The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-10
STOCK, FARM AND GARDEN.

STOCK, FARM AND GARDEN.
Never breed from pampered ami
NAL, no matter how many prizes 1t
may have taken at the fairs.
h Among the best winter apples that
yourca plant are Smiths cider, Bald
win, Ben Davis, Porter and Craven
stein. These are all fay 1rites in the
markets, and always command good
prices.
Many small fruit growers have been
dissatisfied with the dewberry on &C
count of its troublesome habit of
growth. A Pennsylvania oultivatOr
has trained his bushes upon a light
wire trellis, and thus overcome all
difficulties of cultivation. Try it.
The forcing of early lambs is quite
as profitable near our large cities as is
the forcing of fruits and vegetables.
In March of the present year dressed
lambs weighing 80 pounds sold in the
Boston market at $14 each; but it re-
quires warm barns and good care to
grow them.
If the lawn had in the beginning
good, rich soil beneath it, 1t may be
kept up indefinitely by the use of
wood ashes alone. The use of manure
on the lawn about the dwelling house
is offensive, and need not be resorted
to if ashes can be had. Apply the
ashes with seive early in spring,
and once or twice thereafter if they
seem to be needed.
We have before us statement of
the returns obtained by Northern
Ohio fruit grower from all acre or
strawberries, raspbcrries AID grapes.
The first gave him 1920, the second
$3.50. and the third $240. OF the three
the grapes probably gave the best
profit, as they cost less to cultivate
and harvest, There are but few
places in our country where they may
not be planted with profit.
Ifyou contemplate setting out grape
vines this season let us counsel you
not TO choose rich, lOamy land, but
rather a gravelly, or even quite
rocky, soil. Too rich land will pro-
duce too rampant growth Of wood at
| the expense of fruit. Beside, that
land will pay so well for other crops
that require good soil and high culti-
walton that 1t should be retained for
such purposes. Make amends to the
grapes for the poorer land by giving
special fertilizing with ground bone,
or even with whole fresh bones,
planted right in with the roots when
you are setting the vines.
Did you ever stop to question the
difference in the profit OF the man
who raises 100 bushels of wheat on 10
acres of land and his neighbOr who
grows the same amount upon three
acres? The income is the same, but
how about the cost per busbel? and,
by the way, how many farmers can
tell what it costs them to grow a
bushel of wheat; but to go back to the
two neighbOrs. Not only is there a
difference in their money profit, but
a wide difference as we'll III tbs con-
tent and satisfaction that they find in
, the business. One of item gays,
flaming does not pay" Which
one is it?
Potatoes, with good cultivation, pay
uniformly better profit than any
other crop that can be grown at the
same expense and with the same
cultivation. Dairy cows, of the best
> class, pay better than any other STOCK
which demands no more capital ana
fowls pay better than any other small
or minor industry of the farm. Taken
in combination, they are just the
thing for an industrious man of SINAI
means who has 10 acres of good
. ground. Upon this much land, witt
this combination, such a man would
be sure not only of good living, BIZ
of saving snug sum every year,
In no branch of our agriculture i!
( there a wider divergence between
4 that which might be accomplished
| and that which actually is accom-
/ plished. For instance, the average
: milk production OF our cows is abou
= 100 pounds, and of butter 10 pounds
/ yet it has been shown that it is posi-
ble to procure nearly 80, 900 pounds o
o milk from one cow in a year, anC
/ from another more than ], 100 pound
t Of butter. There is too wide differ
t ence here, and our new agriculture
= will work toward closing the gap b!
e bringing up the average-not bI
: lowering the exceptional-produc
: ton.
Lice are the greatest plague ant
profit destroyer of the poultry raiser
Unless the utmost care and cleanli
ness are observed they are sure to ap
pear as soon as warm weather comes
1t is best not to wait until they com
before applying the remedies, bu
saturate the perches with kerosen
now, burn up all old filthy nests, pu
lime in the bottom of new nests, AM
white-wash coops and fences witt
e hot lime wash. Do this thoroughly
:, and it will save lots of trouble late
,s in the season. The effectiveness O
:. the whitewash is much increased b,
: applying it hot and getting well int
e the cracks and corners.
The small farmer everywhere
= generally doing better than the larg
farmer. That this is true may easil
o be proven by inquring into the rela
. tive prosperity or the 40-acre farme
9 and the 100 acre farmer in your owl
y neighborhOOd. Which Is burdene
with the least debt, in proportion t
: the total value of his land? Who
I is procuring the best profit upon hi
capital and the largest money yiel'
per acre? and which gets the mos
satisfaction out of the business Q
: agriculture? One trouble is that W
2 have been too grasping in regard t
land, and have acquired more tina
!, we could handle to the best advantage
e Excepting that a few ornaments
~ and native forest trees should b
n about the house, every other open G
available place about the hOmestea
y should be planted with fruit tree {
e some kind. Plant plumb trees in tn
e chicken yard, for fruit and for shad
= for the fowls, and so that the fowl
ID may Keep the CufcullO dWuys loA
r. pears and apples and cherries alon
n the lane, for the fruit and to make
p pleasant and inviting avenue. P1aI
d grapes, for the fruit and as screens fc
n unsightly objects; and, by the wa.
II the forest trees might as well be wa
o nuts and chestnuts, 80 that they ca
q give fruit as well as shade, an
h NAPLES for the sweets they yiell
h Look around carefully and you wi
g find many bare places that can
d improved In appearance aud at u
y same time made profitable by plan
10 ing tree there.