The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-08
FARM NOTES.

MILK will keep sweet for n longer tlme
in glass than in metal or wooden vessels
Pull ont the old pea vines and SOW TO
turnips and plant to cucumbers ior
pickles.
WHEAT retains it terminating powers
after being subjected to temperature Oh
80' below zero. -,
A TEXAS paper says that State will
raise enough Of peaches this year to sup
ply dozen States.
A cow produces more butter IN SIX
months after calying than she will in SIX
subsequent months.
THE horse with unduly small joints. Is
weak and especially subject to spralnS
and bone diseases.
A WRITER in VTck's Illustrated maya
zinc says he sprinkles the cabbage worms
with wheat BRAN, and the worms oiS-
appear.
OATS are the best feed for working
horses, as they furnish more nourishmehI
and flesh making material than any other
food. =,
A HORSE with weak digestion should
be fed four times day, with but a
small quantity of bulky food and should
not be watered until two hours alter
eating.
HENS should be killed when three
wears old as they lay less eggs every
wear after the third, and they naturally,
become diseased, and are not 80 good
eating when older.
In removing crops from the soil we take
AWAY plant food. This is the chief cause
of soil exhaustion. Lack OF fertility is
commonly due, i'll part or entirely, 10
lack of plant food.
A RECENT discussion in the Lancaster
County Pa. J Agriculture Society ON the
amount of ground that should be put, INTO
tobacco elected the statement that from
two to three per cent. of the farm was
about the proper amount.
WITH the best grass it is necessary 10
grow preen-fodder crops for cows, and
sometimes for horses, for it is found that
the grass alone will not support as many
COWS as the farm can and ought to carry
on the other crop.
WHILE with most breeders OF fancy
stock the calves draw the milk direct
from the COW, the majority OF farmers
feed skim milk and sour milk, and IN
the vicinity of cheese factories, even
whey, which is as good as nothing.
Ir NAV not be generally known, espe-
cially by farmers or those engaged in pur-
suits foreign to fruit growing, that many
varieties of fruit plants, vines and trees,
require, to obtain the best results, a
large amount of mulching and manur-
ing.
ONE of the best methods of keeping up
the fertility of COW pastures is to give the
cows extra food during the pasturlnlg
season. This extra food will be repaidin
extra milk every week, and SO enrich the
droppings as to fully compensate the pas
ture for all the grazing.
In laying down pastures great care
should be exercised in selecting the seed
of large number of grasses. This is
important-first, because the land vii
produce much larger yield of fooc
from twelve to twenty varieties OF grasses
which completely occupy the soil, thar
from two or three that leave space unoc
cupied.
DoN'T let the children have to ruI
away from home to the city or village
says the New England Farmer, for sucl
| Injuries as berries and other small fruits
but have them so abundant on your tabl
daily, in their season, that the city cous
ms will envy, rather than pity you, as i
too often the case where no fruits ar
grown on the farm.
climbers are especially useful for dec
Grating, and furnishing shades for veran
das. and making screens for hiding I'M
slightly places. OF the woody sorts, tn
Wistaria, Akebia, Clematis, Loniceras
etc, are among the best. If these can
not be waited for, SOW ANNALS, as Cy
prus Vine Canary Bird Flower, Morn
ing Glories, etc, or plant Madeira Vines
The Massachusetts, PlOWnoan assert
that q better grade of animals is obtaine,
by breeding them on the farm than b.
purchasing them. More care is be
slowed in selecting the offspring, an
they will fatten more rapidly and uni
formly than strangers, as it takes con
siderable time for the latter to becom
accustomed to their surroundings an
consequently fatten less quickly tina
those to the manor born.
THE number Of square feet in IN acr
is $500. In order to have this aren
the piece of land must be of such lengt
and breadth that the two multiplied to
gether will produce the above number
Thus, an acre of land might be 43, 5OO
feet long by ono broad; q, $50 feet lonl
by two feet broad; II, $40 feet long b,
three feet broad, and so on. If the acr'
of land is to be exactly square, each side
must he nearly as possible 2OS feet 5!
inches. The nearest you can come t.
IN exactly square acre with an even
number of feet in the side is to make il
300 feet long by 1893 broad.
PLASTER is sulphate of lime or gyp,
sum, and when pure consists of 1921 pei
cent. of lime, 46l per cent of sulphuric
acid, and 81 per cent, of water combined
and not absorbed, water of crystaliza
tom. This water is driven off by heat
ing, when the gypsum becomes fit fol
Use as plaster for building purposes, the
water being recombincd and the paste
acquiring its stony hardness again. Fol
field use it is not heated, but the rock is
simply ground fine. If the gypsum is
free from impurity it is always the same
wherever may be its origin. 1t is easy
to discover impurities, as gypsum is Sc
soft as to be easily cut with knife
while carbonate of lime and quartz, which
are the usual impurities, are much