Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-12-27
THE HOME AND FARM.
Frost makes turnips milder and i'm

Frost makes turnips milder and inn
proves them.
The man who soils land, If he has a
good deal of it, is wiser than the man
who keeps on buying land that he does
not n aed.
1t is a good time to buy real estate if
you are one of those people who are
said to have gold dollars and eagles
stuffed away in old stockings.
Before winter comes and the house is
shut up, treat the cellar to a good coat
of whitewash. 1t will greatly help to
preserve the health of the household.
An Illinois man declares his belief
that understanding causes drought.
We think he is wrong, buff he is right
we might as we'll choke to death as to
drown.
Improve the buildings, fences and
general surroundings of the farm as
rapidly as possible. Keep things get
ting better just as the herds and aocks
should be made better all the time.
Sawdust is a great absorder of liquids
when used as bedding, but it is not de-
sirable to place much of it on the ground
as a fertilizer. Some will do no harm,
and if saturated with liquid manure
will do good.-Farmer's Voice
SUGAR BEETs IN AMERICA.
One of the agricultural experiment
stations reports that beets raised from
improved home grown seed contain
twenty per cent more sugar than beets
raised from imported seed. Consider
ing that the imported seed is the best
seed from foreign countries, where the
beet sugar industry has been a long
established success, this is a remarka-
BILE showing. The home grown seed
gave results from ten to twenty per
cent, better this year than last. Such
rapid improvement on the beet that
Germany has produced in long years
of patient work indicates advantages
of soil and climate and the probability
that this country will surpass foreign
countries in the production of beet
sugar. Farm and Preside.
Rushes are degraded lilies.
S%oapsuds are excellent manure,
The fat in a cheese determines its
market value.
1t does not pay to raise a calf from a
poor or ordinary COW.
Straw and oat cake meal form q good
substitute for good hay.
Cabbage not fully ripe will winter
better than that matured.
Cows should be allowed as much
pure water as they will drink.
Seedless apples are said to have been
produced at Columbus, Ore.
England is officially reported free of
the foot and mouth disease.
A Moderate sized, highly cultivated
farm is the most profitable.
Cream should invariably be removed
from the milk before it is sour.
To make your fruit sell well, it must
be carefully picked and packed.
1t is well to consider the mutton as
first and the wool as only secondary.
The strawberry will adapt itself to
and bear some fruit on almost any soil.
A coat of manure is one of the best
mulches for anything of a tender char
acter.
Sheep thrive better if kept in the
open air as long as the weather will
permit.
Milk which shows less than three
per cent. of fat is not profitable for
cheesemaking.
Only use milk from healthy COWS,
and not until at least five DAYS after
calving.
Milk readily absorbs orders, hence it
is important that all the surroundings
be pure.
Until the farmers, as a class, learn
that for every dollar spent in real road
improvement they will receive a ten
fold return in the advanced price of
their acres, in ability to market their
products at all seasons, and in the in
nummerable advantages that come
from easy transit and frequent com
munication between farms and vii
lagos, there is not a fiattering prospect
for the issue of bonds for scientific and
permanent road improvement. Such
instruction must come from rural cen
tiers. The farmers seem to be suspic-
ious of suggestions coming from the
cities. Meanwhile, the importance of
the road question can not be over
estimated, MOI very much longer
suppressed. The communities that
have made good roads are prominent
ly the prosperous communities; the
lights shining from them must, sooner
or later, illuminate the darker regions
in which bad roads prevail. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Prevention Is Better