The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-30

there also for the grower of good NUT
ton. Do not get shaky on the sheep
question, but go right aLead and stock
up with the best animals you can OBJ
tain. Shropshires and DOrsets, we may
say, are taking front place just now in
popular favor
Wherever we have been during the
past 80 DAYS we have found the same
general feeling of satisfaction among
farmers over the result of this seasons
harvest and greater confidence in the
future outlook. We can see but one
probable danger ahead, and that Is that
this years success may lead to too
great a reliance again on our staple
crops, thus leading once more to such
rapid increase of acreage that prices
NAV again be forced down. The recent
wears have been weaving uS away from
the one crop idea, and we should still
keen in mind that our best interests
will be served by diversifying our pro-
ductiOn i'll every possible manner.
In no place is the Improvement in
live stock that has taken place III the
last 20 wears shown more clearly than
by comparing the Old-time Texas steer
with the present range cattle, ana we
are glad to say that progress in this
line is now making more rapidly than
at any time heretofore. We are but
Just beginning upon an era OF I'M
proved practices IN every Drancn Oh
agriculture-in breeding and feeding
stock and in growing crops. No SenSl-
BILE man doubts to-day that there is AZ
much room for development here as
there has been in science and applied
mechanics. The progressive young
farmer must be a student and keep
abreast of new knowledge regarding his
, work Clinglng to old practices Will
prove continually more uuprohtaole.
Dairymen who are not butter makers
will often find it more profitable TO sell
the cream than to sell milk. hoIels
and MANY private families Will often
| buy cream regularly, especially during
| the summer fruit season, ana quite as
much may be obtained for this alone as
both milk and cream would bring TO
| gether. The skim milk may then DrlnS
! an added profit by being used for iced
| ing. y good way to start cream trade
| would be to put it up neatly IN pint OF
| half pint glass jars, and then oiier III
| from house to house, Just as mix men
do. 1t would not take long to build up
| a paving route in any good town. Jer-
| sew cows would be best for cream
| dairy, not only because OF the eAceI-
| lence of their product, but because Che
| name in itself constitutes good auNer-
| tisement.
| We have very often in these columns
| called attention to the money value OF
the gooseberry crop, giving some
| figures from our own experience anu
urging small fruit growers to give more
| attention to its cultivation: we are
| glad now to lave our opinions rem
| forced by the New York Experiment
Station, which during the past season
has done some very practical Work 10,
! ward ascertaining the true value anu
| possibilities of this fruit for market.
| Five pound baskets of the different va
| rieties grown at the station were put IN
the hands of the same dealer. The
| largest varieties sold readily at % cents
per basket, the others at 40 cents. by
planting four feet apart each way there
would be nearly 2,4OO plants per acre
A small WELD would be five pounds pei
| and a lower price IndD
here given an acre would yield a very
| large return. The fruit Will give pay
| ing crop the second year, a full crop the
| third wear, and for IA long time thereat'
ter, and verv rarely rails.
There is no reason why farmers
wives who take nice fresh eggs To pri
vate customers should be governed by
| ''store" prices. In buying at the store
| A housed eeper is always served from &
| miscellaneous collection, and the chan
ces are very much against their Delnt
{ ALWAYS fresh. Eggs that come dlrec
, | from the farm to the consumer are
, worth more and should bring more
! than grocery" eggs, and the majority
r | of town and city hOuSekeeperS woulC
, be willing to pay more. Five cents pei
dozen would be none too much to ado
to the price for delivering as wanted
and guaranteeing to be fresh. Whet
: YOU have an article that is OF more thar
ordinary value you should not be atralC
r to ask more than an ordinary price 10
! il, and that this is the case with eggs
poultry, milk, butter, vegetables, &c.
brought direct to ones door from tn
: farm, can only be fully appreciated b.
{ one who has lived in city, as tn
writer has, and by such means gaine'
, freedom from the grocer, the market
: man and the milk wagon.
The generally large apple crop thi
i .aoson leads as to suggest to farmer
= that, they need not be afraid 81 feeding