The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-26
FARM NOTES.

A sudden change in food will cause the
cows to fall off in milk for awhile.
Prepare your sheds for the ewes to be
placed when the lambing season arrives.
Bran is the best grain food, and ground
oats the next for growing stock and cows.
The milk from sick cows should be
thrown away, as it Injuries that from other
cows ii mixed with it.
Ground bone is an excellent fertilizer
for all crops. 1t imparts benefit for several
seasons after it is applied.
Turnips and other roots should be sliced
for cattle and not chopped, as the chopped
roots often choke them.
More mutton and less pork should be
used on the farm. Mutton hams can be
smoked the same as those OF the hog.
A dog will cost something II properly
fed, and too many dogs may be an ex-
pensive luxury. II not well fed they will
stray of and become unserviceable as
guards.
Mouldy or dusty hay will cause heaves
in horses. Such hay is only fit for bed
ding. II horse shows signs OF the heaves
i is best TO cut and moisten all hay to
feed it.
The temperature in the cellar for white
potatoes, says the Farm Journal, is 40
degrees, and for sweet potatoes from 60
to 65 degrees. When sweet potatoes
sprout on top OF the bin it is favorable
sign.
Never feed animals or poultry for thirty
xix hours before killing, nor give water for
twelve hours by so doing il will be easier
10 dress them and O saving Of food will be
the result II large herd or flock is to be
slaughtered.
Clover hay is Just the thing for the
breeding mare. II feeds the blood TO make
perfect foal. The clover stubs are good
after the leaves, blossoms and stems are
eaten olive mean hay not dead ripe.
With such hay there must be bran and oats
or the unborn foal will be starved.
A teaspooniul OF guano, added to two
gallons OF water, and the mixture used for
sprinkling ported plants will keep them in
good condition during the winter. The
pots should have good drainage below,
and should be placed where the frost can
not injure the plants.
Many farmers do not vet fully ap-
preciate the value of bran as feeding
material. For growing animals Il may
form considerable part Of the ration.
Usually II can be purchased much cheeper
in the fall than during the winter-often
for one fourth less per ton, sometimes for
third less,
A Southern cultivator saws the most
salable sweet potato Is one that is short
and thick, and IL is 10 produce these that
you plough shallow and make flat hill
ridges, so that as the potatoes grow they
will reach the hard soil and be checked in
their downward growth and will develop
thickness.
A mixture OF one part OF hydraulic &C.
ment aud six parts lime, made TO the
proper consistency by the addition Of
skinned milk, and applied with brush,
makes an excellent substitute for paint
When whitewashing use SKINNED milk
with the lime instead OF water, and the
wh.tewash will be more durable.
The shorter the manure the better Il
q. can be distributed over the land. and the
more valuable II is for providing plant
food. All long manure entails useless la
Dor in lis handling. 10 throw coarse sub
--kiances ON the manure heap. aud expect
them TO decompOso 10y spring, Is not only
loss OF labor. bui'a waste Of time.
Put the wood ashes under cover and do
not add them 10 the manure heap. Save
v
10 apply them broadcast in the orchard
early in the spring They are excellent
Tor Strawberries, and should be applcd on
the beds next month. II the soil is heavy,
but on light soil apply In February.
A miller in the Northwest made test
with 2s,0O0 bushels 81 No. 3 wheat lie
finds II averages 800 pounds TO make n
barrel OF flour, against 275 pounds OF last
n n. - al. II
power 10 the barrel, and the bran Is not
worth anything like as much as was the
bran made from wheat grown year ago.
Make every acre rich rs far rs YOU 20.
and let wees and grass grow on the poor
lands and pillow them in, or SOW COW peas
and pillow them In. Peas, homemade ma.
nure, including leaves and ashes, In time
make small farm, garden and orchard
rich II the farmer has ten or dozen head
OF cattle and pair Of mules and his stock
increasing.
Some wears ago Y. S. Carman got to-
gother all manner Of geraniums, every
kind he could, both at home and abroad,
and dovo.ed two yoars to cross iertilizing
and raising new varieties from them. AZ
Dne time he had 900 Of his seedlings
growing in his experiment grounds. And
he frankly admits that not one Of them
was superior to sorts already at that time
In cultivation.
The Norway spruce and most other Of
bur common eyergrccns are large trees
when grown In the forests. When planted
In yards for ornament, sihey are apt, for n
Jew years. 10 grow branches low down,
but IN time, even when widely separated.
D~~es upright habit Of growth gets the
Hcendency and the lower branches die
out. II Is best in such cases 90 cut down