The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-01-28

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For turkey breeding sclect the very
bes and largest. and feed veil. particu.
larry IN March and April
-" Remember" says W.. McAdam.
who invented the fDad-bed that goes Wy
tis name. " femomber that II you keep
stones out and eatsr on you have q
road"
Markings Of spots NJ indelible Ink
can generally be removed by washing
the place first with n solution ~ salt aud
afterward with aunutguia waer.
"A lady writes that she never turns
her window plants, ard. ns cgnse-
quence, geis great many more bios
SONS than when she kept turning them,
trying to keep them 10 pretty form.
The hardy catalpa Is a rapid grower.
and the timber " very durable, there
being, says DR. Warder, many instances
Of fence posts Of this wood lasting soy.
enty-live years. In twenty years In n
good soil, il will make three railroad ties
per tree.
In selling an OK weighing 1000
pounds only ~ much nitrogen Is sent
from the farm as would be lost by sell
ing about one and q half tons Of English
hay. OF phosphoric seid, such an ami.
nd would represent All amount found
In sfB c,bs q. ...t. whiio ope-eigith Of
ton of hay would supply al -. r'isah
the OK has in his body.
Prof Riley says that bees naturally
do not injure grapes. but only when
driven to it by scarcity of their ma
tural food, during drouth. or when
flowers are dried up and withered.
They will then attack sweet fruits. and
sometimes rupture perfect skins. When
they have supply of other food they
will leave grapes untouched long time
directly in front of the hives.
Baked fish is apt to be dry, and can
be improved by basting it with little
good fat or olive-oil. or by LAYING a slice
of salt pork over it, or strips of fat in
slashes cut in its upper surface. Blue
fish, bass, shad, carp, red snappers. and
other fish from three to six pounds in
weight, are good for baking; brown
grayy~or sauce should be served with
baked fish, and a highly seasoned bread
stufiing increases their palatability.
When a horse is brought into the
stable, says the Lire Stock JOHrnol, let
him stand short time, particularly if
sweating, then give him three or four
quarts OF water, not over cold; then
some uncut hay; after this feed of
grain or meal; and half an hour or so
after that is eaten, all the water he
pleases to drink. Some horses will eat
cut hay with impunity, Others cannot,
or at least not till after they have first
eaten some uncut. ~ .s
The Massachusetts, PloughnlGn
reasons that if the potato was the true
seed there would be but little doubt that
planting the best specimens would re-
suit in the improvement of the quality
of the product. But as they are not the
true seed, are not new life secured
through the principle of reproduction,
but simply continuation of the old life
secured by continuation of vegetable
growth, there is but little more certain
'ty of getting large potatoes, by plant
ing large ones for seed, than there
would be of getting large apples by set
ting large cions.
"A good many farmers and country
residents pay one of their heaviest taxes
to the weather. They pay this tax by
leaving wagons, plows, harrows, rakes,
trowels, spades, and other implements
exposed to dews and rains and sun, by
which they become weak and useless
twice as quick as they would with good
usage and protection. That is, fifty per
cent. of their actual value is lost. 1t
cannot be otherwise, unless care is exer-
cised, for dew is very destructive to all
wood, and sun-cracks admit rain and
moisture to the interior tibers to work
injury there. If you do not believe this,
try keeping your tools and implements
under cover and protected from the
weather, and see if they do not last
enough longer to pay for the trouble. A
few boards or straw cover is better
than nothing.