Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-08-18
THE HOME AND FARM.
1t requires 10, OOO,O 900 COWS to supply
the United States with milk. cheese
and huttar

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and butter.
For chickens in the advanced stages
of disease the best remedy is the hatch
ct promptly applied.
Let out that check rein. You will
ruin your horses neck, making it stiff,
bumped and scraggy.
The tomato, known in England as
early as 1896, was introduced into the
United States by French exiles from
San Domingo.
The comic side Of farming appears
when those complaining of hard times
leave their reapers and binders out to
take the weather.
The United States imports about $780,
600, 900 worth of fruits and nuts yearly.
Four ifths of this supply could be rails
ed in this country.
Grit is an important factor in uc-
cessful poultry keeping. The keeper
requires it in his character, and the
fowls must have it in their craws.
Roasts that should be juicy come to
the table as dry as %pasteboard because
the oven was not hot enough at first to
instantly harden the outer surface and
prevent the escape of its juices.
A COW should never be allowed to
skip q milking. The retention of a
large quantity of milk in the udder
tends to inflame and injure it, and de-
creases the quantity of milk given.
In a bad case of scalding pour cold
water over the clothing to cool it.
Then remove it as gently and quickly
as possible. Mix sweet oil and lime
water and pour over the injured parts.
Hard wood ashes furnishes potash in
the best form muriate of potash Is the
cheapest form. Potash is needed by
all small fruit plants, and especially
sandy soils and soils filled with vege-
table matter.
Scientific men now declare that eat
ing before sleeping is of great benefit,
and that a bowl of bread and milk, or a
saucer of oatmeal before retiring will
in q short time result in an increase in
weight, strength and general tone.
One Of the best arguments in favor
of a good fruit supply for the farmer is
that it will contribute largely to the
health of the family. 1t makes Just
the needed addition to the hearty and
heavy food that is usually found on our
tables.
"Whack away with your old milking
stools against my sides" said the COW
to her cruel and thoughtless owner, lit
is you who will have to pay for letting
your angry passions rise because for
every blow you give me l will take
from your profits by holding back the
richest part of my milk"
. Fruit on the farm always helps its
selling value, even if the trees are not
yet old enough to produce. The prom.
Use of the fruit is there, and the buyer
will always take it into account. But
perhaps you don t propose to sell. Then
plant for yourself. Is not the thing
that is all value to another at least OF
equal value to your
Cutting or husking corr before it is
fairly mature causes loss. However,
letting the corn stand until fully ma
ture may result in even greater loss,
either from storms, or from the greater
cost of late harvesting, OF from both
causes combined. Probably the great
est food value per acre is secured, if
either the grain or the stalks are to be
fed early in the season, by planting
early maturing varieties, even though
the yield be less.
Bushel boxes and plenty of them are
an absolute necessity on any farm
where fruits or vegetables are largely
grown. They are cheaper than baskets
and don't wear out SO soon. They are
handler, because you can set them
right in the wagon, piled two or three
tiers high. They are just the thing to
go to market with, and are excellent
for storing and sorting in the cellar.
If you have not & good supply, this is
the time to make them then they will
be ready for carrying the seed potatoes
out to the field in the spring.
Much partly exhausted land is far
richer than is commonly supposed.
What it has lost is the humus or vege-
table matter that by decomposing furn
ishes heat and helps make mineral fer
ti!ity available. In all heavy soils es-
peciallv there are stores of plant food
that the roots cannot get at unless they
have the apparent stimulous of n little
heterogeneous fertilizer to set them loose.
This explains why light dressings of
compOsted manure or of commercial
fertilizers often produce astounding re-
suits. Their fertility is at once avail
able. They give the plants a start, and
C started they are able to find all
they need.
HARVESTING POTATOES.
The harvesting of the potato crop
should not be undertaken until growth
has entirely ceased. The general date
at which early or late varieties are
ready for digging is pretty well known,