Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-12-08
THE HOME AND FARM.

No farm is fully stocked unless it has
several colonies of bees, to fertilize the
fruit bloom, and provide natures
choicest sweet for the family.
Corn alone is not as good for hogs as
a ration of bran middlings and oil meal
fed in connection with corn. It should
be fed as a slop, but not allowed to
sour.
Combing and rubbing the scalp of
the head with the hand draws the blood
up to the surface of the head, and not
only relieves the pain at times, but
adds new strength to the hair.
Paste a list Of its contents on every
box or trunk or closet of stored away
goods. Write down each one as you
put it in, then the list will be headed
with the bottom ones. Then when the
name is written Oh each package it is
an easy thing to find any needed article.
Good lumber grows more valuable
year by year. Treat the wood lot as
carefully as thought were a cultivated
field. Keep out the browsing stock;
skin where too thick, and plant where
not thick enough; get the years fire.
wood by selecting that of least value,
and fell it SO as to do the least harm to
young and growing trees. Care and
economy in the wood lot are great
virtues.
We Americans do not know how to
manage small pieces of ground. We
are not used to them, and so accus-
toned to large farms, that on a small
area we do not know what use may be
made Of it. Some of our European and
even Chinese immigrants, might well
teach US a lesson. They know how to
earn a living, and save money besides,
by the thorough cultivation of plats
too small for an American even to
consider.
One farmer has 100 bushels of wheat
on three acres and his neighbor has 100
bushels on 10 acres. The income is the
same in both cases, but how about the
profit? This matter of income and pro-
tit needs to be studied over more. If
you own your farm stock and tools it
doesn't matter so much, but if your
farming must support your family and
pay debts, you want to look out and
grow all crops at a profit. The right
way is to undertake no more than you
reasonably expect to do thoroughly
well. There is no profit in half way
work in any line. The world is full of
ordinary. Do just a little better, and
then you are on the road up.
H GOOD ROAD HORSE.
A good road horse should have size,
beauty, a pleasant, cheerful disposition,
good free action, both in walking and
trotting; should be pure gated, SO as to
require neither boots nor toe weights;
should be free from blemish, and last,
but by no means least, should be we'll
broken and educated. All the former
requirements car be bred-in fact must
be bred; but the education, without
which all else is naught, can be added
by the practical farmer in a more thor
ough manner and at much less expense
than by the wealthy breeder.
The greatest expense attached to
breeding trotters is in the development
OF the speed. No matter how generous
nature may have been in the speed in
heritance, the art of man must be used
to bring out this inheritance, and good
trainers are an expensive luxury, while
a poor trainer is still more expensive at
any price. Notevery small trader, even
If he has the time and desire to devote
himself to training, can hope to become
proficient in the art; but every mar of
ordinary intelligence, and having a lik-
ing for handling horses, can become
proficient in educating young horses
and bringing them properly to the point
where a buyer a secure a good road
horse, or the expert trainer can take up
the education and bring out the reserve
speed. A horse properly bred and prop
erly educated up to this point is always
salable at a good price.
The first point is to start right, for
without this all subsequent efforts will
be invain. Itisan accepted law among
breeders that like produces like, or the
Likeness of some ancestor, and the
chances are much greater that the quail
tiles of the parents will be reproduced
than those of more remote p~rogenitors.
Itfollows then that if we start to pro-
duce a certain type of horse we can not
expect to often produce that type by
uniting parents of IN entirely different
type.
1t has been a too common error that
any old wornout mare would answer
for a dam, providing she was bred to
some noted horse. Experience has dem
onstrated that the dam exerts fully as
much influence upon the offspring as
the sire; in fact in my own case l have
come to believe that / have more young
sters that show the characteristics of the
dam more strongly than those of the
sire.
A good brood mare should have size,
for the offspring is influenced largely
by the dam in this respect, and she
should have a cheerful and pleasant
disposition. withsplentv of snan To sba