The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-26
FARM EXPERIENCE.

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cutting the feeble shoots which
start later.
The best farmers do not spread
the manure and work necessary for
one acre over two. That is fool
ish policy which none should follow.
The growing of the sunfiower for
its seed to feed is rapidly increas-
ing in many sections of the coun-
try. Sundower seed is said to be
one of the very best poultry feeds.
Sow different varieties of grass
seed and plenty of them on the
fields which are to be seeded down
to permanent pastures. Above all
things don't skimp in the quantity
of grass seed sown to the acre.
Many of the ills to which domes-
tic animals are heir are directly
traceable to damp and unsuitable
quarters. Keep this in mind, and
repair and relieve of dampness all
the stabling Of the stock before bad
weather comes.
The labor required in farming is
becoming less irksome each sue
eeedIng year, an account of the
help derived from labor saving ma
chinery; and the farmer who does
not avail himself of this aid is be-
hind the times.
1t is said, owing to the heavy cot
ton crop, that cotton seed meal and
cake will he cheap this coming win
ter, and for this reason our stock
men especially sheepmen, can feed
much more of it to good advantage
to sheep and calves, etc.
The seed corn can be best saved
by going through the field just be-
fore the corn is cut and selecting
the finest ears, and putting them
away to dry in some place where
the air can circulate freely around
each ear and where rats and mice
cannot disturb them.
Too many make mistakes in feed
ing poor and unworthy animals.
This is something to be carefully
avoided, as IL is often simply
waste of feed. Always select
smooth and growthy animals to
feed, even at greater cost, and the
profits will certainly be in proper
tion to the good judgment exercised
in making this selection.
The American Cultivator says
that it is claimed that coal ashes
are so distasteful to worms that
their ravages may be prevented by
mulching the ground between the
rows freely with them. Several
years since a gardener discovered
that by planting his squash seeds
in the earth that lad a layer of
coal ashes above and below it the
young vines were never molested
by cut worms.
1t is poor economy to work hard
in raising good crops of hay, grain
and fodder and then neglect to pro-
vide shelter for them. The fall
rains and winter storms will great
ly injure all such crops that are not
under shelter, and our farmers can
not think of this matter a moment
too soon. If it is not possible to
build barn this season, put up a
shed, or cover the stacks with tar
paulin. So says a sensible ex-
change.
The rotation Of crops adopted by
Professor Roberts, of Cornell Uni
versity farm, is clover, corn, oats,
wheat and clover. In seeding down,
two to four quarts of timothy are
sown about ten days after the
wheat in autumn, and from four to
six quarts of clover in the following
spring. With this rotation he
has obtained torty-seven bushels !
per acre of wheat, seventy three
bushels Of oats, and eighty bushels
of corn. or 40 acres specially de-
voted to the farm, land not origi-
nally fertile has been made to
yield about $1,000 annually in
grass products.
The farmer who attempts to
raise hogs and begins by keeping
them until year or more old be- |
fore attempting-'to feed sthem our
for market makes a mistake and |
will find the business, as a rule,
unpro ftable. The cheapest pork
is made from pigs that come in the
earl y spring and are fed out in the
late sfall, at about eight or nine
months of age, for market, though
it may be better to have the pigs
come in the late fall and then feed
them out and put them on the mar
ket in the summer months; as it is
generally true that better average
prices can be obtained in these
months than at any other time.
"a bird in the hand" it is said,
''ls worth two in the bush," but a
rat in the corn CRIB reverses this old
saying, and every farmer would
much rather have it out of his
premises. or rather where he could
hit it with a good stout piece of
a bush. A good lively rat in a
corn crib will destroy more corn
than would keep pig, aud rats and
mice do annually destroy much of
the substance of the farmers of the
country, on account OF poorly con-
granaries. About the on
~ way in which these can be made
perfectly rat and mouse proof is to
line them with sheet iron, zinc, etc,
and no one should construct gran
ary which is not perfectly proof
against these vermin.
The Farm and Garden gives this
excellent piece of advice, and our
farmers would do well to give heed
10 it: Insurance companies are ev-
er ready to insure the farmers risk
Of loss by fire, for a small considera
ton. These risks are com parative-
" few, and the business pays. The
man with money in the bank, or
safely invested, will not generally
be a loser IN the end, il he "goes
his own insurance." but no hard
working farmer who depends upon