The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-10
FARM EXPERIENCE.

Dash cold water into the ears of
choking cattle. This causes the
animal to shake its head violently,
and muscular action dislodges the
obstruction.
1t is said that the odor of the
walnut is offensive to many kinds of
insects that trouble animals, and
for this reason it is a valuable tree
for shade in pastures.
1t will often pay to take a pillow
and team open the drains along the
roads through your land. This
gives the Waterfront the winter rains
free passage to run off, and thus
prevents it soaking into the ground
and causing bad roads as soon as
freezing and thawiug commences.
Wheat sown late on corn stubble
should be sOwn considerably thick
er than when sown earlier and in
usual way. Rye may be sown
quite late and yet make fair crop,
and for this reason can often be
u ed to quite good advantage,
where otherwise the ground would
lie idle to another season.
It is said that what is known as
winter barley is not botanically dis
tinct from the common spring vari-
ETY.; but it has been grown as u win
ter barley for so long that it has
acquired a more hardy character.
For this reason persons wishing t.
SOW barley in the fall should be
careful to secure seed that has been
winter grown.
The cal .es should be we'll fed
now. The grass is gone and the
youngsters will lose in flesh and
stop growing. 1t is much more eco
nomical to keep them growing rap
IDLY through theswinter, even if it
does require a little more grain.
Try this plan for one season, and
see if the calves do not come out in
the spring enough larger and finer
to more than pay for the small ad-
ditional cost.
The Husbandman says no grain
bin is complete if unventilated at
the bottom. One of the best and
most simple ventilators consists of
galvanized iron cone about six
inches across at the base and a foot
high, punched full OF holes over tue
entire surface like a colander. To
construct this contriVance, saw a
circular hole five inches across in
the bir floor, over which place the
cone, securing it by a few nails.
This ventilator is cheap, convenient
and effective.
Before the cattle are turned into
fields, where there are hay and
straw stacks, the stacks should be
protected in some way, 50 that the
stock cannot waste and destroy the
stacks. There are many farmers
who habitually turn their young
cattle to their straw stacks, and al
low them to tear down and waste
most of the straw. This is an ex-
travagant and slovenly method of
wintering such stock, and should
should not be practiced by the eco
nomical farmer. Make racks and
sheds and feed the straw out, so as
to not waste any of it,
Sir j. B. Lawes, writing to the
Scotch Agricultural Gazette.
states the blowing under of green
crops for fertilization purposes not
to be so profitable as feeding these
crops. on the ground. He pro-
ceeds to show the economy of feed
ing the green crops to stock, rather
than to pillow them under. He gives
cures the increase and profits on
stock fed, and the very small
amount Of manure ingredients re-
moved in that increase of the ami
NAL. Where the animals received
cake IN addition, the nitorogen thus
added to the land was obtained free
of cost.
The economy of the farm calls
strongly for more and better pas
lures. Too little attention is paid to
this crop on the average farm.
Farmers who cultivate their corn
and none of the other crops
we'll will entirely neglect their pas
ture fields and allow them to grow
up in weeds and briers. This is
not giving to this crop the a.ten-
ton that sits Importance demands.
Neither corn nor cotton is king, but
grass, as it is most extensively and
generally grown. Where there is
one field of grain there are general
ly five or six of grass. Then in
place of neglecting their pastures
our farmers should SOW more per-
manent grasses and cultivate and
care for their pasture fields as well
as their fields of growing grain.
On the small farm hog raising
pays as well as or perhaps better
than on the larger one. For the
farmer of moderate means hog rails
ing is one of the surest and quick
est ways of making money in the
average season, on account
of the limited amount of capital re
quired, and the short time in which
returns can be realized. Besides
this hogs will eat almost anything,
and for this reason alone they are
adapted to any farm, whether corn
is raised to. any extent or not.
Very often there is some spoiled
grain, that other stock will not eat,
but which is just as good as any
for hogs, and they will eat the re-
fuse potatoes, apples, etc, which
would otherwise be wasted. So it
seems that every farmer should
raise few hogs at least,
and especially the farmer of small
means.
The Cultivator is of the opinion
that one reason why the CONNER
cial fertilizers are so largely used
on wheat is that they contain the
mineral plant food, especially phos
phate, which wheat requires. This
mineral aplant food can take the
place of stable manure better for
wheat than any other crop, because
for wheat the effect of stable ma
uure in loosening the soil is disad-
rather than otherwise. |
Mineral manures tend TO make the !
soil more compact and therefore |
less absOrptive ana retentive of wa
ter. This is an important consider
ton in preventing winter killing by !
freezing and thawing.
But it is probably true that the
ability Of farmers to grow success
sive wheat crops by the use of