Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-30
Farm and Stock Notes.

A strong loan is the best soil for plumS.
Put some old brine on your asparagus
bed.
Peaches grow we'll on high ground
with southern exposure.
For growing calves scalded skim milk
may have oatmeal added to it.
Gen. lie Due makes farmers paint of
sweet skinned milk and cement.
Ashes or lime hilled around the trunks
of peach trees keep down the bark worm.
Mr.. Benjamin Ware says that green
manure produces stalks and foliage rather
than fruit. To produce fruit it should be
compOsted.
Earth drawn from the woods where the
leaves have rotted is a good manure for
peas in the hill. 1t enriches the flavor.
The only trouble is weeds.
Draw old rotten limbs from your woods
and lay them where they can dry. Some
day burn them and they will make good
fertilizer for turnips and cauliflOwers.
The grass will soon sprout. If you have
not broken up the old drOppings do so at
once. 1t is rather late, but better late
than never, so far as getting rid OF the
bulk is concerned.
To prevent sOws from crushing their
young nail a board about one foot wide to
the side of the pen. The board is to be
put on like a shelf, so that the little pigs
can run under it to get out of the way.
June or blue grass is desirable for lawns
on account of its uniform growth and
beaut full color. 1t takes longer to be-
come eSta bHshed than most other grades,
but it also lives longer. 1t succeeds best
on limestone soil.
A German paper states that the pene-
tratiOn of roots in drain tile, which some
times occasions much trouble, may be
prevented by covering the joints in the
vicinity of trees and shrubs and red clover
with earth in which a little coal tar has
been distributed.
Small, yolkless eggs denote over-feed-
ing. They are generally produced by an
exclusive diet of Indian corn, with little
exercise. Give plenty of green food for
awhile. Skim milk, into which bran and
meal have been stirred, and cooked rem
nants from the kitchen will also help to
remedy the trouble.
The 415 street railways in this country
and Canada run $4,000 cars, and more
than 100, 900 horses are in daily use. Cal
culating that the average life of horse
in the street railway service is four years,
it makes the consumption of horses $4,000
per year. To feed this vast number of
horses requires annually 100000 tons of
hay and 100000 bushels of grain.
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 nitro
gen from evaporation of manure, unless
it is put in piles so as to ferment. Rains
and dews return to the soil as much am
mOnia in year as is carried off in the
atmosphere.
Let drop of fresh milk fall into glass
of pure water. If the milk promptly dis
seminates itself through the water the
cow that yielded that milk is not with
calf; but if it sinks TO the bottom of the
glass as it falls upon the water and pro-
duces but little of a milky cloud, the COW
is pregnant. The specific gravity and
vIscidity of the albuminOus milk being
heavier than water, thus retains the drop
of milk and causes it to sink.
&c YOU are gOirS to set a new orchard
this spring remember that It is All excel
lent way to prepare plan of the orchard,
showing the position of each tree, its va
riety, etc. If a tree dies it can be re-
placed by one of the same sort. Some
fruit raisers keep a book in which they
register the age and variety of every tree
in their orchard, together with any items
in regard to its grating, prOductiveness,
treatment, ETC., which are thought to be
desirable.
Farmers do not often keep bulls more
than two or three years, because they be-
come dangerous as they grow old. But
these immature males cannot get the best
stock. The higher priced pedigreed ami
mails have better care, are kept so long as
they are serviceable, and in this one cause
of their superiority consists. There is a
general impression that bulls of the Jer-
sey breeds are apt to become vicious early,
and it is suggested that this is because
they are petted too much while young.
A writer urges more careful study of
pure water and of drinks in general on
| the economy of animals. The prlvatiOn
of water tells more rapidly on health than
abstinence from food. In every Kind OF
beverage the part efficaciOus for assuaging
| thirst is water. The quantity of water
required by an animal will vary with the
airs temperature and humidity. A sheep
requires least and a pig most water;
horses and cattle come between. In the
care of sheep much water thins the blood.
They ought not to be deprived of water,
as many shepherds practice, nor at the
same time allowed to entirely slake their
thirst. The latter observation applies also
to horses. The sheep and horses are, of
domestic animals, the most sensitive to
impure water. For draft animals and
sheep warm drinks are eOerVafinO