Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-06-09
THE HOME AND FARM,

~ iiuie uusI De CarIe1ully tnlnned II
hne specimens are desirable.
Spare no pains to get your horse in
attractive form when you want to sell
him. You are thus more apt to catch
a buyer, and also to receive a better
price for him.
No animal should be compelled to
drink water that is unfit for human
being, and especially the cow which
gives milk, as she simply hands to her
owner that which he gives her in the
shape of raw material" from which to
manufacture milk.
On the smooth surface of a macadam
road one horse will haul twice the load
that the same horse could on the best
dirt road, and from five to ten times as
much as can be hauled by a single
horse when the dirt roads are covered
with soft mud and ruts.
Beans ought to prove a profitable
crop. If the soil is run down in fertil-
ity, half ton of a good supelphosphate
would be needed to give a good crop,
o%ne-fourth in drill and the rest broad
cast. Less may answer, according to
condition of sOil.-Maine Farmer.
To tighten tires on a wagon wheel
without cutting or shrinking, take a
good stout lever and fulcrum a little
shorter than the spokes, place the full
crum on the hub of the wheel and
with the lever force the felloe against
the tire and place a leather washer
around the exposed tenon of the spoke,
revOlve the wheel and raise the felloe.
In like manner at another spoke put on
u leather washer as before keep this
up until no more washers can be put
on, then oil with linseed oil and the
tire will be as secure as if set by the
blacksmith.
SOM FARM BUILDINGS.
Farm buildings receive little atten-
ton in the West. Yet everyone knows
how much they add to the beauty and
comfort of a farm. Until recently the
high price of lumber had much to do
with this apparent neglect but build
1ngs can be built cheaper now, and a
farmer can not afford to do without
barns and cribs, besides sheds and 9TH
er buildings. A pretty, ornamental
building is the chicken and bee house
combined. 1t should be square with a
peaked roof, the caves jutting over the
edge of the upper part, and nicely fin
ished and painted. 1t should be two
stories high, the upper story filled with
hives. The lower story or chicken
house divided by a partition. 1t must
be high enough for a person to stand
erect in. The roosts and nests in one
part, the former low, and the nests in
rows against the wall. The other part
is for young chickens.
Few farmers have a place for every
thing and everything in its place, but
an acquaintance has an implement
house which has more than paid for it.
self in the saving to machinery since
its erection. 1t is a long, low shed ON
one side of the barn. In it are stored
the buggy, carriage, wagon and farm
implements. In autumn, before the
rains and winter SHOWS set in, the tools
are gathered up and put there.
Corn shelter, tanning mill and other
machinery already in are pushed aside
to make room for reaper, mower, hay
gatherer, %cultivatOrs, plows, rakes, ETC..
together with the chest of tools. All
the various tools, even to hand rakes
and hoes, picks and shovels, are stored
away in the tool house. The owner
knows just where to find his ak and
saw. There are no dollars lying loose
over his fields r%otting in rain and sun.
But while the farmer plans buildings
to save himself toll and money he
should remember the needs of his wife.
1 recall one convenient house, at the
back of which was a long, low room
containing the cistern and a furnace,
on which was a large iron kettle for
heating water and a large copper one
In which to boil clothes. On one side
was a platform ON which were tubs
w%ringers, washing machine and a sink
with pipes to carry away the water.
Around the other side were piles of
wood, kindling and a bin of coal. This
wash house was connected with the
kitchen, in which was the pump over
the well.
A building which few fancy they can
afford, but which adds much to the
beauty and value of the place and costs
but little, is a small greenhouse. If
one is anything of a workman he can
build it himself. A friend has a green
house which cost her only the price of
the glass and frames. She not only
fills every nook of her home with flow
ers, but sells many plants and flowers,
and also has a hotbed for sweet potato,
tomato and cabbage plants for early
market. -Orange Judd Farmer.
From Friend to Friend
Goes the story of the excellence of
Hoods Sarsaparilla and what it has
accomplished, and this is the strongest
ADVERTISING which ia done ON hahalf Of