Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-12
FARM NOTES.


The worst drawback to agriculture Is
the prevailing system of tenant farming.
1t Is that which reduced the farms in
all the states from Virginia to Georgia,
inclusive,uto the dire necessity of pur-
chasing annually large bills of CONNER
cial fertilizers and patching up their
houses, barns and fences with any old
material that could be picked up around
the place. 1t is an old and tolerably true
maxim that "a good landlord makes
good tenants" for good landlord will
treat his tenants as he ought to, and the
tenant, If he desires to remain, will re-
ciprocate all such favors. 1t is tenants
who are here one year and there the
next who are the direct instruments OF
farm degradation. A competent landlord
will have none such, for his first duty Is
10 himself and his farm.
The Pacific Coast Dairyman publishes
statistics of los crea nleries in the state
of Washington. How many are there in
Z the great state of Texas?
If a cow loses her appetite. treat her
as you do yourself IF you are senslble),
give her a change of diet. By the way,
a warm bran mash is an excellent
change of diet"
DIR. Baccbaas, of Germany, gives as
a result of his recent examination of the
milk supply of Berlin, that the people of
that city consume daily 300 pounds OF
COW dung in their milk.
A farmer claims to have cured a self
sucking COW by bathing the teats once
day with a strong solution of aloes, for
week or more. This is a more humane
method than splitting the tongue.
l. oh 1ao htac ric 10
At some period of her history her edu-
cation has been neglected. If she could at
all times kick the right person, We would
say let her kick that the prophesy may
be fulfilled whosoeveT soWeth to the wind
shall reap the whirlwind.
The parlor should not be clearer or
fraer from bad odors than the room where
milk is kept. The dairy does not need
Brussels carpets, rare tapestries, nor
mohair upholstery, but what it does need
should be there, and ii should be as clean
as the piano top or the dresser.
It is not cold but wet weather that
doubles up the sheep Dry cold is a tonic
for them, but when the thick wooden coat
becomes soaked with water, and then
the cold wind strikes them, looks away
to the east for billiards.. Therefore
make shelters for sheep, that are always
accessible.
1t will soon be time to plant corn. Don't
give all the best land to cotton. Cotton,
it is true, brings in money. but If it must
go out again for corn and the manufac-
tured articles made from corn, who IS
benefited? Surely not the farmer-no-
body but the Spectator. Other feed
crops are as important as corn. Arrange
for g. big sweet potato crop. We are now
sending money north every day in the
week, including Sunday, for sweet pota-
toes that are not sweet-raised away up
north. Is not money too scarce to throw
away like that? Also have good patch
of peanuts-there's the hog feed for you
and you don't have to harvest the nuts
except a few to eat at home and for seed
another year. Hog feeding will almost
surely be profitable in the fal,-to those
who are prepared for the business. Grass,
sorghum, sweet potatoes and peanuts in
abundance and the pork question is set
tied.