Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-15
FACTS EoR FARMERS.


-Fall-sown rye makes feed when the
cribs and mows are low and the past
ures not yet ready for the cottle.-Am.
1grtcuitur2st
Keep the ground open around fruit
trees until they are ready to bear.
Select such crops to be grown near
them as require frequent hoeing.
Nearly every farmer has something
he can give away which will make him
no poorer, but possibly make brother
farmer somewhat l'icher-an expert
ence.
Vegetables and fruits, as much as
the grain crops, require deep working
of the soil, \ moderately heavy soil
that has been underdlained and sub
soiled, and then carefully worked, is
capable of producing the heaviest
crops.
The stunted calf that has been
obliged torob its bodily growth to keep
from freezing, or spend its summer
lighting the "gaunt wolf" has had its
energies misdirected, and in after life
it will rarely ever pay to try to make
a profitable COW of it,
The compound, two-thirds wheat
bran to one-third corn-meal, wet with
skim milk and fed in the morning,
warm, has Il good egg-producing effect.
The bran does not tend to fat, and the
milk is even better than meat for the
production of eggs,
Sheep are better scavengers for
small, unripe, wormy apples than are
swine \ well-fed sheep likes the bit
ter taste of the wormy apple that the
pig has to be half starved into eating.
Besides, the sheep will so around
nights and early in the morning after
fruit, while the pig will lie abed until
hunger forces him to get up.
One help to getting out of debt is
to make the farm produce as far as
possible the family supplies. There
are farmers in debt who depend on
butchers for almost the entire supply
of meat. This should not be- Others,
who have large families. take no pains
to have vegetables, fruit or poultry,
and are even careless about constant
and regular supply of milk and butter.
The matted-row system for straw
berries is p eferH5le, as the plants are
thereby better protected in winter, hut
the stool system is better for securing
large berries and for enabling the
fruit-growers to cultivate the plants
and keep down weeds. The matted
rows require manipulating of weeds,
and the grass also takes possession.
Something depends on the kind of soil,
however, and the two systems should
be tried together by way of experiment.
AS soon as the seed leaves OF
turnips appear above the ground the
young plants are liable to attack from
the many-striped flea beetle. 1t is i'm
portant to keep careful watch fol
this insect, or it may destroy the croI
before its presence is discovered.
Freshly-sluked lime, sprinllled upon
the plants while the dew is on, will
preserve them from injury. The roots
of the turnips are sometimes injured
by the larya Of the cabbage fly. Where
superphOsphates or bone-dust are used
as fertilizers this insect is rarely to be
feared.
Hay and oats, admirable as they
are, according TO good authority, rank
among the dearest of any stock foods
and the farmer can try other materials
which will do the same work for {
great deal less money, and it is to his
advantage to do so if he has q knowl
edge Of the properties Of food, and car
mix them for himself Linseed, foi
example, contains the fat which is sc
necessary and in the cheapest form
Roughly speaking, three pounds pro
vide one pound of oil-really more
than enough for large cow-but i
also contains some of the lean and the
bread-lilIe foods.
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