The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-30
FARM NOTES.

Try pincnlng Dack MI OF 80 Vi huia
beans when the plants are foot or so
high.
Spending the crops before they are made
is working TO disadvantage; so lar rs posi-
bio, pay as you go.
The Southern planters are taking com
fort in the fact that n pine straw bagglng
trust is getting ready TO fight the jute bag
ging trust.
The wheat crop in the State OF Mexico
Is reported 10 have suffered from the
snow storms which fell in that State from
the Sth until tho 18th ultimo.
The Farmers Alliance OF Georgia says
10 the jute trust and to the pine straw
trust, "a plague on both your houses,
and resolves that they will wrap their cot
ton bales in cotton cloth.
Cotton has long since ceased TO be the
exclusive product OF the negro. When
the war ceased nine-tenths OF 1t was raised
by the colored race; today three fifths
comes from white farms.
The Keifer pear is strong and vigorous
grower, and seems TO do well in all kinds
OF soils. II presents an attractive appear
ance in market, but is not equal TO the
Bartlett or Clapp in quality.
II you have tried watermelon variety
OF any kind do not change ii II satisfactory
rs some kinds will do better on certain
soils than will others. II more than one
variety is raised they will mix.
Children and lambs have a natural lik-
ing for each other, but do not have q pet
lamb unless you are ready 10 tolerate a
nuisance and do not permit the children to
tease the lambs, unless you are willing to
have vicious sheep thereafter.
Amy ground fitted TO grow good crop
OF onions will grow celery. According TO
an Ameriom CuiiiudtOr correspondent any
good garden soil, and even good potato
land, II Of sufficient consistency to allow
OF banking up the celery in the fall, will
do.
The custom OF roughly preparing the
land for corn is being discarded. Expert
ments show that IL pays to reduce the soil
for corn 10 as fine condition rs for garden
crops The land cannot be worked over
too thoroughly before putting in the seed.
II tho soil Is well prepared the work OF
after cultivation will be easer and the corn
will better endure drouth.
farmer from Rensselaer, County, NY,
says that farm property has recently Do
preciated in that vicinity one-third. An
attempt was made recently to sell farm
OF forty-two acres In East Greenbush upon
which there is mortgage Of $780, There
was no one who would pay the amount OF
the mortgage for the farm. Near Kinder
hook farm Of 800 acres, owned by Albany
people, sold at forced sale recently,
brought less than SIS per acre.
Farming can be made to pay. even by
women. Two spinster sisters up in Maine,
VINO run a sixty.iiye acre farm, are credited
with being tho smartest women in the
State. Ono OF them chops every winter
the years supply OF lirowood going into
the woods early In the season and remain.
ing until the work is completed. She
works in the hay field in summer and digs
from seventy 10 hundred bushels OF po,a-
toes yearly and puts them in the cellar.
Tho other sister Is the carpenter OF the
family and has added all manner OF im,
provements TO the farm.
The one thing above all others that
keeps 80 many farmers poor Is spendn.
| from three 20 six months every wear m
absolute idleness Merchants, mechanics
laborers In factories and all classes OF bust.
ness men In towns and cities work twelve
/
does likewise and brings any REASONABLE,
degree Of judgment 10 bear in the man
agcment OF his affairs can live well ant
have money TO spare every year. Farm
ers' organizations arc good, but nothinl
short OF application TO his work for lively,
mouths in the year can bring prosperity /,
farmer aud cruaic or sustain for him
bank account-cxccpt on the wrong sid,
OF the ledger.
Tho farmer can exchange his crop 10
more Of the Necessities OF life than ut an,
former period In the historyo our country
Ia 1916 one bushel Of corn would buy on,
pound OF nails In 1889 one bushel OF corn
will buy ten pounds OF nails. In lS6
pair OF WOODEN blankets cost ~ much as
COW; In lSS0a COW will buy i've pairs o
wooden blankets. In 1916 II require,
sixty-iour bushels OF barley to buy on,
yard OF broadcloth; in 1850 sixty.iou
bushels OF barley will buy twenty yards o
broadcloih. In 1916 IL took twenty dozci
cgg TO buy one bushcl Of salt; In lSS
twenty dozen eggs will buy ten bushels o
salt. In 1916 II required bushel oiwhea
TO buy ono yard Of calico. With thes,
figures before them who can Justly CLAIM
that farm products arc not improving2
4 Granada (Nicangual correspondent
Of the Philadelphia Record writes: Moth
ing loycicr can DO imagined upon earth
than Nicaraguan Cocoa, sugar or cofel
plantation. A person unaccustomcd 4,
the luxuriancc OF farm In the tropics I
struck with establishment upon ontorin.
one OF these places. finding the interior >,
different from what It's exterior woul,
lead hun TO expect. Coming upon AZ
estate you find n low but widel,
extended native house, big enough
TO cover a whole block In New Yorl
or Philadelphia, the yards and outhousc
presenting anything but an appearance o
Thrift and cleanliness. Once behind IN,
inclosing walls aud presto, such mass o
luxuriant vegetation meets the eve; such
wealth Of bloom aud beauty, that what
ever OF dirt and disorder there NAV b,
beneath II, paNcs unnoiiced. Charmin.
yisias aro formed, perhaps mil,
or more In lnngih, OF odofous mang,
trees, green the whole year through
their black 1nnbs supporting per
feet crust OF leaves never pierced by ia,
smallest arrow ol sunlight the grca
punches OF fruit growing always ut IN,
tapcring ends Of the branches. ON both
sides arc the cocoa groves, stretching ial
rs the eve can reach. also Offering through
out tho entire year their green polls
which yield tho inyoriio beverage. Alonl
the central avenue Is usually planted
fruits and flowers Of every acscrip
tion-rosc apples, pine apples, or
angc. lime and olive trees aud other,
too numerous 10 mention. Tho air il
loaded with the perfume Of flowers, In.
Vulnerable In variety, here springing M
like weeds, impossible TO keep down be-.