Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-07
THE HOME AND FARM.
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your horse more comfortable during the
heated term.
The swamp rose mallow is a tall,
thrifty plant, desirable for a moist,
sunny place.
Lilies require but little care; the
principal thing is to forbear disturbing
them too often.
One colony of bees, if a success, will
gather honey enough to furnish much
sweetness to the family.
Prick potatoes before baking so that
the air can escape; this will prevent
their bursting in the oven.
Oats and timothy are the proper food
for the working teams. Corn is too
heating and clover too loosening for
use in hot weather.
Leave no old brush piles or rotting
logs in the orchard, or anywhere about
the farm. They only afford a harbor
and breeding place for vermin.
Rubbing butter with the ladle de.
stroys the grain and makes it greasy.
Press as much as you will, but don't
rub, and don't touchit with..the hands.
Clean up the windfalls in the orchard
every day, and prevent the spread of
the codling moth pest. Sheep or pigs
will do this if you give them a chance.
BE careful in feeding young pigs
with slop as there is danger in produce
ing acidity in the stomach followed bv
scours. Give them shelled corn to
crack.
Inc time to store eggs in salt for fall
and winter is at hand. If you can buy
them at ten ortwelve cents, lay in some
hundred dozen, and double your money
later on.
When your cherries are ripe, give
your fowls a liberal supply daily. 1t
VIII do them good; they relish fruit of
all kinds, and it is a change from their
regular diet.
A cross of White Leghorn with a
White Wyandotte produces an excel
lent fowl for market, and as egg pro-
ducers cross bred fowls are good enough
for certain markets.
The prices that are now being paid
Tor fine apples, kept in cold storage
through the winter, should open the
eyes of some orchardists to the possible
profit in their business
Onions are improved by soaking in
warm salt water an hour or so before
cooking, as this removes some of the
rank flavor. They cook tender much
quicker, If sliced in rings instead of
splitting. If they are peeled and sliced
with hands under water, some idle
tears" may be avoided.
A. R.: Eggs may be kept for a few
months in lime water, which is the best
method OF preserving them. The lime
Is slaked and the clear water is poured
INTO a suitable vessel. The eggs are
carefully submerged in the lime water
until the vessel is filled, when q cloth
is placed over the top and covered with
the soft lime, which is always covered
with water. Brine will preserve eggs,
buti 1t hardens the yolk and spoils the
usefulness of the eggs.
NATURAL HOG FODDER.
The natural food for hogs in the wild
state is grass, the masts of the forest,
roots and bulbs of plants. The neces-
sity for this character of food is well
recognized by nature in providing the
hog with a rooter for the purpose of OBJ
tanning it. Even after generations of
domestication, with an ample supply
OF sustenance to satisfy all demands,
this proclivity or desire to root. indie
pendent of necessity, remains as per
manent characteristic. Farmers who
nave practiced from this pointer and
during the winter months have a tstated
intervals of at least twice a week given
n feed of potatoes, beets, artichokes
or turnips, have found that the hogs
not only relish them but derive great
benefit from them. They are conduc-
i've to a perfect condition of the svs-
TEN, stimulating the action of the vari-
Gus organs in the performance of their
functions. They aid in digestion and
assimilation of the more solid food.
Brood sows are especially benefited by
a liberal supply of root diet while preg-
nant, as well as their young. Indeed
isalmostcompulsor to insure strong,
healthy pigs and a natural farrow.-N.
Y. Herald.
PEAS AND e MEAL FOR COWS.
Pea meal is an excellent feed for
mich cows, pigs, and calves, but being
much richer than ordinary bran and
shorts, or m%iddlings, it must be fed
with caution at first OF until the cow
OF other animal becomes accustomed
TO 1t. The best way to use peas for
COWS is to grind about equal parts of
oats, peas, and corn. Barley may be
substituted for the oats or corn, OF if
the peas are ground separate add two
bushels of bran or middlings to each
bushel of the pea meal, and mix thor
oughly. The peas should be ground as
soon as they are dry enough in early
fall or winter, in order to destroy the
prnhs of tho non woaul u,binh me