Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-11
Farm and Stock Notes.

William Sanders, the Superintendent of
Grounds and Gardens, Agricultural De-
partment, Washington, says that no part
of {. tree coated with lime-wash has ever
been affected with the blight.
At horticultural meeting in Boston it
was stated that natural peach trees are
not harder, as has been supposed, than
those which are budded. 1t depends on
the character of the variety, and not on
the stock that bears it.
NAV is an excellent month for Matching
out LeghOrn chicks, as they mature early
and begin to lay soon. If young pullets
are pushed forward rapidly from this time
to fall they will lay earlier than would
otherwise be the case without the extra
attention.
The following is a record for one month
of Mary Anne of st. Lambert in milk and
butter: Total weight of milk for thirty
one days, GA pounds 10 ounces; total
weight of unsalted butter, Go pounds 8
ounces; total weight of marketable but
ter for 30 consecutive days, 1877 pounds
ounces.
The wool crop of California amounts to
10000 pounds; Ohio, $4,000, 900 pounds;
Indiana, 100000 pounds; Kentucky,
100000 pounds; Michigan, $4,000, 900
pounds, and Texas, 100000 pounds. The
total wool product Of the United States,
in round numbers, is estimated at 49,
100000 pounds.
The following remedy for hog cholera is
said to be an excellent one: Sulphur, 2
pounds; c0pperas, , pounds; madden, 3
pounds; black anthony, % pound: salt
petre, . pound; arsenic, ounces. The
quantity is sufficient for 100 hogs, and is
mixed with sioD enough for few doses
all rOund-a pint to each hog.
A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer
says that in cutting up some dead and de-
caying apple trees he dislodged scores of
bOrers which had found lodgment in the
trunks and roots, and is now convinced
that such trees ought not to be left in the
orchard to serve as breeding places for
insects, but Immediately consigned to the
fire.
All manures deposited by nature are
left on or near the surface. The whole
tendency OF manure is to 90 down into the
soil rather than to rise from it. There is
probably very little, if any, loss of nitrogen
from evaporation of manure, unless it is
put in piles so as to ferment. Rains and
deWs return to the soil as much ammonia
in year as is carried of in the atmOs-
phere.
Although Devon cattle are not cOnsid-
cred the best for beef production, yet two
steers exhibited at the Chicago fat stock
second premium oyer twenty-One Short
horn and Hereford steers. They made an
average gain of 120 pounds in thirty DAYS.
one weighing 1910 pounds and the other
2,035 pounds at years old. Neither had
been fed any grain until they were years
and months old.
A western farmer successfully dwarfs
the Usage orange after it has, in six or
seven years, become an efficient hedge.
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base and tapering to very narrow top,
and then cutting a ditch eight or ten inches
deep and within six inches of the hedge.
Crops will grow as close as they can be
planted or sown. The hedge puts out low.
stiff, stubby branches when thus dwarfed
and looks exceedingly neat.
Writing to the Inter- Ocean, an Illinois
strawberry grower says: Vacant spaces
may occur in the rows of plants and
should be filled up the next spring, using
the plants which have voluntarily come
up in the garden. For Strawberries take
out a spadeful of earth where the missing
plant should have BEEN then lift a straw
berry plant, in a spadeful of dirt, set it
carefully in the hole, pull dirt around to
fill up and tramp it in. The plant will
never feel the effects Of removal, but 20
on growing without intermssiOn. Do the
same with raspberries and blackberries.
and you can have full rows.'
The merits of feeding oil meal to stock
of all kinds is so well understood by all
European stock breeders that they take
almost the entire product of our country.
There are few breeders here who appre-
ciate its merits ana use it, but its IN erits
are not recognized as they should be by
our breeders and feeders, who, having
large quantities of corn and hay, give
little care for anything else, while If they
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any other feed, and buy oil meat to feed
with other feed, they would not only get
variety of feed but healthy feed that is
rich in fattening and growing properties,
and that enables other feed to give better
results.
How to protect harness from rats is told
by the Germantown IeIeQrdDh as follows:
RATS, when they are hungry-whch they
always are-will eat harness. A corre-
spondent informs us that ii, after greasing
the harness, it is busted with cayenne
pepper they will not disturb it. Another
correspondent says that coat of carbOic
acid following the greasing is sure pro-
lection. Either or both may be for all we
personally know; but we have method
that we never found to fail, tO-wit: Hang
the harness carefully up and high enough
10 be out of the reach OF this destructive
rodent and of from anything that may
oHeT dssiStduCe 10 5eb az the ndIu6Sss anu
you need have no fear ofiDjury from them"
j. S. Codding, an experienced Kansas
wool grower, lays down the folio wing
platform for those who would succeed in
the same business: 'Tne Merino must
take precedence. Their known adapta-
bility to large fiOcks, their wool producing
and hardness. all combine to make them
popular. Better throw the carcass away
at four years old than trust to any other
breed. Wool is the main point aud NUT
ton secondary. Select good sheep for
| stock. BE your own judge of what you
want. Don't pay long prices for short
| keep. Keep level heads and don't allow
any of your breeders or ram peddlers to
impose on you. Start right and feed reg
! ularly and well, get good assistants, feed