Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-08-30
Agricultural Chuncks.

Athens Post.
Breed from the best.
Arrange winter shelters now.
Save and house all your straw.
None but good land should be put
in wheat.
A good, dry bed of straw is the
calls paradise.
Cut and cure every weed that will
make forage.
Good wheat cannot be produced
from Indifferent seed.
The instrinsic value of hardwood
ashes as fertilizer is half cent
pound.
Brush your plows with crude oil, so
they may engage easily in the fall cam.
paign.
Poultry well cared for will always
pay and give satisfaction, while they
will afford much pleasure.
Prepare your best stock for the
Fairs. You never know where the
blue ribbons go till the contest is over.
Save all the pea.vineS. They make
excellent hay for all kinds of stock
When harvested, put in rail pens and
cover to protect from rains.
Sell all Of your surplus stock. 1t
don't pay to carry them through even
an ordinary winter when feed is cheap
and plenty. Get rid of the surplus.
Sow rye and winter oats as soon as
the ground can be prepared in Septem-
Der. They will make excellent graz
ing during the fall and winter, and
then produce good yield.
For chicken cholera there is noth-
ing better than carbolic acid, one
drachm, with two gallons of water.
Let the fowls have free access to it as
a drink, and mix it with their food
once day.
Dairy farming when attended to, is
always profitable. To an immediate
profit is added the more essential and
real benefits of enriching the lands
and rendering valuable worn and vast
ed fields.
1t is absolutely necessary, in every
effort we make to advance the agricul-
tural interests Of the Southern States,
to understand that the colOred race is
fixed and permanent element in
these communities, and that on the
harmonious relations and action of the
white and cOlored races the prosperity
of these communities depend.
Let every farmer, whether blessed
with an abundant crop or not, prepare
for severe winter. If the severe
winter should not come, the precaution
will do no hurt. Waste food of ne
kind; feed stock judiciously; sell of
, all not needed husband every re.
source don't sell more feed than you
can well spare before you sell make a
close calculation how much you can
spare, and don t dispose OF ony more.
} Now is the time to select seed corn,
+ and on this point farmers cannot be
too particular. Go through the field,
select the largest, best developed ears
maturing earliest, and mark them by
/ some means so that they may be iden>
, tilted, and as soon as frost gather these
and hang up in some dry place. 1t il
} better to select from stalks bearing two
J and three ears, and when gathered to
, let them remain in the shuck till ready
for planting. The corn should then
: be nubbed at both ends, and none but
= sound and we'll formed grains planted
: If you have not herd of good
g COWS, sell what you have to the butch.
t er and get them. Select good milk
: ers; look out for improved breeds
e buy male of some of the celebrated
o milking families of Jerseys, Ayrshirei
e or Holsteins; cross these on your bes
/. COWS; save the choice heifer calves
e and thereby bring up your herd to the
e highest standard of excellence; ant
5 you will not only speedily develop 6
!, great industry, but find yourself on thu
n flood tide of prosperity, and your lands
It being made richer and more valuabl,
r than any other system Of farming cal
l. possibly produce.
= The fall fairs will soon be here. LIE