The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-05-28
FARM EXPERIENCE.
Points Observed, Contributed, Cola
ted and Condensed.

smootbest and incest potatoes are
raised in sandy soil.
Hogs, like all other farm animals,
require salt, and a small quantity
should be given them occasionally.
As rule farmers ought to grow
more and better fruit. All should
try to raise a .sufficient supply for
home consumption.
We cannot think the management
of stock to secure the greatest profit
requires the highest feeding, but
rather such a system Of feeding as
will insure continuous growth.
If the manure is well rotted don't
forget that the potato ground can
not get too much of it; and also
that a little lime with the manure
will be q great benefit to the pete-
toes.
Keep young growing stock ana
it will earn something for you eve
ry day. Even while you are asleep
the calves, pigs, the lambs and the
colts will be growing into money
just as fast as in the day time.
The farmer who only feeds his
stock enough TO Sustain lie certain
ly lacks wisdom enough to look for
ward to what the future should
bring forth, and his short sighted
policy will not likely bring from the
future enough to support his fam
lily.
1t will rarely pay to buy cheml-
Gals for mixing as manures, unless
farmer is prepared to do 1T on Il
large scale. A little gives more
bothersthan profit. But these pur-
chased fertilizers may often be prof
itably composted in the manure
heap and all drawn out together.
Around almost all old saw
mills there is an immense .accumu-
tion OF old rotten sawdust. This
! saWdust after it becomes we'll rotted
makes the very best OF fertilizer fer
the vegetable garden, and especial
ly for onions and potatoes; but it is
also excellent for any farm crop,
and will pay well for hauling en- the
fields.
Now and then we find farmers
who have ali their manure hauled
out in the winter time, the rails to
the places where they are needed,
! a l;c1l everything ready, when spring
opens, to push the getting in OF
crops; find themselves sadly crowd
ed with work, by failing to do this
at the proper time.
The necessity of never being
overstocked is plainly apparent TO
every intelligent farmer. Over
crowded stock must necessarily be
cramped and receive proper atten-
ton nor sufficient feed, and cOnse-
quently will not make the growth it
should, nor in a marketable condi-
ton. 1t is much better to keep
stock and keep it well.
Farming to the intelligent man or
woman is as interesting as it may
be made profitable. The expert
menting with plants and seeds and
the development of the domestic an
imals is 40 interesting employment
for any one, if he can see
his work gradually growing towards
his ideal IN stock, crops and farm
methods. But when this work is
carried on merely for the prOduc-
ton Of it's kind, whether of stocks
or of crops, to be put on the market,
without any special interest in their
Improvement the work becomes
dull and monotonous, and generally
improbable also.
Over feeding and under feeding
are the two greatest evils which
the successful stockman must
avoid. Over feeding produces in
digestion, inaction of the stomach,
and their attendant evils, and often
causes the premature death Of fat
tening animals and animals fed for
the show ring, or permanently in
jures them for breeding purposes.
Under feeding, on the other hand,
produces evils of the opposite ex
IRENE, but none the less baneful in
their effects. Understood and I'm
profitable animals that have not
paid for the little feed they have
been allowed to consume, because it
was required to support their life
and not to make growth, are its
most common effect, as shown on
many farms where better things
would be expected. There is a me-
dunn in feeding which every one
should strive to follow. 1t gives to
each animal just what it's system
can readily assimilate and make
use of, no more, no less-and none
can say but what it is the better
way.
The best tools are the cheapest,
the best stock the most profitable,
and the highest fertilization and |
cultivation will bring the largest
crops. In fact, modern farming re-
quires that every tool, every animal
and every operation on the farm be
the best of their kind to insure the
highest success. Profits are SO
small that methods in common
vogue a few years back will not an
sWer in these times OF closer compe-
tition. The time when it paid bet
ter to raise animals that could and
would pick their living from the
forests, the swamps and the wild
prairies has gone by never to re-
turn. But now the most profitable
are the ones that are ma
5ured in the shortest time, and as
general thing, on the richest and
most costly food. Early maturity
is one of the accepted methods of
.essening the cost of stock raising,
and stock of more than three years
Of age are no longer considered
profitable. A few years back mon
sy and time spent in fertilizing and
snriching the soil was considered
BY many almost, if not altogether,
thrown away. Now the farmer
Who does not enrich his land by ev