Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-17
THE HOME AND FARM.

There would be more vegetarians if
there were more cooks who knew how
to prepare vegetable foods.
Cockroaches shun turpentine, 80 a
few drops sprinkled in their congregat-
ing places will scatter them.
There is a report to the effect that
the increasing practice of spraying
fruit trees is thinning out the sparrows.
In feeding hogs remember that they
should be disposed of as o o as they
are fat. Keeping them a day beyond
that is a loss.
The shrewd farmers, who always
have a bit of money on hand with
which to buy any good place which is
to be sold under mortgage, are the
corn raisers."
The new Princess strawberry, which
originated in Minnesota, was named by
the horticultural Society of that State;
it at the same time took first prize over
fifteen new seedlings.
Is it good economy for the farmer to
sell his old fowls at 10 cents a pound
and then go to market and pay twice
as much for a bony piece of tough
beefp Yet that is what some of them
do.
Rotation of crops assists in prevent
ing insects. Rotation also prevents
loss of fertility of the soil to a certain
extent. Potatoes should not succeed
potatoes, and the rule holds good with
many other crops.
An experienced peach grower says:
Don't force a too rapid growth while
young, as it tends to produce a tree
subject to early decay. Apply no fer
tilizer upon the peach orchard in good
soil until the bearing period"
'There is no loss without some gain"
says the old proverb. Scientists tell
us that a season of drought brings to
the surface some of the elements of
plant food that have been buried SO low
that the roots of many plants could not
find them, and thus makes them avail
able for the next years crop.
If you are breeding sheep do the
culling for the butcher yourself. Never
let him do it, for he will take your best
ones Keep the best eve lambs in all
cases to breed from. By and by you
will get so fine a flock that there will
be no culls. The rule in live stock is,
breed only from the best.
If there be anything in climate or
other | cal popularity that prevents a
plant from making its best possible
development, it is well to change seed
every few years. This is the fact with
regard to most small grains, oats, barley
and spring wheat, each of which is
injured by our hot, dry summers. But
with corn a better result each year may
be secured by always carefully select
ing from the homegrown stock. In
this way careful farmers a v their seed
corn, and it is worth five times the
price of seed corn brought from a dis
lance and less carefully handled.
A Texas correspondent in Insect Life
gives the following as a successful plan
for keeping weevils out of corn: "In
putting up his corn in the fall he placed
two open bottles containing bisulphide
of carbon about four feet apart on the
floor of the bin. The mouths of the
bottles were covered with a single
layer of cheese cloth, and each bottle
was covered with an old broken box.
The bin was then filled with corn to its
utmost capacity, and the result of the
experiment was highly successful.
What live weevils were admitted from
the field were destroyed and none
further appeared. 1t is also claimed
to have kept mice and rats out of the
bin"
If you desire to have your young
trees do well and prevent them from
becoming %hidebound and messy and
promote their health and growth, an
excellent plan is to take a pail with
soft soap in it, have a mitten made of
some old stocking legs and apply the
soap to the trunks and limbs, rubbing
them well until the soap fathers. This
cleanses the bark of all moss, destroys
worms and the eggs of insects and the
soap becomes dissolved by the rain
and descends to the roots, causing the
tree to grow rapidly. Any farmland
a attend to several trees in a few
hours. Several years ago we applied
soft soap to some damson plum trees
that were terribly moss grown, and in
a short time the moss was all gone and
the trees were perfectly clean.-Farm
Life.
No tillable land is ready to go
through the rigors of a winter until it's
covering is clean, free from patches,
and clear Of vermin. We cannot say
too much on this subject, because it is
OF vital Importance. Rubbish of all
kinds is but a harbor for vermin.
Chinch bugs, white grubs, wire worms,
all have their several habits, but they
have one in common-they harbor I'M
der rubbish. Now, If you want the
~delectable satisfaction of sleeping
sound this winter, free from all fear of
insects, mildew or fungus next season,
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