Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-23
THE HOME AND Farm

year is good for that; one can econo
mize without being stingy.
Feed and water should be handy
when the sitting hen ONE off to take
her airing this cool weather.
You dom 7 save a cents worth of axle
grease at the expense of your team, do
your 1t is penny wise and pound fool
ish.
Statistics prove farmers to average
longer lives than most other workers ;
a fact due to the even lives they lead
and steady employment all the year
round.
Better relieve pussy of her present
family before their eyes are open. She
a rear one cheaper next fall when
the young broods CT chicks are too
large to be a temptation to her.
Eggs from a flock of hens that are
kept busy and fed with wholesome
food will be fertile and produce lusty
chicks whether the flock have their
liberty or are confined in small yards.
A good garden fence will be a tenn
per saver, and will also save the ''green
things growing all around" INSIDE when
the festive hens set out to forage for
egg making material a little later in
the season.
Take the boys of the farm in as part
ners. Give them a share of the profits.
Getthem interested in some department
of the farm work. They won't go off
to town if you encourage them in this
way.
If you are trying to produce chicks
for the market and want plump and
healthy ones that will be heavier for
their size than any other fowl and de-
licious for the table, cross an Indian
Game rooster on common Plymouth
Rock hens.
A Southern farmer highly recon :
mends four bushels of cotton seed and
forty pounds of dissolved rock (acid
phosphate) per acre for putting in the
corn hills to start the crop. He spreads
the two in alternate layers, wetting the
seed we'll and lets it stand six weeks
before mixing and using.
PROGRESS IN FRUIT CULTURE.
There is a certain little machine that
is more important than even the polit-
ical machine and a hundred times as
useful. Instead of producing harmful
results it destroys things that are harm
full. 1t is the spraying machine, about
which Prof. c. NJ. Weed writes in the
Popular Science Monthly ut consists
essentially of a force pump and spray
nozzle connected with a reservoir"
and its use is to destroy insects and
fungous growths that damage crops
and fruits.
Ten years ago we heard much of the
ravages of the chinch bug in grain
crops. Whole fields were ruined and
the farmer was left with no means of
paying that mortgage. Plum orchards
were worthless, likewise pear orchards
and apples were eaten by the coddling
moth before man could set his teeth
into them. In many cases plum and
pear trees of choice varieties and hun
dreds of acres of vineyards were cut
down and the ground put under cult
walton in potatoes, squashes, or some
thoroughly unesthetic crop.
Then some geniusinvented the spray
ing machine, and a revolution in fruit
and grain culture began which is rob-
bling mans microscopic agricultural
enemies of all their terrors. We be-
lieve it is unfortunately not an Ameri-
can invention, but a French one. al
though we are just as glad to have it.
Its use saves to our farmers and fruit
growers half a billion dollars a year,
and we owe the knowledge of it to our
National and State agricultural depart
ments. Through their faithful expert
menting the insect pests, rot and mil
dew which attack our vegetation prom
Use soon to vanish into the past. This is
one of the things that science has done
for farming.
There are two kinds of destroyers of
vegetation, n insect, the other veg
etable, consisting of various kinds of
fungous growths. The spores fly thro'
the air, fasten upon the leaves or stems
of grapes or fruits, or sometimes upon
the fruit itself, and suck the life out.
Grain crops and garden vegetables are
sprayed with a kerosene emulsion.
Orchard fruits are sprayed chiefly with
%arsenical preparations, London purple
and Paris green. 1t has been demon
strated over and again that not a trace
of the poison adheres to the fruit
while it annihilates the insect OF veg
etable pest. For vineyards a prepare
ton of the salts of copper is used and
so successfully that the grape growers
of the lake region smile once more.
Mighty is the nozzlel