The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-16
FARM EXPERIENCE,
Points Observed, Contributed, Col
lated and Condensed.

High and gravelly soil is the
best for fruit trees.
Eternal diligence is the price of
success to the farmer.
Separate the cattle into different
buaches according to their ages.
In laying out a garden always |
avoid wet and heavy clay soil.
The farm work should always be
kept in advance of the season.
When to plant and what to plant
should now be the farmers study.
Mild weather in the winter is
the very best time to do outside
painting.
Barley makes an excellent feed,
and q very cheap one at present
prices.
The size of the manure heap is q
good index to size of theinext years
crop.
Boil the potatoes and mix with
bran or meal before feeding them
to hogs.
Wheat should never be fed whole
without being soaked at least TWEEN
ty-four hours.
Stewart recommends nj cely-cured
clover hay as an excellent feed for
hogs in winter.
The farmer of all men should be
a good Judge of stock.
Red-pepper, if not a cure,
thought to be a preventive of chol-
era, both in swine and in poultry.
Salt is one of the cheapest of fer
tilizers, and is also beneficial to
many kinds of soil, and to most
crops,
1t is strange, but true, that fruit
of fine appearance sells better than
fruit Of extra quality, which is not
so snowy.
1t is good time to sort the APP
pies and potatoes now, as this is
about the time that they begin to
decay rapidly.
Any man will take pride in fine
stock, and will try and keep it well,
when he would neglect that of in
ferior quality.
The most successful farmers
study out every means of increas-
lag the comfort of their stock,
and lessening the cost of the keep.
The pig is, perhaps, the most
economical machine for the manu-
feature of the coarse grains into
meat and into less bulk for ship
ment.
L. is said that Jersey milk makes
more butter and makes 1t easier
than other milk, because the butter
globules are larger and more even
in size.
Broom corn is said to be a fine
paying crop through the west, and
we see no reasons which it should
not be in the older portions of the
country.
In using kerosene to kill lice on
stock mix it with lard, about half
and half, or it may take all the hair
Oh, il it does not otherwise injure
the stock.
Ambition on the farm is a goed
thing, especially if it runs in the di-
rection of having the neatest and
cleanest farm, the best crops, and
the finest farm.
Ia making arrangements for the
spring crops, keep in mind the
fodder crops. Perhaps more feed
can be obtained from an acre in
corn fodder than in any other sin
gle crop.
Work in all the waste corn stalks,
straw, etc, into the manure heap.
The hands cannot be engaged in
more profitable work than in gath
ering up such things to increase the
compost pile.
Young animals make the most
rapid growth, hut heavy ANNA Is
bring the most per pound, which
many think more than makes ND
the difference in cost of maturing
them.
When using the wagon, says an
exchange, to take a load to the
field, throw in a shovel and bring
back a load of loan from around
stumps and logs, or wood dirt, and
throw it into the compost heap. 1t
will pay.
Prof 1. P. Roberts gives a few
good hints to farmers in science.
Season fence-posts one year before
using, he says. Cut oak and cedar
in February; chestnut and most
other wood in August. To give
durability, he advises that we soak
the lower ends of posts in brine be
fore setting.
This Is the time of the year for
root grating. Any intelligent farm
er can do his own grating, after
little experience, and raise his own
trees. Perhaps he cannot raise
them any cheaper than he can buy
them; but the trees will not be
bruised and injured in Transports
ton, and will grow much better.
According to the American Agri-
culturist, the chief cause of or
chards running" is an exhaustive
soil. The best treatment for an
orchard, after it comes into bear
ing is to make hog pasture of it.
If clover is sown, and the pigs are
allowed to feed upon it, the soil will
improve-and so will the pigs.
1t is true that parsnips will re-
main in the ground all winter with
out injury if dug before growth has
commenced in the spring. But
that is not the best way to keep
them, especially for use during the
winter. If few are dug and Gov
cred with earth in the cellar they
will be quite as good and much |
more convenient, than by the old
method of keeping where grown.
Horticulture does not receive the
attention among farmers that it
should. There are many small |
crops which would pay largely, es-
pecially for the small farmer, as