The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-08-27

The farm may not always show
large returns in money, but the
farmer is always reasonably certain
of obtaining living from the pro-
ducts Of his land.
There is no call for keeping a SOW
that is troublesome and vicious, or
one that will destroy her own pigs.
Such an animal is better for meat
than for breeding purposes.
Observation most conclusively
! shows that the public taste for fruit
keeps pace with the increased pro-
duction. Desirable fruit products
are now almost constant articles of
diet.
The sickles Of the moving ma
chimes should be kept not only
sharp, but whenever a section be-
comes battered and cannot be
sharpened properly, it should be re-
| placed by new one.
The sulky-rake should be run
over the grain fields, if there are no
hogs to gather up the scattered
nCduS Ol dlu. uCIG is OlJCl
good deal OF grain left on the field
by the harvesters, and it should not
be allowed to waste.
1t is not to be supposed that ev-
cry operation on the farm which
{ wisdom advocates would give i'm
mediate appreciable retcrns, but the
farmer must do many things which
do not promise any returns at pres
ent, except in appearances and In
promises for the future.
The farm should now show to
| best advantage, and demonstrate to
the observing eye whether the farm
er's work has been well done or not.
Ii the farm does not present fine
appearance at harvest time, and
show some signs of giving adequate
/ returns for labor, it will never.
Save all pieces of boards and bits
of tough timber, says an exchange,
and put them away in the barn or
woodshed. How many times in a
year does a farmer want a strip of
board, a handle for a maui, or a
stick for pin, and if notj,at hand,
whole board or a fence rail must
be cut, or perhaps half a day lost
going to shop
Whether it is good or bad policy
to plOw corn CATER it becomes as
high as the horses back we will not
attempt to say; but in cultivating it
after it becomes SO large, great care
must be exercise not to break the
tender stalks, or not to tear loose
and injure the brace roots.
In harvest time farmers often suf-
fer greatly from heat, and sun
strokes are of frequent occurrence
in the harvest field. Too much
care cannot be exercised, during
the heat OF the day through the hot
weather, to avoid all semblance of
overheating. 1t is best, when the
weather is extremely hot, to lay by
during the middle OF the day,
commencing earlier and working
later.
The time of harvesting is always
a time of hard work and increased
care. In the harvesting much
time is lost by improper manage
ment in arranging the work. Often
the hands are obliged to wait on the
machine when there really is no
need of it. The expense of harvest
ing is always heavy, and farmers
cannot afford to lose much time by
improper management, and thus
increase the expense of putting up
the crops.
The Indiana Farmer says: Those
who are complaining of the de
cseased yield of their meadows be-
long to that class, as rule, who
pasture their meadows too late III
the fall, leaving no aftermath, and
also when the ground is too soft.
There is such a thing as killing
timothy grass, as well as anything
else, both by tramping it out and
freezing it out without a coat for
winter protection. We remark again
that it is right cold for a man to go
through a cold winter with sonly a
linen buster.
Farmers do not remember, says |
the Southern Planter, as often as
they should that all the profit from
their land comes from combination
of capital and labor applied to it.
Bare land unworked and unstocked |
is unprOductive. Remembering
this fact they will be less likely to
destoy their chances for profit by
unwise economy in farm labor. The
old saying that there is that which
scattereth and yet increasetb, and
that which withholdeth more than
is meet that tendeth to poverty, is
as true now as when Solomon ut
tered the proverb, and is especially
true of farm labor.
There is no pest of farmers and
gardeners which gives them more
trouble than the little green cab
bage worm, and any remedy that
promises to give relief will be ca
gerly welcomed. We give Professor
G. V. Riley, of the Smithsonian In
5titute, as an authority for the
statement that water heated to $50
degrees and applied to cabbage
worms at that temperature will kill
his pest without injuring the cab
oage. The remedy Is a very sim (
pie one and very easy of applica- {
ion. Some have found solution
If saltpetre in water as an effective {
'emedy. The proportion of the in
gradients used is tablespoonful of
'altpetre to a gallon of water.
The best means of making farm
ng profitable is to turn everything
o account in some way and not {
waste feed on poor stock, and time
n doing useless things, or by idle G
less. The manure and materials t
which should be turned into ma I
lure are perhaps wasted more than
else on the average farm.
There is no more important matter
or the attention OF the farmer than 2
he saving of manure, and in en-
iching the soil in every conceiva-
lie way. A farmer cannot waste