Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-30
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

FARM AND STOCK NOTES.
c. S. Brice, of Woodward, S. c., tells
the readers of the New York World that
dry arsenic applied to warts on mules
will soon cure them. Says he has just
tried this remedy with success.
1t is estimated by an English authority
that an inch of rain falling upon one acre
of ground is sufficient to fill tank 20 feet
square and II feet deep. The same guam
tity would also measure over 10 cubic feet
on every side.
An account of profitable strawberry
crop is given in the Rurdl Home. 1t was
raised by Mr.. B. J. Case, of SOdus, N. Y,
his whole cultivated ground being an acre
and half. One-third of an acre was in
Strawberries, from which he picked 10000
quarts.
The Poultry Keeper (Chicago) recon-
mends as a remedy for chicken cholera a
mixture of four parts hypOsulphite of
soda, two parts bOracic acid, two parts
extract of logwoOd, one part rosin, one
part alum and one part ginger. Give
each fowl full teaspCOnful in little
water.
A Vermont sheep raiser says that the
best method of dOctoring sheep for fo0t-rot
is to wet every foot of every sheep in the
flock, sound or lame, thoroughly with kerr
Osene or coal oil, and put what sulphur
you can take in the thumb and finger be-
tween the hoofs of each foot. Keep them
in dry place for twelve hours. Repeat
this operation in about two weeks and
you will have no more trouble.
There is an art in raising early pullets
SO as to have them begin to lay soon. The
object should be to breed from parents
Nr,,rr ,,Ir 4.
and hens from which to breed early pull
lets, select cock that throws out his
hackle and tail feathers early. as this in
dicates his early maturity. Then mate
him with old hens and hatch the pullets
as early in the year as possible. Such
pullets will begin TO lay in October and
will then lay all through the winter.
Perhaps the largest prune orchard in
the world is situated one mile south from
Saratoga, Cal, and contains 10000 trees.
1t was recently sold for 81, 900. 1t is sit
uated on a gentle slope from the foot Of
the mountain to the Los Cato road and
can be taken in at a glance. Near by is
the famous Rice orchard, containing fruit
and nut trees of almost every known va
rIety; also the O'BaniOn & Kent orchard
Of 50 acres, for which $110 600 advance has
been offered and refused.
The Farmers Club of Elmira, n. Y,
has adopted the excellent plan of an Oc-
casiOnal implement trial, where the farm
ers can spend day or two near home and
see all sorts of farm implements in prac-
teal use as operated by skillful men. 1t
leads to the use.Of a great many more i'm
proved implements and machinery, and
to quite an extent guards the farmer
against the purchase of those not suited
to his wants. The manufacturers of good
implements have nothing to fear from
such trials, and if there are makers of
worthless ones they deserve exposure.
If growing fruit as business you must
learn the cheapest method of producing it.
IL pays to fertiliZe well, to give good cul-
ture, to offer in attractive style in market
and to raise the best varie ties, but there
is limit to high culture and to everything
connected with the business. Every man
must be his own judge as to when he has
reached this limit. Some men can grow
fruit at half the cost of others. Some men
can manufacture shoes for less than 9TH
ers. Good common sense carries man
a long way toward success in this coun-
try.
The following is said by the American
Stock Journal to be an infalIible remedy
for chicken cholera: Make a mixture of
two ounces each of red pepper, alum,
resin and flowers OF sulphur, and put it
in their food in proportions Of one table
spoonful to three pints of scalded meal.
In severe cases give about One-third OF a
teaspOOntul in meal pellet Cnce day to
each fowl, putting a small lump of alum
in their drinking water. The writer says:
81 have tried the above ingredients with
marked success; have cured fowls in the
last stages of the disease. L make it a
practice now to give my fowls some of it
once or twice a week, and there are no
symptoms Of any disease among them"
Some genius has been calculating val
ues as related to human energy in vari-
Gus departments of life, and cites the
following illustrations: "The British
poet Laureate can take a worthless sheet
of paper and, by writing a poem on it,
make it worth $4,000; that's genius.
Vanderbilt can write few words on
sheet of paper and make it worth $4,000.
600; that's capital. The United States
can take an ounce and quarter of gold
and stamp on it an eagle bird and make
it worth 500; that's money. The me-
chanic can take the material worth 50
and make it into watch worth 800;
that's skill. The merchant can take an
article worth % cents and sell it for 81;
that's business.
Paper bottles are now made on large
scale in Germany and Austria. The paper
must be well sized. The following is said
to be a good recipe for the paper: Ten parts
of rags, forty of straw, fifty of brown wood
pulp. The paper is impregnated or coated
on both sides with sixty parts of detibri-
mated fresh blood, thirty-tive parts of lime
powder, five parts of sulphate of alumnia.
After drying ten or twelve rolled leaves
are coated again, placed over each other
and then placed in heated molds. The
albumen in the blood forms combination
on pressure with the lime which is per-
tectly proof against spirits, etc. The bot
ties are made in two parts. which are
joined afterward.
For a good common whitewash, take
piece of stone lime as large as a child's
head, having it new and entirely unslaked
and put it into an iron kettle that VIII
hold pailful. Pour over it few quarts
of boiling water at night; cover and let
stand till morning; then fill up with water
and set on the stove. Add a handful of
salt and stir occasionally till hot. Pour off
into pail, and if too thick add more
water. Allow 1T to became cool before
using, as the smoke will strike through
worse if used hot. For a nicer white
wash use Spanish white-abOutten pounds
for an ordinary room. Pour warm water
over il ana let stand for few hours. Melt
four ounces Of white glue in little water
and add.
1t is as natural for vegetation to grow
on the fields to protect the soil as it is for
hair to grow on the head. Those plants
whose value we have not yet discovered
are called weeds. If one class of plants
monOpolize a certain spot, watch how soon
1t rObs the soil of the food peculiar to it,
and how another class will spring up.
This is natures plan of rotation, and
every principle of rotation and manuring
NAV be traced back to it. In this way we
learn the mistakes which farmers make,
not only in false systems of rotation, but
also in continually applying the same
kind of manure on the same plan of treat
ment. BY varying the modes of treatment
manures can be rotated as well as crops;
in fact, manures could be rotated to such
an extent that there would be little neces-
sity in rotating the crops.
The highest velocity that has been i'm