The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-17
FARM EXPERIENCE.

Sheep, calves, cows and horses
should be sheltered from the cold
winter rains and during frosty
nights.
1t is said that SCOT when put
around plants or busted over them
will drive insects away, and that
green sage will clear closets of red
ants.
Some dry lime sprinkled around
the damp cellar will have a tenden
cy to coun teract '.dampness and to
purify the air and the whole sur
roundings Of the cellar.
Late grapes which have the
punches carefully clipped off from
the vines, and are handled without
being bruised, and packed away in
their own leaves, where they will
neither freeze nor be too warm, will
keep until Christmas.
Fattening stock should be fed
quite often, but no more at a time
than will be eaten up clean. Ii
should be remembered that when
any animal becomes hungry, and
is allowed to fret for food, the pro
cess of fattening is retarded.
Farmers should now feed out
such things as will not keep stored
away-such as pumpkins, soft corn,
uusound heads of cabbage, and the
worthless apples. These will fur
nish considerable feed now, but
soon will be ofno value whatever.
Farmers should go carefully over
their pastures every little while
and scatter the weddings of their
stock, and not have the fields dot
ted with great blotches of rank
grass, so rank by the over richness
Of the manuring that no kind CT
stock will eat it.
In selecting trees for planting
choose young, thrifty ones, with
good roots and straight clean tops.
All trees that have either tops OF
roots bruised or mangled should be
discarded, as unsuitable and not
likely to make a vigorous growth
and thrifty trees.
Teach the little pigs to eat as
soon as possible and then feed then
all the skim milk that can be spared
They will grow rapidly on this, es
pecially if it is thick ened will
bran, and pay in growth quite as
we'll for the milk as dairymen otter
receive for the milk which they
ship to market.
An experienced gardener says
that sure sign to find out if plant
in pots require wetling is to rap on
the side of the pot near the middle
with the finger knuckle; if it give.
forth a hollow ring the plant ne eds
water, but if there is a dull sound
there is enough moisture to sustain
the plant.
The Husbandman says: The
farmer of the eastern states, with
his ready market for poultry, eggs
live stock, dairy products, fruit and
the like, gathers in money here a
little and there little, in a way
that astOnishes his western farm
brother who usually grows one crop
only, and that big one.
The fact is not as well known as
it should be, says the Cultivator
that the grains of corn which grow
on the tassels will produce new va
rieties, often differing most widely
from the parent stock. 1t is better
to select these from stalks which
bear two or more ears, as thus the
prolific habit may be more likely
to be continued.
Farm and Home (England) eau
tions its readers against handling
potatoes in wet weather. Dig as
mauy as possible in the forenoon,
and spread them out Collect in the
aftern Don, and get them under cover
where they may he spread out and
dried. Drying, of couse, must be
quickly done, as light Injuries the
color or flavor.
The best way to keep sweet po-
tatoes, says the American Cultiva-
tor, is in dry cellar and packed
in boxes filed with dry chaffed
straw. The potatoes should not
touch each other and must not be
put in until thoroughly dry. In
this way they can be kept through
the winter with less loss than ap-
pies. They are more sensitive to
cold than ordinary potatoes, and
must be taken from the boxes be
fore the eyes begin to push.
The best fruit cellars are fitted
up with drawers and bins in which
to store the fruit. These are made
with Slated bottoms and shallow,
so that the fruit need not be stored
in them over six inches deep, and
so that the air can circulate freely
through it. This is not only favor
able. to the keeping qualities of the
fruit, but also enables it be closely
watched and the decaying speci-
mems to be the more easily and care
fully picked out.
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