Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-09-01
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

pearing from certain portions Of the
field the best remedy is tile drainage.
which will incur but little expense.
Dwarf pears and cherries often
yield good crop the second year aft
er planting. but for the after good Of
the trees such early bearing, in large
quantities, should be discouraged.
Luck rs q factor in profitable
farming ceases to exert tangible in
fuence when fertility begins to be
impaired by injudicious methods, and
that condition is sure to come on every
farm where luck is counted as n fac
tor
Fresh manure should not be used
If it can be avoided. but should be
composted and allowed to decompose.
II placed on the land it must still I'M
dergo change in the soil before 1t
becomes plant food. which causes too
much heat in dry weather.
The white grub and the strawber-
ry leaf roller are the two principal
enemies to contend with in the straw
berry bed. In a small patch, with
leaf rollers, hand picking will answer;
but as a rule. making a new planting
in new place is the best remedy.
Whenever the work Of the farm
will permit, it will pay 10 plow up
good patch for turnips. In any thing
like favorable season turnips will
yield heavily; and as very little, il
any, cultivation is necessary, they can
be raised very cheaply. Home, Farm
and Factory.
An advocate Of pig pork declares
that Young pig will produce more
live weight from given weight OF
food adapted to Its use than any other
domestic animal. Skim milk and
meal, he says, are the most effective
rations fed. Middlings is the best
single food; cob-meal, fine ground, is
an efficient food. and equal to clear
corn-meal.
Salt is an ab,orbent Thrown on
the stable floor after it is lcleaned. it
will absorb the ammonia. Thrown
into the manure heap, it will kill the
seeds of thousands of weeds. Thrown
on the land. it kills the grass and
noxious growth that takes up more Of
it than is good for them. Sown on
lawns in the spring. 1T kills worms,
bugs and weeds, and give the grass q
chance.
White clover is the best pasture
grass that can be grown for sheep.
AS white clover is short grass, it is
more desirable than red clover fol
grazing, as sheep detest long grass,
preferring 10 crop close to the ground.
On mixture of grasses in pasture
cattle and sheep may be grazed to.
gether as the grasses that may be OBJ
jectionable to the cattle will be appro.
priated by the sheep
AN hour or two of contact with
parching air will kill young trees left
lying exposed to it by careless plant
ers. They often dry to death after
being set owing to neglect to com
pact the soil. And in very hot sum-
mers, ounce bushes. grape vines and
many other plants given to root very
specifically are destroyed or greatly
, weakened by having their shallow
fecding-roots parched up in the sur
face earth.
Glover silage is not looked upon
with favor by many dairymen. They
prefer to feed it dry in connection with
corn silagc. 1t is urged that clover il
apt to mould in the silo and that {
: larger proportion is reasonably sure tc
spoil than will be found IN the case o
corn. Chopped clover keeps better
! than long. and it is found that allow
: ing the clover to wilt on the groun(
before hauling to the silo is grea
advantage. In fact with any kind o
l crop this willing is beneficial. Glover
ranks second as a silage crop, but corr
t is so far ahead on the list that thu
natural tendency is to make the Glove
nto hay. -Raral Mew Yorker.