Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-11-25
FARM AND GARDEN.
Practical Points for the Tiilers OF
the Soil.

Fence little, but fence well. Sell
breachy cattle to the butcher.
Industry economy and common sense
are the best capital.
Do not allow the use of any intoxi-
eating drinks on your farm.
Give your tenderest care to the best
products of your farm-your sons
and daughters.
Keep your stock curried, stables
cleaned, rubbish picked up, and road
sides and moving fields free from
bushes and weeds.
1t would be well for farmers to be on
the safe side, and save all the corn
stalks. They will help out short hay
crop amazingly.
Plenty Of rubbing will produce good
coat on your horse. "Elbow grease
opens the pores. softens the skin and
promotes the general health. g.
In fattening turkeys, conine them
ten days before they are to be sold. For
that time they will gain flesh rapid
after that time they fall off because
uneasiness and restlessness on accoun
of confinement.
Forest leaves will now begin to fall
and are worth gathering for litter, and
to mix with horse-dung for heat whey
hot-beds are to be made. They are al,
useful for covering cabbage-beds, celery
pits; also for banking hot-beds etc.
Supply dahlias with stakes, the chief
branches as well as the main stem
Keep chrysanthemums in growi
state by the use Of liquid manure, All
pinch them into shape. II a black aphis
affects them use tobacco water.
The Importance of iirming the soil
was learned by accident in South Caro-
lima, and has been worth thousands OF
dollars to the farmers of the State. \
thieving darky ran through newly
sown turnip field, and wherever his foot
struck there was "a stand of turnips,
and nowhere else, for the seed had been
loosely sown and the weather dry.
| The best eggs are the result Of meat
diet When grasshoppers and worms
| fail, feed meat rinds and butchers oflnl.
The crushed oyster-shell supply and tn,
boxes Of road dust or ashes should b
kept within easy reach. The high col
ored and well favored eggs Of Kansa
during the grasshopper visitation Were
marvel to strangers.
! Vicious habits are early induced in
horses by tickling and plaguing them.
while in the stable, and under no cir
cumstances should be indulged in
| Never beat or use harsh language to
| : 'rse in the stable. a lprse is susce
i Die of taking in y vast amount 'f
Auowledge; he learns quickly; and l.
education should be of the kind tha.
| will make him the safest and most
useful. ,gl 4. rea. ..
i Large roots Weighing ten to sixteel
pounds cannot be grown at less than 81
teen inches apart, eighteen inches is be-
ter; with full rows,at this distance, thar,
should be $500 roots to the acre, ani
they average ten pounds there will
forty-nine tons to the acre. At half +.
distance, the roots may only ayera
three pounds, making only little me (
than twenty-nine tons to thea l'i j
rule applies to corn also, for all plan )
q need abundant feeding space at thr
roots, and must not be crowded.
For chicken cholera the following \
recommended by q physician of staIuq
ing: Blue mass, sixty grains; camph
twenty-five grains; cayenne pepp
thirty grains; rhubarb, forty -e.g
grains; laudanum, sixty drops; ma
into twenty pills. To the ailing, ri 3
one every four hours until they 2;
freely; then teaspoonfui of castor .
/. To the well, give one pill, followed
K the oil. Separate the healthy fow,s.
renovate the old floors and roosts, pu &
flying with lime and carbolic ac. |,
Thoroughly white wash the new qua,
- tiers, and sprinkle with acid water, am
dust with lime every few days. ,,i y
, A writer In the American Agricnl-
turist says: The farms of this countr'
have a diversity of soils, while climat
. influences compel the farmers to t,'
form their crops and methods Of Gu 4,
! walton In accordance herewith; but (
/ may be claimed that there Is no soil,io
, poor that 1t cannot be made to yield
profit, provided the tillcr uses it ot;lI
most advantage. In this country. FIR
/ mers rely more upon the quality Of ts
, soil than upon their own Efforts ) ~
In Europe, on the other hand. the f3i-
r mers always depend upon judicious cgt
: tivation and the proper feeding Of TIN
/ soil. ia f's ils p thal ss'al
! The report originating in Paristo thf
! effect that Bonanza Macksy had loans.
the Bulgarian government S2,0Oo,as
!. doubtless grew out Of the fact that Ii
: has been buying his wife q few dresse.
and his checks passing through til
} clearing house excited some curiosit,
4 Such transactions may seem lik
government loans "a, people in Europe
= but over here they are common matter
, Of domestic economy. si y, is@
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