Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-09-07
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Oats will grow upon most any
kind of soil but the clays and loans
that are sufficiently retcntlve Of moist
ure are tho most favorable.
An animal is never at standstill
1t is either increasing or decreasing.
The rulo should be to never allow an
animal TO fall Off A pound gained
and then lost is simply doubling tho
work and food to reproduce it, which
not only increases the cost but lessons
tho profit.
In multiplying worry 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 as potatoes plant
cd 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-five per
cent of the mechanics use up all they
make in the year. while seventy-five
per cent. of the renting farmers are
laying awaysmall sums yearly.
"A Western farmer bought hogs
and fed out 100 bushels of wheat, and
itreturned him Sl.63 per bushel for
the wheat. Others report that they
thus secure 81 % per bushel for their
xNfhnat tt.hnn Col 10 hnUa xtftth tNOpl- n
S5 per 100 pounds. The wheat should
be ground and moistened. and not fed
whole.
The staggers are the result Of con-
gcstion 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 tho 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 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. 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 Y York.
whose land is level or only slightly |
rolling, draws manure in winter as
fast as made, and broadcasis it upon
bare ground. or not more than six
IN ches 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
gets 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 early to 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
'ul of cut clover in bloom to each
eight or ten sheep makes valuable
to the pasture feed. 1t may
be varied with occasional cuttings of
yreen oats. which. just before they
iead out are very rich and succulcnt
eed. ..',9
The average age for fruit trees
md plants in the best condition for
ransplanting is about as follows:
Apple, three years from bud; peach,
me year from bud; plum, two years
rom bud; cherry, two years from {
,ud; ounce, three years from cutting ,
II root graft; grape. one year No. 1,
Il two years No. 2 from cuttings or I
ayers; currant. two years from cut (
ings; gooseberries, two years from Z
uttings; raspberries aud blackberries, ,
ne year from suckers or root cuttings; {
only new runners of $
lst seasons growth should be used. /
he old plants having black roots. 5
nth the feeding surfaces so far from q
he crown that when they are dug I
rly all of them are destroyed. I