Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-07-21
-McMINNVILLE, TENNESSEE SATURDAY, JULY d. 1883
farm and 0Mer s2lotes.

lOrk lrlDuDe RECOMMENDS inc Inlu'
ming of grapes to one bunch on shoot.
Mr.. Steaven Allen Olney writes
from Virginia that his pigs show much
appreciation of an orchard grass pasture
"What makes your buckwheat
cakes so nice ?" was asked at breakfast
by visitors to a correspondent of the Ru-
raj World. After their reputation was
thus established, the host explained
that they were made of -four of sor-
ghum seed.
Fowls will greedily eat great many
bones if cracked fine enough so they
can swallow them. They will eat
bones Of any age, but give the prefer
erence to fresh ones with adhering
meat. Bones with morrow in them
are also a delight to them.
The best test of good farmer is the
thoroughness with which the manure is
cleaned out from his barnyard. The
odd places where rich deposits have
been accumulating for years should all
be cleared, and if this removes more
soil than can be spared replace. with
sods from the roadside, which, when
saturated with manure, are the richest
kind Of fertilizer.
There are 1850 square feet in an
acre Of ground, and it is easy from
this to calculate the number of hills or
plants required on given area. AT
three feet by three feet, which is
the distance commonly required for po-
tatoes in hills, there will be 1910 hills
on an acre, and if these yield at the
rate of one bushel for 20 hills the crop
will be more than 240 bushels per acre.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
gives the following about the peach
tree borer: "The beautiful blue fly re-
sembling the wasp, which lays its eggs
just at the surface of the ground in the
stem of the trees, maybe seen occa'
sionally at this time pursuing its allot-
ted task The simplest remedy, Oh
rather preventive of its attacks, is a
piece of stout wrapping paper about q
foot wide wound around the stem of the
tree just above ground. A little dirt
should be drawn up around the bottom
of the paper, while the top can be tied
with cotton string"
j. M. Stahl, in the Ohio Farmer
says: 81 do not think pumpkins are
good fat-formerS; they contain large
proportion of water, but for all thai
they are nutritious. The results Of
feeding pumpkins convince me that il
pays to raise them. | find that feed
ing hogs on corn. exclusively leads tC
costiveness and generally results in Sc
rlous arrangement of the digestive and
assimilative organs, or disease. Pump
kins are laxative and at such time;
good medicine. When l throw lOad
of them into the feed lot | fancy l an
almost literally following Shake
speare's advice, for j am throwing
physic to the hogs. 1t is not what q
hog eats, but what he digests thai
makes him fat; and if a pumpkin OIL
anything increases the ability of the
proper organs to digest thoroughly
other food, that agent is valuable
though it contains of itself very little
nutriment.
Chicken cholera can usually b,
checked by change of food. Civ,
the fowls scalded meal with chopped
vegetables, especially raw onions, mix
ing in a handful of common garden
rue, sprinkling the whole with red pei
per. In bad cases few drops of laud
anum may be added. If you do no
have rue in your garden it may be ha,
r of your druggist. 1t is an excellen
: remedy for chicken cholera, and thos
who keep poultry should have a fey
clumps of this herb growing on thei
premises, where it will be handy i
case it is needed.
An experienced dairyman states q
his opinion that sweet cream makes
butter that must be eaten fresh tn
butter has very delicate flavor, bu
not the rich nutty flavor of that mad