The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-02
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL IMPORTATION.


Increased crops and diminished
expenses are the remedies for hard
times. During the mopths be
tween now and planting, consider
carefully how this remedy may be
applied Begin this fall by careful
ly selecting from your crops the
seed for next years use; for, as we
lave repeatedly shown, good seed
is all the foundation of large crops.
Consider carefully whether to pillow
in the fall or spring, bringing all
your past experience to bear on
your decision. Stop all the wastes
tina, you find, and even seek care
fully Tor wastes to be stopped. Re-
view your past failures and success
ses, and search out the causes
which operated, and decide how to
obviate the one, and gain the other,
the coming season. Carefully re-
feet on your methods of feeding in
the winter months, and ask your
self whether a change of system
may not be profitable A dollar
saved here is dollar earned: aud
frequently the sale of one kind Of
produce, and the purchase of an
otlser, brings profit. When hay
brings a good price and straw is
cheap, cannot the straw be fed
profitably through the use of roots
and cotton seed meal and a balaa ce
in money be secured? Have you
facilities for rearing spring lambs
for the early market? More impor-
tant still, consider how much land
you have which is not producing,
and yet which can be made produc
tive. If you have such land, it is
certainly folly to leave this capital
idle. Is it a question OF manure?
Then carefully scheme how manure
may be best provided, and whether
you can purchase artificial fer
tilizers and use them advantageous
Is. Now, before the hurry time, is
your opportunity for studying into
these things, and deciding what fer
tilizers is the most promising for
you.
Have you the tools necessary for
your spring work? If not, now is
the time to examine into the merits
of various inventions, and to calcu-
late which you can best afford TO
buy, if at all. Usually tool
can be purshased more ad-
vantaceousiy in winter than in
summer. Often there are too
many tools on the farm, but
some of which are not adapted to
your use. Often again you do not
possess enough, nor of the right
kind. In the winter time reflect on
these subjects, and have decision
ready when planting time again
comes about. Carefully look over
your years expenses, and think
whether there has not been waste
there which may be rectified. CAL
culate on next years plans under
your past system, and with caution,
consider how your system may be
improved SO that the same or more
work can be accomplished with less
money. Be not TOO ready to adopt
the new, but be ever ready to reject
the old when your experience indi-
Gates that gain may be expected
to follow. Here, as elsewhere, use
wise caution, which is not conser-
vatism, but common sense. Final
ly, do not depend on your paper for
all your ideas, but seek your own
hints. If you do this honestly, you
will keep memoranda of your daily
experience, and will quickly recog-
nize the importance. The farmer
who applies business principles to
this work-and this day-book mat
ter Is business-cannot fail to be
prosperous and progressive.-E Elk.