manifest
in the poultry yard that many far
mers raise a crop of sunhowers
every season for the sake of their
seeds.
The Russian sunfluwer differs
from the. American sort in that Its
flowers are nearly or quite double
in size and far excel the American
in the yield of seeds.
The old dead wood in the rasp-
berry beds should be cut out every
season, as soon as the crop is
gathered, to give strength to the
Dung shoots for the next years
bearing In the spring remove the
weakest suckers, leaving five or six
of the strongest in each hill.
The best preventive of worms in
celery is to mix plenty of salt, SCOT
and lime with the manure that is to
be employed in the trenches a few
weeks before it is used.
Clover should be moved before
the sod is turned over. The stalks
are of but little value as manure,
and in light sandy soil they work
positive injury. The principal fer
properties of the plant re-
side in the root. a good clover
sod will furnish enough plant food
for two crops of wheat in success
sion on most soils.
A sweet potato in a glass of wa
ter, in the sun, top left about one
quarter out of water, will send out
beautiful green vines.
In cleaning and oiling harness
all of it should be unbuckled and
thorouhly examined and cleaned.
Feeding chop ed unions to poul
try is said TO eradicate lice.
Grated horse chetnuts, mixed
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