Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-07-21
THE HOME AND FARM.


grind any kind of food eaten. tits not
strictly necessary to grind their food
for them.
The farmer that can not make hand
some profit with poultry when he has
good stock and gives them good care is
an exception.
To prevent mold on top of jelly pour
a little melted parrfine over the top.
This when cool will harden into a thin,
solid cake, which can be lifted out when
the jelly is used, and may be saved for
the same purpose next year.
The census says that we have $4,000
900 horses in this country, and that
they are worth upon an average $67
each. BY judicious breeding their value
could be doubled in a few years, and
our national wealth thus increased
nearly 5 1000 OO, 900.
Fat is not desirable in any kind of
stock intended for breeding. A fat SOW
will either fail to produce pigs or will
produce them of delicate constitution,
as we'll as small and weak at birth.
The same rule applies to maree, cows
and ewes. Hens that are overfed and
made very fat do not lay regularly,
and eggs from such hens, when used
for Matching purposes, often fail to
hatch.
There can be no doubt but there are
a variety of conditions that may affect
the quality of potatoes. The soil, eli
matte conditions, and the fertilizers EN-
ployed, may cause the quality to be very
much affected. The higher the degree
of moisture and the lower the quantity
of starch, the poorer are the potatoes
for table use. Results in practice have
shown that where nitrate of soda and
dissolved bone black have been used as
q fertilizer, the quantity of moisture
has been reduced and the quantity of
starch increased. This point should be
borne in mind in ~fertilizing potatoes.
Looks have 20 much to do in the sale
of apples as we'll as other fruits that,
other things being equal, it is always
better to take an apple that mas a rosy
or striped skin than a plain one. The
English market especially demands well
matured and highly colored apples.
The Baldwin apple for this reason com
mands good prices the year round. In
an orchard of apple trees two Baldwin
trees should be planted to one of any
other kind. In the west Ben Davis ap-
pie corresponds to the Baldwin, and it
always sells we'll. Its good looks often
makes it sell for "a a barrel, when finely
sorted, and the poor ones bring from
90 cents to SO.
TOO MANY ACRES.
1t seems to us that too many in the
south and west fail to appreciate the
value of q few acres we'll titled. In fact,
some in the south have but a few acres
and then neglect to till them we'll. If
a man has a fertile farm and under
takes to cultivate a large number of
acres, he will finally exhaust its fertili.
ty. Where a man is trying to cultivate
more land than he a manage, he fails
nearly every time to return any fertility
to the soil. He can not successfully
maintain the fertility of the large mum.
bers of acres.
There are millions of acres of run
down land in the south and west that
might be restored by a judicious cult.
walton of a small farm. TWAS exhaust.
ed by continual cropping without rota.
ton. and by trying to cultivate exten.
sively when it should have been done
on the intensive plan-that is, fewer
acres.
OF course in some parts Of the south
and west extensive farming will be car.
ried on for years yet. The soil will
finally run down and intensive farming
will be done. The necessity of intensive
farming seems to become apparent to
the majority of farmers only when in.
creased population demands it. They
fail to see the value of intensive farm.
ing.
We q look about us in our own
neighborhood and see that the intensive
farmer is the n who has made the
money. Men running large farms have,
too, made money, but in the majority
Of cases the intensive ones have made
more money than the extensive ones
ave.-Addison d. Smith, in Farm,
Field and Stockman.
SUCCESS IN FARMING.
A comparison of the official figures
of the census on the production of &C.
reals In some of the States situated in
different sections presents most striking
evidence Of the superiority of industry
and intelligence v Q natural advan-
tages in the fundamental and all i'm
portant industry of agriculture. In the
average yield Of wheat and corn the
rugged States Of New England make a
better showing than Kansas and Iowa,
two Of the banner farming States of
the rich and easily titled Mississippi
Valley. In corn raising four of the
New England States report a higher
average yield than Kansas, and one of
them, New Hampshire, leads Iowa.
The average of New Hampshire is a