Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-04-28
THE HOME AND FARM.


ments necessary to the maintenance of
health. AS an exchange says, it is not
good economy to use or depend upon
any one material as q food for stock, as
there are few if any, that furnish all
the elements of nutrition in the proper
proportion to secure the best gain at
the lowest cost, and one of the princi-
pal advantages in using a variety that
is a more complete ration can be made
up. Although corn is a cheap feed, es-
pecially in fattening hogs, other mate
rails can be used in connection so as to
secure not only better growth and
thrift, but also a reduction of the cost.
. AT the experiment station at Blacks
burg, Va, there was tested fifteen va
ricties of cabbages last year. The
plants were grown seed started in a hot
bed late in February or early in March,
and transplanted to Il cold frame about
three weeks later, and set in the open
ground as early in April as the ground
was fit to work. Their growth was him
dered by a evere drouth in April and
May, but seven kinds were fit to cut for
cooking on July 2. They should have
been ready nearly four weeks earlier.
OF these seven early kinds, the Wake
field or Early Jersey Wakefield was
pronounced the best, having eight or
ten heads fit for cutting out of twenty
five plants, and being the largest,
weighing two pounds three and a half
ounces; eighty nine plants in a hun
dred formed heads. The Winningstadt
headed ninety nine plants out of a hun
dred, and the average weight was six
pounds two ounces, but was from five
to twelve days later in time of cutting.
The varieties known in the Northern
States as late fall and winter cabbages
were not among those tested. Cauli-
flowers were grown by sowing and set
ting at the same time as the cabbages,
and the best were of the Early Dwarf
Eufurt type, although known as Early
Snowfall, or other names, according to
the fancy of the seedsmen or those who
originated them by selecting the seed.
Chicks like fresh meat, and if you
can get it take the neck part of a beef
and grind it fine, salt and pepper, and
cut up onions in it and give it raw to
your chicks. This last feed is the very
best feed known for young turkeys. If
you have plenty of milk give the little
chicks milk in place of water. Clab-
Der milk and lettuce cut fine, thickened
with shorts and coarse corn meal is the
feed par excellent for young ducks and
geese. Keep your little chicks out of
wet grass and give them all the sun
they want.
The claim that California is the gar
den spot of this country is contested by
Edmund Robinson, of Newberg, Ore
gon, who writes the American Farmer
that finer apples, pears, cherries, plums,
prunes and berries can be raised in Or.
egon than in California, though many
of the residents of Oregon are only be-
ginning to realize it. The farmers OF
Oregon are paying more attention to
horticulture, which promises rich re-
turns. Fine peaches, grapes and apri.
cots can be raised in many parts of the
State.
l would like to say a few words about
the care of the COW. Comfort, Web.
ster says, lis a state of quite enjoy
ment." How many men think of their
cows enjoying comfort 7 l do not think
they do when they confine them in
rigid stanchions, and often where the
wind blows through the cracks, and
the only blanket the COW has is a blan'
ket of frost. l would not put my cow
in rigid stanchions any more than ]
would my W neck when l lay down
at night. The severe competition Of
today may be met by improved meth
DDS of feeding, and this is by no means
impossible, now that ensilage has re
duced the cost of keeping to one half
WHAT GOOD ROADS WOULD MEAN.
The following article is by an un
known author but is worthy of reprint
ing; What would good stone roads al
the year round mean to the American
farmer? The answer to this question
is not necessarily a sp eculative one
Good roads are to be found in Europ,
and in certain localities in this countr,
and Canada. 1t is not to be questioned
that the effect on the American farme
as a rule would be about the same as j
has been in the favored localities, an(
Judging from the experience of thos,
communities which have been blessed
by good public highways, we may men
ton the following as some of the de
sirable results which would follow thei
general adoption: They would maxi
1t possible for the farmer to take ad
vantage promptly of the highest mar
ket, no matter at what season of tn,
year. They would a him days anC
weeks of time which he wastes ever,
year wallowing through the disgustin,
mire of dirt roads. They would re
duce to a minimum the wear and tea
on wagons and carriages. They woult
lessen the expense of keeping horses il
working order, and vastly less horses