The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-23

the best farming. NO grass, no i've
stock no live stock, no manure: no
manure, no productive soil; and no
productive soil-bankruptcy.
Where a general purpose" COW
now yields profit it may be safely
said that a Especial purpose" COW
would.do still better if the breed best
adapted to the existing circumstances
was selected.
Long rests should be as strictly
avoided as overwork with good
tempered, we'll broken horses. A
| long spell of idleness induces an ex
cess of playfulness or of animal spirits
which is alike destructive to eff
cheney, safety or pleasure.
A cold, clean, sweet room is s
necessity in making butter, and fol
storing it. The room should be useC
for this purpose alone, as the odor!
which arise from other substances
will iniure butter very quickly
Never permit smoking about the
butter room.
Sheep are naturally healthy, bu
quickly succumb to disease under
certain conditions. Damp, wet loca
tons are conducive to foot rot, anC
damp quarters at night produce colds
They must have dry quarters, gooC
ventilation, shade from the hot sun
! and good water.
A truck farmer at Green Bay, Wis
| .onsip, has a farm of 40 acres which
produces annually from &c., 900 to $11,
100. He feeds as much stock from
ha ia -
small vegetables, etc.-as any Other
armer in the State does from the en-
ire product of like area.
Exercise skill and judgment with
your team when hauling a heavy
load. Some drivers, in taking a load
so given point, will exhaust bOtl
wind and muscles of the team; while
another, by taking advaI. tage of the
ground or by giving rest where es
pecially needed, will get eXtraOrdi-
nary service out of a team without
injury.
Whatever difference of opinion
there may be as to the method of treat
| ing the soil in q bearing orchard
there is no question but that a yount
Oh chard should have the most care
| full cultivation. Weeds and gras!
| should not be allowed to grow, a.
| they rob the ground of sustenancG
that should be absorbed only by the
young and tender roots Of the trees
The requisites for preserving egg
are: pure, cool air, even temperature
and fresh, whole eggs. II one is stale
or cracked it is liable to injure al
within it's ar-reaching influence
| Given these conditions, wrap eacI
egg in q paper and close with tign
visit; then pack in baskets and hang
from ceiling of cellar, and eggs cal
be kept ill good condition for from
| four to six months.
Dry oats are an excellent food fo
young calves, AMI to indnce them tt
eat them they may, at first, be very
slightly moistened with milk. The
oats should not be put in the milk
| for they are then apt to choke the
calf. Oats contain, most perfectly
balanced, the elements of the tissue,
of young animals, and, in conjunction
with milk, promote their healthy
growth to greater extent than any
other food.
In fighting insect enemies, remem
Der that it is always the sickly, de
bilitated plants that are the first tC
he attacked. Some contend that it is
the insects that weaken the plants,
and not the plants that are first weak
but little observation will show thai
his is not 80. Therefore, endeavoI
by good food and treatment to keep
the plants always in vigorous health,
and the first step is gained toward
keeping them free fromzinsects.
There is no department of the bust
ness of agriculture that requires as
perfect knowledge, as thorough train
ing, or the combination of as many
essential qualities, both natural and
acquired, TO make it successful, as
that of horse breeding. To become
successful man must know a horse,
and this is a knowledge which can
not be picked up in a day. Long and
careful training and study must be
added to natural ability.
In seeking for the means with
which to improve country roads, a
lesson may be learned from some of
the European Governments. The
sale of fruit, chiefly cherries, from
trees grown along the highways of
SaXony, brought profit to the State
last year of about $4,000. An annual
income of this amount would go a
long way toward keeping the high
ways In good condition, and it was
produced from land which otherwise
would have been wholly unremunera-
tive.
In the farming OF the future there
will be no pasturing of cattle. At
present it is cheaper to pasture COWS
where land is cheap, and no large
farms, but it will not pay on small
farms, where the very utmost must
be made from each acre. 70 use five
acres for a purpose for which one will
suffice is to lose the product of four.
The soiling system will eventually
change the present methods, and the
preservation of green foods in the silO
is the first step in that direction.
Drained land can be worked earlier
in the spring, and sooner after q rain,
than land that is not drained. 1t can
be planted earlier in the spring, and
as it gets warm sooner and more even
ly the seed viii sprOut earlier and
with more certainty. 1t lengthens
the season at both ends, giving long
err growing season at both ends, and
more time and opportunity for work
ing the crops. 1t makes the soil dry
err in wet weather and wetter in dry
weather, and will make farming
profitable where all other means
would fail.
A good, but rather expensive, mix
ture for permanent pasture Is: five
pounds red clover, four pounds timO-
Thy, fourteen pounds Kentucky blue
grass and five pounds orchard grass.
The clover, timothy and orchard grass
make good feed for a few to several
years, after which the Kentucky blue
grass and orchard grass make the per-
manent sod. Orchard grass is among
our best plants for permanent
meadow. Timothy only lasts for
several years, at most, while red
clover dies out even sooner.