Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-10-13
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

The quicker vegetables az, grown
the moro tender and delicious they
are.
IAN animal is never at standstill.
II is either increasing or decreasing.
The rule should be to never allow an
animal to fall off A pound gained
and then lost is simply doubling the
work and food to reproduce it, which
not only increases the cost but lessons
the profit.
In multiplying very scarce and
dear varieties of potatoes gardeners
plant the eyes IN hotbeds early, plac-
ing in rich soil. and from each eye
will get several plants. These may
be set out in the open ground, and
cultivated the same rs potatoes plant
ed in the usual way.
Sometimes farmers lose sight of
the fact that those in other pursuits Of
life are using up nearly all of their
income in living. Ninety-fve per
cent of the mechanics use up all they
make in the year, while seventy-ive
per cent. of the renting farmers are
laying away small sums yearly.
"A Western farmer bought hogs
and fed out 100 bushels of wheat, and
itreturned him 81. 63 per bushel for
the wheat. Others report that they
thus secure ST. % per bushel for their
wheat when fed to hogs with pork at
S. per 100 pounds. The wheat should
be ground and moislened. and not fed
whole.
The staggers are the result of con-
gestion of the brain, due to overfeed-
ing. Pigs are more often overfed than
any other animals, and it is the source
of nearly all the diseases to which they
are subject 1t affects the nerve
centers in the brain and spinal cord.
Give the pigs no feed at. all for forty
eight hours. but only water; then be-
gin feeding very lightly, and give the
feed in a shallow trough, so that it can
be taken up only slowly.
The old-fashioned open ditch is an
expensive nuisance. Every spring it
is partly filled with sediment, leaves
of trees and soil washed down from its
banks. There is, beside. a waste of
time in blowing, cultivating and every
other teamwork in field thus divided.
The sooner the open ditch is made
into an underdrain the better it will
be for the farmers purse. 1t may
cost at first. but it will pay every way
"A farmer in Western New York
whose land is level or only slightly
rolling, draws manure in winter as
fast as made, and broadcasts it upon
bare ground, or not more than six
inches of snow, in fields intended for
hoed crops next season. He has per-
sisted in this practice for years, and
makes the remarkable statement in
Farm Life that zone load so spread
is equal in effect to three, at least
spread in the spring" Moreover he
gels just so much work out of the way
during a comparatively slack time.
Sheep are close feeders and can
get bite earlier than any other do
mestic animal. But ewes sucking
lamb will need grain carly 10 keep
them in flesh, while the succulent
grass stimulates milk production.
Later in the season the lamb demands
more milk just as the failing pasture
makes less 1t is then that an arm
full of cut clover in bloom TO each
eight or ten sheep makes valuable
addition to the pasture teed. 1t may
be varied with occasional cuttings of
green oats, which. just before they
head out are very rich and succulent
feed.
The average age for fruit trees
and plants in the best condition for
transplanting is about as follows:
Apple, three years from bud; peach.
one year from bud; plum, two years
from bud; cherry, two years from
bud; ounce, three years from cutting
or root graft; grape, one year No. /,
or two years No. 2. from cuttings or
layers; currant, two years from cut
tings; gooseberries, two years from
cuttings; raspberries and blackberries.
one year from suckers or root cuttings;
Strawberries only new runners of
last seasons growth should be used,
the old plants having black roots,
with the feeding surfaces so far from
the crown that when they are dug
nearly all of them are destroyed.
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