The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-10-08
FARM EXPERIENCE.

The best farmers do not wait too
long to begin blowing for wheat,
and making every preparation for
getting it in early.
Plants may be grown in compare
lively little pots if watered occasion
ally with weak solution of guano,
or sulphate of ammonia.
Don't turn the stock on the grass
stubble. 1t don't pay in any shape
to pasture the meadows, or to pack
them hard by the tramping OF
stock.
If you have stiff or noisy hinges
about the place, Or bolts from which
the burr cannot be readily removed,
pour on the top a little kerosene,
which will soon find its way in.
The best way to 'Emake two blades
of grass grow where one grew be
FORE" is to sow greater variety.
Try the plan on one field at least,
and see if this is not one solution OF
the problem.
Do not forget to clean up the gar
den as soon as harvest is over, or,
better yet, do this work between
showers on the wet days; but any
how be sure not to allow a single
weed to go to seed in the garden to
make work for another year.
How many of our farmers are
preparing to burn lime kiln this
fall TO spread on their wheat fields?
No work pays better, and all who
have a vein Of this stone should
give their wheat liberal dressing
of fresh burned or ground lime.
The young cattle that are to be
fed out the next winter should be
put in the very best condition be-
fore winter sets in. This will make
the fattening much more easily
and cheaply accomplished and the
cattle will make much larger
growth.
Don't sell the yearling and young
est stock while there are older ami
mails that can be disposed of with
equal advantage which will not
grow into more money. Selling off
the young, thrifty, growing stock is
what keeps many farmer poor
1t may be an advantage where
much wheat is TO be sown, to sow
two varieties, one that ripens early,
and the other, some variety which
ripens later; so that the harvesting
may not be crowded by too much
wheat demanding attention at one
time.
With an old pair OF sheep shears
clip of the ends of the melon, Gu
cumber, squash and other vines,
and with a hoe chop Off the ends of
the sweet potato vines. In this way
the vines are prevented from ex-
hausting themselves in making
growth, and they are inclined to
fruit more politically, and the fruit
to be much finer.
The Farm Journal thinks that
there is nothing so cheap for stock
as grass, and nothing makes better
beef or mutton. It is also excellent
to make fat. Add 3 little meal or
middlings. Anyway, make the stock
fat while the grass lasts. Il is very
poor economy to wait till cold
weather and then resort to hay and
grain.
AS soon as harvesting is over
every farmer should take care of the
machinery used in caring for the
crops. The knives should be re
moved from the mowers and reap
ers to avoid accidents and all the
metal parts should be coated with
some suitable kind of oil to prevent
rusting, and then everything should
be placed in the dry.
There are almost always some
low, wet places on the farm which
cannot be drained out except in dry
weather, either on account of too
much water or of the too soft ma
ture of the soil. All such places
should be drained out in August OF
some time during the dry fall sea
son. These places, if properly drain
ed, become the most productive
parts of the farm, and it is equal to
adding just as much to your produc-
tive land.
There is no use 10 sowing wheat
on wet and swampy ground, and if
there should be any wet places in
the wheat fields this fall they should
be carefully and completely drained
before the wheat is sown. These
wet places will not produce any
wheat unless drained; but if drain
ed will produce q good yield, and
more than likely the first crop will
pay all the expense of draining and
the increased productiveness of the
land forever afterwards will be a
clear profit.
In marketing fruit it should al
ways be the rule to prepare it and
place it on the market in the neatest
and incest condition possible. If
the fruit is carefully assorted, and
all knotty, wormy and imperfect
specimens thrown out, the remain
der will bring enough higher price
to pay for the diminution in bulk.
Neatness and a tasty putting up of
the fruit, so as to attract attention
of buyers, pays well for all the ex-
ira labor and trouble in marketing
it in this better condition.
THE LOST CHANGE.