The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-03
FARM EXPERIENCE.

small fruit and potatoes.
Clay land is the most retentive of
water and for this reason it is all
the more important that such land
should be thoroughly drained.
1t is bad plan to lend tools
from the farm. 1t often leads to
i'll feeling If you do lend them, it
is often well to make a minute of
the fact, what tools, and to whom
loaned.
All young fruit trees should be
mulcheG before winter sets in; but
care should be taken too see that
no loose straw, or other material in
which mice Or moles can nest, is
thrown next the body of the trees.
If this is properly attended 10 it
may save many OF the tree from be
ing girdled.
The ..Orange County Farmer
says: The swine growers are just
now advocating hogs with more
lean meat. This is move in the
right direction. The stylish hogs of
the past decade have been but little
more than Jumps Of animated lard.
Give the hogs range with pasture
and feed less corn. That will Ger
tainly improve the quality of the
pork.
Much has been SAID and urged
against cruelty to animals, Yet
there are some people who seem to
take delight in abusing the noble
beasts which do US almost limitless
service and are so sensible 10 kind
treatment Next to man our do
nestle animals are the most intelli
gent of all creatures, and kind
master has no truer friend than his
horse. 1t is possible that any man
who will beat and misuse his horse,
or any animal, would deal out the
same unk indness to his family.
Learn to be neat about the farm
and it's attachments, for in this lies
one of the great secrets of success
full farming. Keep everything up
in good trim-especially the fences,
Nothing gives farm more for
lorn and dilapidated appearance
than tottering old fences. The or
chards, too, should be carefully
trimmed up. This keeps the trees
bearing well, and adds much to the
beauty and value of farm. In all
farm work, nothing should be done
half way. "WhateveT is worth do
ing, is worth doing well.''
Stops should never be emptied
out the back-doo to settle around,
as the effiuvia arising from stagnant
water pollutes the air and may
cause sickness. The back yard of
every house ought to be as clean
and free from impurities as the
front yard; but very often it is
made the receptacle of all the house
refuse. Good drainage to carry off
the elops, etc, is one preventive of
epidemics. Try a few wild roses
and brilliant sun-fowers in the
back yard, instead of rubbish, and
no doubt the change will repay the
men for trouble in digging the
ground and planting them.
The fact should be kept in mind
that stock of any kind will fatten
much more readily, and that it will
cost much less to fatten it, in the
tall season before it becomes very
cold. After the weather becomes
quite cold the most of the vitality of
the animal and the food it eats goes
toward maintaining bodily warmth,
and this makes so great tax on
the system that the laying on of
flesh cannot be at all rapid. Then
it is the wisest plan to fatten stock
that is to be sold or killed this fall
before cold weather comes on,
and the remainder of the stock
should be put. in good condition.
The Farm Journal says: The
old-fashioned plan of hanging the
seed corn to the joists of the kitch-
en-, by the husks which has been
stripped back and plated together
for the purpose, always secured
"seed that would grow" because it
was thoroughly dried. Not many
farmers wives will allow their
kitchens to be cluttered up that
way nowadays, and so we suggest
that the corn be hung in the smoke
house, and regularly sucked like
hams. This will secure its thor
ough dryness, which is the essen
tial point, and the smoke will tend
to keep birds and insects at a re-
spectful distance when planted.
Try this because F. j. says so, but
whatever plan you may adopt, be
sure that the seed is thoroughly
dried before cold weather reaches it.
The American Cultivator SAYS:
AS soon as the rainwater enters the
soil it becomes very different from
its character when falling. through
the air. If particles of soil con
tain nitrogen, phosphoric acid or
potash in soluble condition the wa
ter at once apropriates these and
holds them until drawn upon by
growing plants. Hence, frequent
watering is partial substitute for
manuring. In a moist growing
season, .any soil except one abso-
lutely sterile would furnish consid-
cradle plant food. Experiments
made in growing trees in pure sand,
kept wet by water procured by dis
tillation, seem to show that water |
in the soil has some power in disin-
tegrating and making available the !
nitrogen which is also in the soil in |
contact with Sthe moisture. This |
seems to be the most plausible |
theory to account for plant growth |
in excess of what can be explained |
by the waste of fertility in the soil |
itself.
What is Proft2
We are too apt to measure sue