The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-02-07
horticultural.

Ground bone should occasional
" be given to growing chicks.
The bones, however, should be
fresh. They will greatly assist The |
growth of The chicks.
Prof. Henry Of the Wisconsin Ex.
pertinent Station, has discovered
hat milk made from ensilage il
much moro churnable than milk
made from dry fodder. Less but
ter fat goes out in the buttermiIk.
The Deut varieties OF corn are
less lady than the Flint varieties.
and need TO be planted on rich.
warm soil. The grain of the form
or is more porous aud more liable
to injury from water at planting or
when ripened.
II lie, says one, possible to rear
calves on skim -milk and other fool
that will nearly or quite equal in
re, appearance aud flesh the best
81 those which suck their dams
put the cases in which this has
been dono are exceptional"
An ingenious Virginia woman
1as discovered that saturating the
oag containing her seed beans with
,oal oil utterly exterminated the
Reeval inside and out OF the beans,
but did not harm the seed 10 the
east. Probably the same trea.
nent would serve with infected
peas.
The fact that variety in food il
essential for cows IN milk" docs MOI
seem to be generally acted upon.
"A mixture of corn and OATS
ground, and bran in equal quanti-
ties, makes one of the very hes,
grain rations for the COWS that can
De used. Corn by itself should
1ever be employed"
Cream not sufficiently ripeneo
ioes not produce q good keeping
or good favored butter. Cream
4
100 much ripened yields bad fla
Fored butter. He cautioned th,
iarmers not to put sweet cream ir
With ripened cream juso befor,
burning. No cream should b,
ahurned until it has been ripenet
At least twelve hours.
| Heaps of coarse manure may b
reduced quickly to good condition
i Tor use by liberal applications o
| Inicklime. 1t will naturally be ac
oompanied by great losses of am
nonia, if the heaps are not covere,
With dry earth. If this is done, u
harm will result, provided the lin
md manure heaps are where thel
decomposition will not set fire t
arm buildings.
Hogs grown in this country al
fed so largely on corn that Amer
IAN pork has acquired a distinct
, I've character as being harder an
containing more lard than that {
,ther lands. 1t is not bad reput,
This pork goes farther than
otherwise would aud if it is less d
yestible than that containing NOR
iean, 1t is mainly eaten by thos
Who work hard and who like bes
hat food which stands by theI
.he longest.
The old fashioned practice {
! Nintering calves at the straw STAG
With Only an occasional feed {
iornstalks or hay, is wastefu
Young stock, we'll fed, will sho'
more gain for their feed than the
glll when older. We do not beliey
IN feeding straw mainly for an
stock. II II must be fed, howeve
let something that has its fu
growth be put on such fare as suit
| ects its owner TO least loss.
The management and profit {
owls IS very important suhjec
o Except among professional poultr
lcalers, and amateGres who can al
b 'ord to crafty their fancy withou
r 'egard to pecuniary remuneration
poultry has usually been left {,
;are for itself To a great extent
rhe real profit O! poultry keepers /
becoming better understood, how
yer, and the care of fowls, in re-
lard to both food ard shelter, is in
oreasing.
W. II. Ly ncb, the Canadian but
er expert, who has been travelling
q Denmark aud other countries Q
Europe, says that the Danish but
er makers, cucoess is due To fire.
luent churning AMI excellent car,
II the cream, which is obtained
CRITICALLY and in quicker tine, an,
with o finer product, than unde
the old system. In London anC
Paris he found that, for the mos
part, people eat their utter unsslt-
led.
| The ridges made by the drill
in depositing seed wheat are no in
considerable protection TO the plspl
in winter. Because shielding ii
from the winds, they serve TO hole
the snow, which being moist, is .
still better protection against the
cold. Some farmers even take
pains TO drill wheat fields so tina,
the ridges shall run east and west
Only the midday sun will thaw In
winter and At midday the snow ID
shus behind the ridges and protect.
ed from its rays.
1t is natural TO build the house
or an elevated position as being