Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
Farm and Stock Notes.

Rest and freedom from annoyance are
essential to animals that are being fat
tened for market.
Mr.. John H. White, of Penn township,
Lancaster county, Pa, has SOW that re-
Gently gave birth to twenty-seven pigs.
Pullets for next winters laying should
be Matched now. The earlier they are
Matched the sooner they will begin to lay.
We have farm land enough for all.
When this country becomes as densely
crowded as France it will contain a pop
ulation of nearly 700,000,000.
Mr.. j. b. Moore, of Massachusetts, says
that in thinning peach trees of fruit you
should take off what you consider enough,
and then pick off half the remainder, as
the majority of fruit growers do not thin
them sufficiently.
A beekeeper says that by feeding nitro
genOus food the queen can be induced to
lay at any time. She can be started to
lay, and as fast as the bees hatch out,
strong enough to cover the brood, every
cell of a fresh frame of empty comb in
serted will be found to contain freshly
laid egg.
In an address before the Maryland Hor-
ticultural Society William Saunders, Su-
perintendent Grounds and Gardens, Ag-
ricultural Department, Washington, D.
c., said: ''The blight on apple and pear
trees is, in the aggregate, a source of much
loss. / will not discuss the point as to
whether this malady is caused by low
form of vegetable life, fungi, or by low
form of insect life, bacteria, but allude to
it to mention the fact that no part of q
tree coated with lime has ever been af-
fected."
When sOws are bred so that they come
in during January, February or March
their pigs can be pushed rapidly by good
attention and proper system of feeding,
so that they Will make excellent pork at
8 and 10 months of age. 1t is expensive
to winter hogs, and much of the profit is
lost where the farmers undertake to do
this. The most profitable hog is the one
that is farrowed in the spring or latter
part of the winter and slaughtered in the
following December. AT this age they
may be made to weigh all the way from
200 to 800 pounds.
Concerning the honey locust for hedges,
the Western Rural says that ''a good hedge
can be raised to turn stock at cost of 10
cents per rod under favorable circum-
stances, and it can be raised much cheaper
on new ground than on old. 1t is neces-
sorry, however, to give the hedge good at
tention." The honey locust can be twisted
into rope when young, and will continue
to grow in that form, Just off the ground.
so thick that bird cannot fly through.
AS it is always full Of strong, hard thorns
no animal will attempt a passage through
it, and being hardy and easily grown it
should be more extensively cultivated
There is no trouble in making a water
tight ditch in COW stables if YOU have
good clay. Dig the trench as deep as the
width of the boards you use for the sides.
which should be not less than fourteen
inches. They should also be two inches
thick, as they will take the place of floor
joists, and they ought to be of durable
timber. If good tough clay can be had
pound six inches in depth Of it into the
bottom Of the ditch, and on this a floor of
inch boards can be fitted. This floor need
not be nailed at all, but should not be
omitted, as the ditch can be more easily
cleaned from its use. The floor back of
the ditch should be on level with that
on which the COWS stand, and should be
wide enough to allow the passage of a
wheelbarrow.-PittSburq !St0ckmaR.
Mr.. w. III. Bull writes to the American
Garden about his method of managing a
greenhouse. The benches which hold the
soil are five feet wide and six inches deep,
the path being in the centre. The soil is
such as has been used in hOtbeds and is
rich in vegetable mold. 1t has not been
renewed for three seasons, as there seems
no Qeeu OF II. II Is Gdb0ef warm fOr let
tuce, but plants set out in October occupy
the bench till January, when they are
sold. They are the first crop on one side.
The other side is set out in September to
parsley roots, in rows five inches apart,
with one inch between plants. The soil
is kept moist, AMI they grow vigorously,
yielding four cuttings during the winter.
The roots are then removed to give place
to Towering plants. The parsley Yields
SO for space 3x5 feet. After the lettuce
are off half grown celery plants are set
out with water cress and dandelisn roots,
and the profits equal that from parsley.
After dandelions come radishes. Nearly
all kinds of garden vegetables are grown,
and as fast as one kind is marketed il is
Immediately replaced by another, the
profit from each being very large.
1t is by improving the quality of the
farm stock that the best results of feed,
shelter, care and management of stock
are to be obtained. Improved blood will
give better and quicker profits than feed
and care, but both should 60 hand in hand
together. Therein lies the success of the
present enthusiasm in stock breeding
throughout the West. Only full blood
males are used by successful farmers,
and the rapid grading up of the farm
stock is being assisted by the quite gene
raj Introduction of full-blood males. as
men see and prove for themselves the prac-
teal benefit of improved blood. The West
has made more progress in the last ten
years in improved stock breeding than the
New England States have made in fifty