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

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stacks on the meadows, it is time
that such animals be removed to
prevent the meadow from being
trampled and the sod injured.
An occasional supply of weak
manure water is often very benefi-
cial to house plants, especially if
they show tendency to be weakly
in growth.
A cheap and excellent farm fence
is made by a combination Of two
boards sand three STRAINS of wire.
This is much safer and bett er
fence than one made entirely of
wire.
Good stock acts as an incentive
toward better farming, or at least
good stock is generally found ON the
well titled farm.
Green forage, as part Of the ra-
tiens in the winter, is very condu
Give to the health of the stock.
The careful farmer aims to feed
his stock go as to keep them grow
ing and never allowing them to lose
a pound of fish.
The odd worm fence is = great
drawback to cleanliness, and it is
giving way to straight fences which
allow of closer cultivation and the
better eradiction Of fence row filth.
The old spells between now and
the last OF May. should be utilized
in cleaning up the meadows, by
picking off all stones, removing
stumps and any other obstruction
to the moving machine.
The orchard should be sown to
clover and pastured with hogs. Try
it and see what a change it will
make in the yield and in the quail
ty of the fruit.
Cheaper the cost of crops by
blowing less, but raising more, by
the aid of heavier fertilization and
better cultivation. This is a meth
cd Of fighting hard times which has
never been known to fail.
The bran from roller process is
not near so valuable for feeding
purposes as the bran from the old
process flour.
The hot beds will need attention
soon, and the frames should now be
looked up and repaired ready for
use.
The summer crops need all the
manure; so get it all out on all the
fields, and leave none around the
stables to waste and furnish a nest
ing place for feas and other noxious
! insects.
Fine corn fodder is one Of the
most nutritious of the coarser feeds,
and is greatly relished by all kinds
of stock. Beside this, an acre SOW
ed to corn will yield more rough
feed than if given to almost any
other crop.
Test few new varieties of seeds
this spring to learn if they are suit
able to your section; but do not
trust a whole crop to any of these
new varieties, no matter how high
ly recommended.
II is not good policy to depend
too much upon enc crop or one kind
of stock to furnish you living. 1t
is too much like putting all your
money in one bank, and if it fails
you are ruined.
If you wish to raise a few superb
or potatoes, go to the woods and
collect all the rotten wood and
leaves that are gavailable, fill
the burrows with this vegetable
mould, and yeu will have the finest
potatoes you ever saw.
If there are any wet places in the
fields which are TO be plowed this
spring, that cannot be drained out
now, at least pillow turroW
from them to carry off the surface
water, SO that the blowing may not
beTetardsd.
Corn is perhaps the best crop for
an orchard which it is desirable to
cultivate, as the cultivation of the
corn also helps the growing trees.
A suggested treatment for bar
rel of frozen apples is to remove
half bushel, fill the space thus left
with snow pressed down and |
rounded up" and then set in a room
moderately warm.
Lime is often of wonderful value |
in a garden which has Teen heavily |
MANFRED for years, as it will liber
ate the insoluble plant food which
has been deposited year after year
in the manure.
The bodies of all animals are
made of material similar to plants;
in fact all bodies of human or other
animals are built out of the materi-
ais of the grain and other parts of
plants and the grass they eat.
1t is thought that poor condition
in ANIMALS causes them to be at.
tackled with parasites. 1t is very
true that stock in good condition
does not seem to be troubled with
these pests, but why it is would be
hard to decide.
Farmers living at a reasonable
distance from dairymen could make
money by purchasing their young
calves, which are the offspring of /
we'll bred and fair sized COWS, and ]
earring them. There is always a
good demand for stock Of this kind
n the fall.
The Empire State Agriculturist :
kinks that unless a farmer is very
placed, he cannot expect
o cat his fodder, grind his grain I
md steam his food for stock The {
apparatus to do these things eco 8
and efficiently requires a
arge. outlay of capital. S
The pastures are greatly damaged |
n the spring, and their whole sum s
ner's growth retarded, by having f
he stock turned on them too early. t
The pastures should be allowed a L