The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-11
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Increase the ventilation of your
stables as the weather grows mildeF.
Eggs for Matching should be kept
in co oil place, turned over every day.
and the hen given comfortable nest
for incubation.
If we breed what the market de-
mands, the purchaser viii come to US;
but if we do not breed what the mar
ket calls for, we must search for Gus
toners.
"A plant wrapped in three or four
thicknesses of paper may be kept in a
room with the temperature down to 20
degrees above zero all night, and not
be injured.
In putting up trellises for grape
vines, wire is much better for stringers
than boards or Stats often used. Wire
costs less, is stronger, and besides can
be easily grasped by tendriis of the
young shoots. The trellis also in win
ter is less likely to be racked by winds,
as the wire offers little obstruction.
in selecting young peach trees for
spring transplanting, examine them
carefully, as the borer is often found in
them. A healthy young tree should
have very smooth bark, plenty of roots
and show no signs of puncture. Dis
eases of trees are easily brought on
the farm by not giving proper attention
to the source whence the nursery stock
is obtained.
The farmer should be able to sup
ply himself with fruit the whole year.
With so many improved varieties from
which to select there should be no OBJ
stacle whatever in the way. The small
fruits will come in from one to two
years after planting, while peaches
may be had the third year, with apples
and pears later. Grape-vines are cheap
and grow on undesirable locations.
They are also ornamental and provide
shade.
The following is the regular rou-
tine of weekly work which a skillful
housewife has adopted and carried out
for forty-eight years: Monday, wash
ing; Tuesday, ironing and baking;
| Wednesday, sewing and mending;
Thursday, extras; Friday, large baking;
Saturday, cleaning and preparing Sun
/ day dinner. A strict adherence to the
this routine becomes an easy habit and
saves much thought and labor in max
ing ends meet when deviated from.
-Borecole or kale should be plenty
in the winter, as it is the hardest of
vegetables, being curly leaved plant
of the cabbage tribe, like an all-green
caulifower. Either picked or boiled
for greens. it is an addition to hearty
table, and the chOicer sorts. the aspar-
agus kale and the Couve Tronehuda,
when taken up and forced in the dark,
can hardly be told from sea kale, the
epicure's spring delicaey. Plants may
have pots turned over them and ma
nure and leaves piled round them to
force growth, when the fresh sprouts
are little inferior to asparagus. Amer
team Garden.
-Thrashing corn is now much in ia
vor. Itemized figures have been given
in institutes to show that the thrashing
costs no more than the husking. Also
that if the corn and its stalks be we'll
dried both will keep after thrashing,
and that the stalks may be han died
with barley forks much more easily
than when whole, and will be eaten
better by the stock, while the part not
eaten will make better bedding and alb
sorbent, and obstruct the handling of
manure far less. But the thrashing is
hard on men and on the machine, and
if the corn be damp both it and the
fodder will hurt in storage.