Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-12-22
THE HOME AND FARM,
Keep that stable door shut this win

iaily Is NAH u mllllon strong and will
ing servant girls to do house work.
1t takes more religion to hold a man
level in a horse trade than it does to
make him shout at a camp meeting.
Isn't the farmer who keeps scrub
stock a sort of a scrub farmer? Costs
just as much to feed that kind as to
feed the best.
Every farmer should manag to have
q fresh COW to begin the winter with.
One good fresh COW is worth more than
two ordinary cows.
The little breed of hogs are good as
far as they go. The question is do they
90 far enough in these hustling times.
They are suited best for fancy farmers.
Let us erect a barrier against the i'm
migrant that can not produce a clean
bill of health and morals. We have
had too much letting down of bars.
Decent immigrants OF none.
1t is a great loss to feed dry COWS all
through the winter on hay and grain,
merely to carry them through that sea-
son for the sake of making $50 or $50
per head during the summer.
We say once more, Don't Plow the
Orchard Deeply-every word with a
capital letter. Plow shallow. Pillow
hrst away from the row, and afterward
plow back again. But pillow shallow
every time.
A writer in the Southern Live Stock
journal claims that buttermilk, given
IN quart doses fifteen minutes apart, is
cure for collie, bots, etc., in horses.
de puts his horses at work soon after
the second dose.
Bear in mind that unless you have
not thtnned out the branches of your
- apple trees you ought to do it. And
another thing, if your apple trees are
large and only twenty feet apart you
should cut down every other tree.
The experiment station of Pennsyl-
Vanla says that the Concord grape is
the best all round grape for that State,
but recommends Moore's Early as an
early grape. Others recommend it be-
cause every grape in the bunch ripens,
which is not the case with many of our
best grapes.
The value of farm lands has increas-
ed from S6,645, 000, 900 in 1860 to S1S.
loi ,OOO, 600 IN 1890, or nearly doubled.
The value of farming implements is
i23 per cent more than it was 30 years
ago, the value of live stock is 1879 per
cent more, and the value of farm pro-
ducts Is 154 per cent more.
A breeding sow that will have pigs,
III the spring is a much better invest
ment than two shoats. A small SOW
can be wintered on the same food it
would require to keep a pig up to the
time her pigs are born. 1t never paws
TO winter late pigs where grain must
De Ted. 1t is better to make roasters
out of them.
If salaries of officials were not so
large taxes would not be SO high, can.
didates would not spend so much mon.
ey in ways that are demoralizing. to
say the least, and we would probably
have more honest men in office. Sala.
ries of public officials were fixed when
farm products brought almost twice as
much as now, and should be reduced
10 correspond with the decline in farm
products.
THE NORTHERN spy APPLE.
No kind of apple varies SO much in
quality as does the Northern Spy. II
has required more thorough manurinp
and more care in pruning than other
varieties. Because it is naturally an
exceedingly thrifty growing variety it
is generally believed that it succeeds
best in poor soil. But the Spy thus
grown is not of the best quality. 1t
blossoms too freely, sets too much ffuit
and unless the inside of-the tree has
been pruned most of this will be shaded
and never well colored.
For regrafting old orchards, saw the
American C%ultivator, there is no va
riety better than the Northern Spy. 1t
comes into bearing quickly under such
conditions, and bears large, well col
ored FRUIT OF the best variety. Such
trees however have the habit of hear.
ing a very full crop of fruit one year
and a light one the next. Probably
THIS might be remedied by thinning
the heavy crop.
ASHES IN WINTER.
AT the Rhode Island experiment sta
uon q portion of an old sheep pasture
was plowed and seeded with a mixture
OF timothy and redtop in 1890. In the
ioiiowing winter and spring it was fer
ulized with Canada ashes for the pur-
pose OF making a comparison between
winter and spring applications of ashes
10 newly seeded meadows, and to de-
termine whether or not any loss results
from washing while the ground is froz-
en- The soil is a light sandy loan and
the ashes were hauled directly from
the car and spread from the cart upon
the held when the ground was frozen
and covered with four inches. of snow.
The field is very level and two plots
OF n fifth acre each were selected and