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VOL XII.
FOB FARM AND GARDEN.
STABLE ELOOKING.
“To best preserve the proper growth
of the hoof,” says Wallace’s Monthly,
“all that is required is to leave unim¬
paired the enamel of the wall that pre¬
vents the rapid drying out of the
natural moisture of the foot, which is
an active agency in retaining the
proper shapo and texture of the wall.
Moreover the sole should not be
parched upon board floors or heating
bedding, for they rob the hoof of us
moisture below and induce contrac¬
tion, which brings in its train all the
evils of inflation. The natural earth,
with clean, cool bedding, is the best
floor to insure healthful feet.”
CROSS-DKILLIM. WHEAT.
It is a common idea that the drill
puts wheat seed so closely in the rows
that the plants crowd each other, while
the spaces between the drill rows are
unoccupied. But wheat roots, before
the leaves are six inches high, fdl the
whole surface soil, and it matters not
whether the stocks are close together
in places or evenly scattered. We
have never found benefit from cross
drilling winter grain, it rather does
harm by covering the first drilled seed
too deeply. This makes a double
series of roots which winter freezing
and thawing is pretty sure to snap,
leaving only the last seeding to occupy
the land in spring and make the crop.
— [Boston Cultivator.
CLOVER AS A FA KM CHOI*.
It is so well understood that clover
is the most effective agency that is
commonly practicable for bringing
back fertility to a run-down Held that
many seem to consider its culture im¬
portant chiefly for that reason. Where
a field once moderately fertile has
from continual cropping become im¬
poverished, nothing better can be
done, but the cultivation of clover as
one of the farm crops should not de¬
pend on such conditions or be under¬
stood as limited to one use. It is bad
farming to allow a field to become so
run dowu that special measures must
be taken to restore fertility of which
it has been robbed. It is far easier
and better to keep up the fertility of
the soil as you go along than it will
be to get it back again where it wits,
either by manure or clover.
Nothing is more important than for
a farmer to learn to adapt his crops t.i
the nature of his soils, and thus in
every way possible avoid anything
like serious improverismnent. Clover
is an indispensable aid and should al¬
ways be included in the rotation. It
can also be made a profitable crop on
its own account, independent of its
fertilizing properties for other crops.
By seeding so as to get a good stand
and mowing early it makes excellent
hay. When rightly cured all farm
animals are fond of it, and there is no
better fodder for cows giving milk.
The seed of the second crop is always
a cash article, and the threshed straw
and chaff that is not eaten by the ani
mals can be used as bedding for them
aud finally as manure.—[New York
World.
IHE CORN WORM.
The coin worm of the Northern
states is the same insect that is known
in the South as the cotton bell worm.
In the Southern states it confines it¬
self mainly to the bells of cotton, but
in the North to corn, although it lias
been known to eat green peas, ripe
tomatoes, and even the pods of cer
tain species of the lily. For the past
forty years or more it has been
known in the corn fields of the West¬
ern states, and some seasons it has
destroyed large quantities of this
grain. Recently, or within the
past ten years, it has increased
very rapidly in the Eastern states. In
some localities it has become so abund
ant that it is difficult to find an ear of
the early varieties of sweet corn which
does not contain one or more of these
worms, or, more correctly speaking,
caterpillars, foi* they are the larvae of
a night-ttying moth. There are usu¬
ally two broods of this insect during
the season iu the latitude of Netv
York, the last or fall brood hybernat
ing in its perfect or winged form;
consequently these moths are flying
about early in spring, and as soon us
the first cars oi corn show a few
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. NOVEMBER 24, 1892.
threads of silk the female moths
begin to deposit their egg*
upon them. The young caterpillars
follow the silk downward, eon*
suming ail or a part of it as they ad¬
vance, until they reach the young soft
kernels, attacking them and feeding
upou them even until they are quite
mature and bard. vVben full grown
the worms leave the ears of corn and
descend to the ground, where they
make a cocoon composed of earth and
a few threads of silk. They remain
in these cocoons about a month,
changing during the lime from cater¬
pillar to chrysalis and thence to moths.
Many remedies have been employed,
but we do not know any of much
practical value, although a few moths
may be caught and destroyed by plac¬
ing vessels containing a mixture of
vinegar and molasses in the cornfields
or iu gardens where corn is grown.—
[New York Sun.
1‘l.ANSINV. A BARK.
From a paper read before the Cen¬
tral Farmers’ Institute of Ontario on
barns suitable for the average farmer
some of the suggestions here given it
is thought may be of interest, es¬
pecially to farmers in the Northern
states.
The first thing a farmer should do
in building a barn is to get up a plan
so that the upper story will work in
with tiie lower one, and every time
feed is moved it will move nearer
home. Have it so arranged that it
will make it extra hard work to move
it in any other direction. For instance,
have your straw-cutter placed over
your feed-room so that the chaff' will
fall down into it, and at the time of
threshing have the straw all to move
towards the cutting-box. Next have
jour meal coming down a spoilt from
a grinder above driven by a windmill;
this power will drive the cutting-box
and grindstone, pump water, elevate
the grain, etc.
Again, suppose your stable hold* 50
head of cattle. Have it so arranged
that instead of feeding with a basket,
where you would have to make 25
trips, yon have a feed cart and do it
all in two trips with more ease. Then,
again, have your root cellar on a level
with your stable floor. Take your
cart and one or t,wo trips will do in¬
stead of carrying them in a basket,
which is very hard work and enough
to make a boy think of leaving the
farm.
Now comes the cleaning out of the
stable, with a wheelbarrow from 50
cattle fed plenty of turnips. There
is no man who would not. be glad
when he was done; but instead of the
wheelbarrow take a ilntboat and a
horse, aud in one or two loads all the
manure is out. with but little hard
work.
Next have your feed-box convenient
to the feed-room, meal-spout, root
cellar mid water-hose, so that the
whole feed can be mixed together
without taking many steps; here i»
where much of the ease comes in.
Then have a steamer in the summer
kitchen and convey the steam into the
l'eed-box iu stable. This will prevent
anv danger from fire near the barns.
Have all of these and a few other
things, such as good light, cheap man¬
gers and plenty of ventilation, and
behold you will see the hoys coming
back to the farm.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Send the turkeys to market in good
condition.
Although the hens produce the eggs
the average of production is with the
breeder.
Boiled oats in milk, fed three times
a day, is said to be an excellent food
for fattening geese.
It would be wortb while to give the
henhouse auother coat of whitewash
before cold weather sets in.
Surround each tree with tarred
paper, tie it together to hold it in
place, and mice will never touch the
tree. By doing this it hardly costs a
tenth of one cent to protect a tree
against the ravages of mica or rabbits
all wiuter.
Barnyard manure, composed of the
average grain aud hay ratious, eon
tains about ten pounds of potash, nine
pounds of nitrogen, and four pouuds
c-f phosphoric acid to every ton.
i These parts make it quite valuable *)
it fertilizer fop the orchard.
“TELL THE TRUTH”
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Woven Wire Springs, without support, reduced from $2,75 to $ 1 79
Spiral Springs reduced from . .
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Scroll Arm Rockers, with Iron Stay Rod, reduced from $3.90 to $3.
Oak Beds, formerly $4, reduced to $3.
Oak Beds, formerly $5, reduced to $8.50.
Imitation Walnut Beds, formerly $2.50, reduced to $2.
Imitation Walnut Beds, formerly $3.50, reduced to $3.75.
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Imitation Walnut Bureau, formerly $6.50 reduced to $9.
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