The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-31
FARM NOTES.

clover can be successfully s.hn with
buckwheat .t..
LABOR should be the application of a
principle, and not merely to follow a
blind precepent aE.N
TIN New York papers denounce the
praotioe OF spreading manure on lawns
or public parks as endangering health.
Why do not Our courts change tho
oath to jurors 80 as to agree with the
general practice? ave will find YER
DIV in favor of the smartest lawyer"
For six months of the year the cattle
And horses must depend upon hay as
sheir principal supply Of food and it is
Ill important that it be saved in the best
condition possible.
THE days of routine farming are or
ought TO be past. The farmer who will
succeed now, must not only know how to
do things correctly, but he must know
why he does things thus and SO.
VIZ HAVE variety of able professors
in our schools, colleges, and universities,
BIZ what they all lack now is a profess
sr OF common sense. VIII not some
itch man endow such proiessorship?
GRASS in cornfield is the same rs a
weed. Too many stalks in hill dimin-
ish growth the same MS weed. 1t
comes very near the truth to say that
weed is only plant out of place.-Bea-
nett.
liz YOU arc fattoning hogs soak the
corn, for it is hard and dry, and swine
can't eat much Of it. .It would pay to
construct box on purpose to soak corn
in. Pigs, calves and horses all do bot
tor on soaked corn. -BcnneH.
That man or woman who gratuitously
feeds tramp is worse than the tramps
themselves. This is tho process by
which they are encouraged and sup
ported There is a demand for double
the workmon which can anywhere be
found.-Io,Oa Suite Register.
The farm is the place to grow healthy
lads and lassies. The excitement Of q
city life blights when young 1t is the
country that infuses now life and energy
10 tho city, which continually receives
recruits from tho best blood Of the
country.
MILK turns sour in thunder storms
because during their continuance ozone
il generated in tho atmosphere. Ozone
il oxygen in state of great intensity,
and oxygen il the great ncidtfier through
out nature. The excess OF oxygen in
tho air inparts acidity to the milk by
the formation Of Tactic acid. -Proric
Farmer. .-.--.....-.
A NEBRASKA dairyman gives the fol
lowing advice Feed sound food and
give cloan water to your stock ; be per
fectly clean in all the operations OF pro
ducing buttor market it while fresh
and don't wait for rise, and | viii
guarantee the value will rise to MI aver,
nge Of seventy-tive cents per pound AM
oleomargarine factories will slip out o.
existence, and both makers and consumers
of butter will be satisfied"
To KILL lice on cattle, correspond
ent of the country recommends n mix
tllre Of one busllel Of dry sand aud iiv,
pounds of sulphur will clear fifty head
Get them into huddle, if you have q
large lot, then go on the wlndward side,
and throw it or sprinkle, as best you can
to get it on. One good sprinklinR vii
kill and clean out every one. Sui plur
coal oil and lard will clean fowls OF lie,
and scaly logs Rub it on the feet anl
legs, and run your greasy hands through
the feathers
The young lady goes to school or col
lego, and if luckily she has tcachc
who understands domestic economy, she
will learn that albumen dissolycs il
warm water, but hardens III boiling
water. But when she comes to assum,
the great duties of life, though she ha
learned that the albumen OF meat is til,
most nutritious part, yet she will her
bclf on permit her domestics to put he
mont Tor dinner in cold water and brni
nlbumcn and losing it. Here IL wher,
n professor Of common sense is needed
IMpoRrANoR or BREEDGNa SHEET.
However much by judicious manage
mcnt We may enable flock TO prnduc
wool under the most favorable circ,im
stances, it is perfectly clear that Til,
natural character Of the breed will he
very important agency management
will 20 fnr to favor tho growth Of wool
but it certainly cannot do all we need
Hence the Importance OF securing sheer
which are Of suitable breed, and from
which We may be sure to obtain wool o
tho desired quality and weight. Tn,
value of II long continued and careful
bpseding is shown as forcibly in the WOO
as in tho general form OF the body.
These ilocks which, for several success
sive generations, have maintained ono
steady and uniform character OF wool,
olier the best source from which to
breed whom it IL desired to improve the
wool of any flock. Tho buyers should
not look for rams suitable for this pur-
pose without duly considering the prev
ions history Of the flock from which they
may be selected. Many sheep pos
sssses the external publications. desired
80 far ~ the eye il able to judge--but
unless the flock from which it has been
obtained has been carefully fed. the
buyer will probably be disappointed.
The value Of good wool is u strong in
duoement for making its growth ms
abundant and as good M the local Cir
cumstances of farm will allow
FARMING IN CALIFoRsIA-A CORES
pondent of tho Chicago Tribune, who
has recently been iourneying from Cali
fornia to Los Angeles, writes as-f1l-
lows: Looking from the car across the
great agricultural section, the range OF
the eye is bounded only by the distant
mountains. while broad expauso of
waving grain covering many thousand
square miles of level land, lies between
Nowhere else is farming prosecuted on
such an extensive and scientific scale,
and tho quantity of wheat and barley
produced each year is something enor-
nous. To the Eastern tourist, the lack