Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-09-11
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Tho pigs will DO most thrifty II
kept in clean, dry pens and well lit
tered, but will make more weight on
less feed if they have run on Il clover
lot.
To enrich land that is poor we
must have manure, or its equivalent in
vegetable matter, or apply plant food
in some shape TO induce the growth Of
vegetation.
Use paris green as soon as the po-
tato beetles shall have appeared, and
not postpone the application, as delay
would be favorable to the beetles.
They should be kept down from the first
appearance. -...E a ~
The barn is no place for hen,
says careful farmer. He is right. If
hens are kept, they should be proyid-
ed with proper quarters and made to
stay there, or at least not be allowed to
roam at will through the barns and
stables.
Potatoes are ready for digging as
soon as the tops die down. 1t is best
to dig them early in the day and allow
them to remain on the ground a few
hours, when they should be taken to
the barn and stored in cool, dry place;
but it is not advisable TO place too
many in single heap.
If wheat must follow oats or bar
ley, the best preparation so far as
tillage is concerned, is plowing, with
care to turn stubble under, then fire.
quent cultivation to the depth of two
or three inches (not more) the last
work, narrowing thoroughly TO make
u good seed bed.
For growing cucumbers. squashes
or similar plants put sawdust or rotten
wood about them. Those who have
never tried cucumbers on strong bushy
stakes like pea sticks will be surprised
to note how they enjoy it. Tomatoes
do better trained to stout sticks than
any other way. I
Plant beet, carrot and parsnip seed
carly, so as not only to get ahead Of
the grass, but to give plenty of time
for growth. The most important mat
ter with such crops is to have q per-
fectly-iine, rich, clean seed-bed and to
use plenty of seed. The seed is slow
in terminating, and often fails to sprout
at all.
In cleaning up grain for market, if
the work is done properly, there will
be nothing left in the screenings but
the seeds of weeds. These should be
burned. Even if there are u few i'm
perfect grains among the screenings,
farmers can not afford to feed the
whole to stock, and thus get weed seeds
into their manure heaps. Screenings
are mostly given to poultry. This is
another cause of loss, for they will eat
many weed seeds which are injurious,
and often stop them from laying.
Cattle are frequently troubled
with sore feet from standing in filthy
stables or muddy yards. To prevent
it keep the stable floor and yards dry
and clean. To cure the feet wash them
with warm water and carbolio soap.
Break all blisters and soahs and get
clean, raw surface, Then apply car
bolated vaseline or cosmoline, mixed
with enough acetate of copper (verdi-
gris) to make the ointment greon,
Bandage the feet, passing a part of il
through tho cleft, Keep the feet dry.
1t is not an infrequent remark that
pigs are not worth as much at six
months old as they were at six weeks
of age. This is true only Of the pigs
that have had hap-hazard care, have
been dwarfed and stunted. OF all the
live stock in the world the stunted hog
or pig is the hardest to bring out.
Crowding feed into them seems as use
less as pouring water into the ocean.
1t makes no impression. So as be-
tween growing pig Of six weeks and
a dwarfed pig of six months the former
is the most profitable animal, - WeStera
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