Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-26
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
When cooking beans, add one
half teaspoonful of saleratus.

half teaspoonful of saleratus.
Nothing lessons the flow of milk
quicker than chilling the COW.
Wheat straw, cut fine and moist
ened with water slightly sailed, then
sprinkled with corn meal, will be
eaten by sheep and answers for
them if they be also fed literally ON
grain. aa
Oats that have been cut in the
milky stage and we'll cured before be-
ing stored IN the barn make excel
ent food for horses if the straw and
heads be passed through fodder
cutter.
1t has been found in California
that cold air blast dries fruit in the
most perfect manner Samples of
fruit dried in this way-prunes, april
cots and apples--two years ago are
still in perfect state of preservation.
Manure for flower beds and bord-
ers may be conveniently hauled to
where it is likely to be wanted in
spring. Many gardeners spread it on
at once, but if the soil is frozen very
thick it prevents the early thawing of
the soil in spring, and so no time is
gained
Tho ounce is a great feeder, and
needs good cultivation. No other
fruit requires so much manure and
such thorough cultivation. If the
trees be neglected, it is likely that
there will be no fruit but if there
shall be some it will be of small
growth and unsightly appearance.
SCOT is very valuable fertilizer,
but it is much better to apply to moist,
cool land than 10 that which is dry and
warm. 1t absorbs heat and appro-
PIRATES moisture from the soil. A
small quantity of SCOT placed in hills
of melons, squashes and pumpkins will
cause them to grow rapidly. 1t also
kills many insects
Some one has wisely observed that
the farmer who sends corn to market
in the shape of fat oxen, sheep and
pigs is always sure of getting paid for
his crop. The manure pays for the
cost of feeding. The man who sells
his grain dire ct enriches another mans
farm at the expense of his own. The
best way is to feed on the farm so far
as practicable.
-Cantaloupe melons do best on a
light sandy soil, with plenty of we'll
rotted stable manure in the hill.
Melons can be started in hot bed,
under glass, after tomatoes 60 in the
cold frame, and gain ten days Or two
weeks time-if properly handled
over seed planted in the open field.
This gain in time is usually where the
money lies Melons ship best in melon
crates.
1t requires about a peck of seed
to stock an acre in sorghum If it be
grown in drills four feet apart. At
first 1t is of slower growth than corn,
but grows rapidly after starting.
The seed makes excellent food, and it
is a special fodder plant. As nearly
all classes of stock are partial to it the
crop should be more extensively
grown. If preferred, the cane can be
expressed for the juice, to be boiled
down to strip, and the refuse fed to
hogs.
AN Ohio farmer, who has made
various experiments in fattening
swine, states that he has tested the
feeding of cooked and uncooked corn
for hogs, and also ground and un.
ground food. He claims that bushel
of corn fed on the cob will produce
nine pounds of pork, while an equal
quantity, ground and fed raw, will
yield twelve pounds. A bushel of corn
boiled made thirteen and half pounds
of pork and bushel of meal cooked
made sixteen and a half pounds.
"A smart Pennsylvania women tells
the readers of the Beebeepers' Magazine
how she beat the market when honey
was drug: Last year l had about
forty pounds of nice fall honey, so l
asked storc-keeper what he was pay
ing for such kind. He said three cents
apound, but refused to sell, and took
my honey home, put in two forty-fvo-
gallon barrels. and put boiling-hot
rain water with it. When it cooled
off put some vinegar mother in each
barrel, and this summer | sold ninety
gallons of the best vinegar that was in
the county at sixteen cents per gallon.
Ipaid my tax with it.