Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-03-07
THE HOME AND FARM.
If you intend to put out fruit trees
do itin the coming spring, and let them
be growing.


be growing.
1t is better to have one variety of
fruit that is satisfactory than to have
several kinds, the majority of which
possess no merit or quality.
Feeding all sizes of hogs together is
a method Of overlooking the large ones
and stinting the smaller ones, as the
large ones will secure nearly all of the
food.
While a scrap book is recognized as
q great convenience, u book in which
to record recipes aud formulas is de-
cidedly profitable. The time in search
ing through the notion box is saved.
To get eggs from early pullets their
diet must be as varied as possible.
Pound up beefsteak bones, cook the
potato parings, in fact utilize all the
table refuse for the poultry.
The man who raises grain must have
stock to feed it to in order to get the
best price for it and to keep the fer
tility on the land but if scrub stock
will pay at all, improved breeds will
yield much better returns.
Broad tires act as rollers. Narrow
tires cut the road into bitches. The
advocates of wide tires for heavy loads
upon our country roads claim that
teams a draw from % to 80 per cent.
more load than when narrow tires are
used.
An Ohio man who fed twelve hogs
wheat estimates that he got $67 20 for
fifty bushels of wheat by marketing it
In the form Of pork. whereas if he had
sold it he would only have received
1925. He advises buying hogs to feed
the wheat to.
DO not run off after new varieties of
fruits and vegetables. Every year the
best" is offered, but it may only serve
in a certain climate to give the results
claimed. Hold fast to the old kinds
until you have tested the W ones
in a small way.
An abundance of pure water on the
farm is an essential. If you have it
not thev very best investment you can
make of any surplus funds will be in
securing it at ono While you are
about it, get enough for the house, for
the stock, and a little extra to water
the garden with in a dry time.
The profit of the farm very often
comes from having a pretty constant
supply of little things to turn into cash
than from n or two big special crops.
Some garden vegetables, a little fruit,
a few pounds of butter or a few dozen
eggs every time you 60 to town may b,
turned into quite an amount of money
In the course Of a year.
Good breeding and early maturity,
says a writer, are recognized as the
highways toward profit with stock.
The good breeding helps somewhat to-
ward the other, but early maturity is
mainly a matter of the proper feeding
OF the young stock. Early maturing
is simply impossible if the animals are
stinted while they are forming bone
and muscle.
RAISING POTATOES.
In selecting ground, l choose wheat
or oat stubble ground, and pillow the
same as 500 as | can after harvest.
This do for two reasons-to rot the
stubble and kill all weeds, and to keep
the ground soft and moist, SO that when
want to plant it will not be SO hard,
dry and lumpy that l can't plant, or,
If l can plant, it is sometimes SO dry
they will not grow, or, as l have had
them do sometimes, be coming up all
summer Then, during the fall and
winter, l spread from six to ten loads
OF well rotted fertilizer to the acre. |
commence planting not earlier than
May 81, and plant not later than June
IL. To plant, l commence to pillow the
same ground again. After blowing
one furrow around the piece, l cut seed
enough to drop in the furrow Just
plowed, some "a to 80 inches apart, then
take a hoe and haul in a little dirt on
each one to prevent the horse from
MASKING any of them. Then plow three
narrow burrows around the piece, when
l drop another row and SO on till done.
l never have any potatoes cut even a day
before planting, as l have had some
bad failures by it, as they would grow
very spindling and poor, if at all.
In the cultivation of them, when they
begin to show, | put on the harrow and
harrow thoroughly. This will clean
the ground from every weed and pro
mote a rapid start and growth of vines,
and in a very short time they stand
even and rank, ready for the cultiva-
tor. l use a common five tooth, one
horse cultivatort to keep the ground loose
and keep the plants growing. When
potatoes are of right size, generally
when in bloom, take a shovel pillow
(single shovel, as it is called, better
just after a shower or when the ground
is wet, and hill up and the small runs
or bitches between the rows for irriga.
ton, and when the soil seems dry run
the water through these small bitches
or rows, and continue to do so as often
as the ground gets dry, which is usual