Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-15
Farm and Stock Notes.

Farm and Stock Notes.
Wire cloth answers well as prOtec-
ton to corn-cribs against rats and mice.
1t can be used as lining to the walls and
floors.
A Georgia dairyman figures ont the cost
of good butter in this State at 1917 cents
a pound, where good pasturage can be
had on easy terms for ten months in the
year, and the butter sells at % cents
pound.
The hardness of the best Jersey butter
is regarded by Prof. Arnold as an indica-
ton that too much of the fat that should
go to make suet has gone into the cream
pot. Still in summer we can hardly have
butter too hard, and the oily foods which
make it softer should be replaced by
others.
The amount of available ammonia an
nually produced in the urine of a single
animal is as follows: Pig, IA pounds;
horse, 81 pounds; COW, s pounds, and
sheep, S pounds. In the solid portions
the pig produces IL pounds; horse, IS
pounds; cow, pounds, and sheep less
than pound.
The right time to cut hay or any crop
intended for feeding is Just when the seeds
are forming. Much of the nutrition is
stored in the seeds, and as ripe seeds are
often lost by being shaken off, the cutting
of the crop when they are in the milky
stage not only preserves them, but the
quality of the other parts of the crop also.
Unless you have hired help whom you
can trust implicitly it is a good idea to
use earthen dishes for milk in place of tin;
they are kept clean with much less trou-
bic. The scientists of the present day and
hour claim that the germs of disease hide
in the crevices of a milkpan, and that
nothing but conscientious application or
absolutely boiling water will remove the
danger.
The Bermuda is a Southern grass, and
Southern farmers are about equally -di-
vided in opinion as to whether it is pest
or a useful plant. 1t propagates from the
root as well as the seed, and when once
established in the soil is as hard to get
rid Of as quack grass. 1t may be sown
in April or May, much as you would sow
fax or oats, care being taken not to cover
it too deep.
If possible, plant trees on new ground
where none have grown before. If ne
cessary to ill up the old orchard, take
special care in preparing the place in
which to set the new trees. Remove the
soil where the old ones stood and replace
it with fresh earth. Mulch the newly
planted trees heavily and broadly with
straw manure, and also apply it to the
old ones remaining.
A successful florist gives the following
as his method of starting slips of rare and
tender plants: Underneath the usual layer
of sand in which the slips are planted and
covering the bottom of the pot or box he
placed layer of oats, which, when soaked
with moisture, eXude mucilaginous SUBJ
stance, acting as stimulant and feeder
to the tender roots OF the slip. By this
method he seldom fails to root his slips.
The Messenger gives the following as in
dicatOrs of soil: Broom sedge indicates a
silicious, albuminal soil; pig weed and
dock, a good sub-soil; sap weed, a potash
soil; poverty grass, WOrnout soil; red
piny, a barren soil; wire grass, a strong
soil; crab grass, a rich surface soil; sas-
safras and MULLEN show want of calca.
reOus elements; sumac indicates potash
while sorrel indicates a deficiency OF
lime.
When COW loses one of her teats il
does not follow that her actual value is
impaired, except as it may make milking
more difficult. After the milk veins have
become accustomed to the change, all the
milk secreted will go to three teats as well
as to four. Losing teat is an indication
that cow is or has been great mixer,
and may, therefore, be worth more than
one that has never had any such diff
Guilty.
MIR. j. &. Hill, of Ninety-six, S. c., says
the following recipe for picking beef can
not be excelIed, and that his family is now
eating fine roasts put up in November
To four gallons of water add ten pounds
of salt, a quarter of a pound of saltpetre
and one pound Of sugar. Boil a few min
utes and then skim off. When cold pour
over your beef. Keep the beef covered in
this solution and you can have it to tall
winter.
The celebrated Mccartney rose, which
is used in Texas for hedges. is ''true
rose" the R. brGctedtd, a native of China,
introduced into England in 1895 by Lord
Mccartney, IRON whom it derived its
name. 1t is a YigOr0us-grOwing and
climbing evergreen in the South, has
pretty single white flowers, blooms pro-
tuSely in the spring and sometimes at
other seasons. 1t may be easily raised
from the cuttings.
The method by which stumps are re-
moved by petroleum consists in allowing
the stumps to become completely satu-
rated with petroleum and then setting
them on fire. The method by using salt
petre consists in boring holes into the
head of the stump and putting into each
one ounce of saltpetre, and, after leaving
stance of the stump, the latter Is set on
fire, when it will be completely consumed.
Kentucky blue grass will grow on anv
rich arabic soil, although it does best on
a strong loan. In some portions Of the
West, where the winters are dry, it does
not succeed so well as in the more moist
regions bordering on the Missouri, as well
as in Kentucky and in the southern re-
giOns of Illinois. 1t is slow in becoming
established, even on the best soils, and
should not be pastured before the third
year, unless it has made an unusually
strong growth.
A prominent strawberry grower says
that strawberries do well on a great va
riety Of soils, but succeed best on soils
that have some clay in them. Any land
that will grow good timothy will grow
good berries. By planting early varieties
on sandy land, slOping to the south, very
early berries can be grown, and by plant
ing late varieties ON a northern slope of
clay land very late berries can be grown.
By this means we may have berries for
four weeks or more.
The latest statistics of the agricultural
industry Of New Jersey give the number
of farms in the State as 81, 207, embracing
2,096, 297 acres of improved land, having
an estimated value of $3.50 So, 1913. The
sum of ST.. So, 412 is invested in live stock.
There are 152, 600 mich cows, yielding To-
472,7S gallons of milk, 9,513,S35 pounds
of butter and 66,518 pounds of cheese.
The total number of persons engaged in
agricultural pursuits is placed at SO, 214,
of whom 81, 57S were farmers and 23,672
farm laborers.
The animal kingdom needs scavengers
to clean up the waste, to eat the dead
carcasses and consume the refuse that &C
cumulates. Even flies have a great field
of usefulness in eating up garbage and
destroying smells that otherwise would
be intolerable and detrimental to health.
On the farm scavengers Of another kind
can be utilized in removing that pest and
vigorous enemy of the farmer-weeds.
And more are better for this work than
sheep. They will keep weeds eaten of
and down. They will also keep brush
down that has been cut of, and win eat
many corners that otherwise would be
sowing seeds on the adjacent land.-NoTth
Cdr0LtnidH.