The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-21
FARM AND GARDEN.

Many animals refuse food and lose
appetite simply for the lack of a little
salt to give the food a pleasant taste.
Animals will reject tasteless food as
well as humans. Salt is essential to
digestion, and it should be provided.
There need be no fear of giving too
much salt if the food is slightly sea-
soned with it. small quantity of
salt and water sprinkled over the hay
or added to the mash will induce the
animals to relish it.
Cabbage stalks should be left in the
ground when the heads are wanted for
use, as they will throw up sprouts and
give good yield of greens. In some
sections the stalks latter the heads
have been cut Off are replanted, close
together. and covered with litter, with
cornstalks over the litter. Early in
the spring the litter is removed and
the stalks made TO provide greens.
Every farm should have a few grape
vines. They serve as arbors or shade,
and can be grown where they will not
take up much space. All poultry yards
will be improved if grape vines are
grown along the fences, and the fowls
will find shade under the overhanging
branches in summer.
When a flock of hens do not pay, the
best plan is to pick out the ones that
are laying and sell off the others. 1t
is sometimes the case that there are
too many of them together. A few
hens will produce more eggs proper
tionately than a larger number.
The vigorous strawberry plants are
the ones that will produce the largest
berries next spring. The best mulch
for strawberries is fine, weli-rotted ma
nure. 1t not only serves to protect the
vines but supplies the ready food early
in spring.
Manure may fail to give good re-
suits the first year and show well the
next. Much depends on the condition
of the material. 1t cannot afford food
to plants until it decomposes and its
soluble material can be appropriated.
The Farm journal says that we'll
raised pig of from $50 to $50 pounds,
dressed at eight or nine months old, is
the best eating that can grow in that
sort Of hide, and that the days of heavy
pigs are numbered.
Calves do not pay, say the dairymen,
yet somebody raises the cows that the
dairymen buy, and it is possible that
some one must make the calves pay, or
there would soon be no cows.
AS soon as fall work is over the tools
should be thoroughly cleaned and we'll
anointed with kerosene oil, which will
tools in damp place.
Have a small bin in the cellar in or
der to store parsnips, carrots and beets
for family use. Store them in dry
sand. The main crop may be stored
in mounds outside.
Linseed meal should be used regu-
larly for all classes of stock. 1t is not
only nutritious, but serves to regulate
the bowels and aid digestion.
1t is claimed that if linseed oil and
sulphur mixed be poured on the hot
water pipes of greenhouses the odor
will destroy mildew.
Remember that an animal may be
fat and yet be starved. Fattening
food will not give the bones and
muscles what they absolutely require.
Have a clean floor on which to feed
swine. A hog does not like to eat
in filth, and it does not improve the
pork to compel him to do it, either.
Tho fruit that is to be kept through
the winter shonld be put away care
fully and then watched all through the
r.sxil.tarti.at ss'-at which, decays may be
removed.
Kill weeds on lawns, says a writer,
by dropping crude carbolic acid right
into the hearts of the plants. That
kills them dead to the tips of the roots.
That is good, but by the time you have
gone over very weedy lawn you will
look about for some other method or
the Rural is mistaken.
Stephen Powers calls attention in
the Ohio Farmer to the value of wheat
bran as remedy for scours in lambs,
and it is fact thai it is one of the
very best remedies. Feed it dry.
It will add to the appearance of the
| yard and garden if all the dead plants
| are pulled up and burned, or other dis
| posal made of them, with a view of
| getting them out of the way and out
of sight.
If you have nice thoroughbred
calf and turn it out to hump itself in
the corner of the fence, in the storms
and cold, next spring you will say:
| s'This talk about thoroughbred being
| better than a scrub is all bosh."
Now is a good time to straighten
that ditch that winds through the fields
making so many short burrows and
"bouts" in cultivating corn. A few
hours or day with pillow and team
may save many a days work next
year. Try it.
The question being raised as to
whether it was better to have COWS
''come in" every year, or TO have them
bred once in two years, the Rural New
Yorker made inquiries of a number of
dairymen, and their testimony is in
favor of the former plan.
On damp days the fowls will some
times look sickly and drawn up, show
ing no disposition to activity. At
such time they should receive warm
feeding three times day, into which a
little melted tallow has been poured.
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damp days.
It may not be an easy matter to
roast corn for large fiocks, but for a
small number feed OF parched corn
or wheat once a week or oftener if con-
venient, will be an excellent change
from the ordinary routine. 1t takes
| the place of charcoal to a limited de-
gree, and is very stimulating.
An English dairy writer says: Dairy
work has made such gigantic strides
| forward within the last ten years, and
there have been SO many wonderful
discoveries and inventions in this de-
partment that we may not be surprised
at any thing, but may yet eclipse Edi-
son and his electric marvels before
many years.
Farmers muttons may and should
be the best in the world, says the Or
ange County Farmer. As soon as the
sleeps head is cut off, hang up the
carcass at once, slit small hole high
up between the hind legs, insert fun
| mol and r,our in vary cold wafer-oll