The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-10-01
FARM EXPERIENCE.
No young animal is profitable tina
i.

No young animal is profitable that
is not growing steadily.
Study to do the greatest amount
of work with the least outlay of
labor.
A few pigs are often more profita-
BILE on farm than a large number;
but every tarmeshould have at least
few.
Weed out the scrub males from
your herds and tiocks without dis
elimination and supply their places
with thoroughbreds.
The weeds should be closely kept
down around the small fruit trees
and vines if the fruit is expected to
mature aud ripen rightly.
Keep the pigs growing and max
ing frame; but do not forget that
too much fat will check the growth
OF bone and muscle.
Every good pasture must contain
luxuriant growth of tender and
nutritive grasses, cool shade and a
permanent supply of pure water.
1t is well, if sailing stock, to he
careful that some of the animals do
not get more than Is good for them.
Too much salt will give rise to
scours.
Farm for pleasure by all means,
but strain every nerve to make the
pleasure a profitable one, as there is
not much pleasure in conducting a
losing business.
1t will do no harm to go over the
corn field again to see that some
hills do not contain too many stalks
to ear well, and that the stalks are
not sending out side-shoots.
There is too much waste land on
our farms. The fence corners are
too much given to briers and weeds.
All these waste places should be
cleared up and made to produce
their share toward keeping off hard
times.
Manure adds to the productive.
ness OF the land as soon as applied
but all the substance is not used up
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the crops are materially benefited
by single application of a good
fertilizer.
1t is said that fish will clear a
well or spring of angle worms; but
perhaps as good a use for. these
creatures in springs and wells is to
indicate whether the water is fit for
use or not, as fish will not live in
impure water.
Because the price of eggs may be
down is no reason why the poultry
should be neglected. Do not allow
those fowls that have been yarded
all spring to suffer for taste of the
fresh, green grass that is just be-
yOnd their reach.
Pigs should have the run of q
pasture field, but not many farmers
wish to have their fields rooted up,
and in fact the best OF farmers will
not allow it. Then ring the squeal
ers; but let the operation be done
carefully, so as to avoid injury.
Good crops are the best known
remedy for hard times; but when
these crops are fed to stock, and in
this way turned into meat, wool,
milk and butter they assume more
valuable form, and the curative
properties of the remedy are great
| ly augmented.
The time to shape the heads OF
trees is while they are young. Then
the top can easily be trained in al
most any shape and with very little
attention; but after the tree has at
tanned some size and age it is very
difficult to change its form, and
pruning then may only injure.
One thing is certain-turning the
farm crops into meat and manure
must he more generally followed as
the closeness of the times shortens
the profits of agriculture more and
more. The farm products must be
put in the form in which they will
command the most money, and yet
leave the farm in the most produc-
tive condition.