Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-10-20
THE HOME AND FARM,
Mans three enemies are dirt, debt

Mans three enemies are dirt, debt
and the devil.
Never butter your pie pans, but sift
them lightly with flour.
To scou knives easily, mix a small
quantity of baking soda with the brick
dust.
The plainest food, like potatoes, veg
etables and cereals, are the. most fat
tening.
Apply baking soda instantly to a
burn ; magnesia to a burn from acids.
Both will heal without a scar.
If your butter seems likely to spoil
immense the vessel which contains it in
cold lime water, and keep it there until
the sweetness of the butter is restored.
No other animal can eat 80 many
different kinds of herbs as the sheep,
and this should recommend the sheep
to the farmer whose pasture is overrun
with weeds.
To test a ham, stick a sharp knife
under the bone ; If it comes out clean,
with a pleasant smell, the ham is good
but If the knife is daubed and has q
di%sagreable smell, do not buy it.
The great disadvantage of the single
crop system is that one has nothing to
sell except at the time of the one har.
vest. 1t is apt to induce a habit OF
running bills" the rest of the year.
With all that is said about older per-
sons being pushed aside by the rising
generation, there has never been a Pc
riod when middle aged women have
held more important positions in social
and in a more certain sense, in public
life than they now enjoy.
' Many a farmer fails because he is
not fitted to superintend hired labor,
and yet will not recognize the fact.
Lots Of men succeed when they find
the work that they and their family can
do well, and fail when they try to hire
men to help dc twice as much.
OF all the manure made on a farm,
hog manure is the best, most powerful,
most lasting and quickest in action. A
patch but moderately covered with it
will last ten years and still be vigorous.
And yet most men waste their hog ma
nure as If it was a damage to them.
There are comparatively few city
people who do not use celery. 1t is a
vegetable that is especially good for
those who have nervous diseases caus
ing loss Of sleep. Possibly for this use
there is less need of it among people in
the country, but all the same it will
prove to their advantage to cultivate a
liking for q vegetable that is generally
popular, and whose cultivation is prof.
liable.
There has been a serious impairment
OF the condition of potatoes. the gene
cal average declining from S8.S on Au-
gust 1, to 4.S for the present return.
This is a better showing than in 1887
and 1890, and slighter better than in
1881, but with these exceptions the Sep.
TENDER condition of the crop was never
before reported as low as 80. A drop
OF IL points in a single month is indie
alive of widespread unfavorable con
ditions.
A farmer who raises large quantities
OF roots was always very successful
with his large heaps Of potatoes by
using a compact foot of straw to cover
them, and only three inches of earth to
hold 1t down. Ventilsting holes at the
top were in part needless on account of
the great mass of straw with its alb
sorbing power. We have known farm
cts whose heaps of potatoes rotted bad
ly at the apex to charge the disaster
entirely to freezing, instead of to the
want of ventilation, the foul air rising
to the top. They increased the thick
ness Of the foot of earth in covering
and only increased the evil instead of
reducing ii.
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