Sooner or Later…

Ever have a day (or late night) when you mind just wanders around a problem and answers to questions you never knew you had appear? Well this is what a wandering mind on the internet can find. I have no idea how it all started either, but it was reasonable at the time.

I think it started with tobacco…because it is supposed to be good for worming animals. I am a reasonably capable gardener who would like to do as much as possible for the family. Since prices are going up in all areas. I dove in…

And for some tobacco works fine but…if the pasture is too short, or the weather is too wet, or too conductive to parasites, or a host of other problems…then it fails miserably. Animals need to be in good health for the rightness of good care & for the benefits to the bottom line. Gotta take care of those who are taking care of you & yours. Still didn’t like the idea of being chained to the farm store though…

All is not lost. Google and link hopping found this incredible page. Ayrshire Farm is an organic farm that had an expensive worm problem. By searching through old old farm books the owners found a remedy. Even better the results are test proven. Hop on over yourself to read more.  I like the homemade drencher - thinking outside the box. Now to find out if their turpentine is the paint thinner variety, if the lindseed oil can be furniture grade, and if it would work on goats and other farm animals… 

In doing all that searching on tobacco & worming the path wandered off into growing tobacco. Quite an interesting meander. Many old-timers stories worth reading and listening to. Found an interesting figure but cannot find the page: An 8 x 10 bed can grow enough tobacco for a lot of cigarettes - 3556 if memory serves. That’s a lot of something. 

It isn’t a walk in the park to grow, harvest, and dry but it might be an interesting history lesson. Tobacco, Colonial times and the American Revolution are tightly woven together. Wandering here, here, here, and here. Perhaps someone might need an animal wormed or whatever. What laws cover selling/trading tobacco? or worm medicine? Then there is the scent from the flowers. Just a wandering mind…