The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-05
FARM EXPERIENCE.

always improved by thorough TIL
lage and heavy fertilization.
Stock cattle will appreciate a lit
tie salt and meal occasionally and
be the better for having them.
1t is the best steers that bring
in the profit and often have to help
out the cost of fattening the others.
Sprinkle lime and wood ashes
over the turnips, and this will keep
off grasshoppers and the little bee
ties which feed on these plants.
1t may not pay to feed grain to
young cattle in summer, but it will
certainly pay less to allow them to
become poor IN short grass just be
fore winter sets in for want of
little gram.
The hog is useful on the farm as
a scavenger-tO eat the house re-
fuse and the imperfect fruit and to
drink the Stops and extra milk.
For this reason the hog cannot well
be spared from any farm.
The many failures in the wheat
crop are due to a large extent to
the way and time the grain is put
in the ground. If the crop is put
in IN good condition, and sufficient
ly early to get good start before
winter sets il, then half the battle
is fought, and it is more likely to
Withstand the freezing and thawing
of the winter.
1t is a great mistake to allow the
young hogs to root for a living"
through the summer and come to
the fattening time nothing but
frame. This is the way expensive
pork is made. The stockers should
be kept growing steadily ali the
summer through, and be in good
flesh in the fall when the fattening
season arrives. In this way the
hogs are made to grow faster and
are ready TO fatten rapidly, and be-
sides it can be done much more
cheaply.
We need more good farmers and
less poor ones, more good stock and
less poor stock. The good farmer
raises good stock and good crops on
good land; but the poor farmer
raises poor stock and crops on poor
land. The first is a good and valua-
BILE citizen, adding each year to his
own and to the nations wealth; the
other makes bare living and adds
nothing to his own store of wealth,
or that of the nation; and the fewer
we have of this latter class the bet
ter it it is for everyone.
Farmers should not make the
mistake of blowing the manure and
lime under which they have on their
wheat fields. This is always an err
ror, as the tendency OF strength of
manure is downward, if it is plowed
under the wheat crop will get but
little benefit from it. By spreading
it on top of the ground its strength
sinks into the soil where the root
lets of the growing grain need and
can take it up to be assimilated,
and the wheat and young grass de
rive its full benefit.
1t is time to be looking after the
stabling and shedding for stock
this next winter. Let stabling and
protection of some sort be provided
as nearly as possible for every such
animal, be it ever so poor and
cheap. If nothing else can be pro-
vided cut some forks and poles from
the forest and make rude pen
over which the fodder can be stack
ed. This will be very good shelter,
and the fodder need not be fed
from this stack until toward warm
weather, and in this way it will
provide protection for the stock
through the severe weather.
The Farmers Magazine says the
best method of Kidding the ground
of cut worms is to pillow late in the
fall, turning the earth up deep.
Do not harrow it, but leave it in the
rough condition. The frost will
penetrate the soil and kill the
worms. Should, however, the plow-
ing be done too soon, the worms
will have time to seek protection
lower down, and the blowing should
therefore beidone as late as posi-
BILE, for fear that some of the worms
may escape. Plow the field again
in the spring, but as early as posi-
bic, and the work of determination
will be complete.
The most salutary diet for anyone
is composed chiefly of vegeta bles
and fruits, and no other class can
so easily have constant supply of
these as the farmer, nor have them
so fresh and good; but still large
proportian of farmers tables are not
nearly so we'll supplied with fruit
and vegetables as the tables of city
people who have to pay high prices
for all such things. Every farm
should have a vegetable garden and
a fruit orchard attached, not in
name only, but intact, and to have
them the farmer must pay atten-
ton to them himself, and not neg
lect them for other farm work.
Ben. Perley Poore, in the Ameri-
can Cultivator, says that if farmers
would thrive they must change
their policy. They must concen-
trate their labor, they must give to
a few acres the care now usually
bestowed on many, and if necesss-
ry to do this they must diminish
their farms. Many an acre of corn
and of rye now yields only ten to
twelve bushels, and even less.
Many an acre is moved whose bur
den-if it may be called burden
to scarcely half ton.
How much wiser, how much more
grateful, 10 give to these acres a
proper cultivation, and gather bush
els for pecks and nearer tons for
hundred weights.
Have you decided upon the va
riety of wheat to SOW yet? If not
you should do so without delay, so
as to have time to secure good,
pure seed. Be sure, before you
try any new variety, that it is well