The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-29
Brown Hal 2:Iz !
Joe Bowers Jr., 2:l8. !
sF9CK FARM AND GARDEN.


Plant an asparagus bed this spring.
1t will give you larger return Tor
the labor and land employed than
any thing else on the place.
Trim the gOosberry plants with an
open head, so that air aud sunlight
can get right to the center. In this
way you can probably avoid mildew.
Aquicker market aud better prices
are waiting for the good bacon hog
than for the heavy lard hog. Do not
feed for the latter II you are after
profit.
Cracks In the walls do not furnish
the most approved method of ventila-
ting the stables in the winter; in fact.
such ventilation is about as bad as
none at all.
When you make your first venture
In fruit growing do not spread too
much. There are some things to learn
in this business, even for the man
who knows all about it.
II you are feeding a hog for your
own use you will try to give him
clean food and clean quarters. 1t is
only honest to do as we'll for your GUS
tomers-the public in general.
IL tree is not doing well there is
some cause for it. II you have not
enterprise enough to hunt out the
cause and try to remedy it, you do
not deserve to be called a fruit
grower.
There Is nothing like milk to pro-
duce milk. II you have a litter of
young pigs that you wish to force
along rapidly, put all the milk you
eau in the sow's trough, and then
watch them grow.
n1l,a lD0kkav,, 81 kla a. III "a orafS
, wet and heats easily. Then when the
hogs nest there they get Over-heated
aud breed disease. Do not leave them
there at night, even il you do in the
day time.
If you want to go into fruit culture
dot no take the trouble to go TO fruit
country Start right where you are
with fruits suited to your climate,
and you will develop good enough
fruit country as you go along.
Fruit growers who flock together in
one district, thereby producing more
than their nearby markets can use,
do not usually get as good profits as
more isolated growers, who can sell
their whole product at home.
The gooseberry may be plebian, but
It is one of the most profitable small
fruits that can be grown. 1t Is easily
CuAbAN6bCUg very
well, can be kept for some time, and
is in fair demand at good prices.
Tie stock from which our fruit
trees are grown has an important in
fluence upon their health, fruitful
ness and longevity. We must pay
more attention to seed and scion than
we have been doing in the past.
1t is an old axiom that he is farth-
est from market who has nothing to
sell. Less grumbling about poor
markets aud more attention paid to
growing something to sell in them
would help some farmers out inn
mensely.
1t may be an open question whether
IL will pay all farmers to feed cooked
food so their hogs, but there is no
doubt that cooked food will make
more flesh than Uncooked, because a
larger proportion will be digested and
assimilRted.
e Those men who say the curculio is
a benefactor to the fruit grower have
q happy faculty of looking on the
bright side of things. They claim he
prevents reproduction. Individ-
ually we choose over-production as
the lesser evil.
We have been advising you for
some months past to plant trees in
the fall. Now we shall counsel you
TO plant them in the spring. The
reason for this is that the sooner you
do it the better, without regard to the
season, IL you only do 1t we'll.
II there are some bare places in the
meadow or pasture or clover field,
have little seed handy and sprinkle
it there "on the last snow" The
moisture and slight covering that the
snow will give wilt make it almost
suite to terminate, and your fields
will be much improved.
Have you noticed that where
manure Is dropped in the pasture
field the grass grows dark and rank,
but that the cattle do not eat it as
long as there is any thing else? We
presume 1t has too strong q flavor.
It might pay to go over the pasture
occasionally and scatter the drop
pings.
A single article of food may con-
tain all elements necessary to sustain
life and promote growth, yet it does
not follow that it's use would be eco
nomical. 1t may contain some ele- |
ments in excess OF the needs of the |
.animal. That is why we are looking |
nor properly balanced" rations.
6'here are good lnany points about
ITO growing which will yet re-
u good deal OF experimentation
Il hey can be considered IS diff
tied, but there are two or
ks which you may observe
+ aufs faith that they will
Increased yield. Sub