Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-10
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
-CuItIvati0n in tImo savoa 3 pIle

Cultivation in time saves pile o.
after work in cleaning out weeds.
Good fences make peaceable stock.
A noted legal authority has said that
the best law for a line fence was an
other top pole.
Where fall crops are sown on fall
low, or after spring crop, the grass
seeds can be sown, excepting the
clover seeds. with an equally 'avora.
BILE prospect Of good catch.
Weeds are the worst kind of inter.
lopers, and If allowed to swell around
and have their own way, they rob the
cultivated crops of their inherited leg
acy from both soil and atmosphere.
If the stock is pure-bred the
largest and handso NEST should be kept
for breeding purposes, and these
should not be fattened, but siruply
kept in good condition, favorable to
healthy growth and development. =
American Agriculturist.
"A young lamb has no way Of tell
ing which eve is its mother and the
mother only knows which lamb is he-
own by the scent. Hence, while very
young it is bad plan to have TOO many
together or the eve may be confused
by SO many lambs, or become partially
Indifferent and the lamb perish for
want Of care.
The skim milk and whey may not
be salable, but can be used for produc-
ing pork. Pigs will always pay on
farms where skim milk is plentiful,
and the cost of the pork will be but
little if other waste material be used
in feeding them. A growing pig will
need no grain at all before cold
weather.
The Persian insect powder, or
California insect powder, which, in its
pure and fresh condition, is sure death
to the cabbage-worm, and to most
other insect pests, is now well known
to be the powdered bloom Of the
pyrethrum or fever-few, plant with
pretty flowers, closely related to the
chrysanthemum, and easily grown il
the garden.
There is wonderful flower de-
sign at Danvers, Mass. 1t is Chi
nese pagoda, seventeen feet high, with
dome supported by six pillars, and
archway beneath high enough to pass
under without STOPPING. There are
three fountains and thirty varieties OF
plants. The front of the base has a
calendar OF growing plants in portable
boxes, and the back a shield, flags and
draperies.
The productiveness Of the pasture
lands we can steadily increase by feed,
ing to the grazing herds, morning and
evening, rations of mill feed. The
practice of supplementing the pasture
by bran rations fed to milking stock
tends to maintain an equable flow ol
milk despite the fluctuations of the
pasture, and farmers practicing it find
a twofold profit, increase of milk and
improvement OF the farm.
As soon as melons have mad.
growth enough to be worked, broad
cast around them with wood ashes.
Ashes are excellent for melons, bu'
good, well-rotted manure should alsc
be used literally as well. Keep the
ground we'll worked until they begir
to run, then work before the runners,
not among them, and pull out thC
weeds and grass by hand from among
the plants.
The best time to cut clover for hay
is when the majority of the blossoms
are in full bloom. When cut at this
stage and properly cured clover makes
the best of fodder for cattle, sheep,
horses and hogs. Careful experiments
have been made by both practica
farmers and scientists for the purpose
of determining at what stage The
clover should be cut to give the mos
profitable results, and most agree tha'
it should be as stated above, when the
plants are in full blossom, or Just al
the first heads begin to turn brown.