Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-10-13
THE HOME AND FARM,

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which bear fruit freely about the size
OF currants.
The careless farmer lets the fowls
roost on the wagons and carriages in
the shed rather than supply his feath-
cred tribe with suitable houses.
There is only one way to run a dairy
successfully, and that is to make a bust
ness of it. The farm must be an adj
junct to the dairy, not the dairy to the
farm.
One quart of salt applied around a
ounce tree in the spring and fall pro
notes the growth of the tree and in.
creases the size and fairness Of the
fruit.
Do not plant a large number of va.
rieties if you desire to realize money
from an orchard. A commercial or.
chard must be made up mainly of win
ter apples.
Don't market dirty eggs. 1t takes
but little time to wash those that may
have become soiled, and when cleaned
they look so much better and will sell
much readily.
The short, broad head in pigs indi-
Gates more intelligence, larger brain
and nerve force, and a quieter DISPOSE
ton than a long narrow head it also
means a better feeder.
Keep on milking that young COW as
long as you can, this first season, and
you will do much toward fixing the
milking habit, which must be done in
order to make her profitable.
The gooseberry may be plebian, but
1t is one of the most profitable small
fruits that can be grown. 1t is easily
cultivated, very productive, ships we'll,
can be kept for some time, and is in
fair demand at good prices.
The disposition of the best pig must
be of that quiet, docile tendency which
will not urge it 10 run too much and
thus work off the feed in extra exer.
ton, and yet have sufficient activity to
be productive or an aid to good health.
The Hessian fly gives two broods
each year, one in the fall and one in
the spring. After it is on the wheat no
effective remedy a be applied. Burn.
ing the stubble, rotation of crops and
sowing early plats as bait are the best
preventive measures.
An exchange advises against pruning
trees in the fall, because some of the
branches may winter kill, and thus
make 1t necessary to do the work again
in the spring. But we believe if the
pruning and heading in is properly
done in the fall that those tender limbs
or extremities that would be liable to
winter kill will all be taken off, and
the tree will be ready to start at once
in the spring to make a new and vigor.
Ous growth.
We have heard q farmer who thinks
that when he goes to the village or city
he has as good a rights as any other man
to drive a good horse, attached by a
nice harness to a neat carriage, to wear
good clothing, and to take his wife and
children with him if they desire to 60.
But then he is one of the '1ucky" ones,
who usually has good crops, and by
fussing over them a little gets good
prices, and it may be that it makes him
rather conceited.
The time of year has come when the
cows should be stabbed at night to pro-
tect against wet or cold weather, as in
summer they should be stabbed in the
day time to protect from flies. ANY
one who thinks that a COW does not
suffer from exposure to a cold rain in
October, may try it himself, sleeping
in wet clothes, as many a COW has to do.
After he has tried it once it is safe to
say that his COWS will be thereafter
stabbed in bad weather.
As to the common belief that pump
kin seed are injurious to cows, there is
no certain knowledge of any harm
ever happening to any animal to which
they have been fed. On the contrary.
the seeds and the attachments of them
to the flesh have been given to cows
without any apparentevil results. The
quantity is 30 small that the effect can
hardly be injurious, although the seeds
might have some medicinal quality.
On the contrary, the experience of
many farmers who have fed them con-
stantly for years, is corroborative of
the scientific belief that they are safe
and productive of milk that is rich in
butter, and gives a good color to the
butter.
TRANSMITTING TREES,
In regard to the best time for trans
planting trees opinion seems not all
uniform as between fall and spring.
According, however, to such high au-
thority as Mr.. Saunders, of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, fall planting is
preferable to spring planting, because
the conditions Of soil and climate are
then more favorable. In the fall there
is a period when the soil averages sew.
eral degrees warmer than the atmos.
phere. In the case Of newly removed
trees planted in this kind of natural
hotbed, the heated soil encourages the