Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-06-21
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GERMAN MILLET.

NEhMAN mlALG4s
German or golden millet is one of the most
productive grass crops that can be grown, and
furnishes an excellent, rich hay of great val
ue for feeding cattle, sheep and horses, and it
is especially good for young stock and milch
COWS. When in the blue grass region of Ken.
lucky last August, We noticed many fields OF
it yielding immense crops Many feeders
there of mules and young cattle fed it with
profitable results. We give the following
from one who has successfully raised it for
some years:
It is sown the same as oats, from three pecka
to one bushel to the acre. The blade first
resembles young corn, coming out alternately
every five inches on the stalks, which grow
from four to seven feet high, having large
head, one and one-fourth to two inches in di-
ameter and eight to ten inches long; one
head yields one-fourth to onehalf pint of
seed. 1t natures in about ten to twelve
weeks from the time of sowing, ripeDs slowly,
and never falls down and wastes. 1t resists
the severest storms. The time it will stand
after it is ripe, and the manner in which it
resists wind, are wonderful. 1t will yield
from forty to one hundred bushels of seed,
and two to four tons of hay to the acre; will
grow in wet or dry, rich or poor land, and is
the surest crop have ever raised, and the
most profitable. One rain on it will insure
sure crop, and it is not like the old, common
millet or Hungarian grass Being great
fertilizer, it leaves the ground in a light, mel
low condition, and free from everything that
grows, the growth being so luxuriant that it
literally snothers out everything else. 1t
should not be sown until danger Of frost is
over. It is sown in this climate from the
10th of April to the 1st and 18th of Angus.
with good results. 1t can be cut as hay, but
the incest way is to cut as oats or wheat, and
bind in bundles. I would recommend it un-
hesitatingly to any farmer as the very best
thing he can grow.-Marsetta (Ga) journal.
SUMNER VERM1N.-Fowls are subject to
the attacks of two kinds of vermin, which in
summer are worse than at any other season.
The more common is louise; the other is a
mite, which has the appearance OF minute
spider. The louise lives on the bodies and
feathers of the fowls, while the mite conceals
itself in the cracks and crevices of the hen.
house, coming out at night and preying upon
the fowls and then returning to its hiding
place. The louise may be got rid of generally
by providing the fowls with dry ashes, sand
and dust, in which they can battle themselves
1t is a good plan to sift ashes and dust for this
purpose, adding to them some -four of sulphur
Place the mixture where it can be easily used
and the fowls will soon free themselves from
vermin. The mite is usually destroyed by
applying good coat of white'wash to the
poultry house, but the surest way is to fuml'
gate the house thoroughly. 1t is necessary to
stop all the openings of the house as tight as
possible. Take an old pan or iron pot and
place some live Goals in it; then take tobacco
lcigar refuse will answer) and lay on the Goals
as a top layer, after which put on sufficient
quantity Of rolled birthstone, broken up
Have everything in readiness before you be-
gin. Shut the door up tight before you fu'
migate, and the sulphur fumes will do their
work efectually.
FEEDING ONIONS AND MEAT.-The Pouk
try Nation says that onions are an admirable
food for fowls, or rather an adjunct food. II
given regularly, they will help prevent the
more ordinary diseases of poultry. Meat is
said by some to be an essential food for poul-
try, especially in winter, when they cannot get
the worms they pick up in summer. Others
again, maintain that the habit of giving meat
to poultry is productive of grave evils-the
cause of many of the worst forms of disease
which affect them by these authorities 1t is
called unnatural food, inasmuch as the diges'
tive organs of the birds are not fitted to as
similate it. There must, we think, be some
mistake in all this for we know of surety
that fowls devour, when they get it, and en-.
tirely of their own accord, an enormous guam
tity of animal food here it is cooked the
game found in natures garden is raw. 1t
meat is unnatural food for poultry. they GER
tainly have an unnatural appetite for it.
Throw in a lump of meat, among lot OF
fowls; if it is not bone of contention, it is
something like it, so eager are all to grab at
it. We believe the habit of giving too much
food to poultry in short space of time is a
bad one. If you notice their habits you per:
ceive that the process of picking up their food
under ordinary, what we may call the natu-
raj condition, is very slow one.
HOG CHoLERA.-This disease is the same
as pure typhoid fever in man the large bow.
els are liberated, according to the amount of
poison absorbed, and the time between the Ia
king of the disease and death varies with the
appearance of the body. The disease is the
most contagious known. 1t is carried by
chickens and birds from one lot of hogs to
another. So long as hogs run at large it can
never be stayed hogs penned in the centre
of large field and watered from we'll new
er get it unless carried to them by birds.
However, to prevent the hogs from getting
the disease is much easier than to cure them
after they have taken it. Give the hogs all
they will eat of corn ,slops little sour, slops
sweet, cold, cooked or raw; charcoal, lime
(slacked and dry preferred,) rotton wood,
wood ashes, hen manure and bricks broken in
small pieces. Give them good fresh water
twice, or at least once, day. Let them have
airy quarters and good warm place to sleep
and they will have no hog cholera. Keeping
too many hogs together and feeding slop
three times a day, without fresh water, are
the principal causes of the disease.
The Soil FOR GRAss.-Poor land in no
country will raise rich grass. But there is a
difference, other things being equal, in the
natural adaptation Of soils to grass. Sandy
soils are unfavorable to it. This want of nat
ural adaptation may, however, be compensa-
ted by extra pains in preparation and manu-
ring. Tight clay soils are, at the South, best
adapted to grass. Wherever such soil is
either naturally or arti6cially rich, grass will
thrive in it. Some of these soils are unsuited
to any other crop from their compactness, un.
less it be oats. For instance, what are called
"pipe clay lands" will bring neither cotton
nor corn to advantage, but will produce ex.
cellent herds.grass. There are thousands and
tens of thousands of acres of this pipe clay