The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-01

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ecessary for it than to stop for re-
airs in the haying season.
Aud grind up all the tools, and
harpen the pillow points and harrow
eeth. Do not put this off until time
o begin blowing for oats. Time will
re worth money then, and dull tools
lever make fat harvests.
Those who are this season making |
heir first beginning inIwinter dairying
houId start with new mich cows.
We often find farrow animals serving
n the winter dairy, but the man who |
5 inexperienced in this work should |
rive himself, the first season, every |
jossibIe advantage toward assuring |
success. The better way Is make |
your plans for the years work before
land, and then, if winter dairying is
have a sufficient num-
per Of cows come fresh in late months.
II this has not been done it is better
20 sell off and buy new stock than to
Oegin with number OF small milk
ers. 1t is best not to begin on too
extensive a scale, as there are diff |
.uIties to overcome, as in every thIng |
else; but the dairyman who succeeds
in making gilt-eoge butter IN Jan
1ary, February and March Will get
price for it that will make him a
very earnest advocate of the system
If winter dairying. 1t is a good |
axiom for the farmer to produce most
when prices are highest.
Secretary Rusk confidently expects
that the law providing for the inspec-
ion by the Department of Agricul-
ture through its Bureau of Animal
Industry of all export cattle at the
points of shipment will have II bene-
fetal effect upon our foreign cattle
trade, as it takes away the last ground
FOR discrimination against American
beeyes because of alleged pleuro-
From the date of the
establishment of the system OF in
5pection, on August %, up to NoVem-
Der s, the inspection amounted to
very nearly 100000 head. This de-
notes increase over the shipment for
the same time last year. With the
present status OF our cattle produc-
ion it would not require very great
increase in the exports to make a
very appreeiable change in values
and give needed relief to the farmer
and stock raiser, The Department
can not do better work for our agri-
cultural interest than in the line of
extending our markets. There is
room for this work in other branches
beside that of live stock. We should
have the world for cur market.
A good way to lose through the
winter the money that has been made
through the summer is to feed good
food to poor stock. Another way is
to feed poor food to good stock. Both
roads lead to the same end, and it is
reached about as quickly by one as
by the other. 1t is good rule to feed
on the farm every thing that can be
fed to advantage, for thereby is the
manure pile Increased and the land
made fat; but feeding should not be
lone at hap-hazard, especially in the
winter, when grain and forage are
10Th food and fuel. Unless your eX-
perience is such that you are COM
oaratively sure of the outcome, re-
luce the stock, keeping only the very
pest, and feed well. There Is more
net profit in one good COW or steer
we'll kept than in two poor ones Ill
,ept; and bear in mind that there are
yery few cows good enough TO pay
Tor their winter keeping unless they
are giving milk, and giving literally.
1t is usually foolish waste CT money
% feed dry COW through long whit
Ar. You will make more ~ selling
both COW and feed.
It is too early yet to prophesy as to
he effect that the recent 1i1Aatl ion
,mong manufacturers VIII LEV ApD
he prices of farm machinery, but ii
s at least fair to presume that prices
will not be reduc 4 thereby; combi-
nations are not formed for that pur-
1ose, Keepinc this fact in mind,
farmers can mot better prepare Tor
the future than by taking the best
possible care of every implement
which they now own. III the mower
Ir binder HAS bee-1 left out OF doors
ms late, get an under cover at once
glveIiG a good overhauling. on
Metal parts, to keep them from
paint up the woodwork, to
Il decay; and if any thing is
'or broken get good mechanic
at it in repair at once. The
Ter who does this as soon
harvest is over each year can afford
Snap his finger at combinations,
a good machine will last him
Yearly a lifetime; but the farmer
Who buys on credit, and whose ma
Chine, Ey carelessness and exposure
to the weather, is worn out by the
time his notes become due, Is the one
with whom higher prices Will go
hard, He is also the man whose
land does not produce so well as IL
use to, who thinks the seasons have
changed (for the wOrse,) ana oelieves
that the farmers lot is mighty hard
one, any way
The experiment of bonanza wheat
farming, which attained such proper
ions in the Northwest a few years
400, is about to be repeated in Texas.
\ company has purchased, and will
proceed to SOW to wheat as rapidly as
possible, tract of 10000 acres in the
panhandle district. The common
error in such ventures has been to
crop the land continuously without
endeavoring to restore in any way
the fertility of which the land is be-
ing denuded each year. To ensure
success the land must be kept up, so
that the crop will not continually
diminish until it gets below paying
Weld, and by the same means the
land should be made to increase in
value, instead of being allowed to
decrease. There is plenty of room in
our country for the combination OF
capital, land and labor in large agri-
cultural undertakings, but as wise
and far-seeing business policy
should govern Cnon as WOulu pS dp-
piled to any other operation. The
farmer, large or small, who allows
his land to appreciate while endeavOr-
ing to make paying crops is like the
manufacturer who allows buildings
and machinery to get out of order
while endeavoring to turn out good
goods. The value of the product in
each case will inevitably fail. On
large areas, and where one crop
farming is followed, there is no
better way Of keeping up the land
than by a careful and consistent
system of summer following.
Root knot is a prolific source of
trouble to the growers both of vege-
tables and young fruit trees, especial
Iy to the latter while they are yet in
the nursery row. 1t has usually been
thought to be the result of diseased
condition, and caused primarily by
the lack of some important element
in the soil, or by imperfect cultIva-
ton. A recent bulletin from the
division of entomology in Washing
ton corrects this impression, and
states that it is caused by a micro
scopic worm, and that it attacks in
discriminatory the roots of a very
large number of vegetables, amQKg
them the cabbage, cucumber, NJ