Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-29


can be avoided by plating the name
and tying it up in such manner that
it cannot touch the collar. 1t not only
Injuries the shoulder but the name also,
wuich is one of the Duties of the horse.
Pure rich blood gives us health, long
life and a green old age, but how few
pay any attention to the state of their
blood? Parsons Purgative Pills make
new rich blood, and taken one a night
for three months will change the blood
in the entire system.
Mr.. John Tallman, of Mount Morris,
N. Y, has, according to the Rural
Home, been much aided in his potato
culture this year by ga new parasite"
in size and form much like the large
squash bug, but beautifully colored
with variety Of hues-yellow, green,
gray, black, etc. 1t feeds on the Col
Grad beetle and larvae, and threatens
to exterminate that pest.
Mr.. Samuel Miller, Of Button, Mo-,
tells the Germantown Telegraph that
if fresh fodder corn is stacked with
straw-wheat or oats-in alternate lay.
ers of foot of the later and three
inches of the former, there is no dan.
ger of spelling, as the juices of the corn
are absorbed by the straw, and the later
islrendred so palitable that the cattle
eat it all greedily without waste.
There may be other Pile Ointments,
bearing the name of Buckeye, but so
far as we can learn, Tablers Buckeye
Pile Ointment is the only one which is
actually compounded from the Buck
eye, and is doubtless the best remedy
for Piles in the market. 1t is recon.
mended and used for nothing else but
Piles, but for that disease it is Ger.
tain cure. Price 80 cts. For sale by
j. B. Ritchey.
Although the frost may have injured
such crops as sweet potatoes, yet it i:
well to allow the potatoes to remain in
the ground as long as the vines appear
green, for more or less growth is being
made, and if rains occur the prospects
will be better for an increase of the
crop, and as the season is still early nj
harm can be done the potatoes by re
naming in the ground little longer
A writer in the New York WorlC
says that he had variety of sweet
corn with tall stalks and ears set high
By selecting only the lowest ears form
ed on the stalks, regardless of theil
size or general appearance, he has pro
duced corn in every way equal to the
original, but with the ears set compare
lively low on the stalks. The fodder
part of the plant has also been materi
ally reduced in size.
DR.. Hoskins, of Vermont, says
Every few know the productiveness o
the garden strawberry under good cul
tivation. I have picked four peel
baskets from square rod at single
picking. Crops of 200, and occasion
ally 400 bushels to the acre are report
ed, and $50 bushels are only a fai
crop. At ten cents quart this crol
will give a return of $40, more thai
half of which will be clear profit
There is not nearly the competition il
late berries that there is in the earl,
crop"
The Chicago Tribune recently men
tiontioned the birth of a calf from
Jersey heifer one year and eightee
days old. The Breeders Gazette
reported as stating that the Jerse.
heifer Susan Amelia, 1879, dropped
April II, 1882, gave birth to cal
April 81, 1883, she being at the tim
one year and ten days old. The sam
paper tells of Shorthorn heifer, drol
ped May 20, 1856, which May II
1856, dropped a fine heifer. Th
young dam was just three days le'
than a year old, and was herself suck
ing her dam.
w. F. Brown, in the Rural Ne
Yorker, says che finds more prof
, from the COWS that come in fresh in ii
; fall than from those that are fresh
l spring. Not only does butter bring