Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-03-02
HERE AND THERE.


On the farm for practical purposes,
the Pekin is the best breed of duck to
raise. They are of large size, Of good
quality and are easily manged.
Cooked rutabagas, with a little
meal or bran, will make admirable
pork. Fed to sheep, with a trlaing
addition of feed, and they will make
the finest mutton in the world.
1t is not good plan 10 mate all
the breeding hens too early, especially
when there is a considerable number
of young stock, or until the steadiest
and best laying hens can be deter
mined.
Many fail to obtain the best results
with their fowls simply by neglecting
to exercise good judgment in the selec-
tion of the breeding stock. This is fully
as important an item with poultry az
with any other class of stock.
From now until the grass has mado
a sufficient growth to supply greer
food it will pay to provide cabbage,
turnips, onions or some kind of vege-
tables. Chop up fine and give feed
once a day.
Coal ashes and wood ashes with
sawdust or dry SOIL equal parts, will
make a good dust bath. 1t should be
changed occasionally in order to keep
clean. Put in box and set in a COR
ner of the poultry-house where it will
keep dry.
BE careful in using salt on tho
ground. Salt will kill weeds to a cer-
tain extent, and it is also remedy for
some kinds of grubs in the soil, but
salt will kill other plants as well, and
its use may result in a loss of some Of
the garden crops
Any soil that will grow fair crop
of corn may be selected for peaches.
The same cultivation is given peaches
the first year that is necessary for
; corn, which means that the cultivator
should be passed over the ground fire.
. quently and the grass kept down.
l Mr.. Yancey, of Giles County, hal
introduced bill in the Tennessee
Legislature to prevent cotton buyers
taking two pounds of cotton from each
bale without the consent OF seller.
"A writer in the Alabama Farmer
: complains that members of the ALI
: ance who have money to lend to othel
), members make them pay twelve to if
teen per cent interest for it. He say
: this is Just what the mOnopolists do.
The creamery at McMinnville
|, Tenn, has suspended operations, being
= unable to secure milk enough to run
There is q probability of the machin
Il cry being sold and the building con
Z verified into some other kind of enter
q prise.
EARLY in the season, before the %
: tato is up, the beetle will attack tn
= tomato plant in hot-beds, or that ma
: be set out in the open ground. 1t wi
: destroy whole field OF egg plants in
] single night, and often does more dan
! age to early plants than it does to tn
i pObdbO CEOps
- The advantage in using loose stra
a on the floor thepoultry-house is this
Il tits easily cleaned up and the her
' scratching among it will get exercise
: On the farm 1t is economical and clea
: and can be readily supplied. It shout
= not be allowed to remain more than
q week without removal.
Ii Often dairymen are puzzled
le know why their butter has bad lavC
1. when they have been careful to keep
q. from any thing that would faint /
i. The trouble Is with the salt. says a
ID exchange. While the butter was car
II fully guarded the salt was not, and
Of absorbed odors which spoiled the bu
or ten