Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-21
FARM AND Stock NOTES.

CDdSBu DN tO25 are Us Il S6H0i 81 iHiH5 hOI
verv profitable.
The want of pure and fresh water ac-
counts in many instances for the lack OF
eggs during the winter season. Fowls
require a constant supply of water, and
without it will not lay.
In renOvating wOrn-Outlands sheep may
play very important part, provided green
crops are grown on the la, DIS. to be con-
sumed thereon by sheep inclOsed on plot
after plot by movable hurdles; for as they
feed they enrich the soil with their we'll
scattered drOppings.
A farmer says that if you want to fatten
a horse that is bidebOund, give him one
teaspoon full of the following once day in
wet feed: Saltpetre. ounces; crude an
timOny, ounce; sulphur, 3 ounces; pull
verize and mix the whole together. Dose,
a tablespoonful once a day in bran
mash.
Lambs may be weaned when from four
to five months old. They and their moth
ers should be separated and placed in lots
out of sight of each other, and along with
the young things should be put three or
four wethers or dry ewes to keep them
tame. They should have good pasture
and little grain daily, whereas the ewes
should be temporarily stinted for the pur-
pose of drying up their milk.
The improved Leicester sheep is horn
less; has a small head, bare poll; large,
bright and prominent eyes; cream white
face and legs; square, deep neck and
shoulders; straight, fiat, broad back; deep
body; fine bones, and juicy, tender flesh,
with the preponderance of fat nose on the
outside than the inside of the body. The
fleece is fine, silky, glossy and white,
of moderate length, often weighing ten
pounds.
b. G. Smith recommended, at a hOrti-
cultural meeting at Boston, to drive off
the curcullOs from lum trees by shower
ing with mixture of one pound of whale
oil soap to five gallons of water. 1t has
to be applied every day. 1t is easier and
simpler to kill tue insects daily by the
process of Earring the trees and catching
the pests on a sheet and then killing them.
Spraying the trees with a saturatIOn of
London purple is very certain destruction
to curculiOs and all other depredating in
sects.
When churning keep the temperature
between 90 and 81 degrees. according a
experience dictates. Stop churuing when
the butter is in granules about the SIZE of
wheat kernels. Draw off the buttermilk
and wash in brine until the water runs
off clear, as brine cOagulates the cheesy
matter. which dissOlVes and is then washed
out. Use none but the best dairy salt
when sailing. When packing use tirkins,
set in cool place and keep the butter
covered with brine.
The New York Tribune saT 8 that farcy
in the horse can be cured by feeding well,
giving moderate exercise regularly, and
at the same time administering daily six
grains of arceniOus acid, dram OF BIZ
carbonate of potash and eight grains of
powdered nux vOmica, in food. Apply
over the farcY buds an ointment composed
OF equal parts of bI-oXide of mercury and
lard. On ulcers apply powdered sulphate
of iron, to check the morbid process and
discharge and induce healthy action.
The extraordinary depression in the
price of sugar has attracted the attention
of the English faxmer to the desirability
of its use for cattle feeding. Raw sugar
is selling in England at less than . cents
per pound. On the Continent cattle are
fed to an immense extent on the best pulp
left after it has been pressed in the sugar
factories. Sugar or molasses will induce
cattle to eat many varieties of food which
they would otherwise reject, such as poor
hay or cut straw. The English farmer,
with his light hay and root crop, will, no
doubt, make use of cheap sugar and mo-
lasses in the ratiOns for his cattle.
On the general effect of heterogeneous ma
Gilbert remark in one OF their reports that
at should be called to mind that a general
tendency of heterogeneous manures is to
favor luXuriant and continuous growth,
as distinguished from arrest and CONSOLE
datiOn of that already formed, whilst that
of mineral manures is to favor cOnsOlida-
ton rather than luXuriance. Or. to put
1t another way. a characteristic effect of
heterogeneous manures is to favor the eX-
tension Of foliage and to give it depth
of color, where's that of the mineral ma
nures is to tend to stem formation and
production of seed"
The very smallest of all kinds of sheep
is the tiny Breton sheep. 1t is too small
to be very profitable to raise, for of course
it cannot have much wool; and as for eat
ing, why hungry man could eat almost
a whole one at meal. 1t is so small
when full grown that it can hide behind
a gOod-slzed bucket. 1t takes its name
from the part of France where it is most
raised. But, if not profitable sheep, it
is dear little creature for pet, for it is
very loving and, because it is so small, it
is not such nuisance about the house as
was the celebrated lamb which belonged
to little girl named Mary.
The breeding of high class mich cows
should be profitable business in these
days of such rapid development of inter-
from well-known milking stock, and which
show that the qualities desirable in the
dairy have been transmitted, are certainly
kind of property which should always
be able to command ready sale. Thor
Oughbreds of special dairy breeds are
generally too high-priced tor use in this
way, but could undoubtedly be used to
breed from to great advantage. High
grade heifers which can be sold at a rea-
10 Onnn
anywhere.
The tender lambs, pigs, colts and calves
Of this years crop have so far known no
weather except the warm sunshine of
summer and autumn; but the days are
now at hand when, unless protected, their
bodies will be pierced to the quick by the
cutting blasts that visit with such disa-
greeable frequency and ferceness the
farms of more than half the American
States. No animal, even though matured
and of the sort called tough" can hold
It's own, much less thrive or fatten when
in a condition of perpetual discomfort
arising from any cause, and it is doubtless
true that the winters cold causes not only
more discomfort but actual suffering to
farm stock than all other causes COM
bined.
Somebody of a mathematical turn, with
nothing better to do, has made the follow
ing computation, Wnlcn is curious, II NOT
essentially correct. He says that Ger
man mile-about five English miles-con-
tains 1886 feet; square German mile
contains, therefore, 66S, SOC, 900 square feet.
The superficial area of the Lake of Con-
stance, being eight and half German
square miles, therefore contains $685., 000,-
600 square feet. There are living on the
surface of the globe at this moment, in
round numbers, about ,430, 900, 900 human
beings. Let every man have four square
feet allotted to him, and if the lake were
frozen over, the whole human family
might find standing room upon its surface.
Should the weight prove too great, the ice
break and the whole human race be SUBJ
merged, it would only raise the level of
the lake about six inches.
When caoutchouc tubes are badly vul-
caniZed, the experience of NJ. Limousin