Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-09-22
THE HOME AND FARM,

give your chickens. 1t is especially
good for young chickens.
Galvanized iron vessels are good to
hold the water for the chickens. They
must be cleansed every morning and
filled with fresh cold water.
By cooperating, both in buying and
selling, farmers may frequently save
money. Thisis especially true in buying
with ready cash. For such purchasers
dealers are always ready to make spe-
cial prices.
The breeding season being over, the
disposal of the old hens becomes nee
essary. The most profitable way is TO
sell them alive at market prices, keep
ing the yearling or two year old hens
over for another season.
The American Bee Journal says ;
Honey should be ripened in the hive
before being extracted. 1t may be
stored in stone jars, in tin tanks or in
wooden vessels, care being taken not to
have wood which will faint the honey.
Zinc or galvanized iron must not be
used for storing honey under any cir
cumstances."
1t may not be generally known, says
Orchard and Garden, h atmelons raised
from fresh seed bear a large proportion
of male flowers, while on the other
hand seedlings raised from old seed
bear many more female flowers than
male. 1t is also said by practical gard
eners that seeds of the melon and Gu
cumber family from five to eight years
old, if well kept, will produce less vine,
earlier fruitage than will fresh seeds.
When a farmer who owns 200 acres
of land is continually grumbling that
he a not make anything at the bust
ness, although his three or four boys
work for their board and clothing, has
he a right to grumble because the boys
want to leave the farm? Possibly if
he were to divide his land and his ready
money with the boys, and then each
one tried to do his best upon the share
of the farm, all would get better re-
suits than they do now, and all would
stay upon the farm, unless they had
decided tastes and talents for other pur-
suits.-The Farmers Friend.
Stripping the leaves from the stand
ing stalks of corr while in their best
green condition is a quite common
practice IN some sections of the coun-
try. When properly cured and bound
in bundles it makes excellent fodder,
and it is generally considered that the
pullingo of the leaves causes no decrease
in the production of grain. To test the
question of loss or gain, experiments
were made on sixteen plats at the Geor-
gia station. From one half of each
the leaves were stripped and the fodder
carefully cured and dried. The plats
from which the blades were stripped
yielded 1873 bushels of shelled corn per
acre. The unstripped plats gave a yield
OF 27.3 bushels, a loss of 3.4 bushels as
the result of pulling the fodder. But
the yield of fodder vas 27O pounds per
acre, at a cost for pulling and cutting
of eighty one cents. In other words,
there was a loss equal to 1904 pounds
OF corn and a gain of 27O pounds of
fodder. From the above and a similar
trial preceding it the conclusion is
reached that the strongest argument
against the practice is the meager re-
suits in fodder compared with the
amount of labor involved. The same
labor employed in moving grass OF any
good forage crops, even without che
use of improved machinery, would
yield vastly greater results.
Concerning the value and Importance
of good roads the Milwaukee Realty
and Building Record says: Next to
city pavements is the Importance of
good roads, ever to the city itself. 1t
may be truly stated that good public
highways are as important as the rail
roads, and more so to the country peo-
pie. And yet it is stated that the ad-
vent of railroads, especially in the
East, was the signal for the neglect of
the public thoroughfares and former
stage roads. This could not have re-
suited because the. country people all
travelled by rail, but when the stage
routes were abandoned there was not
the same incentive to keep them in
good condition. There remains, how
ever necessity for all these roads. 1t
is a fact that is being regularly and
pointedly called to mind, that it
amounts to a united effort all over the
country to present the subject most
forcibly to the people at large. That
interested activity is being awakened
in regard to the matter is illustrated in
the disposition shown by towns and
road districts in the country which
have purchased road graders and other
road machinery of modern invention
In order to accomplish the best results.
The old countries have given lessons in
roadmaking that America has been
slow to initiate, and particularly is this
the case in the West and Northwest. 1t
is hard to find a single mile of perma-
nent roadbed outside the limits of the
cities in the State of Wisconsin, or in
five or six of the States of the North