The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-04
FARM EXPERIENCE.
Points Observed, Contributed, Cola
TED and Condensed

keep them thrifty and growing
from the start.
The best means of increasing the
productiveness Iof land and of OBJ
tanning paying crops is to always
keep the land under high state of
cultivation.
1t Is a good plan to straighten
water courses where it can be done
without too much labor, and will
save in the amount of land required
for the water way.
Millet makes large yield, and is
the best kind of feed, and it would
be a good plan to vary the order of
farm crops by sowing a good sized
patch of it.
A great quantity of rich stable
manure always collects in the STA
BILE yards, and if it is scraped up
and hauled on the fields it makes a
valuable fertilizer, besides benefit
ing the stable surroundings by be-
ing removed.
Do not be discouraged with the
present low prices of farm products
and sell the farm. Men in other
branches of business are seeing
just as hard times as you are. 1t
will be much better to stick to the
farm and wait awhile for q turn in
events.
Western farmers are beginning to
see the Importance of seeding with
tame grasses and keeping good
grade stock. One of the western
papers says "the scrub must go
and tame grass must come in with
the grade stock that is capable of
great growth
To keep down the weeds, and
also as the best means of .cultiva-
ting the potatoes, harrow them very
thoroughly just as they begin to
come up. This will save consider
bic work later in the season, and
there need be no fear that the har-
row will injure the crop.
The best means of increasing the
fertility of the soil is by better
tillage. This has reference not
only to the cultivation of The grow
ing crops, but also to the care of
the whole farm, the pas
ture fields and the orchards, and
even of the wood lots, for they must
not be neglected.
The watering places and the
springs need looking up now and
cleaning out and walling up, to fur
nish pure water for the stock. 1t
is important that this be done be-
fore the stock is turned out, so that
it need nots uffer for water before the
farmer has time to attend to this
work.
The best means of pulverizing
the soil and preparing it for the seed
is to use the roller and harrow free
ly. The roller is just as important
as the harrow on cloddy ground, to
pulyerize the Jumps; and on light
soil and late plowed ground to set
tie it and prevent it drying out too
rapidly.
The land must be brought to u
higher state of fertility and made
more productive. This is the work
every farmer should enter upon on
his own farm; and he owes 1t as a
duty to himself and his children to
do this without delay, and not see
how much Of the cream he can Sc
cure and leave the skim milk for
those coninO after him
1t is said, by many who have had
experience in the matter, that on
ions and other crops that require
hand wedding should have CONNER
cial! fertilizers used on them, rather
than stable manure, as the latter is
always full of grass and weed seeds
which are thus thrown over the
beds, and greatly increases the one
rous task of hand wedding.
Any land that will bear clover,
says an exchange, can be made rich.
1t is not wise, however, to put q
field in Believer and then keep it
pastured down closely. If the top
is not allowed to grow the roots
will not grow, and q double loss oc-
ours. By frequent blowing under
of clover the soil viii soon become
in fine condition for almost any
crop. It is more economical to en-
rich by green manaring than in
any other manner, and the effects
are lasting and permanent.
No plan by which we can improve
our farm animals can be too
slow or invested with too much
trouble, if it will only have the de-
sired effect and give q valuable
class of stock. There are many
farmers, though, who think that
trouble of this kind is just so much
waste, and only attempt to secure
in their management |
of their stock, and give no atten-
ton to improvement. 1t should be
and every enc should |
seek to improve his stock by every
means possible.
The farm and its most important |
feature-the animals with which it
is stoeked-are tnow in no position |
to be neglected. In fact this time is
a most critical one both in manage
ment of the farm and in the man
agement of the stock. On the way
farm work is started, and the condi-
ton in which the farmsanimals are
kept, and the conditions in which
the farm animals enter upon the
summer, depend the profits on the
crops and on the stock. The sum-
ner must be2begun Alright in the
whole management of the farm,
Or the fall will find the crops short,
md that the stock has yielded no
profit.
The farm machinery should be
Kept in the dry as much as possible
wen while at spring work. Rusted
Flows are very trying on the pa
fence and as kgood work
annot be done with them as when
hey are bright and clean. Espe-
tally should all steel tools be kept
Try, as rust affects them more than
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