Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-09-01
THE HOME AND FARM,
Corn is one of the best crops to grow

for indigestion.
Cultivation will benefit the trees for
a few years after setting out.
When through with a crop in the
garden put what is left under the
ground.
No plan OF management will be best
in all cases the owner must adapt the
treatment to the condition of the or
chard.
A young sow's pigs will mature early,
but old sows are best for breeding.
Stock bred too early tends to deterioate
and run out.
If the object of poultry raising is to
convert the largest amount of grain in
to the largest amount of meat in the
shortest time, then ducks are the mes
to do it.
A broad back, heavy, square hind
quarters and q full, round body, large
enough to contain plenty of feed, are
marks of a beef that may be profitably
fattened.
In addition to the 81, 900 offered in
premiums for S%outhdown sheep at the
Worlds Fair, the American Southdown
A ssociation will give $3.50 at the Fat
Stock Show held in connection with
the Fair.
The same principle which has caused
the wholesale slaughter of birds and
animals and the waste of fertility and
timber in this country is shown in the
manner in which our highways have
been treated OF left without treatment.
Women who are willing to work
have their attention called to the dairy.
The work in it can be readily superin-
tended by them, and most of it is what
they can readily do. Their neatness
and easily required skill is needed in it.
They can build up the family dairy and
make it popular everywhere.
Kerosene will take iron rust and
fruit stains from almost every kind OF
goods without injuring the fabric.
Wash the soiled spot in kerosene as you
would in water. The spots must be
washed in the kerosene before they
have been put into soap and water or il
will do good.
Every human being lives for some
thing. To live for the sake of economy
is the hatefulest of all objects in life,
10 live for the sake of your furniture
your carpets, and to war with the dust.
is equally dwaring. Housekeeping is
m thing, home making is another.
Do not get them COMPOUNDED.
John Ray, of Croton Landing, NY.
declares he has a goose that is SO years
old, and she still lays fifty eggs a year,
The present owner got her thirty fouI
years ago from a man who made aft
davit that she was then SO years old.
This goose ought to go into a show
along with that egg laying rooster
from Pennsylvania.
The growing chickens require more
food than those that are simply fatten.
ing, and of about the SANE sort as the
hen that is giving an abundant supply
of eggs, that is, bran, oats, wheat and
oyster shells or bone. The fattening
chicken or fowl does best upon corn OF
corn meal, boiled rice, beef scraps, milk
and similar fattening material.
Good milk should have the following
properties: 1t must be of slightly vel
lowish color, not blush, and a greasy
film should adhere to the glass contain
ing it. 1t must~be absolutely sweet.
On boiling no disagreeable odor must
be- given off with the steam, and no
s~epasati9nS or thickening take place.
On Ftandiig some time in a glass or
battle, no sediment or particles of for
eign matter must settle out.
Many good farmers who keep COWS
find their account in allowing them to
run in a cool, dark stable during the
day as long as hot weather continues.
The cow will eat enough in a very sh TT
time night and morning to satisfy her,
though where they are stabbed days it
is well to let them run in pasture with
free access to water at night. 1t is flies
even more than heat that causes the
falling'off of milk yield that generally
comes during August.
Many persons keep fowls in confne-
ment for want of space, and much bet
ter management must be given in order
to avoid disease and an overfat condi-
ton. If the flock is small the table
scraps should be made to answer for
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any extra allowance, the principal food
being chopped grass or some bulky ma
terial. One of the essential requisites
is not to permit the hens to be idle, but
compel them to scratch and work. 1t
is much better to have them hungry
and eager to scratch for something
than to overfeed them and thereby de-
stroy their value as agg producers.
In the year ending June 80, 1892, the
corn crop was 1900, 154, 800 bushels, of
which only about : 1900, 900 bushels
were exported. This shows only 1858
per cent. of the total crop Of corr ex-
ported. In 1890 4.S2 per cent. of the
crop was exported, while in 1888 only
LA per cent. of the corr crop was ex-
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