The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31
FARM EXPERIENCE.

FARM EXPERIENCE.
Boards are cheaper than hay and
grain for keeping stock warm.
BY good farming you can earn
comfortable living. BY high farm
ing you can squander fortune.
Many fences on the farm are per
fectly useless and merely serve as
harbors for weeds and their propa-
cation.
Bran is an exceedingly nutritious
food and contains large proper
ton Of nitrogen, potash and phos-
phoric acid.
There are countries where the al
most exclusive diet of the masses
is. beans. These contain 81 per
cent. of nutrimnet.
A dungeon is not a suitable place
in which to winter stock light is as
essential as air and warmth.
Some farmers who placed hand
full of ashes in the hills when plant
ing potatoes report that the crop is
free from rot.
Many kinds of vegetable roots
may be stored in the cellar and COW
ed with coal ashes, and keep in
prime condition all winter.
Half the people of the world live
exclusively on rice. 1t contains SO
per cent. Of nutriment, while roast
beef contains but %.
1t will astonish most farmers to
go into field where turnips are
being pulled and see how large a
crop can be grown with little la
bor
1t is said if cuttings of crap
vines, currants, gooseberrIes and
ounces are made now and buried in
dry or sandy soil until spring they
will grow much better.
Burn all old rubbish, prun1ngs,
etc, about the garden, vineyard and
berry patches. Loose materials ly-
ing about will afford a harbor for
insects, many of which but for this
would freeze.
1t will not pay to winter pigs, as
rule, in this age OF baby meat. Ii
will be found much more profitable
to feed out each litter of pigs as
soon as the animals are of sufficient
age and size.
The cob of the seed corn should
be thoroughly dried out before
freezing commences, as freezing
while there is water or dampness in
the cob at the root of the grain will
destroy the plant germ.
The coal ashes as well as the
wood ashes should be saved and
spread in the spring on the wet and
heavy soils. Nothing is better
than coal ashes for rendering heavy
clay soil loose and mellow.
A failing appetite is generally
the first indication of domestic ami
mails being out of condition, ard |
the stockman should give prompt !
attention to the sfrst indication of
this and seek by every means in
his power to remedy it.
1t may be well, advises farmers
to feed out the coarsest and rough
est feed first. and save the best un-
til towards spring, when the
strength and appetite of the animal
being reduced by long, hard win
ter, they will the more need the best
OF feed.
The best condition to make cattle
come out in the spring is now, at
the opening of the winter season.
Stock started in the spring in good
may be easily kept grow
ing and thriving all winter and
come out in the spring ready to
grow right along on the new pas
ture.
1t is said that while sour apples
fed raw are almost valueless, they
become worth fifteen to twenty
cents bustel after being frozen
and then steamed enough to thaw
hem out and perhaps partly cook
hem. 1t is thought freezing,
md perhaps to some extent the !
having and steaming also, acts
chemically upon the apple and
,hanges its constituent character.
AS a purifier of the soil nothing
s equal to good fresh lime. 1t will
lestroy the germs of many plant
diseases which may be lurking in
he soil, and also many of the gru5s
nd insects which feast on the ten
Ter plants. 1t will also freshen I
i'd and sour lands and set free the
lements of vegetable growth held
nsoluble in these productive soils,
o that growing vegetables can
make use of and assimilate them.
1t is important that the cellars
eneath the dwellings are dry and :
'ell ventilated, especially if fruit
D any quantity is stored in them.
he gases arising from the fruit, il
neither decaying or not, are very s.
curious, and great deal more SO it
any of the fruit is rotting. Then Al
is important that this foul air be
iven free chance to pass off. 1t
necessarily required that all the I
penings be tightly closed during y
eezing weather; then they should
e opened on pleasant days.
The Rural World says: The man .
no is the means OF bringing first
ass stock to neighborhood con
rs upon it blessing, providing al
avs, however, he handles it in the tn
ght way, and makes of the bust ms ms
sss a success. He who introduces sEle
new system of business and is un-
lie to demonstrate by his man
cement that it is worthy of imita-
On does a lasting injury thereto, eli
e measure of which is proportion -.
to the pretentions made for the a lIo
lprovement. be
An exchange states thai few far w W,
ers have the courage, unless driv- :
by necessity, to buy feed to be pm
IN tho farm Varv pcSsihlv