Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Too much corn or cornmea al causes
chicken cholera.


chicken cholera.
With many varieties OF trees for
shelter, shade or ornament the i'm
portant item is to get thcm fairly
rooted.
"A farmer with quantities of ex-
perience says: "0f all the kinds of
cattle food ever grew sweet fodder
corn is the best.
The farmer who feeds sour swill
to his swine seldom realizes that it
causes arrangement of the digestive
organs and gives them diarrhea.
Plant corn and you will get corn;
plant thistles and you will get thistles;
plant beer and you will get bier;
cultivate your head and you will get
ahead. - Western Rowman
The market for fat sheep shows
these days very clearly that the man
who remembers that carcasses as we'll
as fleeces are to be sold from his focks
is the shepherd who is going to win.
Good clover hay, or variety of
grass in the pasture, will give better
results than an exclusively grain diet
to any kind of stock. 1t is the variety
of food rather than the quality and
quantity that promotes digestion and
health.
There is danger of getting the
manure in the potato hill too strong.
II barn manure, it should be rotted
and composted with sand months pre-
vious to placing in the hills. A quart
OF manure per hill is enough.
The sure way to break hen from
egg-eating is to cut off her head. Pre-.
vent the habit if possible, by giving
nests lined with straw and large
enough for the hen to move without
breaking the eggs; also gather the
eggs daily and use artificial nest eggs.
One man of good Judgment and
large experience in conducting farm
ers' meetings will accomplish more
good by taking direction and holding
it than dozen men, or hundred,
moving without system or the requisite
knowledge. -HuSb1ndman.
For growing stock, clover is bet
ter than grain. Clover contains more
lime for the production of bone and
more nitrogen for the production Of
flesh than corn. A liberal allowance
of bulky food is always best for young
growing stock. Grain should only be
given once day, and sparingly oats
being preferred.
Prof E. W. Stewart, who is noted
for hts experience in stock feeding,
states that one ounce, or less, of oil
meal to gallon of warm, sweet whey
will make it nearly equal in feeding
value to whole milk for raising calf
to three weeks old, and after that
another quarter of an ounce may be
safely added. The oil-meal should be
dissolved in hot water before mixing
with that of right temperature to
feed.
1t is getting to be noticed that all
most every thing of value has been
found out by practical men, and that
about all the men of science do is to
explain the how and the why. This
is, of course, no slight service, and
should not be moderated. But it is
curious how many things once con-
sidered motions" and "superstitions"
have turned out to have solid basis of
truth. -Rural Kermonter,
There is no waste, but q saving,
in wetting the feed for cows and
horses, but it should be done in q
proper manner The meal should not
be given alone and wet, rs this would
be wasteful, but it should be sprinkled
over the cut and moistened fodder, to
which it adheres. The more finely the
meal is ground the better. and it is
better when bran is fed to have this
ground with the grain. The cut and
mixed feed is eaten more perfectly
than any dry feed, and is digested
more completely. In feeding in this
manner there is saving of one
fourth to one-third and the animals
do better.