Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-17
Farm and Stock Notes.

The average price of ShOrthOrns~ in 1881
was Sl5S; in 1882 it was SlS2.10, and in
1888 1t was S205 IS, with prospects for it
being still higher for 1884.
Less grain and more grazing tend to a
better development OF frame and muscle
than when corn is FED to hogs exclusively.
Build the frame first and lay on the fat
afterward.
At a recent sale of fine poultry in Eng
land 21S birds were sold and the best prices
made were: For dark Brahma cOckerel,
$25; partridge Cochin cOckerel, $25; ditto
pullet, SIS 70; buff Cochin cockerel, $25.
The members Of the Kansas State H0r-
t1cultural Society unanimously agreed,
after consideration, that insects injurious
to fruits were more numerous about the
railroad stations than in other localities.
Young chicks that are subject to weak
ness in the legs should receive a small al
lowance of fine bOne-meal in the food.
Weak legs come from forced growth, high
feeding and close confinement, but it is
not necessarily dangerous.
The greatest enemy to bees in winter is
man himself. After bees have once clus-
tered for their winter Information it is al
most sure death to disturb them. 1t
sometimes pays to bank hives with snow,
being careful not to disturb them.
The question as to how many bees can
mined. In some parts of Germany seye-
raj thousand colonies are frequently found
in single compact neighborhood, while
in this country a much smaller limit is
sometimes given.
Professor E. w. Stewart, in his recent
useful book, celebrates the COW as "the
most remarkable producer among ami
mals.' She gives, at her best, nearly
seven times her own weight per annum in
mill Of Vyoln fxx-iOn 10 ha
beef creature of equal size gains. during
the same time.
A subscriber inquiries which form of
! potash is the cheapest. The sulphate in
the shape of kainit is probably the best,
as it is combined with other substances,
such as magnesia, lime, etc. All forms
| of potash are estimated according to the
! actual available potash contained, wheth-
er they be muriate Or sulphate.
There Is quite waste Of poultry ma
! nure from fowls that rOOSt on trees and
| Out-of-the-way places. While the value
| of this may appear small on a single farm,
! it becomes very large when estimated for
| the whole ccantry. Professor Horton
| says that 800 pounds Of well-kept poultry
| manure is equal in value to fourteen loads
| of ordinary stable manure and should not
be allowed to go to waste. The extra care
| required to have the coOpS properly ar
ranged for saving the droppings is a small
! item in the cost.
| A comparison is made Of a piece of land
! that produced II bushels of wheat in 1879
| worth $11, while high system of farming
caused the yield in 1882 to increase ten
times in value. The same piece of land,
therefore, under a better system, was
made equal to ten times as many acres,
with the advantage of smaller area to be
! cultivated. harvested and fenced. The
| hQ in
| creased yield, but also from the saving of
| expense as compared with the same pro-
duction over larger surface.
The desire to select farms and market
| gardens near large cities is founded in
error. There is scarcely a village or town
that does not find difficulty in procuring
full and ready supply of vegetables and
! fruits. The towns in the rich Chester
! Valley, one OF the most productive re-
gions in the United States, are often sup
piled by market cars from this city, and
in some portions of New Jersey last sea-
| son vegetables were sold at good prices,
despite the fact that canning establish
ments, whose presence implies an album
dance of vegetables, were not very dis
| tant.
The TarbOro S0utherner says that a pea
vine in that section, grown from an ordi-
nary black pea, covered over 200 square
feet of ground. One-half the peas had
| been gathered, which numbered about
! 500 and measured a little more than three
pints. This gives an increase from a sin
| gle pea, provided the remaining portions
of the vine were equally productive, Of
more than 10000 fold. Whether the large
| yield was due to the proliticacy of the pea
! rs a variety, or to the fertility of the soil,
! is not stated, but it is demonstrated that
we should not be content with:the average
! Yields in the face of such results.
Let us figure out the agricultural value
| of ton of air-dry muck, according to the
values given by DR.. Nichols, when used
| as an absorbent of liquid manure. Ten
! tons of wet muck contain, at 30 cents
ton, his lowest estimate, So worth of nj
trogen. These ten tons wet weigh only
| three tons when air-dry. These three tons
should take up six or seven tons of liquid
manure before saturatiOn. 1t then stands
thus; Three tons OF air-dry muck, So; six
tons of liquid manure( urine at So ton
! $50; making a total value of $50. This
would make the value per ton of air-dry
muck 81 81, $40 of which would, in all
/ probability, have been wasted had not the
ton Of air-dry muck been used as an alb
| sorbent.-Fdrm and Home.
| In the Iowa Horticultural Report G. H
! Gardner speaks of the value of evergreens
! as shelter for small fruits. He says that
a small fruit patch surrounded by ever
| greens has produced double the quantity
Of fruits and plants over that not thus
protected. This, if true, may be taken
advantage of by many, in this section at
! least, where evergreens spring up and
/ flourish wonderfully. We would like to
| have DR.. HOskins tell us if he has had any
experience as to the value of evergreens
| for the protection of small fruits or of or
| chards. 1t has been "A theory with us that
| evergreens would make the best possible
| protection for any kind of fruit orchard,
and would be of especial advantage in
| guarding them against the rights Of our
] severe winter weather.