The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-09
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL INFORMATION.
Farm and Garden.


1t should be understood that
there is moro wear from rust than
from use, with farm machinery.
The soil of a young orchard may
be kept under cultivation until the
trees begin to bear; grain should
never be grown except Indian corn,
but potatoes and root crops are the
best.
To increase the yield of rich milk
give cows every day water slightly
sailed, in which bran has been
stirred at the rate of one quart to
two gallons of water.
A New York farmer kills the cab
bage worm by sprinkling the plants
with common black pepper from an
ordinary TIN box-a pound to $50
plants-sometimes having been pre-
viously sprinkled with soapsuds
from The weeks washing.
When wheat follows oats in
rotation, the stubble may be stirred
with a cultivator to give the scat
tered oats chance to sprOut before
blowing for the wheat crop. If tie
oat crop is harvested before the
grain is fully ripe, as it should be,
there is less need of this precau-
ton.
II il now well established fact
that the. Hessian fly is much less
troublesome on wheat that is sown
in drills, between which the Guilt
Eator is passed cow and then dur
ing the early growth Of the grain.
Two fields of wheat growing side by
side, one OF which is cultivated and
the other is not, but alike in all 9TH
respects, seem proof of the truth of
the above statement.
The practice of pondiDg water for
stock is to be condemned. From
its stagnant condition, it necessari-
ly becomea impure, especially dur
ing the hot season, and when drank
is a serious injury to the health OF
the stock. 1t is one of the causes
of bad odor in milk, and is fire.
quently the cause Of malarial and
typhoid diseases in the farmers
family. Provide fresh water for all
cattle if you would keep them
healthy and thrifty.
A correspondent in the Country |
recommends suntlower |
seed cure for the heaves in horses,
and says: "a gentleman told me |
hat there was nothing equal to sun
lower seed for that purpose. He
lad one bushel OF the seed ground |
With two bushels of oats, and gave
he horse two quarts Of the mixed
neal, wet in warm water, three
lines q day. He took the time
when the horse was not hard at
york. Ia two weeks not a sign of
he heaves could be observed, and
he horse looked as sleek and
right as if his hair had been oiled.
lie had cured two horses of his own
f this distressing complaint, and
recommended it to others, who had
a like result. In cases
f horse dIstemper and coughs, it is
n excellent remedy.
The Farm and Fireside speaks :
18th just severity OF the way black
miths hack off the frog OF the {
orse's foot, as though nature had
Iade mistake in putting it there.
We know" it says, "what ar ele- .
hant's foot is; it is all rubber like. t
he horse has the same encased in
shell which gives him accuracy t
i'd steadiness of movement. Now C
lis case protects the frog. 1t
'ows slowly, the frog grows rapid
+. The healthy foot of the colt
lows a centre, if not projecting, at
asst level with the line of the hoof.
e does not take his weight wholly
1 the rim of his feet. Old horses
ould have feet more like them if
would allow they knew
little less than nature and really =
new enough to read her inten-
ons.