The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
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sometimes become manure sick.
Some ground should be treated to
a coat of lime.
In very dry cellar where the air
is excluded the fruit is apt to be-
come sbriveled up and insipid in
taste. A little fresh air on pleas
ant days will correct this tendency.
Hogs which have q strong lean
ing towards fat accumulation, if
kept for breeding purposes, should
be allowed as wide a range of pas
ture as they will travel over, so as
to develop the muscular and bony
system.
Cobs are good for smoking meat,
as they give good flavor. Keep
ing a small fire longer time is bet
ter than quick smoking, as too much
heat gives the meat strong taste
and Injuries its sweetness.
Choose dry weather for earthing
celery for if damp the hearts are
sure to rot. Before earthing scat
ter little lime around each plant
which destroys all slugs which are
often destructive to celery during
the winter in damp soil.
The rough feed may be cut and
mixed with bran CIR chop for COWS
and horses with good results. In
fact, a change, and to keep the
system relaxed, nothing is better
than a feed of cut hay or straw
made into a mash with bran.
Iurnips, beets and potatoes are
well adapted to iced in com bination
with other foods, to almost all kinds
Of farm animals, and are especially
useful to maintain the appetite and
tone up the system of fattening cat
tie and sheep.
By selecting the best and dis
carding the poorest animals on the
farm every year the stock will of it.
self gain in quality. If, in addi-
ton to this, thoroughbred males are
used, farm animals can soon be
bred up to a degree.of quality very
little inferior, for practical purposes,
to the thoroughbred.
In winter it is difficult task 10
supply the farm animals with green
and succulent feed, and yet they
need something of the kind. For
this reason, ensilage may be made a
most important adjunct in provid-
ing succulent material when moth
ing but dry food can be found, and
be valuable means of dieting the
stock in winter.
Prof. Brown, an English author,
in his work on "Animal Life" says
that the tendency OF animal life in
domestication is, in his opinion,
''the survival of the uDfittest." He
looks upon an animal as "a tub
with hole in the BOTTOM which
must be filled by pouring into it
quickly, because the quicker you
pour it the less waste.
Close observation is most essen
tlal in agriculture. The soils of no
Two farms perhaps are exactly alike,
and their treatment must differ ac-
cOrdingly to secure the best result.
One field may need manure alone,
another may need both manure and
lime, and still another may need
only lime, salt, or even ashes, etc.
and it is well to know these differ
ent requirements and supply them,
if one would have his land to be
more productive.
Early maturity and economy of
production in the breeding and
feeding of hogs embrace points of
never ending interest to the swine
breeders. The hog is raised only
for it's meat, and this being the
case the object is best subserved by
turning it into meat as soon as pos
sible. 1t is also q fact Of common
observation that economy of pro-
duction requires that these animals
be not fed longer than is absolutely
essential to allow of their attaining
a good weight.
1t is now the time of year for
farmers to meet together to form
new agricultural societies, without
the domination of horse racing and
games of chance. Many things
connected with the fairs exert an
influence OF unmixed evil upon the
rising generation and farmers owe
it to themselves to remove these
pernicious features of so called ag-
ricultHral fairs, and to build up
new societies whose influence will
be as beneficial as that of the 9TH
orc wac iniuriOus
1t is to be hoped that every stock
man will prepare, during the win
ter, to grow a crop of roots next
season for his stock. 1t is not best
to depend entirely on one kind of
root crop, lest they be failure; but |
there should be at least a plot of
beets and another of turnips. Per-
haps a greater bulk of these crops |
can be raised to the acre than OF
any other crop of equal value for
feeding purposes, and it is astonish-
ing to think that there is so few of
them raised, in the light of their
we'll known worth.
Many farmers require assistance
in feeding and caring for the stock
during the winter, and at no other
kind of work is there more urgent
necessity for intelligent and careful
help. A shiftless and vicious man
may waste much feed and injure
many valuable animals by abuse,
under feeding or overlooking, and
it will pay to give an intelligent and
man several dollars extra
on the month rather than to have
stock abused and feed wasted by
an incompetent hand, even if he
works.for mis- board.
1t is to be hoped that no reader
in the light of the knowledge of the
wastefulness of such practice, still
feeds on the ground and allows the
stock to trample nearly as much
feed into the mud as is consumed.
If shelter is not provided, racks
made of poles or rails in the lot,
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