The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-23
FARM EXPERIENCE.
Fonts Observed, Contributed, Cola
ted and Condensed.

Sow SEINE corn for fodder to help
out the short pastures in the dry
season.
Green food Of some kind, cleanli-
ness and pure water, are preventives
of hog cholera. -
A garden must be mellow, rich
and kept clean. This gives the
inside secret of successful garden
ing.
All clay land need clover roots to
penetrate and loosen their com
pact strata and to supply vegeta-
BILE matter.
Poverty stares the farmer in the
face who is always overstocked, and
pastures his field close and bare ev-
cry season.
Golden millet makes a large
growth in a short time, and is an
excellent feed. Alfalfa and orchard
grass are also splendid crops to
grow for rough feed.
Pork making and apple-growIng
are mutually helpful when the
wormy apple gets into the pigs di-
gestion. Poultry for the plum
trees, swine for the apple orchard,
and-the curculio and maggot must
go.
The benefits of keeping the best
stock procurable for whatever pur-
poses they may be intended are he
coming recognizable every year,
and the attainment of better stock
is the ambition of all progressive
| farmers.
Plant few grape vines, a nice
bed of strawberries, some ounce,
raspberry, blackberry, gooseberry
and currant bushes, and take good
care of them all, and in this way
have variety of choice fruits for
family use.
The performance of a single ami
NAL does not determine the merits
of breed; this is done only by the
sum of the performances of all the
individuals Of that breed. So says
a writer in the Farmers Gazette,
Dublin.
The best method OF insuring sue
cess on the farm is to deserve it by
leaving nothing undone which will
tend towards this much desired
contamination. No farmer could
reasonably expect or deserve sue
cess who would not strive for it, or
would knowingly leave undone
things necessary for its entertain
ment.
If day is lost, it is lost forever,
and a days work fyr one hundred
stands of bees, in the best of the
season, is from 500 to 700 pounds
and the price OF that would pay
hired man a months wages. Again,
if the combs get full and have no
room, tue bees will swarm, and that
takes time to put them back, SO
you sand the bees have lost time
which is valuable il counted right.
In resettilg the rail fences this
spring, do so that it will not have
to be done over again next spring.
Old rotten rails make better fuel
than fence, and should not be used,
as they soon give out or break and
throw the fence down. If old rails
are used, they should i be laid to-
wards the top, so that if they do
give out they will not do 50 much
damage, and will be more easily
replaced.
If sawdust is easily procurable it
will pay to mulch the ground
abouGvines and bushes heavily with
it 1t may not Go the vines as much
good as fertilizer, but indirectly
will benefit them greatly. 1t keeps
the weeds down and thus saves
mach labor, keeps the ground moist
and mellow, and gradually be-
comeG rotten wood, when it is one
of the most valuable fertilizers. for
plants and vines.
The shoats which have been kept
ever winter and are intended for
the June market must not be al
lowed to become reduced in flesh,
although they should not be kept
too fat, until their frames have be-
come pretty well matured. They
should have the run Of q field Of
pasture of some kind--clover if
possible-and sufficient grain each
day to keep them growing most rap
idly. Be sure and not make the
mistake of shutting the pigs up in
pen and depriving them Of pasture,
as they require it as much as any
other kind of stock.
Early vegetables necessitate put
ting the seed in the ground often
before all danger of freezing past.
A good way to protect the seed and
insure them to terminate is, after
the seeds are in, to cover the beds
an inch deep with fresh fine stable
manure, This will start the seeds,
prevent freezing, and if there is any
danger of the manure injuring the
plants it can be raked of just as
they are ready to come through. |
The advantage of this is that it
will secure a weeks earlier start, |
which is quite an Item in growing
early vegetables for market.
Bees, says the Indiana Farmer,
serve as active agents in the fertili-
cation of plants, and are not de-
structive in the smallest degree.
They are profitable because they
gather and store up that which
would be entirely lost without their
aid. They work in places that are
rarely seen, and the fence corners
and neglected spots are often valua-
BILE pasture fields for them. Though
as resentful in nature, yet
they are not aggressive, and they
can be cared for easily by ladies
and the younger members of the
family, for like animals, they are
conquered by kindness.
Every farm has a collection of
bones Of more or less magnitude.
Scattered around over the farm
they are unsightly and IN the way,
but properly handled they become
very valuable manure. If broken