The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-07
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN
Farm Notes.

Stop the cracks aud holes in the
stable, whether made of boards or
straw, and save pain to your animals
and money 10 yourself,
Soo,. the itinerant tree peddler will
be ''abroad in the land" As rule.
he's good man to avoid. Boy trees
of reliable nursery men direct.
In the long run, a reasonable price
for farm products is better for farmers
than spasmodic fluctuations. High
prices are generally followed by cor
responding depressions and losses.
w. !. Chamberlain writes in an ex-
change that, since the Introduction
Of commercial fertilizers and better
tillage in Ohio, the wheat product has
doubled, and the yield per acre has
increased 10 per cent.
The Agricultural Epitomist notes
that successful farming is much
more complex than any trade, and de-
mands moro constant thought than
most branches Of professional life
together with executive ability equal
to the management Of any bnsi
ness.
IL is said that "an occasional meal
Of corn burnt on the cob until each
kernel is black, or as long az it can
be burned and have the corn retain
its shape, is grcedily eaten by fowls
and results in general Improvement
IN their health, and a greater average
number OF eggs are produced.
With our land thoroughly drained
we can carry on the operation of farm
ing with as great success and as little
effect from bad weather as any bust
ness which depends on such variety
OF circumstances. We shall have
substituted certainty for chance, as
far as it is in our power to do 80, and
made farming an art rather than a
venture.
An Iowa correspondent of the Ger
mantown Telegraph makes his grana-
ry dlstasteful to rats by "daubing all
the angles on the outside of the build
ing with hot pine-tar for the width off
three or four inches, and also any
seam or crack where rat or mouse
can stand to gnaw."
Many farmers would be justified |
by their own experience in doubling
the impracticability of raising 800 |
bushels of potatoes per acre but if
proper attention is given to bringing
the soil into proper condition by
thorough cultivation, keeping the
weeds and the beetles subdued, and
by mulching with staaw in dry sea
sons, there will be no very great diff.
ticu!ty in producing such yield.
Soon the gardener will turn his at.
tentlon to the selection of vegetable
seeds for Spring sowing. 1t is a good
idea to test them before sowing, by
taking few from each package and
sowing them in hower-pots, Keeping
'~AN "hNAO OhO oOll Will ne warm. |
It the seeds sown and those that GER. l
innate are counted very fair idea
nay be formed of the proportion that {
will grow of the whole. Do not de. ,
bend on old seeds; new ones are surer .
o grow, rs II rule.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution /
tates that "the money made by {
arming is the elearest, best moneyin u
ho world. II is made in accordance q
With Gods first law--under honest {
md genial inluences-away from the a
amt of trade or fierce heat of specu- l.
a:lon. 1t fills the pockets OF the II
armer at the expense Of no other Q
nan, His gain is no mans loss; but !
he more he makes the better for the $
World at large. Prosperous farmers h
make a prosperous people. What
yer benefits our agriculture, benefits |,
ne Commonwealth" a
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