Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-11-12
HERE AND THERE.

Every farmer who can possibly do
so should keep out of debt Those who
can not should sell out to those who
can.-Texas Farm and Ranch.
In pitching your crop for next year.
consider how much land you can culti-
vate, rather than how much you can
plant.-Texas Farm and Ranch.
Why can not farmers make first
class butter? They can. Then why
don't they? There's where you have
us.-Texas Farm and Ranch
Notwithstanding .he evils of which
we complain, there never has been a
time or place when or where a poor
man could so easily make comforta-
BILE living as now and in this country
Texas Farm and Ranch.
The farmer that sells his cotton.
seed for five or six dollars ton, while
his land is each year impoverished to
produce them, is a ninny of whom il is
exquisite flattery to call a jackanapcs!
If you want to find cholera in its
most virulent type, visit those sections
where the hogs have corn, and only
corn, every day and week, year in and
out. These are the conditions under
which it is yearly developed. National
Stockman and Farmer
Sheep should be kept on every farm,
not for the wool alone, but for mutton
for home use and for sale, wool, fertil-
izing material, and for the utilization of
waste feed and the destruction of nox-
ious weeds and bushes. The sheep is Il
profitable animal any way you take
| him.-Texas Farm and Ranch.
How many farmers keep a record
of their business, by which they can
tell on the first day of January how
much they have made or lost during
the year, and what operations of the
farm were most profitable or least
profitable? Don't all speak at once
| Texas Farm and Ranch.
Every southern farmer is familiar
with crab grass. With majority this
is the great enemy in the battle of life.
Yet in majority of cases this grass is
worth more than the corn for which it
is destroyed. Cut when in bloom crab
grass makes a splendid hay, and is
greedily eaten by all kinds of stock
Texas Farm and Ranch.
Some people are so busy saving the
country and telling what ought to be
done to make TIE people prosperous
that they have no time to attend to the
weeds and grass in the cotton patch
If money was floating down every
stream in the land and sub-treasuries
existed by the score, a man must pro
duce something, or he could not get @
dollar. Baird TEX Star.
--"Some years ago." writes Vir-
ginia farmer to Southern Planter, "a
man took up some gate posts which
had been in the ground seventy years
and he said they were perfectly sound
They were common pine posts, ant
were skinned in the spring while stand
ing, and left so until the turpentint
had come out and formed complete
cement, and were cut and fixed. The
tops of such posts will have to be Gov
cred to protect them from the action OF
the weather"
Every young man who contemplate
breeding swine, either fancy or fol
pork, can find some old experienced
breeder who will befriend him in Civ
ing him valuable hints that will help t.
avoid many breakers. Many things cal
be had from the experience of others
yet there are some things that breed
er must know, if he would succeed, tina
he must secure by personal work ant
daily mingling with his herd --Nationa
J Stockman and Farmer,