The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-02-05
JOHN MOORE, JR-
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/ consequently be both an insecicide
and a fungicide, aud the spraying
! should begin before the blossoms are
opened, and then repeated four or
five times at not longer intervals
than three weeks. This will carry
the fruit pretty well through the
growing season and past the danger
Of injury from scab The we'll
known Bordeaux mixture is doubt
less the best thing that can be used for
this double purpose, but when ap-
piled so frequently and full of
strength there might be some danger
of iujuring the foliage. The original
formula, which we have given before
in these columns, may be used in
somewhat diluted form and accom-
plish equally good results without
any danger of I'M ury. Not only does
spraying give large crop, but it en-
sures larger and handsOmer fruit,
which will sell for more money.
Many farmers, especially thosa of
the older generations, have a fixed
rule of expectancy upon which they
figure when fattening hogs. This
is, that one bushel of corn will make
10 pounds of pork, and if the busheI of
corn is worth less than they expect to
get for 10 pounds of pork they con-
-Ider that there is no profit in feeding
The only trouble with this rule is that
it does not always work. 1t f1uctu-
ates under the influence of many con-
ditiOns, one of which is the state of
the weather where the feeding is.
A careful experiment has shown that
in severe weather, and the animals
being exposed, it has required as
much as 1l34 pounds Of corn to make
one pound of gain, while in like
weather, and with the same animals,
the only difference being that they
vera sheltered in q warm barn, only
81 pounds were required to produce1
the same result. Thus in one case
the rule just about held good, while
in the other it was so far wrong that
there was no possible profit in the
feeding. This is only one Of the CON-
ditiOns that governs the question of
profit. Others are the age of the
animal and the assimilation of food.
The only way to be on the safe side is
to guard as far as possible against
wrong conditions, and then to meas
ure or weigh the food, and then
weigh the animals at short intervals.
II this were systematically done fewer
hogs would be fed up to heavy
weights, and farmers would soon
learn the importance of feeding off
early, during mild weather.
We can never give too much thought
to the manure question, nor to the
of the ways aud means by
which we may increase the product
i've power of our land. Some of us
bave rather too narrow ideas about |
what constitutes manure. Let us
lake the dictionary and broaden out |
our views. We find it defined there
as any thing that will fertiliZe land"
This is comprehensive, and Includes |
not only the drOppings of animals and |
he green or dry vegetation that has |
been produced from the soil, but end
ess items that we have been inclined
o term as refuse, such as leaf mold,
ods, bones, hOofs, hair, dead animals,
house waste and garbage, etc; yet
he average farmer, as rule, aVails
himself of but one of these items-the |
old droppings of animals, and even
hese are not saved nor used with half
he care that would be possible, and
Consequently fall short of producing
he greatest good. When we consider
the loss is in this way, which
With better methods might he turned
o the profit side of the account, we
ather wonder that there is any profit
t all in farming. Take animal ma
ures alone. The liquids are almost,
not quite, as valuable as the solids,
ct only the feeblest effort is made to
ave them, and the solids arey nine
ines out of ten, thrown into the
arn-yard and exposed to the action
( the elements for half q year,
hereby losing half their original
aiue. 1t is safe to assert that If the
honey now spent upon commercial
srtilizers was devoted to the labor of
laking, gathering aud saving fertf-
zers upon the farm, both our farms
nd our farmers would be better off
The importance OF having our milk
lpply pure and uncontaminRted is
lily recognized, and we to refuse at
nee to use any that we know to be the
When 1t becomes 80 from
aside Influences we can discover &c