Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-25

apiece Tor cats on Une san Joaquin river,
California, to kill the gopher ground
squirrel.
The Pharmaceutical Journal says that
in Canada honey is extracted from the
comb by a centrifugal machine and the
comb replaced; the bees, when in good
condition, will fill it again in four days.
After two seasons use the comb is melted
into "fOundation comb" upon which the
bees quickly put the finishing touches.
Canadian wax is practically out of the
market; the supply is principally OBJ
tanned from Africa.
The use of blood as food for cattle has,
it is stated, been the subject of experiment
in Denmark by chemist, who, as a re-
sult, has now invented and patented a
new kind of cake, in which blood forms
one of the chief ingredients. This new
food is stated to be exceedingly nutritious
and wholesome, and is eaten with avidity
by all sorts of animals, and even by cows
and horses, which have naturally a strong
dislike to the smell of blood.
There is likely to be a revival of the
beet-sugar industry in England. Some of
the works long ago abandoned are being
put in order, and large paintings of beets
for sugar Will be made in their neighbOr-
hood. One difficulty in English growing
of beets for sugar is that the growing sea-
sons are so cool as to greatly diminish the
proportions of saccharine matter in the
root as compared with beets grown in
France and other warm climates.
The number of Jerseys, Shorthorns and
HOlsteins sold by auction in the United
States during the year 1888, together with
the average price each class received, ac-
cOrding to a report furnished the National
Line Stock Journal, adds up as follows:
- hCr Of 10 fNfs
S205 Sc: 239 head of HOlsteins brought an
average of 1878 60 each. The number of
Jerseys sold under the hammer numbered
LESS, and the average price received was
$409 Oh.
Extracted honey is that which is sepa-
rated from the comb by rapidly whirling
the comb in separator, thus throwing
out the honey. That from poplar and
buckWheat is as clear as crystal and is
the only pure honey, being wholly free
from bee-bread or wax. After the honey
is extracted from the comb the comb is
placed back in the Lives to be reflled, the
object in using the comb over again being
to save the bees the work of making it
again, thus allowing them to gather more
honey.
The dam in colt should have liberal al
lowances of oats to supply phosphate for
the coming offspring. Corn is not a bone
forming food. See that the udder is kept
free of fluid, as safeguard against gar
get. Battle often after the days work is
done. See that the bowels are regular.
When not at work let her have exercise,
as her legs are apt to stock when standing
in the stable. Attended to as we have
outlined, the mare will keep in good con-
ditiOn and bear a better cOlt.-OhiO
Farmer.
According to the best evidence obtaina-
BILE on the subject there is more profit to
the dairyman in medium and small cattle
than in larger ones. Those who are now
advocating the general-purpOse COW claim
that she must be large in order to make
good paying beef. For our part we can
profitable than asmall one. Each animal
sells by the pound and eats according to
his size. Cuts from the carcass of large
animals cost no more in market than cuts
from small ones.
That is queer feature in the centrifu-
gal machine that causes it to throw out
or gather on the inside she'll coating of
highly offensive matter from the milk.
Some very interesting experiments might
come from mixing the cream and milk
back again and trying it's keeping quality
by the side of some of the same mess Of
milk that had not been passed through the
centrifuge to see if eXpelling this matter
rendered the milk more pure and long
keeping. We do not know that any de-
cided advantage has yet been discovered
from its expulsion.
Small fruits can be raised while we are
waiting for the trees to come into bearing,
A good supply of them can be obtained
the second year after setting out. Rasp-
berry, blackberry and gOoseberry plants
can be got for 81 90 or So per hundred
now, and others alike reasonably. No
one need 90 without small fruits when
bushes can be had for ~ cents each. l
recOllect once buying half dozen goose
berry bushes and paying 70 cents apiece
for them, which was the usual price at
that time. never regretted the invest
ment, however, and would to-day paw five
times that price rather than go without.
The Baltimore Market Journal saws:
"The idea of planting edible nut-bearing
trees where shade is desired. instead of
those which are solely ornamental, is not
new, but the suggestion is one that will
bear thinking about by those who con-
template planting shade or ornamental
trees. Chestnut, walnut, hickOryn,It and
butternut trees are all nearly as fine in
appearance as horse chestnut and maple.
and, aside from the source of revenue
which will in time accrue to their owners
from the fruit, the timber of such trees is
always in demand, and the tree itself NAV
become profitable should it become de-
sirable at any time to remove it,"
Some time since, in stroIing through
Stratford, the market garden of Bridge
port and Birmingham, Conn.,, was much
interested in meeting w. H. Benjamin
and learning his method of bleaching
celery. Instead of earthing it uD, as is
usually done, Mr.. Benjamin simply ties it
up closely in old news or other papers
when it is ready for bleaching, and at the
end of from twelve to twenty days finds
it as nicely bleached as though it had been
labOriously banked up. He says One-third
more celery can be got from an acre, be-
cause when it is not banked it does not
need to be planted so far apart; that a
great amount of labor is saved, and that
by this process the celery never rusts.-
Canadian HOrticuLturist.
AS strawberry roots go deep the bed
should be prepared by previous culture
and thorough fertilization to a cOnsidera-
bic depth. The roots cover an area scarce
ly larger than the leaves, and the plants
may therefore be set close, provided the
soil is rich enough to sustain them. Since
the roots run nearly vertical there is little
danger of deep cultivation of the ground
between the rows, even after the plants
have attained full size. The fact that new
roots grow out above the old ones each
year explains why strawberry plants ap-
pear to elevate themselves as they become
old, and suggests the Importance of draw
ing earth to them after the bearing sea-
son. Surface manuring is also advisable,
but it should be close to the plants.
That sheep will improve the fertility of
your soil may be very easily demonstrated
by yarding them few nights in spring or
summer on the thin and poorer spots, or
on knobs that may be found in most of
your pastures, those places where the
grass grows weakly and where sOrrel
grows. Sow clover, timothy or bluegrass
seed thickly, and then by light portable
fence eonfne your flock of sheep for a few
nights on these places, and you will soon
realize that by little attention and not
very much labor, your soil will improve
in fertility, and that your sheep, with a
liberal use Of clover and grass-seed and
plaster, may be made the best and the