The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-09
STOCK FARM AND GARDEN.

Straw may he fed with profit il you
u~t cOnccnti ;,ted food literally. MOI
otherwise.
The first step toward increasing the
profit fTum Your dairy Viii be TO GU.
the nerd. Lock if over AMI see IL TINS
il not true.
Do not have your poultry aouse slt
uat+d 80 that the ground beneath II l.
damp. If you do, your flows Will be
drunpy aud diseased.
In holding grain there are tw"
things To he considered besid InsEib
increase in price. There is bound I"
he some shriukage, and YOU are orl
he interest on your money.
Unless both your stock and your
soil are Z; owing better you are liable
~ wake up some day and mud that
farming does not pas. There must lie
constant l,IOgress along these lines
L,nd ri4strr is valuable ~ II dFod'-
r,ler and absorbent about Tie stable
AID II better so used than applied a
rect to corn or c!OVtr-a practice once
/ very general, but now fallen pretty
we'll into dis sc.
| While one class of stock may pay
yOl. better than another, do not los
-ight OF the fact that tie average farm
eds u few head Of every sori III ordtl
10 make the best ami closest Hse nI MI
| the products.
b, cause sheep will make better use
! o. poor pasture than Will any other
! .iock. do not try to keep them On one
that is absolutely bare. They require
God 10 sustain life and make growth
we'll as any other animals. Ii the
pasture is getting short supplement II
| with tTrsiu and other feed,
Our export trade with EIglandr ID
! live cattle. is more recent than mort
neouie are aware. 1t dates only from
! ISIS when about 800 head were
-uiuped Last year the shipments
.m1tIufen 10 $50 900 head. If the trade
continues 10 grow in the saHle ratio 1t
will prove IA great factor toward pre-
venting over production h"re.
The Massachusetts Experiment Sta
lion adds it's testimony il faVtI o.
lrsilagP, as follows: Corn ensllagr,
when fed either with Wheat bran or
Gluten meal. or with wheat bran an
! pI0 process iius-td meal, has produced
,yithout an exception, the highest
gain in live weight, as compared VII II
ALI other fodder r4tIUHs Used i'll the
experiment.
W thu erther grows colder ii VIII
tlb We'll 10 use COZ II Ioi III ~ 81 -
for the poultry. 1t m0y be gwen a 4:
uarI raiion if desired, III cUI junction
with ether food, but IN cnoi "ealh
nothing else VIII tend To, keep NJ suvi
4 uniform body heat. Corn thEf'
LONGER. that il ii i longer in Ir"ce''
of Digestion, aud produces more htal
than any other grain that can he Ied
When nu animal dies on the farm
it's carr"ss should be utilized. 1t Is
folly TO bury it in the wood-lot an'
then ", and buy "bloud and b, ue" "a
ferteIiZing Cut the carcass up a.
much as you can and bury the part
in muck or loan 20 that nothing Is
lost, and brake up the bones and plan
them where the roots OF fruIt-trees
and grape-vines will reach them.
Irrigation, wherever it can be ap
piled by any system, Will be one o
j the future developments of our agri
culture. Jtpays in tW o ways-hrst IL
being an almost absolute safeguard
. against a crop failure, and in largely
increasing all kinds of crops. }. Nj
Smith, of Wisconsin, irrigated an acre
> of strawberries at q cost of $23, ant
got 800 for his crop, and says there
] was not another acre of Strawberries
in his county that paid $lO0
When we have become more gener
Ally familiar with alfalfa, and mOr'
, successful in growing it by reason o
: a better understanding OF its cultura
) needs, it will help much toward the
profitable practice of soiling. II
makes so heavy a growth per acrt
and can be cut so often that it is ad
mlrably adapted to this purpose. The
cattle that are confined also take to i
eagerly, the Directors of the Genev'
P New YORK; Station saying that it Il
the only food for which they will
leave ensilage.
MANY fruit growers make the mis-
take of letting their pears remain oil
r the tree too long. Most varieties ar
? much finer in flavor if picked from
= the tree and rlpened IN the mouse
than if allowed to become fully ma
tured on the tree. Change of color IL
the fruit, the readiness of the stalk Il
part from it's branch on gently raising
| the fruit, the ripening of worm-eateI
-pecimens, are the signs which lndl
cate the proper season for gathering
pears.
BE-, At this writing there seems no Tea
| son TO doubt but that a large measure
< of success has attended the expert
y ments of the Government rain
o makers" in Texas. II future wOrt
}, should give us added proof OF tn
, aOlllIN 10 I'IO'AuSO 80
: only has the greatest discovery or tn
e aye been made, but we are i'll for
I, condition of things that may becom,
: verv complicated, and need mucl
e nice LEGISLATION to regulate them
= For instance, who shall determine
V when. where and how much rain i
Il needed.
II Tine next important step forwar
:; which we should take in our farm
Il nrsc:ice is the substitution of soilin
FOR pasturing. This will be even
greater and more valuable Gepartur
Than was the substitution of ensilag
V for the dry curing and feeding OF cor
q fodder; yet many many farme ar
@ unconsciously taking step in thl
b direction by keeping their horses u
throughout the year, and they do no
- and il a laborious nor expensive praC
t;ce SoilinC as against pasturing !
: economical, both in point OF land AM
: of food.
The indications sre that our frui
"a we'll as wheat will be wante'
abroad this year. Advices from Eng
Iand state that the outlook for Ameri
q can apples in that market ls eXcep
), tinnaIly good. The English GRO!
!. bIoseomed well, and a good frui
WELD was confidently expected, Du
> owing to cold weather and rains tia
: crop has fallen much below TN
q average. To growers who Intend T.
| -, a. Yivarncoi mark ct we want II