The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-10-23
Agriculture.

Lime is cheap, harmless and
most anywhere about the farm.
Scatter it about the stables and upon
the manure pile. Place little in
the water trough, to keep it clean
and free from scum. Do not forget to
renew it from time to time.
The sunset parasite differs from
! rust in its manner of reproduction
and growth also, in its point of at
tack upon wheat. In no way, so far
as observation goes, does smut injure
the straw or the foliage of the wheat
plant. .lE
1t has been found that deep sub
soiling every three or four years
causes the ground to refrain moist
ure better in midsummer, absorb
ing and storing up the water from
the spring rains; it also 9rates the
soil and produces better crops. WIN
Forests protected or Treplanted,
marshes, restored to their pristine
condition, less clearing of the under
brush, careful study of the con-
stituents' and needs of the soil, and
an effort to return to the soil the
elements annually used or wasted,
may all be needed reforms. 1a a2
A sweet potato which is well ma
tured and not frost bitten, neither
bruised, cut nor abraded, with ordi-
nary care will keep equally well as
corn. Keep them dry, cover lightly
until they have gone through a
sweat, then protect them with plenty
of earth. If in bulk, let there be
sufficient ventilation. alli ~
Land value, commerce, education
comfort, health, happiness, invest.
ments, all demand reform in the
line of good roads. They will in
crease the power of the team, save
vehicles and shorten distances. The
age is awakening on. this subject
but it can not act too soon. We are
slower in this than in any othe
thing.
One hundred bushels of corn al
acre has been raised at cost o
nine cents bushel. How about tn,
man who spends the same SO an acr,
and then raises but 20 or 80 bushels
Only the skill and cultivation whicl
produce large crops can keep aheat
these days.
1t is so yet, and it always will b
sono matter what the conditions Q
the times, with no other occupation
can a working man, with small capi
tai, support his family 50 well, saw
little money, and live in such easy
free and wholesome conditions a
the farmer.
Something can not come fror
nothing. The man who attempts {
farm without fertilizipg soon gets t
the end of his string. This fac
should require no other teacher tina
common sense, Even settlers upo
new lands should recognize ths
stock raising is an essential adiunc
Competition is going to make be
ter farmers of us all. There is n
gain in small yields. The foreigne
with his importations at low price
is fast swapping the shiftless anon
us. Where, one thing is not profit;
BILE we must find one which is. Whe
wheat and corn fail us we must fee
it and sell more profitable produc
Four hundred years ago the Per-
vians built roads which put ours
shame. Why we are content in tn
age with ruts through the mud it
hard to understand, It may be id
to expect mucRin this line until Il
matter comes under general manag
ment....It. might not be unwise f
the Governmental establish such
department. s,e
Buckwheat can come after anot
err crop very we'll without extra fe
tilizing. 1t is an excellent crop
sow on land where oats, barley
corn have been destroyed by b;
weather. Such lands seeded to buc