Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-05-05
THE HOME AND FARM.
Every farmer should be a professor of

is a milk ration.
Where the sunshine does not enter
the doctor must.
Wood ashes are never wasted when
used as a fertilizer.
A family without a garden deserves
public commisseration.
An unclean cellar is a bad place in
which to store vegetables.
A market is often of more considera-
ton than cheapness of land.
AS a rule, we pillow too much. More
grass and less blowing will increase in
come, reduce outlay and keep up soil.
The white of an egg with q little wa
ter and sugar is good for children with
an irritable stomach.
1t is said that a Paris laundryman
has discarded all soaps, sodas and boil
ing powders. He merely uses plenty of
water and boiled potatoes, and can
cleanse, without employing any alkali,
the worst soiled linens, woolens or cot
tons.
In frying fish have your lard very
hot lay in the fish, and as soon as
Drowned on one side turn over when
that side is brown move the skillet to
the back part of the stove, cover close
ly, and let cook slowly. In this way it
retains its sweetness.
FRITTERs-This recipe for fritters is
an old and popular one. Put a coffee
cupful of sifted flour in a bowl with
the beaten yolks of two eggs, a tea
spoonful Of lemon juice and one of OIL
i've oil. Stir well and add water, a lit
tie at a time, stirring constantly until
the batter is of the proper consistency,
and last of all add the beaten whites of
the two eggs. This batter may be used
after it has stood for as much as two
days. Fruit may be added to the bat
ter.
The blowing of wet lands is always
to be avoided for the reason that it
makes the soil hard and lumpy and
difficult to break up under the harrow.
1t is worst on clay land, which may be
so injured that years of after cultiva-
ton may not bring it into good condi-
ton again. The effect of the pillow on
the soil is to compress the land and
plaster the surface SO as to prevent il
from becoming pulverized either by the
weather or by the harrow. The clods
will remain for a long time before they
can be broken down again. Light,
sandy soil is not SO much damaged.
but the subsoil in all cases is made
hard and compact by the slipping ovel
it.of the sole of the pillow and the tread.
ing of the horses sect.
Remember one thing in gardening
you can't make weather, but by close
observation, and being always ready
for changes and emergencies, you car
turn even the worst weather to some
good. Management is often as good al
a shower or an extra load of manure
For instance, you can't hoe cabbage
too often, you can't transplant SO well
as during or just before or Just after q
shower, OF just before night on a hot
afternoon. Remember that beets wher
as thick as your finger will grow twice
as fast if transplanted to a new, fresh
patch that caulilowers must be fire.
quently watered, that turnips disappear
in one night if the black fly gets a.
them, and that a hundred other thing,
will go to the bad if neglected in the
smallest degree. Foreseeing these
things and applying the remedy is pure
management, and that is the constant
duty of a gardener.
LARGE AND SMALL BONE IN PIGS.
The producers of the pure bred stock
have made it the ruling effort for years
to reduce the size of the bone while th.
farmers call for heavy bone animals
Now the question presents itself, have
the breeders gone too far I'M their effort,
to reduce the amount of bone. or dc
the farmers fail to appreciate the bene
fits arising from small bones. One OF
the foremost among English authors
ties says that the mistake is with the
mass OF farmers, and comments on the
almost universal demand with Ameri
can farmers purchasing males TO,
breeding purposes that the animals
must have heavy bones. The large,
coarse bone isnot always the strongest
but rather the fine, perfectly formed
bone.
Breeders understand that a hog car
be made ready for market at from sew.
en- to nine months old, and for market
at this age the bone must be fine. Thi,
is necessary, that the animal have
proper symmetry in form, for the coarse
angular boned animal must be fatted
at this age. The trouble with the mas.
of farmers lies in the fact that they
have not grasped the advanced ideas Of
the breeder that a hog should be ready
for the market at not more than nine
months old.
Another matter hat the farmers dc
not properly understand as yet is how
to keep the bone that they desire. They
purchase a coarse boned male becaus,
they think their sows are a little toe