The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-06-26
STOCK, FARM AND GARDEN.

A superior product need never be
hauled to distant market.
The spring calves are your future
dairy. Look them over carefully, and
see now what sort of dairy it is go
ing to be.
A teaspoonful of clean wood ashes
on each horses feed once week is
an excellent condition powder, and
cheaper than those sold in drug
stores.
Hens fed largely on corn, while not
suffering in general health, VIII De-
come sluggish, deposit large masses
of fat on the internal organs, and lay
a few eggs of large size and excellent
quality.
It is folly to buy manures and let
those go to waste that are made at
home. BY slip-shod methods one
half the value of all the manurial pro-
ducts OF our farms is lost before the
manure reaches the field.
II you wish to make success of
poultry, but have not hitherto been
able to do so, discard the common
fowls and invest in a few thorough
breds, give them the best of care, and
sea if it is not paying business.
To secure the hay in the NOW in
the best condition, none should be
drawn in, at the very latest, after
O'Clock. The very moment the air
begins to grow cool in the evening
that moment do the dew and mOis-
ture begin to gather upon the cut
grass.
A neatly clipped lawn is thing to
be desired, but it does not help mat
ters any to clip it close down to the
ground. Set the mower to cut as
nigh as 1t will, and your lawn will
look just as well, and there will be
less danger of killing out the grass
roots during period of drouth.
The value of the hay, aud conse-
quently the value of the products
which we expect to derive from feed
ing it, depends much upon the date
at which it is cut. Late cut grass,
that has ripened its seeds, is not much
better for producing flesh, milk, but
ter and wool than so much straw
would be.
Strawberries are gross feeders, and
need plenty of manure. Instead OF
muching with straw this fall, covel
them with fresh, coarse manure.
The rains of the fall and winter will
carry the fertilizer down to the roots
of the plants, and tho mulch will be
bette than if light straw We're used,
for it will not blow away,
We need fast walking horses, and
the colt should be trained to this end;
but we a1e usually in such a hurry
that the colt is forced to trot, and,
soon becoming leg weary, it gets into
"a way of walking very slow to rest.
1t is much better to let the colt walk,
but to keep it at a steady, vigorous
gait. The walking gait will make
less halky horses, and fewer unsOund
ones. Walking horses keep i'll much
better condition OH the same feed,
and get th~fe almost as soon, il not
sooner. The horse that Is driven
hard walks very slow, and so loses
time. A sound, fast walker will al
| ways sell at a good price.
A scarcity of corn is always fol-
lowed by scarcity of hogs, as farm
ers have to rush their stock Off to save
| feeding it. The next full corn crop
then runs the price of hogs to the top
notch, as every one wants to buy to
"stock up" Good crops will make
high priOes for hogs this year, and the
farmer who has held on to good lot
OF brood sows is in luck.
An exchange has the following
good advice, aptly expressed: II
! your COW, after behaving like lady
| for months, surprises you with kick,
| do not kick back, but find out why
she kicked. She had good reason for
| it, else she would not have done it.
Perhaps one OF her teats may he
cracked or scratched and very sore,
or her udder may be intlamed.
The dairyman needs to bear oon-
stanlIy in mind the fact that nature
must be first sustained, and that only
after that has been accomplished
does the food go to milk. The last
! handful of feed contains the largest
per cent. of profit The food must be
SO abundant and nutritious as to leave
a surplus above the needs of nature
before the profit can begin.
The New York State eutomologis
says that the present excessive raw
ages of insect pests, greater in thil
country THAI anywhere else in the
world, and increasing every year, il
largely due to the destruction of oul
native birds. 1t has become q neces
sity that every bird which is of bene'
4 fit to the agriculturist should be given
protection. The work OF the Depart
ment at Washington, i'll ascert aiming
Just which of our birds are valuable
as insect destroyers, should have tho
support Of every farmer.
The robins and the cat-birds will
soon be busy helping to harvest the
cherries. They may EASILY be KEPT
away without using til Shotgun
Make a hole in the sound end of al
empty fruit can, take cord and tie
, small stone on ono end, tie knot ;
few inches above the stone, and draw
the cord through from the inside
leaving the stone to act as clappe
to bell. Suspend several of these il
the tree, and the slightest wine
, will make such a naturalization tina
the birds will give it a wide berth
: Rather than kill these birds, it wOul'
f be better to let them have the cher
3 ries, for they devour many OF GU
worst insects.