The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1897-10-20
FARMERS COLUMN.
Farmers Home journal. /

Farmers Home Journal
In pushing fattening animals On corn
only some OF it will pass though them
undigested. Cob meal helps to correct
this. Ii you have no way TO grind the
cobs, the same thing may be accomplish
ed by feeding corn meal in connection
with cut and dampened hay.
The garden spot should be plowed this
fall and given dressing of well rotted
manure. If an oachard is to be set out,
it is good plan to subsoil the land now,
for nothing will put it in better shape
Thumb and finger DUNG the summer
and a sharp knife duriu5 the winter are
all should, in ordinary circumstan-
ces, be needed to do necessary pruning.
The best rule is never to remove branch
without good reason.
When insects of all kinds are so plenti-
full, then let the birds also be plentiful.
The latter in crease far less politically
than do the worms and insects, and there
is no danger Of tie county becoming
overcrowded with birds.
There can hardly be considered any
best time to prune. In some conditions
one time is best. and in others another.
The growth and condition of the Il ees,
! the object to be procured. with other
things, must always be considered.
Store the onions where they can be
kept out of the sun and spread toieraly
thin, then there will be no trouble in
keeping them until cold weather. II
piled, they will soon heat and rot. Ii
you have no such place, better sell them
than 10 try storing.
The farmer considers the robin one OF
his greatest pests. BY actual test this
birds daily consumes 140 per cent. Of
its own weight In insects. Such an indie
fatiSable insect destroyer surely should
he welcome to the little fruit he pliers
for desert, if he wants it.
Trees want feeding as well as do pigs
or cattle. to produce growth or fruit; il
is mistake 10 try to raise crops year
after year from an orchard without re-
turning anything to the soil and horses
and cattle aie likely to overuo the job il
you leave the trimming to them.
Il is mistake not to trim and shape
the trees when young, and thus avoid
the necessity of removing large branches
when the trees are grown, which means
but mutilaton and injury; and it il
equally wrong to let too much fruit ma
ture Oh young trees, or ON any trees, fol
that matter.
Our object in sowing wheat with 1
drill is not only to get an even distribu
ton of The seed. but to get furrow
which will help TO hold the snow ovel
the plant, and whose edges will grad
ually crumble down upon the roots anc
cover them as they are heaved out by
frost.
Sunfower seeds make an excellen
! poultry food, but, in addition TO this
every bushel will produce about gallon
of oil, worth perhaps g. Let the boyi
have trial at this; it will interest then
and there is very little chance for a fail
ure.
Pay some attention to things whici
make life pleasant, and the business o
money making will not prosper any th'
4 less, and the wife aud the children will
like the farm better. Do not growl owe
vegetable garden nor scowl at flowers
once see the yard bright, and you vii
not go back TO the old order of things
I Ii you have an attractive houseyard go'
will be the first to boast of it to callers
i Peaches may be grown in many place
where they now or not if sheltered OIL
the north aud east from cold winds b,
hedges buildings or high fences. lie
the roots be mulched well, to proven
the warmth OF tire sun in early sprin
from starting them too soon an subject
ing the buds to the probability of beln
killed by later frosts. A full crop is de
sired more than extreme earliness.
Whatever may be.the price of whea
it will be vasly better to put in f.,
acres so well that You get more than tn
average crop than to put in more acre
and get less yield an acre. 1t take
the best we can do, usually, to meet tn
cost Of production, and if we put in NOR
than we can propely tend We will sufie
in pocket without question.
& Green manure upon potatoes is Ses
apt to produce scab, especially if appl
ell to the hill at the time OF plantin,
Rot ii we'll. For this reason commercis
fertilizers are often better and produs
smoother tubers-
Re sure that the next farm hand yo
hire is good plowman; many spen
their lives on farm without kncxin
how to picw properly, viii, due know
; le.ige Of what is needed In fitting II
ground for the csrtaiu crop which Is
{ be planted taere. Tie plow Is the Ike
: 10 Tho storehopss 81 The riches o. tie sol
Topping this clover II HAY has prove
i saccesalsl expefinsut Even \ Qni