Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-06-22
THE HOME AND FARM,
If the soil is drv roll the potato


Ield after planting. n
The heifer calf does not need fatten- "
ng food. 1t needs plenty Of bone and 3
forming food. y
Buckwheat is recommended for !.
apple orchards. Its principal nse, a
however, is to keep the soil loose. y
Many a farmer who is starving to 4
death growing wheat could improve G
his farm and make money by dairying. 1
A well managed dairy will increase
the value of land. 1t is much better
than the system of everlasting crop
ping.
Marbles in cattle can be squeezed
out. Sometimes a sharp knife is
needed to make the opening large
enough.
Paris green solution should be kept
constantly stirred while the spraying
is being done. 1t readily settles at the
bottom.
The bogus butter rascals will have
their nice, hypocriticial, dirty pro-
duct on exhibition at the Worlds
Fair, of course.
Do not feed chicks so much that they
will leave part of their food, which
will become sour and cause diseases, if
afterwards eaten.
II is poor yolicy to attempt to raise
calves In o pasture in which there is
no shade. 1t is poor policy to keep
cows in such pasture.
If the butter would con-
suit their own interest they would
never spend a cent in a grocery store
in which butter is kept.
In no direction can a farmer spend a
little money more profitable than to
buy a thoroughbred bull, with which
to grade up a herd Of common COWS.
Winter rye for ~pasturage in the
spring is a great help to the dairy. If
rye is sown early in the spring twill
make valuable fall pasture.-Farmers'
Voice.
If people can not be induced to
spray their fruit trees-and many can
not be-why would it not pay some
body in the neighborhood to provide a
spraying apparatus and contract to do
the spraying?
While it is true that calves should
be well fed they should not be owe
fed the first week of their lives. One
writer thinks that more calves are in
injured by being fed too much than
too little during the first week, and we
think he is right.
A Wisconsin dairyman doubled the
average butter product of his herd in
one year by giving each COW a distinct
test and disposing of the poor ones,
with some improvement in feeding.
The modern dairy gospel claims to
produce such results.
People sometimes buy choice seed in
small variety and declare that it never
does was we'll after the first year. The
reason osten is that 1t is planted un
der the most favorable conditions tn
first year, and never under such con
ditiOns again. Farmers Voice.
OF course there are very valuable
cows that are kickers, too valuable tC
sacrifice. But we never saw a kicking
COW that we would own longer thar
we could get her to the butchers in
proper shape. A contankerous animal
of any kind is too much bother on the
farm.
Dairy associations should give con
slant attention to the enactment Of
laws that will protect the dairy moi
only against bogus butter, but to pro
tect the consumer against the careless
ness or dishonesty of the few butter
makers who have no regard ever fol
their own best interest.-Farmers
Voice.
The main features of the new celer,
culture" require the soil to be we'll Ell
riched and prepared with great care
being made as fine and open as tool
can make it, II 10 then marked off il
rows seven inches apart each way
The plants, started as usual from seed
are set out in the cross marks seve
inches apart all over the field. The
are cultivated with the wheel hoe an
hand tools as long as possible, an
irrigated or watered 80 that the SO
never become very dry. Chemic;
fertilizers are best.-Rural World.
THE PRODUCTION OF MILK.
In our experience in producir
milk we have succeeded best by usil
from 10 to 20 pounds daily of a fet
composed of 100 pounds of bran,
pounds of wheat meal, so pounds
buckwheat shorts and SO pounds
corn chop, says a correspondent
The bran we use is not the '.'new pr
cess' bran-that we have found o.
by experience to be worth q good dc
less than We paid for it-but a goc
solid, old fashioned b~ran-shorts a
all. The wheat meal is made by gr
ing low grade wheat ond taking {
only the bran. The buckwheat sho
we regard as especially useful in CO
ing a flow of milk, and the corn we Q
for its heat and flesh producing
ments. A ton of this mixture costs
at present prices, Si0.T per ton.
occasionally add oil meal in sn
quantities, but do not think it wo
nav to add regularly at $25 per |