Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-08

Mr.. John Mitchell, a farmer near New
/ burg, n. Y, has refused an offer of $4,000
/ for Holstein heifer and her calf. She is
/ said to have produced the largest quantity
4 Of milk and butter ever before made from
+ a single animal, viz: 1881 pounds, or
+ about = quarts Of rich, inely-favored
milk.
Planting corn four feet apart, with three
/ stalks to the hill, is an old-time custom
/ which saves labor, but if it be planted in
/ rows four feet apart, with a single stalk
TO the hill, the hills two feet apart, though
requiring extra labor with the hoe, the
stalks viii be much stronger. the ears
larger and earlier matured and the yields
much greater, mere than sufficient 10 pay
for the labor.
Silkworms viii live on lettuce, castor
oil plant leaves and other plants, but they
can only make silk from the leaves of the
mulberry or Usage orange. The best null
berry is the Japan white J, though there
are five kinds OF white, two Of black and
several Of different shades. The Japan
yields one pound Of cocoons to ten pounds
of leaves, while the others range from
twelve to fourteen pounds Of leaves to
each pound of cocoOns.
In growing cabbage one of the conditions
is the thorough pulverizatiOn of the soil,
and it should be deep. Set out the plants
in fresbly-plOwed land and allow plenty
of manure. The crop is one that responds
to liberal and frequent cultivation. In
fact, it cannot be worked too often. Well
rOtted compost is the best to use where
there is a tendency to club foot, but as the
cabbage is a grass feeder it will thrive on
any kind Of rich manure.
Growing strawberry plants need a gem
erOus supply Of water, SAYS the american
Garden. From the day when the first
blossoms appear until the well-developed
fruit is ready to be plucked, the soil where
strawberry vines stand should be kept
very moist. The crop of fruit is often
damaged seriously by one or two days of
hot and dry weather when the plants are
in blossom. or soon after the berries begin
to grow. Those who succeed in producing
mammoth berries use manure unstinted
and keep the soil moist.
. Reports of an experiment made by the
State Agricultural College of Michigan,
on their farm with sowing land plaster on
grass, claim that two bushels of plaster
produced over twO-thirds as much increase
as twenty loads of horse manure. Speak
ing of plaster, the late George Geddes
(once President of the New York State
Agricultural Society used to say that the
proper time to apply it to clover was after
the plants had made some growth. say
after the wheat harvest on clover sOwn in
the spring. He thought the plaster acted
directly on the leaf on which it was sprin-
kled.
The potato possesses the property of
converting a very much larger portion of
the manure ingredients of the soil into
human food than any of the cereal grain
crops. For instance, to every bushel of
wheat about 100 pounds of straw are
grown, while the haulm of the potato when
dry is so light that in experimenting W
do not think worth while to weigh il
These properties, when combined with a
suitable climate, enable the cultiyator to
produce upon a given area of grOu q a
larger amount of human food from the
potato than from any of the cereal ain
crops.
Some agricultural writer figures on
muck in this way: ''Ten tons of wet muck
contain, at 80 cents a ton, S. worth of nj
trogen. These ten tons wet weigh only
three tons when air-dry. These tIree tons
should take up six or seven tons of liquid
manure before saturatiOn. 1t thcn stands
thus: Three tons of air-day muck, So; six
tons of liquid manure (urine) at S. a ton,
$50; -making a total value OF $50. This
would make the value per ton of air-dry
muck $11 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."
BY the frequent use of the harrow much
labor can be saved. On many soils the
young grass and weeds spring up very
quickly, and if allowed to grow to a mod
crate height require the cultivator, but if
tie harrow be passed over such fields as
soon as the grass begins to appear the
ground can more easily be kept clean.
Every seed that terminates and is then
DESTROYED IL CO Tnnph ont Of tho NOV
if the land be kept fine and loose by fire.
qUent narrowing the benefit impaired by
destruction of weeds and grass will also
be increased by the good condition of the
soil for crops.
We once experimental, says the Lire
Stock Journal, by hauling twenty-fOur
large loads of the best manure upon two
acres of clay loan land. Upon two acres
more no manure was used, but il was
we'll worked. One and a half bushels of
corn were drilled per acre upon each piece,
the drills being sixteen inches apart.
When the corn was ready to cut the I'M
MANFRED two acres stood eighteen inches
higher than the MANFRED piece. The ma
nured piece gave twenty-five tons per
acre and the other twenty-eight tons.
The excellence of the unmanured piece
was due to the fact that it was cultivated
till the soil was as fine as a garden bed
labor was only 50 80 per acre. 1t is, there
fore, apparent that the first consideration
in furnishing food for plants is thorough
cultivation.
A French forestry journal says that
thirty years ago the klamath district of
Bacharia was one of the most fertile re-
gions Of Central Asia. 1t was well worked
and splendidly watered. About twenty
five years ago a mania for clearing away
% bn
now all the great forests have been cut
away, and the little that remained was
raYaged by fire during a civil war. The
consequences were not long in following,
and have transformed this country into a
kind of arid desert. The water courses
are dried up and the irrigating canals
empty. The moving sands of the desert,
being no longer restrained by barriers of
forest, are every day gaining upon the
land. and will finish by Transforming it
into desert as desolate as the solitudes
that separate it from Khiva. Have Amer