Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-02
THE HOME AND FARM,

Keep rubbish away from the trees OF
mice will be almost sure to get to gnaw.
ing them.
Crude petroleum is better than the
refined for use in and around poultry
quarters.
Sprinkle flour of sulphur or powder.
ed tobacco leaves in the nests of laying
and sitting hens.
A wet, heavy clay is undesirable in
the garden. 1t is harder to prepare
and later in warming up.
Almost any kind of stock will injure
a young orchard keep out until the
trees are well established.
One advantage is that the products
OF the poultry yard are always in de.
mand, the prices generally depending
on the quality.
If your fowls have contracted the
habit of eating eggs, put the laying
nests in dark, secluded places, and
gather the eggs frequently.
A variety of grasses make a better
pasture than one, two or three, because
they give a longer season. Try to have
both early and late growing varieties
in the mixture when you seed.
Breed, feed and weed is the motto of
the successful breeder. Not every well
bred animal is good enough for breed
ing, and the best breeding and individ-
ual merit must be maintained by good
feed, care and attention.
Pullets for laying and old hens for
breeding. Two year old fowls lay
larger and richer eggs that will devel-
op larger and more vigorous chicks
than will the pullets of last springs
hatch. 1t will be well to remember
this when you proceed to make up the
breeding pen.
You can certainly afford a first class
male bird. He represents one half of
the flock, and it will not take much
improvement upon each chicken of
which he is the sire to pay the differ
ence in price between him and a poor,
inferior bird, unworthy to stand in any
breeding yard.
After a long, straining drive, wash
the horses legs and rub them and wind
carefully with wooden bandages. When
a horse is thus cared for. it will rarely
be blemished or go lame. 1t is also a
good plan to give a warm bran mash
with eight or ten drops of aconite after
a long hard drive or if obliged to
drive In a storm.
when you pass a farm" says a
writer, land see a large barn and a
small house you may know the man is
boss. When you see a fine house and
adilapidated barn you may understand
that the woman has things her own
way, and when there is a new house
and a good barn you man take it for
granted that the woman and nan are
about equals"
A farmer of Canton, S. D., started a
small hennery with a stock of 211
chickens and from the proceeds of eggs
broilers and breeding stock realized
S2,22S.52 The expenses amounted to
SS79.l4 leaving a net rolf of $1S49. 3S.
That shows what may be done with
thoroughbred stock, judicious manage
ment and close attention to details of
the business. There is profit on small
outlay n~this line of production.
Economy on the farm may begin
with the proper care and saving of ma
nure. This means increased crops and
better lands without much more labor.
The comfort of the animals in winter
is a saving of food. A board off the
barn will cost many pounds of extra
food to keep up the animal heat of the
stock. Ten times more will it cost than
the expense of replacing the board to
keep the cold winds out.
Secretary Rusk says the only hope of
the American farmer will be his brains.
THE sharp competition between sec
tons and countries, which will be in.
duced by increased facilities for trans.
portation will stir the agriculturalist
up to his best efforts. His chances of
fortune making will be great, but he
will have to be prepared TO fight the
battle of competition for them. He
must be sufficiently we'll educated in
science, as far as it is applicable to ag-
riculture, and he must be intelligent
enough to study his surroundings and
to apply his knowledge to the condi-
tions about him."
In autumn, winter and spring. colds
are the rule rather than the exception.
Hence it is the part of every wise and
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