The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-11-19
FARM EXPERIENCE.

AL ever SICSA uOuS6 aOuS nuCu
to the beauty of yard or lawn.
1t is a mistake to dig and store
away the winter potatoes before the
weather becomes cool.
Relieve the overloaded fruit trees
before the branches are broken off
by the too great weight of fruit
Don't forget i'll selecting trees for
an orchard that young trees stand
transplanting better than older
ones.
* 1t is a good plan to SOW two va
rieties of VIII eat-one that rlpens a
little earlier than the other, so as
to give more time for harvesting.
Forest tress are now felled with
dynamite. This saves a larger
proportion Of the trunk, and also
brings up the roots at the one oper-
alton, thus saving time and expense
in clearing land.
Many fields intended to be sown
to oats or spring wheat next spring
can be plowed to quite good advan-
tage this fall, and the greater part
of such lands should be piowed
during the winter.
Farm machinery and tools of all
kinds which are not needed any
more this fall should be cleaned up,
the metal parts oiled, and be stored
away in the dry until wanted for
another seasons work.
Farmers should commence now
to be saving of their feed, as there
is likely to be a scarcity before
spring, and q little carefulness
from the start may avoid a famine
towards the close of the winter.
Every farmer who has an old
rotten straw pile should clean it UP
and haul the worthless part out on
to the wheat fields, the fine and rot
ten portion to be spread on the sur.
face and the coarser part to be
plowed under.
The Western Rural says: In Sc
lecting trees give preference to
those with smooth, healthy looking
bark, which have entirely shed
their leaves and have plenty OF
small, fibrous roots. Trees on
which the leaves remain after first
frost s9ts in and stick to the
branches in the spring may be re-
garded as not healthy.
Where a farmer is feeding a
bunch of cattle heavily on grain, he
should always have a few thriving
shotes to run with them to gather
up and work over the waste grain
and excrements. The shotes will
usually grow rapidly on this kind
of treatment and bring quite a re-
turn to their owner, Oh what would
otherwise be entirely wasted.
The young cattle should be
looked over and sorted according
to the fitness of the animals for
feeders, and any that are not suita-
bic for this purpose should be made
fat and disposed of as soon as pos
sible. 1t is the wIsest plan to get
rid of cattle with the least delay
that are either rough, ungrowthy
or otherwise untitled for making the
most profitable feeders.
When the energies of tree are
devoted to growing wood it cannot
be expected to do much good bear
ing fruit, and this is the great rea-
son why SO many thrifty young
trees in the orchard are unfruItful.
Such trees should have a large por-
ton of their tops cut out, and it is
more than likely that they will re-
pay the trouble required with a
plentiful CROP Of fruit.
Many farmers make a mistake IN
attempting to carry more stock
over the winter than they have feed
to keep well. No farmer should
make such a blunder, and every
stockman should be sure, before
winter sets in, that he has an album
dance of feed to carry his animals
through in good condition or else
sell portion of them to some one
who has more feed than stock.
The farmer has a duty to per
form towards his family besides
providing the mere necessaries of
life, such as provision and clothing.
He should also provide a pleasant
home as well as a comfortable one.
The farmers home should be made
beautiful and bright as we'll as the
subur ban home of the rich city man
as he has better opportunity than
almost any other man to make it so.
The young hogs should be made
to grow as rapidly as possible and
be put in good condition now, so
as to be ready to fatten out in a
short time, when grain feeding com
mences. 1t is costly extravaganza
to allow the hogs to run on grass
without other feed and become lean
and scrawny and then attempt to
feed them up entirely on corn,
when the fattening period arrives.
1t is much better to keep them in
good condition and growing rapid
ly from birth.
The small outlay of money and
time necessary to ornament the
door yard with evergreens shade
trees and Ornamental shrubbery is
always expended, and besides the
pleasure H. will give the family by
the increased beauty of the prem
ises, it will also bring a money re-
turn-as what adds to the beauty
of a place also adds to it's value.
ANY one would rather purchase a
home with lawns and surroundings
than one with bare and neglected
grounds and broken down fences,
and, as a rule, are willing to pay
considerable extra for a home with
we'll kept premises.
The Michigan Farmer says: The
opinion is growing among farmers
that no commercial fertilizers are
equal to barnyard manure. Not
that commercial fertilizers are not
valuable and their use advisable,
but that the barnyard manu- re, be-
ing a more perfect manure, is pref