The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-25
STOCK FARM AND GARDEN.


Pure water is an important element
in the growing of live stock. Impure
water will bring disease even more
rapidly than bad food and foul quart
ers II your farm is not we'll supplied
in these particulars, you can not in
vest money to better advantage than
in at once remedyiDg the defect.
When London live stock prices are
two and three cents higher than they
were year ago, and ocean freight
lower, we should be receiving better
prices for export cattle than we are.
Will some one please tell US who is
getting this extra prOfit-and why the
growers are not getting it?
Any man who holds the hog in
such poor esteem that he thinks any
filthy place good enough for him, will
never make money raising swine.
The hog should have just as good
treatment as any OF the farm stock.
Clean, dry quarters, good food, pure
water. Then he will keep well and
pay his way.
Every farmer who has an apple
tree has heard Of the cOdling moth,
and probably understands that it 1s
the greatest enemy his apples have,
yet how many know the little Great
ure by sight? At q recent Farmers
Institute it was found that but two
persons in the entire audience were
familiar with it. Do we stand in need
of education?
One of the best farmers that we
know has for years made q practice
of sowing every bare piece Of ground
with rye as soon as possible, as
preparation for any succeeding crop,
aud always keeps seed on hand for
this purpose. Rye may be sown al
almost any time, but is best sown in
August. Then it will make growth
enough to give good fall aud winter
pasture, and will furnish a good coat
of green manure il turned under the
following April or May.
The Canada thistle is an ugly weed,
but there is no good reason why an
intelligent farmer should be troubled
with it two years in succession. LII
succumbs readily to the right kind oil
treatment It may be killed by ploW-
ing when full grown and in bloom
then cultivating and following with 8
hOed crop, or seeding down heavily
with clover. II you cultivate thor
oughIy and show q determination tC
occupy the land with something else
the thistle will not have much chance
II one desires hornless dairy stock,
and vet is not a confirmed believer in
the practice of dehorning, why moi
try the Red POlled cattle as the al
tentative? They are good producer;
of milk and butter, good feeders, ma
ture early and fatten readily. They
are smooth and plump, and make
excellent beef, and are gaining steadi
ly in favor as a good, all round bee
and dairy breed. English feeders
know good cattle, and with them the
Red POlled are very popular.
We all know that live stock can be
and has been vastly improved by 9
system of careful selection and breed
ing. Now, if we want better grain
and grasses they must be procured by
| the same methods. Not many farm
ers are so situated that they can carry
on experiments in these lines will
the needed care and detail, but Their
Is no more important work that coul(
possibly be taken up by our expert
| ment stations. At the Institute th1
winter we must ask what IS doing il
this line, and urge our Professors t
make this q subject for particula
study. Every living thing, whethe
/ plant or animal, can be bred up b.
the simple process of natural SO
lection.
The fruit growers about Gran
[ Haven, Michigan, who grow fruit
extensively for the Chicago m arket
find goOseberries one of the mos
profitable things they can handle. II
packing they gather the crop rapidly
leaves and all, and then put then
through q tanning mill to clean. L
this way the harvest Is conducte
very cheaply. This fruit needs
cool soil with abundant moisture. j
You contemplate planting this spriD
get your ground ready early, and Sc
the plants as soon as they can be pro
cured. If planting is delayed unit
late the yong sprouts that start ar
almost sure to be broken of, and tn
development is then delayed q veal
We are getting around towar'
maple sugar time again. A man VIII
has any sugar trees and does not util
ize them Is foolish. 1t pays better
however, to make syrup than to max
sugar. The supple is limited, an
there is always a good demand for
good article. In tapping your tree
make as small hole as possible, an
use only tin tubes. In evaporatin
the sap should be boiled until leve
gallon weighs 10 pounds and 10 ounce
when hot. When cold it will tax
four ounces more to the level gallon
and be of the proper standard OF den
sIty. To preserve the light color tina
is desirable the sap should be gathere
twice daily, and boiled as rapidly a
pOssible-nOt kept over the fire NOR
than thirty minutes at the outside.
No mistake should be made abou
the proper place and value Of tn
grade animal. 1t may be a superio
individual, excellent in itself for bee
or milk, but wholly Enthusiastically
far as the ability to perpetuate II
characteristics In its progeny is con
cerned. 1t is in this latter 9ualit.
that the pure bred animal is OF inesti
mabIy greater value, and they are tn
only ones that should be used whe
there is q definite purpose to "bree
lump Pure bred sires at least are no.
| within the reach of all, so that theI
| is no reasonable excuse for using an
| other sort. AS soon as We becOm
) wise enough to make this the univeI
,, sal practice, scrub stock will rapid
!. become q thing of the past.
It is extremely difficult to make
better floor for horse stalls than tn
clay floor sOlidly stamped to make
hard. Such a floor will be elasti
without being soft, and is the bei
possible one TOT u1diubalnIuS a nc1iS III
condition of the hoof. Uttered wit
straw, as all floors should be, tn
: LIQUID manure will all be absorbed
) and the straw covering will prever
the shoe ca1ks from disturbing tn
clay. A horse standing upon such
floor will have q hoof that is soft an
vet tough, capable of enduring muc
more wear than "a dry and britt
hoof, such as horses u5ually hav
|, that stand upon wooden floors. I'll
: feet are an important part OF tn
D horse, and q proper floor In the sta
, has much to do with having propt
. There il no better place Tor the sll