Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-10-27
THE HOME AND FARM
Na~turalists say that a single swallow

Naturalists say that a single swallow
will devour 5000 flies in a day.
Spread gas tar around the mice holes
and you will have no further use for
cats or traps.
To prevent colored stockings from
fading put a tablespoonful of black
pepper into the water in which they are
rinsed.
When shipping dressed fowls be sure
all the animal heat is driven from the
carcass before they are packed.
If care is taken to provide the right
kind of ration, so that the pigs will not
get too fat, it will be impossible to push
the hogs too fast.
More money can be gotten out of
cheap wheat by feeding it to hens than
by any other manner of disposing of it
that we are aware of.
A cold rain in the fall may injure a
sheep to such an extent that it will
never fully recove from the effects.
Commence sheltering in good season.
A really fine saddle horse is hard to
find, and such are constantly coming
into greater demand. There is oppor-
tunity for breeders to develop a paying
speciality i'll this line.
Nearly all farmers are now satisfied
that o heifer we'll fed and allowed to
drop her first Gals when two years old,
or II little less, will make u better milk
er than if not bred until later.
The temperature of the well at
Wheeling, w. Va, which was 10 de-
grees at a depth of $500 feet, is said to
have increased to 1903 degrees at 1900
feet, and III degrees at 5,400 feet.
Quite a number of dairy farmers in
the United States are trying the expert
ment of feeding the skim milk, when
sweet, to the cows, and without excep-
ton, SO far as we have heard, they are
greatly pleased with the result.
There is nothing which solves the
problem of keeping the boys on the
farm quicker than to give them ONE
thing that will interest and please them.
In this direction there is nothing which
a boy will take more interest and find
more pleasure in than a good riding
and driving horse.
The dairyman who raises his own
heifer calves has two advantages. He
can have them all nearly alike if he
gets a good bull and keeps him, or if
he sticks to the n breed, so that he
can breed for a specific purpose, and he
can by proper handling, be sure that
they are gentle in the barn and quiet in
the pasture.
Those who have decided to give stock
good feed and good care this winter
should look them over now and see
how many there are that will not be
likely to pay for it. Almost every
yard has some scallawag in it that
out to be culled out. Good stock de-
serves good care, and good care de-
serves good stock, too.
1t would pay any farmers son who
contemplates entering upon farming
and breeding, to travel about the coun-
try for two or three months with a cat
tie buyer-one buying for shipment to
a first class market, Object lessons
are ore convincing than any others,
and the novice would secure plenty of
food for thought before the end of the
first month, and if an apt student, he
would have shed the scales from his
eyes by the end of the third month,
having q useful store of knowledge in
stead.
A year ago an experiment was tried
at the Rhode Island Agricultural Sta
ton comparing broadcast and drill
seeding. The same was repeated this
year, dividing every plot, sowing the
north half broadcast and the south
with an Empire grain drill, using the
same amount Of seed in each case. The
broadcast oats came up first and gave
a little better appearance all through
the growing season, but at harvest
showed an increase I'VE the drilled
oats of only thirty seven pounds per
acre.
1t often happens that a flock of COM
mon hens belonging to some neighbor
lays more eggs than a we'll bred flock
that has been carefully fed and provid-
ed for. The fact is that in a majority
of cases the pure bred flock has been
too we'll treated. 1t is q mistake to sup
pose that common hens that are in the
barnyards have no advantages. The
waste grain and the pickings from the
droppings of cattle, as we'll as the con-
slant and vigorous work on the manure
heap, not only permit them to secure a
goodly supply of food, but the compul-
sorry method demands exercise. If pure
bred fowls were in the same circum
stances they would lay more eggs than
common hens. 1t is the pampering of
pure bred hens that auses them to fail
when they should be laying, and which
also causes lack of fertility of the eggs.
New Hampshire Farmer.
FALL FLOWING.
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