The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-25
FARM EXPERIENCE.


ing causes hog cholera, starvation
will not prevent it,
Hogs on pasture should have
some grain each day, so as to ripen
the growth as fast as made.
1t is a good idea to run a chain
harrow over the pastures to dis
perse and scatter cattle droppings.
Rosin and tallow in equal parts
make an excellent covering for
wounds in fruit trees and all other
trees.
To make hog-raising profitable
crops adopted to their peculiar ma
ture and requirements should be
grown.
The fruit trees need some atten-
tiOn during the summer to keep
the caterpillars, etc, from damag-
ing them.
Farmers should make their own
fertilizers, as far as possible, and
then they will know just what they
are using.
Exclusive farming and exclusive
stock raising are mistakes. The
best results are those obtained by q
ildicious blending of pillow and pas
ture.
Gates, barns and bars should be
kept closed, or if the gates are to be
left open, they should be fastened
back. so as not to slam and break
the hinges.
Keep all dead and faulty limbs
cut off the fruit and ornamental
trees, for the looks of things, if not
for the protection of the trees
against decay.
When a farmer has unfortunate
lysbecome possessed of poor farm,
there is no better way of cheaply
improving it than by blowing un-
der green crops.
In polling lima beans the poles
should not be over five feet above
ground and then the vines kept
piached back. The result will be
more, earlier and better beans.
Animals needing castration must
be operated on at once. Especially
should colts be looked after before
the very warm weather gives vigor
to the screw worm.
If it is not possible to let the
pigs have a pasture, there should
be soiling crop for them; or they
should have fresh, green grass cut
and fed to them at least once a day.
This will tend to keep their diges-
tive apparatus in a healthful con-
dition.
Peter Henderson states that q
patch of alfalfa about twenty:feet
by one hundred, or about the one
sixteenth part of an acre, used as q
soiling crop near st. Augustine,
Florida, furnished feed through the
summer months for a COW; and
that twice that amount, or about
one-eight of an acre, would be am
pie to supply cow with food dur
ing the entire season.
1t is in time Of drought that ma
nure is the most valuable, and it is
often in such seasons that the crops
are the most valuable also. The
manure holds the moisture and
starts vegetation early, so as to
get start before the dry weather
comes on; and frequently it will at
tain size sufficient to shade the
ground and protect the roots
from the scorching rays of the mid
summer sun.
In sowing grasses for pasture
the best results are reached by SOW
! ing a mixture-for instance, of red
top, timothy, Kentucky blue grass,
meadow fescue and meadow oat
grass, bearing in mind that mix
ture of several sorts is more likely
to afford heritage through the whole
summer, and to be more permanent.
In seeding for meadows, though,
it is better to SOW only one kind of
seed; as the different kinds will
very seldom be ready to harvest at
the same time.
The cheapest food is not that
which costs the least but that which
gives the best results. The best
food is the cheapest, and every one
should make an earnest effort to al
ways put up aad care for the crops
SO as to have every bit of the feed
which the stock is TO consume of
the very best quality. No animal
should be forced to eat musty grain,
hay or fodder, or feed of any kind
that is net seHtt in good condition. All
kinds of feed lose their nutritive
qualities by exposures, rains,
storms, and even the action .of
moisture and the atmosphere. For
this reason barns, sheds and shell
tiers of some kind should be pro-
vided for all grain, hay, etc, and
these feeds placed beneath their
shelter as soon as possible, and
with so little exposure to storms af