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About The Knoxville journal. (Knoxville, Ga.) 1888-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1888)
I TOPICS OF INTEREST ftED ATlVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Summer Treatment of Azaleas. Azaleas have become quite plentiful of late years, aud they are quite charming for the greenhouse or window. Most of them exposed for sale by the florists in the late winter months are imported from Germany. They are e: nice if grown as little plants, and are bouquet in themselves when in flower. The summer treatment of these plants, after they have done flowering, consists in encouraging a free growth, pinching out any. of the shoots likely to grow out of size with the rest. A warm, the nio:st greenhouse, with the plants near Those glass, who is just the thing for them. have oniv the windows had better keep them there until the end of June. The best place for Azaleas out of doors is a spot where they can be shaded from the mid-day sun, and the pots may be sunk in the ground, taking care that worms do not get up among the line roots. A sandy loam with one-fourth leaf mould is a good potting soil. The plants strike are raised from cuttings, which shoots, readily from the half-ripened young in the ordinary cutting bench.— Prairie Farmer. Bugging as a Business. i A man who makes their ways a study duty—might, •—a paid insect detective, devoted to his says a writer in the New neighborhood York Tribune, do great service in a and" peach borers, by keeping down apple rosebugs and curculios, currant such worms, pests. Knowing when slugs, and and how other them, to meet he could, with a little aid from the families he makes engagements with, do very much to preserve the beauty and the produce of the plants there surrounding our dwellings. Iu Europe catchers are professional mole-catchers, rat¬ and vermin-destroyers, and they stand well in the community as doing and special service, and having qualifications Professional knowledge not generally possessed. insect-controllers would be even not only more for worthy of support and regard, their service in preventing the destruction of valuable crops and plants, but as a means of acquainting the youth of the country with some of the leading facts of practical entomology, and as being watchmen, prompt to detect the first appearance of any new insect enemy, and to suppress in time what, with impossible delay, may prove very difficult or to get rid of. , Making Flesh of Grass. i Every dairyman knows that green grass is the cheapest as well as the best food that can be used for producing milk. Most persons prefer butter and cheese that are made while cows feed entirely on sweet and tender grasses. They think that they have a mote agree¬ able flavor. Grass is so much cheaper than any other food given to cows, that outside dairying cannot be profitably carried on of a good grazing district. Eng¬ land, Holland and Denmark are the best daliry countries in the world, chiefly for the reason that the climate and soil are well adapted of to the growth of grass. In parts the world where the rain fall is limited to a few months in the year, the grass when ceases the to grow supply during of milk the immedi- dry sea son, ately begins to falls off. The Northern States have great advantages over the Southern ones in the production of milk, for the simple reason that they produce more and better grasses. Cows will give milk if they are ted on dried forage plants at will and sell for grain, enough but it to is not for likely the food that consumed. pay Every is the sheep-raiser knows that green grass wool. The cheepest food for producing best grazing districts are the most favored ones for the production of wool. There is much profit on that part of the fleece that grows while sheep are in the pastuie, but very little if any in the part that grows while sheep are kept in pens and are fed on food that has been harvested. Hay and grain will make wool, but the chances nre that it will not sell for enough to pay for the food that the sheep have consumed. Grass is the cheapest as well as the best food for producing flesh on cattle, sheep, and horses. Most farmers are aware of this fact, but in practice they appear to forget it. They keep these animals in poor or closely-fed pastures during the summer, where they gain but very little. On the approach of cold weather they remove them to stables or jards and give the® ail they will eat. The fall and early part of the winter are the times when most farmers expect to put their stock in good condition for the market. They spend the entire season of warm weather in raising crops to feed the animals after the cold weather com mences. They neglect them in summer, but seek to make amends for it by giv ing them most excellent attention dur ingthe winter. Cows, steers, and young cattle that fared poorly ,n the pasture now fare sumptuously in the stable. They receive hay from the mow and corn from the crib. Young horses have their mangers full of cured timothy cut aud their boxes are supplied with thrashed oats. The best time to make flesh is while the grass is growing. It is then sweet and tender, and animals will derive more benefit from it than they will after it has attained a larger growth and has been cut, cured and put in stock. Gre'cn grass is as valuable for making flesh and fat as for making milk and wool. The farmers who know the best pastures make beef, mutton and horse flesh at the smallest cost. They aim to add to the weight of their animals while the grass grows and the weather is comfortable. They do not keep their pastures over¬ stocked. If a protracted drought oc¬ curs, they cut grass in meadows, oats or corn, and feed them to their stock. They aim to have their animals in prime con¬ dition at the end of the grazing season. If the season is favorable, they expect to have some steers that are grass-fattened. These will be the animals on which they will make the most money. Next to them in profit will be those that will re¬ quire hut a small amount of corn and hay. Both lets can be disposed of be¬ fore the snow falls. When this is done there is a great saving in stable-room, labor and food.— Chicago Times. c Farm and Garden Notes. In using eggs for hatching the largest and strongest chicks will come from eggs layed is by the hens or fully matured pullets. yelked Eggs that are small or double are not suitable for hatching. Ou most farms the manure is too un¬ equally distributed to give the best profit. Some parts are manured heavily annually. The garden is oue such spot, and as it requires more labor than any other equal area, it is fairly entitled to a. greater Washing portion of manure. the trunks of trees with offensive substances to keep out borers appears to A. W. Cheever ‘dike going will a be long much way round to get there,”as it less work to dig out what few there are in an orchard well cared for than to wash all the trees. The pig that brings the farmer the most money is not the one that yields him the greatest profit. Fall pigs win¬ tered over and fattened the next fall are almost invariably expensive animals. Where corn is fed to cattle whole, a few pigs much may be kept to follow them with¬ out outlay, but only a few. Referring to a plea for artificial color¬ ing of butter (made by one of the official agriculturists) England a correspondent of the New Farmer pertinently inquires if it wouldn’t be equally admissible to use the same means to give the desired creamy tint to bluish milk, in deference to the preference of city consumers. Apilt „ ... Over ,, _ Rums, . ! As the traveler walks on he perceives that his footsteps are not upon the orig in»l ground super-imposed of Jerusalem, but upon has a mass of matter which been strewn over the whole site. His tory enumerates seventeen captures of tended the holy city, eleven of which were at by sieges more or less destruc Jive. houses After many of these events the then standing wbiA razed to the earth. These were in time succeeded by new houses, which in their turn were overthrown at the next siege, and so on, each capture adding to the accumula tion of rubbish, Thus the traveler learns that a compact layer of solid coat ing, from has thirty to fifty feet in thick ness, been by degrees spread over the entire space. Even the valleys and ravines between the several hills on which the city was built have been so far filled up as to have partly lost their special The character, as already mentioned, Tyropheon particular instance. brook is perphaps the most The traveler will have heard of this brook, or read of it in Josephus, city, as a landmark in the in¬ terior of this but he will not find it. Nevertheless it was so deep that at its exit from the city at Moriah the bridge-span feet its was bed. more than one hundred above Its course has been traced by deep by the eiiSavaticfSs di^overy here of the and arch thefe and which have exposed the bed now ovef laid with llkutrqted. 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