The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-02
STOCK FARM AED GARDEN.

can snow as SOOu pfdCIAcal AeSuALo 90
have been procured at the Indiana |
University this year. Professor Latta |
has grown there 80 bushels of wheat |
per acre, an amount sufficient to show |
that in this case, at least, scientific |
farming does pay.
While large fiock-masters, and such
as are distant from market, probably |
find it to their best interest to pay
first attention to wool, the small mock
owners and those nearer to the
market will undoubtedly find their
bOst profit by carefully growing the
very best mutton and early lambs,
making wool an after consideration.
The fact should be lost sight OF that
there are vast numbers OF small ana
medium-siZed horses IN the country
for which there is really no market at
home home or abroad, but all the
foreign buyers are looking for heavy
draft and cOachers, and Will pay org
must do in order to carry them away,
as her own home demands in this
line are not yet half met.
If YOU have not already done so,
turn the pigs into the orchard, so that
they may pick up the fallen fruit.
AS the fruit that falls prematuTely is
almost always infested by insects,
this is one OF the suTest ways to check
their further propagation. Ii all the
fruit infested by the Goblin moth
could be destroyed at once, before the
insect could leave 1t, we should make
long stride toward suppressing that
nuisance
Some asparagus plants might be set
this fall, if you have not already q
supply of that delicious vegetable IN
the garden. One hundred plants,
that can be bought for dollar, will
give an ample supply for a large
family, IL they have rich cultivation.
Set the plants good distance apart,
say rows five feet and plants two feet
in the row. Do not be afraid tn put
on the manure for a winter covering.
Put it on deep.
More than any other of the stock
quarters, the dairy barn must be Kept
| free from impurities. Pure oxygen,
and not poisonous heterogeneous va,
pOrs. is what nature ha- designed and
| provided to renovate the lite blood.
| This principal works the same in
animals as with mankind. MIX
may be poisoned through bad air
drawn into the lungs Of the COW, or
| the bad OdOr will affect it in the pail
after being drawn from the COW.
| Hogs that are never wiDtered, that
is such as go To the butchers or pack
ers or packer at nine or ten months,
make the most profitable pork. 1t ls
better to feed well and market pigs
six months Old-say those farrOwed NJ
late as June or July-thRn to Keep
them through the winter on grain,
hen on pasture next summer, and
then fatten OH grain again next win
Ter. That is the old method OF hog
raising, and it is an expensive one
1t will pay just as well, in proper
tiou, to breed up" your fowls as to
pursue this course with any Other
live stock. Use nothing but thor.
ougnbred males, even If you have
flock of common hens. A mOngrei
cock can in one seat ION depreciatt
your stock to such an extent that il
will require two or three years to re-
air TIN. damage. On the other hand
The beneficial influence resulting
from All infusion Of good blood would
be plainly perceptible for the same
length of time.
1t is, of course, always temptation
to sell any animal when an eXcep
tionalIy good price is offered, bu
when this occurs farmers should stoI
to think that what is valuable an6
desirable for another to own may b.
equally so for themselves. The bes
cow, for instance, is something tina
he farmer can always afford to keel
md can rarely afford to sell. Tn
same is true re garding a good breed
ing animal, perhaps more true re
garding Il good draft mare than will
anything else. They should be re
= tanned on the farm, where they cal
raise high class and high priced colt
the while they are doing the farm
work.
l The discussion of the hours of labO
of the farmer seems to me hardl.
i worth the while. 1t is the nature O
j things that to get satisfactory pecu
= mary results from his own labor h
Z must work more hours per day dur
= ing the season than does the working
man of the cities whose season last
the year through. At the most, tn
g working season of the farmer Is no
4 more than eight months ont of tn
. twelve. If then he labOIs II hour
> per day during that time he works n
y more hours during the year than tn
q man who is busy eight hours FER da,
I through the whole II months. l a.
not mean to say that the farmer
absolutely idle during the remaining
four months, but his work Is Ofte
not more than enough to give tn
needed exercise, and during that tim
it il not directly productive nor wage
!, eaI ming Therefore, we must not tr.
to gauge our hours by those of TN
: man whose active and unceasing labo
: lasts throughout the year.
! The first and greatest need of tn
o farmer, the one of so much impOrtanc
= that ali Others sink into cOmpaTativ
= insignificarce before it, is cOmplet
4 understanding of the possibilities O
: the soil. 1t is not low prices, bu
poor crops, that make farming unre
munerative. Maximum crops, eve
if sold at low prices, repay the cost O
economical production and leave
margin of profit. Rarely do goo
L crops result in Over-prOduction Csc
caIied) to such an extent that price
It become so reduced in consequence q
r to make this rule imperative. i
= perishable crops of limited consumI
q ton, such as fruits and vegetables
;, and with inadequate facilities 70
: distribution, a temporary glut in TIA
market sometimes brings loss to tn
4; successful producer; butthat we hav
not, in the United States; or in tn
I. world, ever suffered from absOlut
over-production is sufficiently show
from the old axiom OF politica
economy that the harvests of on
year are always practically exhauste
:. by the time the harvests of the mex
t year are available for consumption
9 Notwithstanding the fact that un
h counted numbers of human being
v have persisted from want of food
: while other yet greater numbers hav
: existed with half-nOurished bodies
: So, to retrace our steps for moment
g prior even to the need of an under
= standing OF the possibilities of tn
Il soil which he cultivates, the educa
;. ton of the farmer should be SO brOa'
:. that the bugbear of over productio
4 should be effectually bauished. |
= for "over-productiOn" we substltut
= the words unequal distribution" W
!. shall come nearer to one of the cause
4 that sometimes tend to make agri
culture an unremunerative industry
That farmers generally do not under
stand the producing C9pacitY of