The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-23
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL IMPORTATION.
Facts for Farmers.

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If there should be a wool famine
within a year or two there would
Oe nothing in the fact that would
surprise some of the principal au-
thorities upon wool matters. Rot
has carried off many sheep in Eng
land and on'the continent, and it is
said that sheep are in numbers far
/ below the average. 1t may be that
the American wool grower is at last
about to find his reward for having
chung patiently to his sheep through
the long period of low prices.
One OF the first things necessary
in the education of a child intend
ed for a farmer is the cultivation of
the habit of observation. With
this habit once formed he never be
comes stupid, because he is busy
seeing things and rejecting over
what he has observed. This facul
ty is especially necessary while pre-
pairing the soil and watching the
growth of crops. In farming the
conditions of things are so various
and the proceeds often so hidden
that we constantly find something
new to add to our knowledge and
increase our skill.
The use of implements Of hus
bandry of imperfect construction,
or in bad condition, it is cotidenJly
believed, is n greater annual tax to
the farmers than all the assessments
imposed by law. The hindrance to
labor. loss in time, the greater hard
ship of its accomplishment and its
less cffectual operation by the toy
gled chain, the racked cart, the
dull ow-point, the toothless har-
row, the broken hoe, the spade, the
rake, the fork, if kept in accurate
account by each individual, would
present an aggregate of loss re-
proachful to many and criminal in
the most careless.
According to DR. Bush, there is a
marked difference between the milk
of chewing and the milk of
non cud chewing animals. The
milk Of the former contains a re
markable variety of casein, which,
under the digestive process, coagu-
lates into a hard mass. The other
kind of milk, to which human,
equine and asses milk belongs,
does not coagulate into a hard
mass, but into small granular or
fOculent masses, which are easily
difucible. In the milk of the cud
chewers there is but small amount
Of sugar and a large amount of
casein, while exactly the contry is
the case with the non-ruminants;
and this is the reason why the lat
ter is better than cows milk for in
fants brought up by hand.
No stock on the farm pays so
well as a small flock of sheep well
cared for. Whether raised special
~ for wool or mutton, it is the same.
We have an idea that the use of
upon our tables is becoming
more general. Mutton is a most
healthy food, and can he raised at
very little cost. A good Cotswold
mutton, even in our small towns,
ought to bring about Sc. Very in
ferlor sheep (the native stock will
net 3d. to $500 in almost any mar
ket when sold by retail. In the
of good market, a
flock of fifty COtswold sheep would |
pay any farmer handsomely. The |
manure of the sheep themselves, |
penned each night, will well repay
the expense of their keep, not to |
calculate the value they possess in
fields and pastures.
We all know how valuable it is to
have green grazing during the win
,er nenths, and we wonder why it
s THAT provision is not more gener-
ally made for this crop by farmers
everywhere. Grass and clover is
,he best and cheapest crop, but there
ire other crops whichshould not be
'orgotten nor neglected. Among
he latter, we will mention rye. 1t
will furnish fine grazing all winter
md during early spring; and if one
S operating dairy, it will guaran-
zee a superior article of butter Rye
should be sOwn upon very rich land,
% secure the best results. In fact,
t will not pay upon any other kind
IF soil. If the land is not rich, it
should be manfred and made so.
After the winter is over, and before
he rye natures, 1t would be well to
urn it under for fertilizing purpos-
IS. Enough should be left stand
ng to supply seed for another year.
Any excess of seed can easily be
disposed of at a remuneratIve price.