Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-01-24
Agricultural Chunks.

Cows pay for all extra feed.
a good mechanic generally makes
a good farmer.
Farm implements ought to be UNI
der shelter at all times when not in
use.
The pursuit Of agriculture employs
the mind as no other calling can.
The day is coming when farmers
will bring in honey as they now do
butter.
Clover is the best of the green ma
nures, but it is not adapted to or
chards.
The South possesses the best field
in Amerca for farming, mining and
numbering.
Farmers generally spread their
labor ever too much land and so
fail to get an adequate return for
their work.
When a farmer has to leave work
undone that he knows is needed, then
it will pay him to have that work
done.
There is no more healthful method
Of keeping the stables, sheds, and
pens clean than to give them a good
coat of limeWash.
Let us study our methods of pro-
duction.. closely, so that each crop is
brought within actual cost, and the
largest profit left over.
A well conducted newspaper circu-
lated through farmers household
from year to year will of itself fur
nish a liberal education.
A small dose of sulphur given once
in two or three weeks to pigs will
keep them free from disease and
greatly increase their general thrift.
A man who begins Bookkeeping
with the idea that it is a nice, lazy,
easy business, and that bees "work
for nothing and board themselves"
will get left.
Every particle of manure thinly
spread under or near fruit trees in the
winter will be dissolved and stimu-
late.increased growth as soon as the
weather becomes warmer.
Many an orchard, otherwise healthy,
is unproductive because the trees are
literally starved. They need potash,
and rotton chips, wood ashes and
decayed forest leaves will all prove
valuable. g...,-
Farmers may not become million
aires, but in general where a man has
followed farming and nothing else,
he can end his days in the bosom of
his family inpeace and plenty, know
ing little Of the cares of other pur-
suits.
The richness Of food given to stock
has much to do with the value of the
manure made from them. 1t is for
this reason that manure from hens
and pigs fed on grain is more valua-
BILE than that from cows fed on grass
or horses fed on grain and hay.
There is no stated length Of time
which constitutes days work on a
farm. This is established by custom,
and is usually considered to include
feeding the stock and doing chores in
the morning and in the evening, so
that the day may be spent in the field
work.
Many farmers seem not to connt
what produce the family consume as
part or any of their profits derived
from the farm, judging from their
conversation; when, in fact, the
comfortable sustenance of family is
of itself a fair profit on a small capital
and considerable labor.
There is a common adage to the
effect "that no man is wise at all
hours" 1t would be quite as safe to
enlarge the scope of this truth and
say that few men are ever wise; for
it is a sad fact that the human race
manages to exist in spite of the
greatest blunders continually made.
Many farmers complain that there
is little money for their labor, at the
present prices, but they do no esti-
mate as they should the certainty
that their labor will give them COM
Portable living. Time was when farm
ers grew and made all the substan-
tials of life they required. If neces-
sary, they can come to this again,
and they are the producers who can
easiest get on this basis again.
1t is perhaps safe to say that not
one in twenty of the farmers of our
country can, with any certainty, tell,
one year with another, on what pro-