Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-08-26
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE
FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE,


their weight in insect pests.
i Dust melon vines with Paris green or |
London purple to keep off the bug.
Dust with one part of the powder to |
twenty-five parts of flour.
Watch for the currant worm, and as
soon as the leaves appear ragged apply
white hellebore-a tablespoonful to the
pail Of water-by means of a syringe. |
Repeat in about week.
The trees can be protected from field
mice by banking the trees up foot or
so with soil, and borers and rabbits can
be kept away by wrapping the trunks
for a foot above with tarred paper.
Frozen cream will not make good
butter. Care should be taken to keep
the milk room or spring house at an
even temperature in winter as well as
in summer.
Use a corn-stalk-knife to scrape hair
off hogs. Scrape or pull, never shave
the hair where you can possibly avoid
it. When shaved the stubs remaining
detract from the appearance of the
meat.
Some people don't appear to know
that corn stalks are worth almost as
much as hay as cattle and horse food.
What will your hay sell for? If you
have none to sell, may it not be because
you do not feed your corn fodder2
A horse is not fully matured until
six years of age. Immature animals
are often over-taxed and their future
usefulness discounted. Young horses
should not be worked too hard if they
are expected to live to a green and use
full old age.
A well-known horticlturist, in rela-
tion to trapping certain moths, ad-
vises as follows: "Take shallow pans
or saucers and place some strong apple
vinegar in them and fasten among the
branches of the trees. The odor of the
vinegar attracts the moths and they are
caught and drowned at the same
time"
The hogs should have undisputed
sway in the orchard during the fruit
season, and they will eat up all the
fallen and wormy apples, and hunt out
! many Of the grubs, ETC., which are in
furious to the trees. In this way they
destrey many Of the ane,ases Of so,yad
fruit and sousM trees and In other way
greatly beneiitthe orchard.
The best ground for peach orchard
is. light, sandy soil that has been
| planted several years with general
crops. Do not plant on ground rich
enough to produce onions, peas, spinach
or lettuce, for the trees will be liable to
make a late autumnal growth, and
produce unripe wood that will be win
ter killed.
Profitable bee-keeping greatly de-
pends upon the gathering up of the
fragments, that nothing he lost. Frag-
ments of time can be used in caring for
bees, fragments of lumber in making
hives and frames, fragments Of comb
for wax, and every drop Of honey is
useful, even though mixed with dirt,
it can be fed to needy colonies.
After calves get SO they will eat hay,
give them what they will eat clean of
this and about, one quart of oats daily.
Without the grain the hay will only
keep them in store condition and worth
little more at year old than now. All
the profit will come from the grain, and
the farmer who sees this point will in
crease the grain feed all the animals
will bear.
Much lime on every farm is spent in
ioing Smail jobs, and if proper convent
ences fcr these are not furnished the
time wasted is so much clear loss. A
good farmer will try to have stock
grain, hay and roots, with water, all
under one roof. This enables him to
10 the work with the least needless
labor, and gives more time for neces-
sary improvements.
One of the incest plants for winter
bloom is the Crab Cactus. 1t is easily
raised from the slip and requires but
little watering or care. 1t blooms about
Christmas, the flowers last for severa
weeks, and after they are gone the PLAN
can be set away in the cellar Of
cupboard and be watered rarely unit
spring, when, if placed in somewha
shady place, it win need no further at
tention. 1t grows through the sum
mer and the buds set on in the fall.
Many drivers fall into the bad habi
when currying a hoise, or when pass
ing him of tickling him in the flank
BY this practice a sensitive, playful
animal becomes in time a biting o
, kicking one, and has the vice confirmed
In the city, many horses are spoiled b
thoughtless men or boys, who teas
! them as they stand by the curb-st6n
: hence the muzzle becomes necessar,
5 Don't tease the horses. Owners shoul
r admonish their hired help about thi
: and the mischievous results. lati
Dwarf pears should be planted on
spot that has moist subsoi. eitht
: natural or made 50 by subsoiling {
mixing some material with the soil this
y will give out moisture in dry weathe
r Trees already planted on dIy, gravel
a subsoil should have circle dag out tw
n feet deep and two os sshrfe feet frol
! the tree. This should be { lied up wit
!. well enriched soil " th \ dwarf pei
a does grow freely it's sftn that som