The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-07-23
FARM METHODS AND EXPERIENCE

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vegetables from the garden.
1t is generally considered now
that feeding cattle after they are
three years old is a Improbable
business.
To destroy the curculio on plum
trees, smoke the trees with sui
phur, or dust them with fresh, dry
lime.
Do not have the pig pens so
built as to deprive the animals of
sunshine and pure air. Many pens
have this serious fault.
A little salt mixed with the ma
nure will make it more soluble; but
for some kinds of delicate grow
ing parts too much salt will be in
furious.
Kill the weeds, or they may ruin
the growing crops and in this way
bankrupt you. A better way,
though, is to keep the weeds from
getting start by constant Guilt
walton.
The hogs should be growing rap
idly on their clover pasture, and
making large frames on which the
meat may soon be laid, with the aid
of some grain in addition to their
pasture.
To make the punches of grapes
grow into the largest and finest
specimens, it is absolutely necessa-
ry to thin them out. A vine that is
overwhelmed will not produce the
finest nor earliest fruit.
1t is said that wheat cut in the
dough will smake better and more
flour than if allowed to become
dead ripe before cutting Anyhow
it is best not to allow it to become
so ripe as to shell out and waste in
the cutting.
Cultivation is the order of the
day, and is the only element now
within the power of the farmer
that is practicable, for increasing
the productiveness Of the land.
For this reason it should BE APP
piled from this on without stint.
Weeds and insects are the pests
of the farmer during the time o.
plant growth, and his crops depend
as much on the subsection of one as
the other. Some plan of destroy
ing insects must be followed on ev.
cry farm to a greater or less extent
The faulty plums, which fall be-
fore ripeniug, should be carefully
destroyed, as the egg deposited il
the fruit, which caused it to DROP
from the stem, will develop into
parasites which may utterly destroy
the whole plum crop. For this rea-
son hogs should always have the
: run of the plum orchard.
Al no time in the history of ag
riculture has it been so important
that the methods followed be pro
ductive of the best results. While
prices are so low, the crops must
be so much the larger and the
stock must be matured just thai
mnch more rapidly and cheapIy
to make the balance sheet foot uI
rightly.
Farmers, do not make the mis-
take of not hiring sufficient help t.
thoroughly cultivate and care fol
each crop. It will pay best in the
end to have sufficient force, as the
increased yield and value Of the
crops will more than pay the bill
let alone the greater cleanliness oil
the land which can in this way be
obtained
The tomato vines should be
raised from the ground in some
way; ank perhaps as good a way
as any is to drive tour stakes, with
about fifteen inches above the
ground, and tack little pieces Of
lathes across the tops, This Will
keep the fruit from the ground
and it will not be nearly so Liable
to rot; but if very large and early
tomatoes are desired the vines
should be clipped back and a part
of the fruit also DE pinehed of as
soon as formed.
The feeding Of farm animals is
often attended with loss, just be
cause the feed is not suitable, OF
not prepared properly. Cattle that
are fed heavily, or are running on
grass should always have their feed
ground for them. Besides all
) stock like a variety, and do better
thus than to be fed all the time on
one kind of grain. Very often ami
, mails that are fed heavily become
constipated, or the system goes to
the other extreme and becomes too
much relaxed. Both these condi-
lions must be carefully guarded
against and regulated, if they arise
by some change in food or treat
ment, if the animals are expected
to fatten and take flesh rapidly. In
fettening animals seeing to their
health and comfort is just as i'm
portant as giving them abundance
Of good nourishing feed.
The application of artificial fer
tilizers is becoming more and more
common, and the question that
should present itself to each farm
er, when contemplating their use is
what kind is suited to his soil
and to the particular crop fol
which it is intended? In almost
all of these artificial manures one
element predominates, and If it is
not wanting in the soil it will dc
very little good. Some crops re-
quire one element, some other and
different elements entirely, and un.
less the farmer is conversant with
the requirements of his soil and
crops, and he will only use these
Fertilizers at venture. They may
do good, and again the soil may be
subcharged with the particular ele
ment which he supplies, and some
other element be entirely lacking
that should be supplied to make
the soil productive.
1t is poor management to go to
town and spend half day or a day
when farm crops are suffering fo1
want of attention. We have known
| farmers to 90 to town and SDend