The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

rowing, no light fertilization or
slack cultivation, will produce these
more bountiful stores of grain and
generous yields OF folders. The
pillow must turn every inch of the
ground and the harrow pulverize
clod. The surface must be given
liberal supply of manure. The
cultivator must be kept going the
summer through, followed closely
by its necessary adjunct-the much
decried hoe.
The best method of improving
the soil is not to pillow too great
oportion of the farm, nor pasture
too closely. In this way the sur
face always has something of a
gro WITH on, the moisture is retained,
the ground does not become so
packed, the suns rays have no
chance to injure the grass roots by
the intense summer heat, nor the
stock by biting too close; and, con-
sequently, the grass makes a bigger
growth, and increases in its yield of
succulent heritage year after year.
On the other hand, if it is pastured
too closely, each year will see the
farm growing poorer and poorer
and the grass crop smaller.
Did you pillow your garden last
fall? asks a writer in the Indiana
Farmer. If you did not you will
perhaps be two weeks late with
your garden work this spring. l
think fall blowing Is, to certain
extent, drainage, fertilizer and in
sect destroyer all together. The
ground by being plowed and left
loose carries of water and admits
frost. The frost enlivens the soil
and kills insects. My practice, for
several years, has been to manure
and pillow in the fall, and the expe-
rience shows that the crop is in
creased and the work decreased by
this method. Some of our most i'm
portant garden crops require early
planting, because they naturally
make their best growth before the
hot, dry season sets it.
The water courses, as a rule, are
places for brush, briers and other
filth to collect, and often the land
adjoining these courses is swampy
and unproductIve. These places
are unsightly and deprsciate the
: value of the land. Where the
courses wind through low, fat bot
toms, and consequently engender
swamps, they should be straitened
, and the channels kept clear. This,
: in most instances, will obviate the
difficulty of carrying off the surplus
water and of draining these swamps.
: The briers and bushes along the
Iuns should be kept as closely
cleaned up as On any other part of
the farm. Besides the value added
to the land by being clean, it is gen
orally the best land on the place
which lies along these runs, and it
should be growing grass and grains
instead of filth.
The little pigs which are coming
now should be kept growing right
along until put on the maaket. Ev-
cry day they lose Is just so much
out of the farmers pocket For the
e firs6 three or four months fat
producing foods should enter very
sparingly into their food, and bone
and muscle development and the
expansion of the digestive appara-
tus should be the aim. The hog is
only machine for turning grains
into meat, and the greater capacity
it has for this the greater will be
the profit. One thing should be
avoided above all others, and that
is the short, dumpy appearance SO
prevalent among corn fed pigs.
Such pigs never grow into large
hogs. The best way to prevent this
is to give green food with their corn
to distend their intestines and sup
ply bone making material.
Exchange: The arrivals and de-
partures at this earth's station are
registered by the statisticians as fol-
lows: Arrivals about 20 per min
ute; 100000 per day; 100000 per
annum. Departures, about 81 per
minute; 1870 per day; 1858, S35
per annum. All these millions go
ing out in an unbroken stream from
this earth station are pouring into
the great depot of eternity, filing
up the unmeasured territory of the
unseen world. When did you ar
rive? WheD will you depart? Are
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