The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-31
THE MORRES9OVN GAZETTE.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81, 1880.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81, 1880
TOPICS FoR TEE FARH. +
Among all domesticated animals noni
are more proftable than poultry, wher
their products are properly disposed of
Wood ashes make an excellent fertf1i
ger for pear trees. Mixed coal and
wood. ashes Insy also be applied with
advantage. For fruit trees of all kinds
ground bones are better than ferRenting
manure.
A fruit grower in Tangipah0e Parish,
Louisiana, speaking OF pear blight, says
g This disease is on tie increase in
almost every orchard in the South. The
cause is chiefly bad culture and no
pruning"
Draining a EclleW.-To drain a de-
preston ia 2 field where a cIayey or hard
pan subseil prevents the sinking of rain
water, and the lay of the land is I'M
favorable for ordinary methods of drain
age, first dig a hole, SIS if for a well,
through the imperyioHs stratum at the
bottom Of the hollow, Gil it up 10 the
brim with refuse stones, remove the
excayatsd earth so as to allow the sur
face-water free aecess to the pit, and
standing water will never injNre ths
grass or grarh crop in that part OF the
Iield.-ZEe Dixie Farmer.
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Winter PrUnIGg.-1t is not wise to
cut of large limbs from fruit trees ia
the winter, But for -tWig pruning this
season OF the year is the best. One has
plenty Of time to do this work, and can
attend to it personally.
Georre ParIgelee, Il veteran orchardist
of The North, does. slh 1.-The pruning in his
hundred-aCre orchard in the winter. and
has ADOPTED tbs PLAZA after an experience
with dIlBeBeH fnstbeds-lnlV various lOcali-
ties, running through thirty years Of
time. But one thing is true Of his prun-
ing, that he Goes it so well from the
young placed tree to the largest in his
orch2Fel taaE Eoslarg5s limb is ever
taken eli
Prof. Steele, of Mobile, Ala, gives
the following instance of the profits in
the single. snail fruit, .strawberries:
I'm October efa1S7S, a gentleman living
in the neighbOrhood of Mobile, put out
upon hisfaTn 1,000 strawberry plants
of the Wilson's Albany variety. Thew
cost him 81. OF these, 100 plants died,
leaving him $40 growing and in fair
condition. Last spring they came into
bearing, and from these $40 plaats he
sold IN the st. Louis market fruit enough
TO bring him S6A02, besides having
sufficient left for home consumption,
Next spring they viii be apt to do
much better than they did last spring"
Poultry Vermin.-The American Kari.
cllst5aist says: Vernin are the greatest
pest TO fowls. They are worse In the
winter than at other times. because the
fowls are confined more closely. and
have not opportunities to free them
selves. Lice may be DESTROYED bv |
whitewashing the house and roosts with /
Hme-Wash mixed with carbolic acid. /
Fleas may be destroyed by thoroughly /
crossing the rOOsts. Clean straw should I
be supplied to the nests, and glass nest
eggs provided for early layers. 4 glass
covered coop will be useful for an early /
setting hen. and a young brood Of
chickens.
Ashes on the LaWn.-In the place of
the unsightly lawns at this season of the
year, that we find about cities, covered
over with coarse manure, that scents the
whole neighbOrhood with its escaping
gases, we might have the same besuti-
full turf of summer, by APPLYING ashes
as fertilizer. For 8 surface applica-
ton to grass lands, T. S. Gold, Secre-
tary of the Connecticut Board of Agri-
says ashes are worth twenty
five cents per bushel. In almost any
city or village family, ashes enough are
made during the year to fertilize a
large lawn, and save the unsightIy. IN
odoEiferous Compound from
the stable usually applied fer this pur-
pose. It is impossible in the aggregate, 4 5
as We have suggested above, to get too
much manure, but there are suitable
places for the various sorts.
There are some Instructive lessons in
the sudden panic Ia wheat. The1arge
buyers, like Keene, can leok complsc-
entity on and see the market go down,
for they know that a full recovery is
only question Of time. But the small
operators who followed the big fish,
when trey -sawy@s.priees going up, and
g2mbled ON a still further advance. find
-. /
1t is the same lesson that the lam e
learned in Wall street Ia Decemb Der, 4
when the heavy operators, by a dexter
Gus turn, were able to add few more
millions to their profits. The rush of
the small wheat speculatiOns to get out +
Of the market will not unlikely send
prices still lower. They are even yet
higher in Chicago than will admit Of I,
profitable shipment to the seaboard, and ,
the blockade in the elevators and ware /
houses continues.-C5gcinnGt Gazette. {
Next TO man, The horse has claim
to a higher order of treatment than any {
other animal. He needs pure air and
water, quiet and comfortable lodging. {
exercise with alternate rest, salt always |
resch and variety of diet; but
regularity in feeding and
and honest currying and hard /
rubbing. Numbers of horses remain |
thin, while consuming q full QUANTITY of ! s
fOOd-shOWing their food is not properly
sssimilateds a change in his dietis the
remedy. One Of the best possible feeds 6
IS a little cotton-seed meal with equal }
quantities of corn and oats ground fine, /
and ali with cut hay or straW-a gallon t
If the mixture three times a day is I
Usually enopgh. Aslong IS he finishes
lis all0W8noe, the qJ1anity can be c
gradually increased, If necessary, but b
lever put in 50 much that In. will stand t
y trough with food or rack with Z
lay or fodder. He viii thrive better
nth no more food than lie will consume Il
lean. One of the greatest barbsTities g
I modernism isa-tight- ehOek-rsin when :.
horse is stationary, or sitting long on 4
lis back white ~gt2ndino When tire .
orse is not in motion, the shouldrein t
e lowered, or the rider digmount. a
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