Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-04-21
HERE AND THERE.

More corn and hogs and less cot
ton will bring prosperity more speedi-
ly and certainly than the election of
any man, or set of men, to Office. Poll
tics may justly claim some of our time,
but studied, steady constant effort to
make living at home is the thing most
to be desired just now.-Terrell (Tex.)
Register.
1t is not alone to kill weeds that
we scratch old mother earth with steel
fingers. Bless the weeds anyway! for
to them above all else we owe our
knowledge of the value of cultivation.
If there were no weeds most people
would quit cultivating.
1t is gratifying to note the indica-
tions of returning reason on the part of
southern farmers. News from every
part of the cotton belt reports de-
creased acreage in cotton. This, of
course indicates an increased produc-
ton of more profitable crops-Texas
Farm and Ranch.
When the young pigs begin to eat
they should be encourage all that is
possible, by preparing small door, or
gateway, from the pen or yard, where
suitable food may be placed in a small
trough, and increased until they will
receive their whole support from that
source, when the mothers may be dried
off gradually and removed entirely
Wisconsin Farmer.
AS long as the world remains pretty
much as it is there will be a large num-
Der of men so utterly incompetent that
they can not live by any other means
than by farming. This will keep the
general average of agricultural success
below par, but shows that farming is
the eaf'cst way known among men by
which an honest living may be had.
Texas Farm and Ranch.
Discussions are often heard as to
whether roots or leaves push first in
spring. Roots do, as may be seen in
the case of seedlings, the roots of
which are often many inches long be-
fore the tops start Bulbs in glasses
are also good examples. The roots
will have most filled the glass before
the top shows. 1t is of much use in
gardening for one to understand this.
Rural World.
This time it is Texas that is in
trouble with the vivacious little En-
glish sparrow, the Red river farmers
complaining that the birds eat the oats
faster than the said farmers can sow
them. And yet there seems no neces-
sity for despair. Make sparrow pie a
fashionable article of diet; then turn
the small boy loose, and the sparrow
must in no great while disappear as
completely as the buffalo has disap-
peared.
Few farmers have SO many as forty
pigs, and a spraying apparatus with
which to apply kerosene emulsion, but
all can cheaply overcome lice on the
animals by simply using any soft grease,
as lard, etc, rubbing the same over the
backs and around the ears. No other
ingredient is needed. A nelghbor, a few
days since, used ashes, unleached, and
then applied water, which, indeed, killed
the lice, but also removed the bristles
and some of the hide.-A Farmer.
There is more interest manifested
by farmers at the present time in d.
versified farming than ever before 1t
is generally recognized as certain that
the cotton acreage must be cut down,
or bankruptcy will follow, and that
there is but one sensible way to do it,
and that is to engage in the production
of such diversity of crops and stock
as to make large cotton crop out Of
the question. This is all right II ad-
hered to, and will tell in increase
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