The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-06-25
THE FARMER.


elusive uAGA ~ 49,
Corn Is considered one Of the best
kinds Of feod to produce wool and
heavy fieeees.
Brood sows should have nice,
warm, dry pens, and should be kept
ouiet and well bedded.
For the promotion of the milk
WELD, oat middlings are considered
one of the best rations.
There are 2O9 varieties of cher
ries. GO of apricots, 239 of peaches
1897 OF pears and 297 of pluns-
Stock raissrs in Texas say they
are receiving about IS all round less
than they did last spring for the
Same stock.
Farmers who have tried 1t say
that a good crop of cabbage can be
raised by growing few tobacco
plants ameng them.
Corn roots run shallow, which ac-
counts for the fact that hilled corn
blows down more easily than If lev
sl culture is used.
An Australian ram was sold IN
that country for the large sum oil
$4,000. The wool taken from It's
fleece was ever four inches in length
Moderately fat hens are the most
generous layers, aud their eggs pro-
duce stronger and more healthy
chickens than those from over-iat
hens.
IL is good plsa to pinch OF the
later blooms Of the tomato plant, Is
this will hasten the maturity OF the
fruit already set aud increase its
size.
Never gather berries while wet
with dew or rain. Much fruit 10
ruined by being gathered too early
in the morning, especially in hot,
sultry weather.
The prospects of the wheat crops
!. not as good IL y month ago. A
larger area was injured by the wins
ter freezing than was generally sup
posed. 4 full average crop, hsw>
ever. is expected.
Carbolic soap, literally applied
two or three times, at intervals OF
as many days, will, it is claimed
entirely destroy lice on hogs. 1t IL
also a good plan to mix little sui
phur with their feed at the same
time.
At the New York State sheep
shesring, the heaviest fleece was
two vear-old rams, weighing TWEEN
ty-eight pounds twelve ounces. The
heaviest eve fleece was that of
four-year old, weighing twenty-five
pounds nine ounces.
The ordinary marker makes tw'
deep n furrow for corn, especially
when the planting is early and tbs
ground cold. Ifa cold rain comes
Oh after planting, this corn, put 81
far below the surface, will rot, or a
best make only a sickly growth
Because seed potatoes are cheal
it does not follow that it il best t
use more seed. Some varieties hav'
so many eyes that even with Pots
toes cut in small pieces there Wi
be too many stalks in the hill. From
two strong stalks there will be NOR
merchAntzble tubers than from
heavier seeding.
IL j. expected that the exhibits J.
the Horticultural Department Of In
Worlds Fair at New Orleans, mex
winter, will prove revelation I
Northern frat growers A Missi'
sippi man proposes to furnish fires
fruits, Including strawberries dun
ing the six months of the exposition
all of them the outdoor product
the State.
Let anyone try roasting corn b'
fore feeding the fowls. and tell yo
by-and-by if his egg basket does nc
fill much more rapidly than usua
An Indiana Farmer correspond
ent cured the worst case of sci
milking COW by inserting in he
nose a ring of two and half
three inch diameter.
Ii j. said that lime slakcd with
solution of salt i'm water, an
then properly thinned with Skin
milk from which all the cream ha
been taken, makes a permaneu
white wash, for outdoor work, an
renders the wood incombustible.
Robert Griffin OF London is afrai
the earth will not be large enoug
TO hold the population it will hav
ia few years. Let him try hoein
an acre OF potatoes aud then he
begin Ia realize how big Il l. an
how many men it will hold.
A farmer makes the statemen
that two pigs furnished with much
sand, weeds and soil, will manufaC
ture them into the best of manur'
which will be worth. when the pig
are six months old, as much as
ten Of The Lett superpbosPhate tina
sells for $50 ton.
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