The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-04-14
A griCultural.

Contented children do not wish to
leave the farm. An organ or piano
for the girls or a horse and buggy
for the lads may prove very excel
lent investment; and let every one
of them have some little pecuniary
interest for which to work.
No question but that your work
will be more interesting if you are
trying to excel every other farmer
in your county in results. Have
little ambition to show your farm
products at the county fair next
autumn, and begin planning for
it now.
A good dooryard hedge or fence,
a smooth lawn, a well kept garden
and tidy barnyard go long ways
in making home a pleasant place.
Some farmers seem to be living
where they abide, while others are
content with just place to stop.
The man who keeps his burrows
straight can pillow more in a day
with the same team energy than the
one who lets his pillow tracks wind in
and out like the track of snake in
the, dust; and a straight furrow is
always the shorter one.
IL SiouhN AOl guy lOooOl hoo OCOh
kept vacant, or when wheat or oats
have failed, German millet will be
found a crop of quick growth, and in
many regions may be sown as late
as July. 1t makes a large amount
of excellent food, especially for the
milk cows, and is very profitable
crop for the silo. 1t should be cut
early and cured carefully.
IT, ,nfx 90 no
hundred starved acres are not equal
to 10 well fed. To skimp our fields
to save our bank deposits is mis-.
take, for money in the bank is new
er so profitable as manure on the
field.
There can be no mistake in plant
ing a large cared variety of corn.
Such ears must have large cobs, and
if the grain is enough to cover the
cob, the cob can never be too large.
1t is large waste to let half crops
or quarter crops cumber the ground
IL the field which has been sown in
wheat is not promising, replant it to
corn in good season.
1t never pays to half do the work
of putting in crop. This is true,
no matter how late the planting nor
how great the need Of getting the
seed into the ground quickly.
Grass is and always has been the
most important crop in this country
or in any other. Truly speaking,
neither corn nor cotton is king. In
some shape grass furnishes the
greater bulk of all food for the stock
1t supplies the material from which
the most profitable products of the
farm are made, and in one form OIL
another brings in more money thar
any other class of plants.
1t is claimed that Irish potatoes
are susceptible to material modifi
cation in time of maturing by simply
placing the seed potatoes in plac,
exposed to the sunlight for abou
two weeks previous to planting, o.
until the tubers have become quit,
green in color and the sprouts have
well developed. This mode of hand
ling may make a difference of 10 o.
Ia days in time of maturing. o
course, in handling, the tende
sprouts must not be injured.
1t is not wise to even use sect
corn from fields where smut ha
shown much development, as it will
contain smut spores, and anothe
crop of smutty corn will result. w
should be equally careful not to re
plant in corn field where smut wa
last year. There is no other way c
killing the germ than by using sue
precautions.