The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-05-07
FARM EXPERIENCE.
Points Observed, Contributed, Cola
ted and Condensed.

farm.
Onions, lettuce and cabbage seed
cannot be sown too early after the
frost,leaves the ground.
1t is not wise to SOW any but the
very best seeds. Do not SOW poor
seeds to save purchasing.
Rotation, with variety of crops,
is necessary to the highest and
most successful cultivation.
Farm well, keep good stock and
feed well, is a splendid motto to OBJ
serve to insure success on the farm.
Did you ever think that the
weeds are eating up the substance
of your soil without giving you any
return?
Are the grapevines pruned2 1t
will be too late for this :work; as
they cannot be pruned after the
sap begins to flow.
If an animal gets out of condi-
ton and does not seem to relish tits
food, little pure flax seed boiled
in oats and fed two quarts at time,
will generally bring them back to a
sense of hunger again.
Is the orchard pruned and clean
ed up in the very best style? Do
not let this month pass without
having this work done; or very
likely it will go undone, by the rea-
son Of the rush of other work.
Good stock will not retain it's ex-
cellence long if not cared for well.
A little neglect of the stock will
soon destroy many of their best
qualities and give them the appear
ance of veritahle scrubs.
Sows that are expected to farrow
in this month or the first Of next
should be given nice warm bed
for themselves, so that they may
become accustomed to their new
quarters before their little pigs
come, and 50 not be restless and in
lure them and offspring trying to
escape from confinement.
Hog pens, as a rule, are lily con-
structed affairs. Why it is that the
poor hog must be doomed to live in
meaner and more filthy quarters
than any other of our farm stock, lis
an unsolvable mystery. The hog
to do well and be healthy must be
mclean, warm, roomy quarters, the
same as any other stock.
a yard or lawn always looks bar
rem without some choice ornament
al trees and shrubs. Especially is
this case IN winter, and no kind are
greater relief to the bleakness
than the evergreens. Every lawn
should contain few choice speci-
mems of these highly ornamental
trees.
An exchange says, have a shelf
made at a proper height from the
floor, with holes in it large enough
to allow buckets to 60 half way
down. Feed either milk or ground
feed in buckets and set them in
their holes, and the calves cannot
turn them over or put their feet in
them. There should be a bracket
to every calf in the pen, SO there
will be no crewding and all can get
their shares.
Ensilage does not require any
particular crop, nor any particular
manipulation to insure good results.
The labor of chopping, unless the
crop is exceedingly coarse, is use
less expense. ANY OF the grasses
and folders, and they may be the
very coarsest at that, are suitable
for and make the very best ensilage.
So that, in reality, the Only extra
expenses and preparation necessa-
ry is the buildings for it's storage.
Don't forget that the pasture
fields should have some attention
at least, as well as the grain fields.
Weeds, briers, and bushes should
be eradicated from them just as
carefully as from the potato lot.
Many farmers would be astonished
to know how greatly the pas
ture yield can be increased by the
aid of little fresh seed and ma
nure occasionally, and the keeping
down of all alien growth.
There are very few men who
meet with the highest success in
stock raising, for the simple reason
that there are very few men who
study the nature, habits and COM
fort of the animals sufficiently to
understand their requirements and
provide for them. No farmer can
expect to succeed in handling
stock, who does not posses the in
clInation and taste for studying
their habits, and is kindly enough
inclined to make them comfortable
at any expense and trouble.
Flowing is heavy work, and good
crops are dependant on it's being
done well. For these reasons the
best and most careful hand on the
place should follow the pillow. 1t is
too heavy work for the boys, and
there is no better place sto spoil a
good team than the first few days at
the pillow. Never allow a skip to be
made in the blowing. If a stone
throws the pillow out have the team
backed carefully and the furrow
caught again. Nothing pays SO
well as thorough preparation of the
soil, and this cannot be done with
out good blowing.
The kind of crops which can be
grown to the best advantage on any
certain tract of land must be decid-
ed by the owners las nO!pieces of land,
even on the farm, have the chemical
constituents in the composition of
their soils, and, consequently, a
crop which would make a splendid
yield on one field may be total
failure another. Then how i'm
portant it is that farmers should
know the composition of their soils,
and understand the requirements of
their different crops in plant food,
so as to be able to arrange accord
ingly.
Flowers should adorn every gar
den door ward and lawn Thara iS