The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-03-26

Fire is the best preventive Of disease in
orchards and vineyard. II all the old wood
be piled up and burned 1t will greatly lessen
disease and insect attacks. II should be
done early in the season.
BY running smoothing harrow over the
wheat fields the young plants will be great
ly benefited The harrow will not iniure
the wheat, but will assist in covering grass
seed that may have been sown early in the
year.
Where there is plenty Of range or marsh
in the fall cross OF some hardy breed OF
hogs, such as the Chester whites, with the
native stock, will. produce q better hog
under such, circumstances than If pure
breeds be used exclusively.
PaSnps are excellent for cows and hogs
but they are not commonly raised in this
section Of the country. They need not be
removed from the ground for fear OF frost.
Let them alone. and they will come out
sweeter when the frost is out.
The ground may DO plowed at any
time after the frost is out. The value Of
good narrowing is often overlooked. The
harrow should be passed over the ground
a dozen times, II necessary, as the finer the
seed bed the better.
A well-balanced ration, fed at regular
hours and In regular quantities, with at
tention to water, salt, bedding and all the
points which 60 TO make the animals COM
Portable, will save money, particularly in
a season when feed is high priced.
A horticulturist remarks: "rhe man
who plants single rod OF small fruits
more than he can give the best possible
care to is not wise. One acre, producing
800 bushels OF berries will prove more
profitable than three acres producing 500
bushels"
Look over your seed corn now, rs the Sc.
we're weather may have injured II. II 30,
and new seed is to be procured, II should
be got ut once, as there is sometimes
scarcity Of good seed when planting time
comes, especially after a severe winter.
Cut potatoes TO two eyes. II they be de-
sired early for home use, thin out the
plants 10 single one on the hill This will
| give earlier, larger and more uniform POI
tatoes, but the yield will not be as large as
when two plants are left to the hill.
At the recent meeting of the American
Poultry association at Indianapolis, the
dorking fowl was exempted from heavy
cuts as q fancy fowl, II being consid-
\
recognizes the dorking as the best and
leading breed for market.
Wherever there are manufacturing vii.
lagos early cabbagcs are always In demand
and bring good prices. Spinach IL another
salable vegetable. Beets, parsnips, carrots,
turnips, onions, etc, as well as spinach,
may be sown in rows far enough apart to
be worked by horse Implements.
| Almost any variety OF strawberry with
siaminate flowers win fertilize any OF the
later varieties, as ON all such kinds flowers
continue to open until after all the berries
that the plants can mature shall have been
set. Thus the May King and Mount Yer
non strawberry will do TO plant with a
| jewel, bubach or Windsor chief.
Ten acres well TILED Is suiiicient'to sup
port family, and when this fact is fully
demonstrated and fully appreciated the
number OF farms will be doubled and the
yield win be increased in still greater ratio
while much Of our abandoned lands will
TEEN with abundant harvests and thorough
ulture.-American Chtirdtor.
II pays better sometimes TO keep a patch
OF rye for pasturing instead Of allowing IL
10 grow and mature. II used us green food
until grass shall become plentiful the rye
may be plowed under and the land put in
German millet, which is a summer crop.
by this method no loss OF time or crop will
result.
The small round tomatoes, which grow
| In clusters, are rather late. Early plants,
when put in tho open ground, will be
| quickly attacked by the potato bcctle,
while the green worm is the enemy OF the
later crop. Damage can only be prevented
by watclfulncss and hand picking
II will not injure manure II lime or ashes
be mixed with Il nj the time OF application
10 the land, ~ the rains will carry down
the matter into the soil, which absorbs the
| gases, but to add lime or ashes 10 the
manure when II IN In the heap will cause
loss OF ammonia, owing TO the chemical
action Of the lime or ashes on the manure.
Potatoes may be planted at any time
now for the early crop. Commercial Ter
tilixcrs are better than manure on soils
that heretofore Produced diseased tubes.
Il would he best not 10 plant potatoes on
old locations, but 10 select q plot that has
not borne such a crop, a. disease may
again appear on soilsthat have been before
planted.
When the farmers are advised 20 give
warm water 10 stock. Il should always he
understood that II above blood-hcat Il
should have feed Of some kind stirred In Il
TO make II palatablc; bran or corn meal
will do. II given ~ them clear, II should
be, for the best results, only little warm
er than ordinary spring watcr-the icy
chill entirely removed.
The driven well patent cost the iarmcn
and others who have used Il. In this com
try, millions Of dollars, exiorted mainly
from those Who could III afford II. But
the imposition has been stopped by III,
courts. Yet there aIo other wholesale
swindlca to which attention " due, among
which lightning rods and barllcd wiz,
fencing may be named.
The utility Of wind.rnills on the farm 4
now very generally recognized, and thcl
aro seen doiting hundreds Of farms wher'
Ave years ago none were 10 be found.
western farmer writes that with his wind
mill he grinds all kinds Of feed, makes
good article OF corn meal aud Graham
Hour, shells corn, runs feed cutter and I
20.inch wood saw.
II your space be limited, thin out tl'
nock. II they should crowd on the roost
give morc roosting room. An Essential
point In poultry management is 10 hay'
the birds comfortable nj night They nee
, rest and rccupcmlion M much ~ animals
, and II too closely crowded the effects vii
be shown in fewer eglp and greater liabil
ity 10 disease.
Unless the ground Tor onions shall hay
. been carefully prepared the work requires
to keep the Young plants clean will be yer!
tedious. IL IA often the casa that han