Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-03
THE HOME AND FARM,

under the pear trees with benefit.
When through with a crop in the
garden put what is left under ground.
Clover loosens up the soil by penetrat-
ing it, and when it decays helps the
soil mechanically.
Corn is one of the best crops to grow
in an orchard, potatoes come next and
beans are probably next.
Because sou food or injured grain
a be bought cheaply it is no reason
why it should be fed to poultry.
1t is a well known fact that unfertil-
lied eggs, that is eggs laid by hens not
kept with roosters, will keep longer
than fertilized ones.
The Muscovy duck seems to be the
favority in the South. Their popular
ity is due to the fact hat they are bet
ter suited to the warm climate.
Those poultry raisers who live neal
a city can sell the poultry droppings
generally to florists. We have in mind
several poultrymen who do this.
1t is a great mistake to crowd too
many chickens in one coop when ship
ping. The evil effect is obvious. Farm
ers should be careful and not over
crowd a coop.
If you want to go into fruit culture
do not take the trouble to 60 to a fruit
country. Start right where you are
with fruits suited to your climate, and
you will develop a good enough fruit
country as you go along.
Good feeding will do much to in
crease the size of eggs; according to
one theory this is why eggs from yards
where only few fowl are kept are often
larger and richer than those of regular
market eggs.
Brothers are killed by cutting in the
roof of the mouth. As soon as cut,
while the body is yet warm, the pickers
start their work, and before the chick
en- is cold it is dry picked, and then in
a salt water bath. In this way thou
sands of chickens are killed and dress
ed for the market, in the same time it
would take to prepare one hundred the
old way.
Eggs should never be actually boiled
as the excessively high temperature of
the water hardens and toughens the
whites at once and makes them indi-
gestible. An egg cooked below the
boiling point will be tender and easily
digested. A good rule to cook eggs by
for invalids is to pour boiling water
into a tin pail having a tight cover, put
the eggs in the pail carefully, cover
tightly, and let it stand away from the
fire for five minutes. The whites of
eggs cooked in this tanner will be per-
fectly coagulated, soft, tender and
easily assimilated.
An excellent cheap paint for a fence
or outbuilding may be made as follows:
Use two quarts of skim milk, eight
ounces of fresh lime, six ounces of lin
seed oil, two ounces of Burgundy pitch
and three pounds of Spanish white.
Stake the lime in water and add one
fourth of the milk. Dissolve the pitch
in the oil by heating, and add a little
at a time to the lime. Then add the
Spanish white and the rest of the milk.
This makes an insoluble paint that will
not be washed off by the rain, and may
be colored any desired shade by adding
any mineral color, as umber, sienna or
chrome yellows, to make a stone brown.
1t is best applied warm.-N. Y. Times.
Straw, corn stalks, refuse from the
cane mill Or leaves from the woods will
answer to cover the strawberry bed to
protect it from injury by repeated freez-
ing and thawing, but in using leaves,
brush, or something of the kind, must
be put on the top to prevent blowing
away. The covering need not be done
until the winter fairly sets in, and care
should be taken not to put on too much.
OF course if no attention has been paid
to the bed, the growth of weeds will be
covering enough but this is the least
profitable way of raising strawberries.
1t should be said, however, that quite
a number think this is better than not
to raise any at all.-Western Rural.
1.-THE COW is a born thief" said
Thomas Grimshaw to a party of COM
mercial pilgrims who were discussing
zoology. "She will leave a square
meal gotten up for her by an imported
chef, to wear her tongue thin as a pc.
litical platform trying to coax a wisp
of rotten straw through a crack in a
neighbours barn. She relishes nothing
30 much as what she steals. She has a
long head, and could give many of our
military heroes points on strategy.
Any COW that has paid any attention to
her education a open a garden gate
that fastens with a bank vault lock,
get inside and do fifty dollars worth of
damage before the infuriated owner
a remember that the shotgun is not
loaded. The COW is a calf, if our city
butchers are to be believed, until there
is no more room on her horns for rings.
When she is too old to give two quarts
of milk per diem and then kick it all
over the dewy Tipped milkmaid, the