The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-07
FARM EXPERIENCE.

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Flowing under a good clover sod
is perhaps the most economical
method of manuring the lands.
Peas are rapidly growing in IA
vor as a valuable feed for all kinds
of stock, especially for cows and
sheep.
Plow and manure the garden this
month, and it will be in much bet
ter condition to work and plant
next spring.
A linseed meal given occasionally
is beneficial to most kinds of stock,
and has tendency to keep the sys-
tenn regulated and the hair bright.
1t is said that a piece of tarred
paper wrapped around the bodies of
trees during the winter will prevent
depredations from rabbits and
ground mice.
Let the law, Survival of the fit
test have full sway on the stock
farm-that is, slaughter and dis
pose of the poorest and save the
best for breeders.
1t is claimed that the raVages Of
cut worms and wire worms can in
a measure be prevented by blowing
the land just before the ground
freezes in the fall.
Grape vines are benefited by be-
ing trimmed soon after the leaves
fall; but any time during the win
ter will do for this work, SO long as
it is not entirely neglected.
A cold rain is more deleterlous
than snow or extreme cold on
stock and farmers should be pre-
pared to shed every one of their an
imals when such storms come on.
Novelty or even harshness and
unkindness to animals, if viewed
from economic standpoint alone,
should be utterly combined rs an
expensive as well as barbarou sprac
tiee.
The missing trees in the orchard
should be replaced by thrifty
young trees of some choice variety.
1t pays best to keep all the space
within the boundaries of the or
chard fully occupied.
tits easier to keep an animal fat
than to make it fat, and consequent
ly it is. the wisest plan to make a
young animal fat as soon as posi-
BILE after birth and then never allow
it to get poor.
If farmers would make it a rule
to veal the poorest calves and raise
only the best ones, they would find
their profits materially increased.
Feed gwen to ungrowthy animals Is
largely thrown away.
Implements and tools should be
painted before being put away for
spring use. There is no better
method of preserving these things
than by giving each article q good
coat Of paint, and then storing it in
the dry,
If the sod is carefully dug away
from around the trunks of the fruit
trees, and a few shovelfuls of fresh
dirt are thrown around them, 1t
will greatly lessen the danger Of
trees being pealed by rabbits and
mice,
The longer the ripening process
can be retarded in fruit and vege-
tables, the longer they will keep,
and, as cold is the best known
agent for this purpose, the cooler
theseAthings Jean be kept without
freezing the better.
Whenever your hogs are dying
from hog cholera, every one of
these dead animals should immedi-
ately be burned, as this is the best
means of disposing Of the diseased
carcasses to prevent the spreading
of the scourge.
Whenever farmers can spare
day they should spend 1T In manur-
ing and blowing the ground for
the next springs crops. Every
thing that can be done now which
will save a day in the spring will be
a great help in getting the crops in
seasonably.
mo more feed, either hay or grain,
should be given at a time than will
be eaten up clean, and if any should
be left in the managers at the next
feeding it should be carefully clean
ed out and fresh feed be given, but
in a lessened quantity.
The Cultvator well says that
many insect pests are destroyed by
late fall blowing. The upturning
of the earth exposes them to wet
and cold by breaking up their re-
treats, and it does this at so late a
season IS to leave them no chance
to find new places in which to hide.
In many sections farmers could
plant bushel of walnuts to advan-
tage this fall. The walnuts may be
planted by turning up piece of sod,
the nut and inverting the
sod over it. Or they may be plant
ed in bed IN the garden, and then
transplanted into grove after the
young trees have reached some size,
say about one year old.
Care should be taken to teach the
tarm animals good habits, and un-
der no circumstance to teach them
bad habits. A kicking horse or
COW, or a vicious, breachy or,unsafe
animal of any kind, is always more
trouble than it is worth, and care
should be taken.
Sweet corn is attracting more at
tention every year as a most valua-
Bile food for hogs, cut up and fed
stalk and ear, when in the roasting
ear stage. As it can be had in this
stage nearly all the latter part of
the summer and autumn, by plant
ing at different times, it furnishes a
most valuable forage for swine
breeders.
An exchange states that Texas
blue grass is said to equal The blue
grass OF Kentucky, but differs from
pasturage from Novem
Der until May, while the Kentucky
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