The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-10-28
Agriculture.

To make sure of good fence posts,
the simplest and cheapest method is
to fell the tree while in full leaf in
the summer, and let it season with
leaves and branches on until fall;
made of such timber, posts will
greatly Outlast those from winter
felled trees.
Heroic remedies will do a great
deal toward wiping out the chinch
bug pest from the farm, and just
now is the time to get at it. Begin
next years fight this fall. Fields
infested last season should receive a
thorough hauling over, and all trash
burned.
When it is absolutely necessary to
raise farm products at a less cost
than usual there will be many farm
ers found who can and will do it.
Adversely will solve problems which
prosperity will not approach.
He is mistaken who says he can
not afford to use improved methods
and keep good stock Absolutely,
there is no farmer who can afford
not to do so.
Do not count 1t all profit if you
have been selling off the fertility OF
the soil; yet, if you have lived and
have made the farm better, you are
Just that much ahead.
1t is never the right thing to sub
soil land when it is wet down where
the subsoiler works; the ground will
be left in puddled condition worse
off than if it had been left untouched
1t is all work, for then the ground
is likely to be dry.
Nitrogen, in the shape of COM
mercial fertilizer, is too expensive
to buy, and yet no element need
cost farmer less. Just four f1fths
of the air around us is nitrogen, and
it is gathered for us by the legumiD-
Gus crops, to be plowed under aud
given to the soil.
By draining we get rid of surplus
water, and lower the water line
The soil is put in better condition tC
retain all manures and to Absorb
ammoniacal, heterogeneous and car
bonic acid gases. Instead of wash
ing away, soluble elements become
incorporated with the soil, for it IL
more porous. The plow can b,
started much earlier, and the in
creased warmth of the grOunC
causes a faster growth of plant life
When the water line is but five o.
six inches below the surface, that i
the depth of the farm. To drain thu
land, then, is to deepen the soil ant
it ia always ready to stir.
The value of corn fodder is mucl
greater when it is cut during warm
dry weather, when it will cur,
rapidly, than when it is put in shocl
later and the rains and cold make /
dry out more slowly. So long as l
is moist some waste is going on il
/ the nutritive value of the stock
When the drying is fastened tn
waste is small. The corustalk, afte
repeated freezing and thawing, is o
little value for. feeding. The vast
of nutrition in the silo is trivia
when compared to that during tn
process of slow drying.
You know of no farmer who Is act
ually starving for food; but ther
are many of the poor who woul'
have suffered severely during lat
years had it not been for the exceed
ingly low prices of flour and Othe
products of the ground. If you
wheat money is at any time no
; what it used to be, remember that
: is not all loss, viewed from the loft
point of the brotherhood of man
kind.
If the potato field is injured by re
: or disease in the crop, bv no mean
nSa tho sauna fiald for DOtatOeS mex
season. Try another field.