The Springdale news., 1889-05-17
HERE AND THERE.

Hill up the clean subsoil around fruit trees to the height of foot, to remain all summcr-as q protection against the borer fly.
 Continue to plant sorghum, millet, collards for stock) and late corn. Don't neglect the patches Of cane and other side crops in your anxiety to 'get overn your cotton.
 Don't breed too many kinds of fowls at the same time, unless you are going into the business. Three or four will give you your hands full.
 The young onions must be well worked or the grass will soon crowd them. Fine weather promotes tho growth Of grass and weeds, and they must be kept down from the start.
 Light Brahmas alone are not the most desirable for broilcrs. They grow too slowly. But cross light Brahma hens with white Leghorn male, and we have quicz-maturing and plump bird.
 Study to feed the plant, not to make the soil rich, if profit is the ob ject. Farmers should never overlook the fact that the object of agriculture is to make crops grow rather than to enrich the soil.
 An experienced New York dairy man, who has done business with twenty-five cheese factories for about fifteen years. has found it more sati5- factory to deliver milk to the factory once day than twice.
 When an intelligent farmer is once convinced that poultry can be made a paying branch of his business he is usually not slow to take steps to- ward improving his flock and provid- ing good quarters for them,
 Keep your tools sharp, now that the work is pressing. A man with sharp tools can do more work in day than can two men with dull tools, It may take little time to sharpen the tools, but it will be labor saved. When an animal appears to refuse certain foods to which 1t has been ac- 1 customed, change the food and give a variety. which will improve the ap- petite and induce the animal to eat | mOre
 No farm is complete unless it con tains orchards. Not only should the apple be given a place, but all other varieties of fruit The small fruits should be grown especially for family use, and a large supply of all kinds should be canned for winter
 In every State where experiment stations have been established the | farmers have been protected against adulterated fertilizers, the quality of the seeds is better, and the system ot planting and cultivating crops inn proved.
 Every farmer should have an ex- perimontal plot of his own. The in- formation gained of a practical kind will be invaluable If every farmer in the United States could be induced to try few experiments annually, agri- culture would make more rapid prog ross than any other branch of industry.
 Do not be induced to retain male pig from the cr0ss-bred litter because it is fine specimen. The male should be thoroughbred, or there will be no uniformity in the offspring, The mis- take of keeping over cross-bred males is one that has largely aided in de | generating the swine on some farms.
 May is the time to plant the main crop of sweet potato slips, those planted now making cheaper, if not more DO tatoes. Don't blow soft, mellow land too deep. Don't set the slips in land not freshly plowed for the purpose. If heavy, soaking rain has fallen, wait until the ground is dry enough tc blow, and make fresh beds or lists | (better), planting the slips in the loose mellow soil; they will live and grog l of much better.