Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-05-26
THE HOME AND FARM.

The most Improbable animal to n
dairy farm is the scrub bull.
When the horse is scared be gentle
with him, but when he tries to scare
you, 1t is time to be firm.
A good dairy COW should average a
pound of butter per day for the ten
months in milk, giving an aggregate
yield of 300 pounds to the year.
Common sulphur will kill or drive
away the little fish shaped, silvery pest
winch lnfests the pantry. Sprinkle the
sulphur freely about, and the place
Will o be cleared of the vermin.
The extra prices at which the small
yellow pear shaped tomato, sometimes
called the fig tomato, can be sold to
those who like them for preserving.
will make them often more profitable
than the larger varieties, but the de-
mand for them is not large.
II we have got to employ another
mar to train a colt for us we want a
chance to train the man. If we can
not make him good natured, well be-
haved and willing to do his best. he
Will not succeed in making the colt so.
n we shall know whose fault it is.
A very simple and strong ement can
be made for glass and earthenware by
diluting the white of an egg with its
Jul OF water. Beat up thoroughly,
then bring to the consistency of thin
paste with powdered quicklime. It
must be used Immediately or it will
lose its virtue.
Should it be necessary to transplant
during a drouth, glass fruit cans or
goplets inverted over the plants will
not only protect them from the wither
ing effects of the sun or the bite of be-
lated frosts, but will stimulate them to
rapid growth, and in forty eight hours
may DC removed without danger.
A bulletin from the Kentucky exper.
lment station confirms previous reports
upon tests with commercial fertilizers
1or wheat, namely hat they have no
erect upon the yield of wheat. Potash,
however, used upon the same soil and
held with corn and potatoes, gave ia
Vorable results. Of the many varieties
OF wheat used it was found that the
oeSt yields were made from Egypt
ian, followed closely by Hunters,
White and German Emperor.
A FARMERS PARADISE.
A leading railroad man in the North
west, who is noted for his luminousa and
picturesque way or talking, is fond of
calling the Red River farmers "the leis-
ure class of the West" He says
They only attend to their business for
a few weeks in the spring and fall, and
nat they do sitting down, with splen-
did horses to drag the farming imple-
ments on which they ride around.
when their grain is ripe they hire la
porers to cut and harvest it, and then
they cash it in for money, fill the banks
OF the valley with money to the burst
ing point, and settle down for a long
loaf, or go to Europe or New York.
Yet they must find a continuance of
their strength and prosperity in diversi-
ned farming and in hard work, and
this is being taught to the rest by the
shrewder ones among them. Such men
are making the breeding of fine draft
horses . side reliance, and very MANY
farms now maintain from 1 800 to 1000
fercheron, Norman and Clydesdale
horses, as well as sheep, pigs and poul-
Try The country is too level for the
profitable raising of sheep, however.
They need uneven land and a variety
OF picking moreover, the soil clogs in
their hoofs, and subjects them to hoof
rot, and other diseases prey upon them
there.
There are nearly 5000, 900 acres in the
valley, and n sixth of it is under the
pillow. One hundred and fifty million
bushels of wheat could be raised there
II every acre was sown with seed, but
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There is no such demand for wheat as
that would require to be profitable.
AS it is, less than a quarter of the val
ley is cultivated, and only three quar-
ters OF that fraction are given up to
wheat, SO that last years yield was
about thirty to thirty seven millions of
bushels. That would have brough
$27, 0OO, 900 had it been sold, but while
this is being written a great many
m are holding their grain in the
firm belief that Russia's needs will de-
termine a rise of twenty cents in the
price. Those who sold got eighty cents,
those who are holding back want a dol
lar a bushel.
POTATO CULTURE.
Two of the most important items in
the growing of a good crop of potatoes
Is to have the soil fine and mellow
when the seed is planted, and to keen