The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-08-06
FARM METHODS AND EXPERIENCE.

A little salt sprinkled around the
ounce trees will be beneficial to
them.
1t is said that when vegetables,
plants, etc, are infested with ants
little kerosene will dispense the
pests.
Be careful not to bury the seeds
too deeply. The general rule is to
bury them only five times their di-
ameter.
Ashes and SCOT of any kind scat
tered over the beds of vegetables
will relieve them, to some extent,
of worms and bugs.
Unless the manure is old and well
rottel it should not be allowed to
touch the roots of the fruit trees,
but be spread upon the surface.
Feed is liable to be scarce again.
and farmers should make arrange
ments for supplementary crops
such as fodder, millet and turnips.
A Virginia farmer recommends
to provide sweet potatoes with
brush or some other support to
climb upon, and thus prevent the
vines from taking root.
If the fruit ladens the tree too
heavily thin it out, and the tree
will not break down nor be so much
exhausted, and the balance of the
fruit will be much larger and finer.
1t will not be very much trouble
to pour manure water around a few
tomato plants each day, and thus
make them mature much more rap
idly and the fruit ripen several
days sooner
1t is said that farmers should be
very careful about seeding with
johnson grass, as it is almost i'm
| possible to eradicate it when it
once gets in the ground, and may,
it is said, be considered an inter
minable weed.
Fat, sleek cattle and fine muttons
can be grown much cheaper and
easier on good pastures than in
any other way. For this very &C cd
reason 1t is the part OF discretion
to have as much fine pasture land
as possible.
The grass should be cut early.
1t is better to commence a little too
early, if it is necessary, in order to
get the grass up in good condition,
than to wait little longer and the
last cutting be a hard, woody, fl
Der, with very little strength in it.
There is much good material Tor
manure in the average forest.
Leaves, old rotten logs, and vegeta
bic mold, which always collect in
the woods, may be gathered up and
will make a handsome and most ex-
celent addition to the manure heap.
II always pays to make every addi-
ton to the manure pile possible.
The hogs should have undispu-
ted sway in the orchard during the
fruit season, and they will eat up
al the fallen and wormy apples,
and hunt out many of the grubs,
etc, which are Injurious to the
trees. La this way they destroy
many of the enemies of sound fruit
and sound trees, and in other ways
greatly benefit the orchard.
An Englishman said: SHOW
me country with no grass, and
will show you country with no
cattle; no cattle, no manufe; no
farmers; no nothing" This is very
applicable to our case, and is Il
saying which many of our farmers
could ponder over to good advan-
tage until they take it sufficiently
to heart to determine to have more
and better grass lands.
Permanent pasture lands are the
main anchor of agriculture, and the
farmers of the country will find out
after awhile, as they already have
in England, and will commence
seeding their land with permanent
grasses. Even the people of Kan
sas are learning that less grain and
more grass Will insure better farms
and more gold, and are wisely seed
ing very much larger proportion
Of their land than ever before.
Many families have an abundant
supply of all kinds of early vegeta-
bles, but neglect to make any pro
visions tor lates ones, and in the
late fall their tables are devoid of
the choicest and most healthful
food. 1t is very easy to have an
abundant supply of vegetables on
until frost, and each farmer should
have plenty of them this fall.
In blowing under green crops it
should be done while crop is yet
green and full of sap, generally be-
fore it has attained full growth.
At this time the plant is full of
sap and water, and very rapidly de-
Gays and enriches the soil, while if
it is not plowed under until the
plant becomes matured it will have
tendency to cure and turn into
straw, and it will consequently take
it long while to sufficiently decay
to become fertilizer and be in
condition to be taken up by the
soil. Besides this much Of the
fertilizing qualities of the crop has
evaporated and passed off through
the air and is consequently lost to
the soil. Remember this, as allow +
ing these green crops to become to
old and ripe to be most beneficial,
is a common mistake.
If the meadows do Lot promise
to give abundance OF good hay this
coming harvest, take time by the
"forelock" and prepare in good
time ito SOW a substitute crop.
There really is but little excuse for
any farmer being short of hay, or
rough feed of equal merit of some
kind. Generally when the fore
part of the summer is so dry as to
limit the hay crop, there is wet
spell after harvest sufficient to ma
ture a fine crop of fodder, millet,
etc, and every farmer who is at ell
enterprising and anxions to make
his stock profitable, will piece out
his short hay harvest with one of