Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-06-16
THE HOME AND FARM.

the faculty of managing toward that
end.
The main point with the American
pork producer is to put the most healthy
M wholesome meat in the mouths of
foreigners.
The rainy weather covers nearly the
whole country except the New England
States, and will greatly retard agricul-
tural progress if June is like May.
During recent years there has been a
marked decline in the loss of hogs from
disease. Better care and feeding off at
an earlier age has brought about the
change.
The only steer q farmer can afford to
raise is the well bred one that can be
brought to early maturity. Theranch-
man possibly can get out whole on the
other sort.
No farmer can afford to keep a cow
merely to raise a calf. The COW must
at least produce milk enough to pay
for her W keeping, or she will be a
losing investment.
The best policy in farming tends to.
wards a concentration of effort. Crop
only such land as can be made rich.
Make such still richer, to the end that
it may be cropped yet more heavily.
Tilage is not manure, but an excellent
second to it. Cultivation makes the
food in the soil available for the plant.
There may be plenty of fertility, but no
growth unless the plant can reach it.
In order to keep the rot from potatoes
plant them in wide deep burrows and
cover them not less than four inches
deep. Do not use stable manure; high
grade commercial fertilizer is prefer
able.
A farmer should be consistent. If
you do not believe in thoroughbred
stock, then don't spend for improved
implements, nor for drainage, nor the
silo, or anything else that means better
farming.
The gardener can not do his best work
with q dull hoe any better than the
farmer can with a dull scythe. Keep a
good point on the pillow and a good
edge on all tools that are used for cut.
ting weeds and grass roots.
The heat of summer will soon be here
and with it the hard work of the farm.
Ii you are a good husband make the
work as light as possible for your wife.
do not work the boys too hard, and re-
member that you are growing older
each year and can not do as much now
as you did a few years ago.
HOW OFTEN sHoUL CORN BE CULT
WAITED?
Thirty olats were devoted last season
to the answering of this question at the
Kansas station. The experiment was
divided into two series of fifteen plats
each. Series A had five plats cultivated
twice a week, five plats ono a week
and five plats once in two weeks. The
three five plat groups in series B were
cultivated, respectively, two, four and
six times during the season. The i'm
plement used was a spring tooth cult
vator that gave shallow culture and
could be run close to the plants without
disturbing the roots. The land was
clay loan.
The uniformity in yield in the plats
under similar treatment, in both series,
is noted in the report of results. But
what is still more interesting is that the
highest yields attained in both series,
when cultivated once in two weeks and
when cultivated four times during the
season, is the result of what is practi-
cally the same amount of cultivation.
Though the culture did not occur on
the same dates for both sets, the plats
cultivated once in two weeks were also
gone over four times. This experiment
also seemed to prove that, in a wet
season like the last, and on soil of the
character here employed, it is possible
to give corn both too much and too
little culture. The latter case is readily
conceded by everybody, but that the
ground can be stirred too often will
probably not meet with so universal
assent. Nor is it probable that the
mere stirring of the surface is in itself
injurious, If the soil is not too wet when
worked, but the greater the number of
times the c%ultivator runs through the
rows the greater are the number of
chances that the roots ON some plants
will be injured, and also that now and
then a leaning stalk will be broken by
the team in spite of the care exercised
by the plowman, and the director attri-
butes the diminished yield of the plats
subject to frequent cultivation to these
causes rather than to the mere stirring
of the soil.
DISCRIMINATING THE CHINCH BUG.
Prof. Snow, of Kansas, who has been
a long time experimenting, claims, and
other entomologists believe, that the
devastation of crops by the chinch bug
will soon be a thing of the past. Prof.
Snow believes that the bug may be ex-
terminated by the spreading among
the species of a deadly infectious dis
ease, which he compares with the
cholera among human beings. The