The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-09

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In purchasing breeding stock it
should be kept in mind that unusu-
ally large animals, as rule,
are hard to keep, and generally
show a tendency towards roughuess
and are less hardy. 1t is better to
select breeding animals of medium
size and compact build, as indiea-
tive of hardness and of being easy
keepers.
A Pennsylvania farmer last year
sold $4,000 worth of potatoes from
twelve acres. He fertilized with a
compost of hard wood ashes and
oyster shell lime, plowed deep,
planted medium sized, well formed,
uncut potatoes three feet apart,
gave level culture and cultivated
often. From one hill he took Ii
fine large tubers.
The potatoes should be be planted
as early as the ground can be pre-
pared. They will stand a pretty
heavy freeze if the burrows are par
TALLY filed with good stable manure,
and will, by being put in the ground
thus early, be all the more ready to
grow as soon as there is sufficient
warmth.
Stock will fatten more rapidly in
stalls than when allowed to exercise
in the yard; but if confined so
closely for any length of time it will
be at the expense of their health.
So stall feeding should be pushed
as rapidly as the stock will bear and
be completed, and the stock be put
on the market without any unnsces-
sary delay.
The brood sows at and near the
time Of farrowing should be dis
turbed as little as possible. as at
that time they are inclined to be
cross, and disturbance only in
creases this tendency. Then place
these animals in good warm nest
several days before "time," and 90
around them as little as possibly
to provide suitably for their com
fort.
In planting out young fruit
trees make the ground rich and mel
lew. There is no use of attempting
to start an orchard in a sod, or in
any kind OF hard ground what ever
In filing up vacant places in the
orchard with youAg trees, the
ground should be thoroughly dug
up for considerable space around
so as to give the tree a chance tc
extend its rootlets into the mellow
soi4.
In laying out a garden make ii
long rather than square, keep it en-
tirely free from bushes and trees.
and lay out the beds so that the Is
Dor of preparing and cultivating
the ground can be done al
me st entirely by horse power. The
old traditional spade should be laid
away on the shelf to rust out, IL
ste ad of being worn out il the gar
den at the expense of somebody's
poor back.
The corn crop requires much Ia
Dor, whether large or a small crop
is raised; then it is very important
that the yield be as large as posi-
BILE, so as to reimburse the farmer
for the large amount of labor ex
pended. The manure heaps must
be called into requisition, and if
there is not sufficient of it, then the
aid Of artificial manure must be ia
voked. Corn must have rich, mel
low soil, and it pays well to put the
corn field in this condition even at
considerable expense.
The British farmer believes firmly
in ensilage, and = recent exhibition
of silo products at Smithfields had
$50 entries. The new system takes
away the barriers of wet hay sea-
sons. A Scotch farmer says that
last year bis grass was cut and cart
ed in a heavy rain, and part Of it
under water, gan old building was
converted into a silo and the grass
was put into it. The farmer is now
using it as ensilage 1t is of a
bright green color, and the cattle
eat it with relish.
The loss from feeding grain
whole, says the Michigan Farmer,
to domestic animals is well under
stood by intelligent farmers. Some
have found by careful experiment
that grinding corn increases the
value as seven to five, when fed to
swine, making a gain of forty bush
els in every hundred, or four hun
dred in every thousand-a mater
of no little Importance to farmers
who feed to their animals large
quantities annually. Another ex
perimenter who weighed and
measured accurately, assured US
that by grinding and scalding to-
gether, he doubled the value of
corn fed to swine.
There are also many ways bv
which the industrious farmer can
make his soil give him a living. If
one crop or one kind of stock be-
comes unremunerative, there are al
ways several others to fall back on.
which can bring fair prices. True,
the specialist who has not this ad
vantage, but the majority of our
farmers follow more sensible
course and practice mixed hus-
bandry. 1t is very certain that the
average farmer has many resources
by which to retrieve losses occa-
stoned by Quotations in prices.
This, perhaps, is one reason why
they are not SO much emb arrassed
as other'business men are.
The long continued cold weather
will make the farmers time very
when the weather does
open up, and everything must be
brought to bear to make up for
ost time. Systematic arrangements
and laying out of the work several
lays aheod will often show where
lime can be economical, especially |
n going from one job to another;
md, besides, gives his hands no ex-
;use for not knowing just what to
10. This is great advantage, as
nothing so Worries hands or is SO |