Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-28
Farm and Stock Notes
1t is said that horse nettles may be de-
| stroyed by pouring kerosene on the stalks
| and letting it run down into the roots,

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1t is said that horse nettles may be de.
| stroyed by pouring kerosene on the stalks
! and letting it run down into the roots.
An Orange county On. Y. )farmer keeps
| peafowls to destroy potato beetles, claim
ing that they are very serviceable in that
respect.
Sheep raising, as conducted in England,
is much more thorough and judicious than
in our country, but we are learning. A
breeder Of Hampshire Downs, in Kent,
England has $50 lambs from 800 ewes this
season, without the loss of one, and three
years ago had ALP lambs from 321 ewes,
without losing eve in the preceding
winter.
Experiments with many leading fer
tilizers have established the fact that
nothing can compete with the best animal
manure for producing vigorous growth in
young trees and shrubs. Applications Of
wood ashes, ground bone, phOsphates, etc.,
answer an excellent purpose in connec-
ton with stable manure, but alone they
are less successful.
Many young chickens are killed by
being fed too much water with their meal,
and especially if corn meal is fed, which
is very concentrated food. The wet
masses are compacted in the stomach, so
that they cannot be wen digested. If corn
is fed, it is better for young chickens if
broken into small pieces and fed dry, but
wheat without breaking is better still.
Mr.. Bonner's investments in horse flesh
have been pretty large. His first was
$4,000 for team that he wanted for exer-
else. He had no thought then of becom-
ing an owner of famous horses, but the
passion gradually grew upon him. lie
paid $4,000 for Joe Elliott, S16,0 600 for
Edwin Forrest, $4,000 tor Lady Stuart,
$50, 600 for Edward Everett, and the same
for Startle, $50, 900 for Pocahontas and the
same sum for Dexter; $4,000 for Rarus,
and now $4,000 for Maud S.
1t is no difference whether the farmer is
breeding fine stock, keeping dairy COWS
or devoting his farm to some varieties of
grains, he should aim to improve. Start
ing with the highest type of stock or seed,
it should be his constant effort to improve
upon whatever he produces every year.
He should establish pretty high ideal
| and select every year more perfect speci-
mems of stock and grain. There is no
branch of agriculture perfect yet and the
highest specimens OF it always pay the
best.
A mixer should learn to milk quickly.
Slow milking will ruin any cow, and there
is little doubt that many COWS are made
| improbable by bad milking. AS soon as
| as rapidly as possible. Stripping with the
| finger and thumb is bad practice and
| should be unlearned at once, and the
whole hand used to milk with. BY perse-
vering one will soon be able to milk very
| short teats if the hand is moderately small.
The best mixers have small hands
strength of wrist will come in time.
The Forming World says that home
made manure should be the farmers text
and that the acreage under cultivation
should be Jessened to conform TO the sup
! ply of fertilizer produced. One Of the
| chief sins existing in our present farming
system, it adds, is the habit of oVer-crop-
| ping. Another sin is our failure to inform
ourselves concerning the nature of our
| soils. No man can farm intelligently who
| is ignorant of the character of his land,
and who does not know what kind of soil
is best adapted to the different crops.
In the finest quality Of butter the salt is
| so evenly diffused that, as appears under
| the microscope, every grain is surrounded
| by film of clear and transparent brine.
This shows the necessity of avoiding the
! oVerworking of butter before the salt is
added. In the first working eVerv parti-
Gle of milk ought to be got rid of, but
enough clear water should be left to dis
solve every grain Of salt in twelve hours
before the next working. If this is at
tanned there is little danger of streakiness
in the butter, but to get the best results
the salt should be very finely ground.
If hindered from having nourishing food
of a suitable character during early
growth, calves, like the young of other
animals, and even children, will never de-
velOp into the size and form they would
on proper diet. Give all the new milk
they will drink for period never shorter
| ho he ND h.
ened to three months it will be found to
pay in the end. New milk may be fol-
| lowed by SKINNED milk, and this will be
improved by the addition of an ounce of
0il-cake and half an ounce of molasses to
| gallon of milk, which should be little
warm when given.
To be successful horticulturist one
| must be quick and careful observer. To
see properly and to see all there is in ones
! surroundings is the beginning of good
and broad education. 1t is moving CAPT
tai. The study of botany, of entomology,
OF ornlthology, diligently pursued, is the
most important means to acquiring good
habits of observation. Few farmers know
| what is going on about them; or, if they
do, they often interpret it wrongly. A
good observer sees what his neighbOr is
doing, where he succeeds and where he
fails. Successes and failures in ones own
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we read about.
You cannot grow good celery on poor
| land, nor can you work enough manure
| into good land in one year to put it in or
| der for celery; but if you will take piece
| of good, rich clay loan and plow under this
fall ten or fifteen cords per acre of horse
manure, and then pillow under ten cords per
| acre of fine compost next spring, you can
raise celery near Worcester or any other
| city that will pay for it. But even after such
heavy dressing the celery will not be so
! good the first year as after several years
! cropping on the same land; the land needs
| to be very fine, as well as very rich, and
| the banking of the celery makes the land
| better than any other preparation for the
| next years crOp.-W. ID. PhUbrick, in
| Nelc England Farmer.
Says the Poultry Keeper: If you have
no milk for your fowls we will give you
substitute, which, though not exactly the
same, may be said to be equally as valua-
BILE. Boil one quart of beans till thor
Oughly done to the consistency of a thin
soup. Add little salt, tallOw and mashed
potatoes while boiling; then thicken a
little with mixture of -four and Oat meal.
If the fowls do not drink it readily thicken
it to dough with bran and corn meal,
and feed. Milk contains heterogeneous
matter, and so does bean soup. 1t also
contains Inc pnOspnaLeS, which is also
quality of Oat meal. 1t is not always alb
sOlutelY necessary to feed particular sub
stances while we are able to procure the
needed material in forms that bring them
more easily within access.
There is a limit to skill in the dairy.
Skill NAV improve many things about the
butter and the cheese, but common sense
will indicate that inferior cows, half fed,
and that of poor descriptions, will not fur
nish milk that can be relied upon to make
an article of full quality, or even prime
goods. 1t needs better cows, fed on foods
suitable for producing a high quality of
fats in the milk, to make gilt-edged butter.
The commOn-sense part relates to the Sc
lection and feeding, as well as the care of
the COWS, and the skill relates to the man.
ufacture of the finished product. The
elements of good butter are found first in
the milk and no after-skill in manufacture
can supply them. There may be various
tricks of the trade resOrted to to cover up
or disguise defects, but they are not of or
parts of good, prime, sound butter.
The Country Gentleman says the first
thing to do after an orchard is planted is
to affiX labels to the trees which will re-
main permanently to them and show the
sort. The best label is made of a narrow
strip Of sheet zinc, the narrow end of
which is coiled around a small side branch,