Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-05-04
THE HOME AND FARM.
FARM PHILOSOPHY.

hold the sweetest honey.
Growing at the times will not lift
the mortgage on your farm.
Be the kind of man that you would
like to have your boys become.
Success is on the hill top, you can
not get there without climbing.
1t is no money in your pocket to fail
to make your stables comfortable.
The sunshine of a glad heart makes
the darkest, dreariest day radiant and
pleasant.
There is more solid comfort in a
smile than in a whole gross of frowns.
1t is good economy to smile.
II you get mad 60 to the looking
glass and watch yourself growl, and
see how quick you will quit it.
The man who depends ON the spur Of
the moment often discovers that par.
ticular moment hasn't any spur.
Laziness and labor are brothers ; but
the one is married to incentive, and
the other always remains a bachelor.
Do not act the rascal with your farm
by taking from it more than you give
back to it in the way of fertilizers.
If you can see nothing but the bad,
shut your o. Better be blind than
unable to see the beautiful and the
good.
Some'men pretend to love God, who
show that they do not love the wives
of their bosoms, by making them use
the most primitive household uten-
sils, while they themselves are
supplied with all the best improved
farm machinery used by civilized men.
American Agriculturist.
There is no "luck :" about farming.
Every success is the result of we'll laid
plans and well directed efforts, and the
failures-with very rare exceptions
are because of the lack of these.
In the wheat regions of the north.
west, farmers are looking out for
means to diversity their crops. Flax
will receive more attention this year
than yer before. This is a move in
the right direction.
The more thoughtful, studious and
businesslike the farmer is, the more he
will prosper in his vocation, and the
more honor will he be accorded by his
fellow men. Get your boys started
right in this matter.
If planting fruit trees this spring, do
not fail to include a few peaches. Cut
back to a single whip two and a half
feet high, and set thirteen to fourteen
feet apart. Give good cultivation and
liberal manuring.
In order to have q COW do we'll
through the summer she must be in
good condition when she comes to
grass. Otherwise you will have to feed
and pamper her, and this is something
that the dairyman rarely finds profit in
doing.
When buying tools or machinery for
the farm, see that every piece is as
lightly made as is consistent with the
requisite strength. Both men and
horses waste much labor upon need
lessly heavy tools. With lighter ones
mor work could be done and with less
strain.
1t is a great mistake to wage miscel-
laneous warfare upon birds. While
some of them do the farmer considera.
BILE damage, he gains more than he
looses by them as a whole. The En-
glish sparrow is perhaps the worst of
them all, but poison should not be put
about for these because it will DESTROY
many others.
PLANTING ORCHARDS.
The planting of thick rows in limited
apple orchards, the rows to be several
rods distant from each ether, was de-
scribed briefly in the earlier as we'll az
the later editions of the American
Fruit Culturist, and has some special
advantages which may be more fully
explained. The trees may be from 10
to 20 feet apart in the rows, and these
again may be at convenient distance
from each other-from 4 to 8 rods.
The advantages are that while near
ly the the same number of trees may
occupy a given area, greater freedom
Is allowed for light and air and for the
cultivation of the spaces between t; and
there is more certainty of the orchard
receiving its proper attention. Crops
that are commonly too much shaded
by the trees which are planted in
squares, by occupying spaces some
rods wide where there is no shade.
make q better growth than where the
trees are planted in equal squares, and
their broad branches extend alike in
every direction, The whole space is
freely open to the work of the pillow
and cultivator, the planter and harv-
ester or it may be seeded to clover for
turning under as green manuring crop.
The depth of cultivation will of course
become less and shallower as the work
approaches the roots of trees.
If the rows are six rods apart the
roots will sometimes meet in the spaces
when the trees are fully grown, &C.
cording to the careful examinations
which have been made in such cases,
and thus the trees will be benefited by
any enriching which may be given or
by any cultivation for their benefit.