The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-11-06
STOCK FARM AND GARDEN.

No matter how good your COWS are
in themselves, you must not expect
to procure the best milk anu butter
product unless you give them the best
of feed and care.
Between the Government rain
makers and the people in the North
west who have been trying to head OFT
Jack Frost by means of huge smoke
clouds, we seem ia a fair way to coun-
teract all the evils that nature inter-
poses between the farmer and good
crops. In regard to the smoke maxi
els, it seems strange to us that they
should consider their idea at all a
new one. The writer remembers hav-
ing seen the same Thing extensively
practiced in Florida u years ago for
the purpose of protecting the orange
groves from the damage by frost.
There are no fowls that show to
better advantage on the farm than
the Plymouth Rocks, and they have
won a deservedly high place both as
layers and for the table. They are
large, handsome and clean looking,
aud this fact alone Is worth all it will
cost to procure a flock of them in
place of the common mixed barn
ward flock. Their care and feeding
will cost no more than the others, and
they are sure to give better return.
1t is a little strange that a.farmer will
take pains and go to large expense in
order to have good horses, cattle,
sheep and hogs, and yet will be con-
tent with flock of mOngrel fowls
when it is SO easy to have good ones.
The farmer should not attempt to be-
a poultry fancier, but it is only good
farming to keep one pure breed for
practical purposes.
This season, when there has been
such a general upsetting OF the values
of farm products-almOst wholly for
the better, however-it may be
necessary to caution some against
hastily changing their crops or meth
DDS in order to get into lines that now
appear to promise the largest returns.
To 90 largely into one crop or one
sDecies of live stock because the price
for one season has suddenly taken an
upward tendency, Is the height Oh
folly, By the time you have such
crop or such stock ready for mar et 1t
will quite likely be on the down
grade. The man who lays out Ms
plans calmly and then follows them
with "a little deviation as he eau
through series of years, and pro-
duces the largest possible crops OF
such things as are best adapted to bis
land is pretty sure to make more III
the end than will the one who shifts
to follow a shifting market.
We notice that au exchange says
the dairy farmer must take into ac-
count the value of the manure pro
dhIced in making up his account Of
profit and loss for the year, or he will
oe apt to show a balance on the wrong
side. II tn S is true, he must also
charge the aecounJ with the value OF
the fertilizing elements that have
been carried from the farm in the
milk aud butter that have been sold
As few farmers are able to arrive very
CLOSELY at these values, it would be
better not to burden either side OF the
account IN this way, but TO produce
and save all the manure possible,
nevertheless, and apply 1T where II
will do the most good. III the ieeu OF
the COWS was wholly or largely pur,
chased, then the fertilizer produced
aud added to the farm would be prop
erIy considered among the items o,
profit. If you are keeping books, aho
All farmers should do so, 1t Is I'M
portant It to mislead yourseI py
counting any false sources OF gain
Profit in hogs depends largely on
earlv pigs, green feed and early mar
ketine. Select the sOws which you
wish to breed for early pigs, and
Ixeep them in good. thrifty condition,
and breed them 50 as to have some
earIy filters of pigs by the first to the
tenth OF March. This will necessitate
soT1e warm pens ready for the little
Fellows when they come, but 1t VIII
nav to nrepare them. By the time
Ina clover is large enough to eat they
viii be large enough to eat Glover