The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-09-17
FARM EXPERIENCE.
Sharp tools will save labor.


Sharp tools will save labor.
Be clearly in harvesting and
avoid wastes.
Shade should not be tolerated in
the garden.
1t is said that pine needles make
excellent mulching for strawber-
ries.
S The young cattle Will be benfitted
by a change of pasture occasionally,
even if it is only changing fields
with other cattle.
Every farmer should make it his
duty TO cut all thistles before they
have a chance to reseed the land
for another years crop.
The suds from the washtub is a
valuable fertilizer, and no better
use can be made of it than to pour
it around the newly planted trees
and vines, sprinkle it over the beds
of vegetables.
Plants and beds of vegetables
should always be watered in the
evening, after sunset, is preference
to any other time of the day; but
especially should watering plants
in the heat of the day be avoided.
All kinds of fruit trees, and espe.
cially peach trees, should be headed
low, and all branches that grow out
long and slim or tall should be
kept back to proper length. IOcca-
sionally a tree will need a severe
topping in.
Always be sure, before starting
out to the fields, that there is an
abundant supply of good, dry
stOvewood for the good wife to
keep up the kitchen fire with, IN
less you want to do without dinner
some day when you are very hun
cry.
Winter rye is a plant which, like
winter wheat, requires the part OF
two seasons to grow to maturity,
and it is said that if it is sown in
spring it will not mature a crop.
For this reason, if you wish to SOW
a crop of rye in the spring to make
a crop, be sure you SOW the spring
variety.
The Prairie Farmer gives this ex-
cellent advice: cake an hour OF
so from field work, or from leisure
during wet spell, and cut down
the weeds along the roadside and
the division fences. Do this before
they seed, and save annoyance ant
downright hard work in the adjoin
ing fields next year.
Fertilizers will give quicker re
suits than manure, but the effect:
fsmanure are as rule more last
ing and durable. If lime is useC
with the manure the returns will ht
given as quickly as from the artifi
cial fertilizers, and in many case
lime and manure are the best dress
ing that eau be used.
Pure water and plenty of it, during
July aud August, is one of the hes
preventatives of hog cholera. Tn,
hog is an animal that requires
liberal supply at all seasons o
the year, but more especially dur
ing warm weather. 1t should havt
j plenty of water to wallow in as wei
as to drink.
Do not attempt to make a mean
razor backed, fat ribbed steer prof
liable by throwing away good cor
in feeding him. 1t will do him n,
good, and is only wasting the grain
A much better way is to sell the an
lmal for whatever it will bring, ant
feed the grain to those that vii
make some Improvement.
One of the first rules of natura
philosophy is that two bodies can
not occupy the same place at th
same time. This is emphaticall
true of weeds among crops
with the furthur advantage that tn
weeds mot only take valuabl
room, but they absorb plant foo
ghich should go to producing some
thing Of yalne.
Grass and weeds about the yards
garden and walks should be KEEP
closely mown down, so that tn
women can go out of the hous
without getting their feet and gal
ments damp from the vet grass
This will also improve the appear
ance of things around the HON
more than enough to paw for tn
labor required.