Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-05-19
THE HOME AND FARM,
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very fat, yet such eggs may be fertile,
The Brahmas, Cochins and L~eghorns,
which comprise the standard Asiatic
breeds, have many desirable qualities.
When the farm owns the farmer it is
apt to work him too had. He should
plan his work so that he will be the
boss, and not let the work drive him.
A man who owns 30 acres and is out
OF debt is happier and has a far better
chance of success than one who thinks
he owns 100 acres, but has a mortgage
tied to it.
The wise man gets an ambitious wife
and he is careful that she does not over
work herself. He knows that it is
cheaper to pay a girl for a year than a
doctor for a month.
If our crops were properly diversified
and we were growing every product of
agriculture that we use, with the area
now being cropped, there could not
possibly be any over production.
The product of the Irish, or rather
the American, potato, ranks second,
wheat first, and corn third, the world
over. The potato is pre-eminently the
poor mans bread everywhere.
Before you say farming don't pay"
put to the credit side of the account
your house rent, fuel, milk and butter,
and all the incidentals that the farm
supplies you, but which the city man
must buy.
Says the Rural New Yorker: zone
year ago with twenty five fowls we had
five eggs per day. Now with twenty
fowls we have from twelve to fourteen
eggs per day. The missing birds were
roosters, which accounts for the whole
story"
If farmers were as careful to get rid
of poor stock as to get rid of the weeds
there would be a great advantage gain
ed. A scrub animal is ON a par with a
weed. 1t takes nourishment from bet
ter stock, and occupies room that could
be used more profitably with something
else.
A Minnesota farmers says half a cen
fury ago I lived in Ohio in a heavy clay
section, and we used unleached wood
ashes freely about the trunks of our
peach trees, and they never produced
injurious results, but were often bene-
fetal, SO that we came to believe they
were a specific medicine for ailments
of the peach.
The advantage of keeping ahead of
work is especially noticeable in dealing
with weeds. Allow them to get a little
start and the cost of destroying them is
enormously increased. In corn grow
ing many a slack farmer has worked
for days with c~ultivator and hoe to kill
weeds that might have been destroyed
by a few hours timely work in dragging
the field two weeks earlier.
In order to have good celery there
ought to be no serious check to the
growth of the plants from the time
they are put out until their full size is
reached. Where many err is in trans
planting too late. Plants lifted with a
good ball of soil and roots, the former
being thoroughly moist at the time,
will rarely droop, even if the work is
done in the hottest weather. They will
stand up stiiy, and with a little assis-
lance from the watering pot will scarce
ly cease growing. With very little fur
Their trouble they will form large, stur-
dy plants with solid leaf stalks and the
best OF hearts, contrasting in all re-
spects most favorably with those less
well treated.
Corn is a native of q warm climate,
and the roots grow neal the surface in
search OF neat. Deep roofing does as.
sist in w%arding off the effects of dry
weather, but an inch or two of fine
earth is very effective. This is gotten
by repeated STRINGS of the surface.
1t retards the evaporation of moisture
by breaking up the capillaries in the
earth and holds the water in the soil.
All injury to the roots of a plant re-
tards the growth of the top, and it is
only by shallow cultivation that this
a be prevented. On most soils we
are learning, says Field and Farm, to
let corn roots feed in the warm ground
near the surface, watching to keep
them protected by an earth mulch.
A well ordered farm is never found
without its fruitful garden. Much as
the garden is neglected for other so
called more important responsibilities,
there is nc other piece of ground on a
farm which is capable of producing
more healthful food or more genuine
satisfaction than that devoted to the
garden if it be prudently managed. 1t
is the source from which come many
treats in fruits and vegetables during
the entire year. From the first tender
shoots of the asparagus bed or the win
ter onions to the bright, crisp celery,
satisfy, cabbage and late vegetables,
carefully provided for use during the
long winter months, it may be utilized
as the source for all but inexhaustible
supplies of all that is agreeable to the
taste and needful to the health.