Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-05
Farm and stock Notes.

Absurd that a ''dead branch on a tree
| makes almost as great strain on the
! main plant for moisture as a living one y
| A dead branch makes no kind of a .sstrain''
| upon the tree. The fact is, the branch
! was a STRAIN while living, and for that
| reason the tree threw 1t of, lust as it
| throws off the surplus fruit it has no
strength to ripen.
The reason why composts and fertilizers
are better made under shelter is that no
| teaching rains can bear away portion of
its value, and, as in the case of guano on
| the islands of Peru, when the moisture
! Necessary in manipulation dries out, the
! fertilizer is left in its most concentrated
| form, lightened and made easier to ham
4 die. Beside, thus sheltered and dry it
will keep indefinitely.
Some years ago a gardener asked Mr..
I Saunders how be could improve the Lima
bean. He was told to find, if possible, a
pod having at least four beans; the next
season 10 plant one, the largest and best
OF these; the next season to select as be-
fore one bean, the one which not only
seemed to the eye the largest and best,
! but the one that could weigh the most,
! and then to pursue this method for sew
! eral years. The result we all know is a
really great improvement of that delicious
! vegetable.
1 n HOflSJ bcllS us JlIdb nuCu UL6 WISHES
! to send choice flower buds, if you cut
! potato into two pieces, bore holes in them,
| into which to insert the stems of the buds,
and put them in box with cotton all
round to hold them steady, the buds will
| keep perfectly, as there is enough moist
ure in good sized potato to support
| flower two weeks in moderately cool
| temperature. Flowers for bouquets or
| baskets may be preserved in the same
1 no fof RI hpinO hjddQn NV IooUpc
| or MOSES.
Save the spent tea leaves for a few days,
! then steep them in a tin pail or pan for
| half an hour; strain through a sieve and
use the tea for all vanished paints. 1t
requires very little elbow polish, as the
| t. a acts as a strong detergent, cleansing
the paint from all impurities and making
| it equal to new. 1t cleans windows and
| sashes and oilclOths; indeed, any var
nished surface is improved by'its applica-
| ton. 1t washes window panes and mir
rOrs much better than water, and is
! excellent for cleaning black walnut and
| looking-glass frames. 1t will not do to
wash unyarnished paints with it.
| A well-bred, moderately fattened OK
should yield 50 to 60 pounds of dressed
carcass to 100 pounds of live weight,
while an excessively fat OK may give from
| 90 to 70 per cent. Moderately fattened
| the live weight, and very fat ones as high
as 65 per cent. This is we'll understood
| by butchers, who base their prices upon
the dressed weight of the four quarters.
| Thus, if good quality cattle are reported
| at 10 cents it means so much per pound
| for what the four quarters will weigh, as
! the rule is that the 40 pounds of Offal-
! hide, tallow, head, heart, legs, etc., pays
| for killing and dressing.
The following rpcfDes for petfino rid Of
mOles come from different sources: One
J pint of the seed of the castor oil bean is
| sufficient to clear any garden of an acre
| or less for the season; simply thrust the
! fiuger into the mole hill and then drop a
| bean there, which he will be sure to eat
| next time he comes along, at the same
! time covering up the hole to make the run
| tight as before and keep out the light. On
| the other hand, it is as positively denied
! that the castor bean is at all useful in this
/ particular. Here is another PLAN Haul
/ a large heap of manure on the ground in
| fected in the fall. The mOles seek warm
winter quarters and will hunt that heap
| of manure in drOves, and yet they never
! leave the ground. After heavy freeze
comes throw off the heap, dig out the ami
mails and kill them.
Mr.. Eli Minch, of Cumberland county,
! N. j., thus gives directions how to obtain
healthy orchards He advises that all trees
! from the nursery be examined and if found
! infested with any of the known orchard
| pests they must be freed from the insects
| or burned. Dipping the trees in hot water,
| at temperature of from 100 to $50 de-
! grees, will kill the lice. The trees should
| be dipped several times and cooled after
! each dipping. Paris green water may
also be used at the rate of one pound of
! Paris green to 200 gallons of water. For
| the oyster shell bark louise a wash COM
I posed of one pound of concentrated I've to
! two gallons of water is recommended,
while the tree should be carefully washed
| during the operation with a stiff brush.
| The bOrer can best be removed with the
knife, owing to the difficulty of reaching
| them.
Orchard grass may be grown anywhere
! in the country. 1t makes excellent pas
| turage. The rapidity of its growth is
great. 1t makes flesh and is very nutri-
tious. From it's appearance it is some
times called cocks foot grass. 1t thrIves
in somewhat shaded places. OF course
hay can be made from it, although it is
very coarse, and 1t seems never tired of
| growing either after close cutting or after
| close pasturing. In fact, it must be close
fed. The time for cutting is about the
same time as for clover. Sometimes it
grows so rapidly that cattle cannot crop
it short enough, so that it is too rank and
cut. The value is somewhat in its earli-
ness. You must remember that the es-
sential thing about it is the close crop
ping. This causes it to keep tender and
| fresh. 1t may be sOwn with advantage
| early next fall.
Hoeing and the frequent stirring of the
surface of the soil are good substitutes for
rain. Those parts of the garden that are
most frequently cultivated show the best
rac11Itc If ic nrOhobIa that aOrn xUafor-
melons, tomatoes, Lima beans and cab
bage, and possibly other plants, if well
started, in good, deep soil, may go through
a two months drouth without very seri-
Gus damage. A deep, well-manured soil
suffers much less than a shallow soil.
Sub-sOiling and manure are to a certain
extent substitutes for rain. Moisture
comes from below. Undertaking is also
a safeguard against drouth. The course
of the drains in the garden can easily be
marked in a dry season by the Tanker
growth of vegetation above them. Irri-
CATION in many parts of the North will
pay. The soil, if well prepared, could use,
to good advantage, twice the quantity of
water it receives from rains during the
dry months of summer.
eff you have very rusty plow," says
a writer in the Cincinnati Times, ''pour
about eight ounces of sulphuric acid, as
purchased at the apOthecary's, into a
quart of water; do this slowly and very
carefully, for it will burn hands, clothing
or almost anything else; also, use an
earthen or crockery vessel rather than a
tin or iron one. Apply this to the rusty
surface two or three times, making each
application as soon as the former one is
dry. Then wash with clear water and re-
peat at the recess. Give some of the
worst spots rub with a bit of Bristol
brick, wash again with water and wipe
dry. Put little kerosene around the
bolts and take the pillow to pieces, seour-
ing each piece to get off the remainder of
the rusty spots if necessary, This sounds
like a formidable process, but the whole
operation ought not to take over an hour.
Oil all exposed surfaces with kerosene
when you set the pillow away, and when
you do your spring blowing a very few
turns will finish off the balance of the
rust"
The report of the Connecticut Expert
ment Station gives the following diIec-
tions for composing dead leaves, in an
swer to an inquiry for the treatment with
lime of a mass of leaves which had drifted
for twenty-five years behind wall. The
answer directs the use of fresh slaked
lime, one bushel to every fifteen or twenty
of the leaves and dark loan lying beneath
them. One bushel of lime is recommend
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