Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-10
THE HOME AND FARM,

beeswax and one of resin melted to.
gether.
One or two geranium leaves bruised
and applied to a bruise or cut will cause
it to heal in a short time.
Dry leaves may be used to great ad-
vantage for bedding. They are both
comfortable and absorbing.
When a horse is lame and stiff moth
ing better can be done than to remove
his shoes and let him run on pasture
a while.
A tablespoonful of powdered alum
sprinkled in a barrel of water will
precipitate all impure matter to the
bottom.
Pigs dropped in February or March
a be made ready for the fall killing.
Make preparations for these pigs now,
a year ahead.
Every investment which gives the
opportunity for a greater d~ivorsifcation
of our crops is of direct benefit to our
whole agriculture.
During cold transforms and the
morning after, season the mixed food
with a free sprinkling of red pepper; a
little in the drinking water will also be
beneficial.
All poultry, but more especially tur-
keys, should be killed by bleeding in
the neck and picked while the body is
warm, and in no case should poultry
be scalded.
Thirteen hundred thousand barrels
of apples were sent from the United
States to England during the last sea-
son. The crop is SO short this year that
few will be sent abroad.
One bushel of corn and oats ground
together and fed to poultry will pro-
duce fifteen pounds of flesh. How
many pounds of pork would the same
quantity of food produce?
Half a dozen onions planted in the
cellar where they can get a little light
will do much toward absorbing and
correcting the atmospheric impurities
that are 80 apt to lurk in such places.
Nothing brings in ready money SO
certainly as a flock of s~heep-large or
small-on a farm. Small focks thrive
better than large ones, too, which
should be a consolation to the smalf
farmer.
If orchards are properly MANFRED
every year and the trees wormed, bro
ken and bruised limbs removed, etc.,
perhaps there would not be SO many off
years in fruit bearing. A fruit tree
that has made a large yield must nee
essarily draw heavily ON the soil and
this soil must be properly fed. Try a
heavy coating of good barnyard manure
near some of the apple trees that have
borne heavily this year and see what
the result will be the coming season.
Six abandoned farms on a rocky hill
top in Maine have been bought and
thrown into one. 1t is proposed to
stock them with common sheep, to be
crossed with pure bred Hampshire
bucks. Street car horses will be bought
in Boston for teamwork, commercial
fertilizers will be used, and money will
be judiciously expended wherever
needed. This is what is said about it:
IF successful, the experiment will
prove that a wool grower who does not
believe in the present duties on wool
a make mutton sheep ~husbandry
profitable upon the deserted farms of
New England.
The different grades of hay, as gen.
orally understood by the trade, are as
follows: Choice timothy, to be timo-
thy, and not more than one.eighth of
other tame grasses mixed; good color,
well cured and free from must. Strict
ly prime, to be timothy, and not more
than one-ifth of other tame grasses
mixed; good color, well cured and free
from must. Prime, to be sound, well
cured, good color and free from must,
and may contain three fourths of tame
grasses and one-fourth timothy. Mixed
hay, to consist of tame grasses, mixed;
good color, well cured and free from
must. All kinds of hay badly cured,
stained, or in any way out of condi-
ton, are regarded as no grade.
From the middle of August to the
first of January will do very well for
cutting timber, writes a New York
World correspondent, who places the
extremes at the middle of July and
and first of February. He says: "Out-
side of these extremes ! would not fell
timber, and between them October and
november are no doubt the best months
Sap sometimes commences to flow in
January, and although it may not be
much it will be enough to hurt the tim
Der. March, April, May and June are
out OF season months. While October
and November are to be preferred for
the latitude of Pennsylvania, the time
may vary considerably according to
the seasons and localities
o DRESSING FRUIT TREES.
H.. Dunlap told before the Illinois
horticultural Society of his success in
top dressing bearing fruit trees. He
dressed two rows of cherry trees, and
at tho ca,na f;n.a Ioft ~