The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-18

AND USEFUL INFORMATION
Farm Nntas.

| Farm Notes,
Boiled potatoes are recommended
as a remedy for diarrhea in cattle
Feed warm and as much as the ami
NAL will eat, and q cure is more
than likely.
A British gardener greens all his
seed potatoes by leaving them in
a light place, but shielded from the
sun, and finds that thus treated
they keep much better during the
winter, and are much harder fol-
seed"
1t is estimated that the apple
crop this year will amount TO 200.
100000 barrels, but nothing like
this amount will ever find its way
to market or reach human consump-
ton in any shape.
A Georgia planter has over $4,000
tea plants growing near Savannah
An expert in a New York whole
sale tea house pronounced sample
OF this tea as good as India tea
worth 90 cents per pound.
The manure produced by saw dus,
when used as bedding for horses
is said to be better fertilizer foI
certain garden crops than any other
When mixed I'M the soil in which
celery is grown, it is said to greatly
benefit those plants.
The largest hog in the country is
q Poland China, four years old this
spring, lately on exhibition at juno
ton City. Kan. His length is Z
feet, girth of neck ST feet, girth oil
chest y teet, girth of centre feet.
width across the hips 80 inches,
and weight 1882 pounds.
A New York Farmer kills the
cabbage worm by sprinkling the
plants with ordinary black pepper
from tin box with perforated COW
er. The amount used is about one
pound to $50 plants The plants
are watered with soap suds previous
to applying the pepper.
The raising of horses in the great
Yellowstone Valley has become an
important and profitable business.
Some of the herders have from 500
to 1900 each, and dispose OF their
three-year-old colts at from $50 to
500 per head. The animals feed
on grass alone, and the only shelter
from the weather is roughly built
sheds.
Mr.. Ansley, Addison, N. Y, econ
omizes plants and space, and keeps
the fruit out of reach of poultry at
large by training bis tomato vines
against the side of building, fast
ening them as they advance into
growth. He tells the Rural Home
that some thus treated this year
reached height of eleven feet, and
were loaded to the top.
The crop of wheat at the Virgin
ia Agricultural College this year on
a clover fallow and superphosphate
costing on the land, 81 per acre,
sixty-seven pounds per
bushel. On account OF the mild
ness of the winter the crop had to |
be grazed down twice with sheep. |
Before harvest it suffered from
irouth. So says the Planter and
Farmer.
This years wheat crop of the
Big Dalrymple farm in Dakota
cots up $4,000 busheIs-abUnt
100 car loads, or forty-five train
Dads of twenty cars per train
This immense crop will go to the
eaboard by way of the lakes.
through Canada and the Erie canal,
md is expected to net sixty cents
Ter bushel at the farm.
The general rule in feeding cows
s that twenty-seven pounds of dry
God daily is required for 1000
'ounds of live weight, and that
-fourths or two-thirds of this
hould be bulky food, such as hay.
This is rule which admits of many
Very much depends
pom the form of the cow. Some
ows weighing 800 pounds consume
lore food than others weighing
900 pounds.
The farmer who has green grass
lots around his house, handsome
took and fowls, good orchards,
hade trees, flowers and shrubbery.
neatly painted house, tasty yard
nd fences-in fact, who uses every
nergy and means to the beautify-
lg of home and lending to It's at
-ative (outward as well as inward J
need have but little tear /,
I his sons and daughters leaving
lie country for the city A home
Iust be made attractive, or the
hid is liable to form distaste for
arm life.
The average yield of corn, says
lie New York Times. is less than
behalf of the possible yield
Then one thinks how little the sec
nd half of 100 bushels of corn
osts per acre, the profit of growing
lch crop becomes apparent; and
is easy to produce such yield.
ne wants the right kind of corn,
pod, land and little extra work 9
cultivation. The cost of. the |
nd and of planting and tending
Ie crop is the same for twenty
lshels as for 100 bushels per acre.