Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-03
Farm and Stock Notes.


Farm and Stock Notes.
The value of the butter made in the
! State OF New York annually is estimated
at over 500, 100000.
An apple tree in Mercer county, Ky.
has borne fruit for sixty seasons without
failing. Five feet from the ground its
| trunk is 10 feet 9 inches in circumfer.
ence.
A writer in Vick'S MAGAZINE says he
destroys May beetles and other bugs by
using brush for building fires on dark
evenings. The bugs are attracted, fall in
the fire and are thus destroyed.
Radishes may be had on the table till
late in the season. The best mode OF
growing them is to put plenty of wood
ashes on the location, make the soil fine
and endeavor to have them grow as quickly
as possible, which makes them crisp and
tender.
j. H. Morgan, of East Poultney, VT,
says he had COW that had lost three
calves, and he fed her bone meal and bran
during the fourth period of CESSATION and
she went through all right, and is now
giving forty pounds OF milk per day on
grass alone.
The practice of feeding young calves
only twice a day is injurious. When rum
ming with the dams they take their food
at short intervals, and, being in growing
condition, should be fed not less than three
times day, and oftener whenever posi-
bic. Young colts especially should not
be kept from their dams longer than four
hours at time.
Beans are one of the crops for which it
would be thought that salt was not need
ed. But an old farmer informs us that a
little sprinkled on the rows of beans just
as the plants are coming up makes them
more vigorous and greatly increases the
prOfusiOn of pods. The salt probably acts
on the soil, releasing plant food that would
otherwise remain inert.
In skimmIng the cream off from milk
there should always be milk enough
SKINNED with the cream to give the but
ter, when churned, a bright, clean look.
Butter churned from clear cream, with
little or no milk in it, will usually have
an oily or shiny look. This shows that
the grain of the butter is injured, which
affects the keeping qualities of the butter.
There are some plants grown in the gar
den that are gross feeders. Such plants
will appropriate any quantity of manure
that may be given them. Cabbage, celery
and asparagus are such, and in order to
push them forward rapidly there is moth
ing superior to an occasional application
of liquid manure, followed the next day
worked the better.
Two stalks in potato hill will give
more merchantable potatoes than great
er number. Often the two stalks can be
got from single strong eye, especially if
planted rather deeply. But it is safer to
plant more eyes and then pull out the eX-
cess of stalks. selecting, of course, those
least vigorous. Too many stalks in hill
of potatoes are as Improbable as too
many in a hill of COMMUNICATION Guilt
Gator.
Recently a farmer who had pIOwed up a
fence row relaid the fence after seeding
with timothy and clover. 1t was rail
fence, laid worm fashion, and under the
rails. where the heat Of the sun was
shaded, the grass was vigorous and at
least three times as large and thick as it
was where no shade was had. This burn
ing up of the plants by heat, perhaps, eX-
plains some failures in growing grass seed
without caution.
The Germantown Telegraph gives the
following remedy for the corn grub: 'Take
one part common salt and three parts
plaster of Paris; mix well and apply
about a teaspoonful around each hill. 1t
will be found to be a sure protection. The
| mixture should not come in contact with
| the plants, as it may destroy them. This
method has been tried repeatedly, and
when properly applied has never failed to
be entirely successful"
| A cheap fence for poultry is thus de-
| scribed by a correspondent of the Poultry
| Yard: 81 made very tight, neat fence
! (portable) with old telegraph wire and
| laths. Stretch the wire to any length in
! two rows; If higher fence is wanted
| three rows, and fasten the laths to the
! wire with the small staples, such as are
used to fasten the sticks on Venetian
blinds, as, being ragged, they will hold
firmly. The laths can be placed any dis
tance apart to suit requirements"
The Superintendent of the University
| of Wisconsin Experimental Farm states
that for three years pass he has grown
/ Lima beans without poles or stakes by
persistent pinching back after they
| reached the desired height-about that Of
common bunch beans. He is confident
the crop is very perceptibly earlier and
| thinks it. is increased in quantity, the
| plant being checked in its growth of vine,
| expanding its energy in fruit production.
! The Fruit Recorder states that on its farm
some were so treated and they were loaded
with fruit.
When in the granular state if butter be
washed free from eXtraneous matters its
! Keeping qualities are far superior to that
! in which these elements are allowed to
remain, even though in small quantities
When the butter is washed by not very
! strong brine it is then possible for salt to
! preserve it, but if the matter remains
| sailing will not benefit it, though conceal
! ing other flaYOrs. When butter is washed
| with the brine it is possible to churn, salt
! and pack at one operation, thereby saving
| labor.
The Kansas City Lire Stock Record
! says: samuel Jewett, Independence,
! Mo-, has a 9-year-Old eve, 1873 Vermont
register. She has dropped and raised IL
| lambs. Beginning with the second fleece
| she has never clipped less than 20X pounds
| and once 21%. Her first lamb was sold
/ for 81, 900, a1d clipped SO pounds for its
! second fleece. Her second lamb brought
| the same money. Her third lamb clipped
| three fleeces, as follows: % pounds, 1914
! pounds and 26X pounds. She was sold
| for $780, leaving her eve lamb valued at
| $500"
The Scotch Veterinary Medical Asso-
citation holds that milk fever is very sell
| dom observed in cows before they are five
years of age and more frequently attacks
animals in a phlethoric condition. 1t af-
fects some breeds more than others and
is more fatal with pure breeds than with
cross breeds. 1t seldom occurs subse-
quent to three days after calving but usu-
ally occurs three days before calYing.
Previous attacks favor its recurrence, and
the disease is more prevalent in the COW
than any other animal, though the eve,
SOW and mare are also subject to it.
Mr.. S. N. Wright, of Elgin, H., last
year Melted nearly 500 from each of his
grade HOlstein COWS, and from prices
realized at the creamery only, to which
he carried the milk. Mr.. Wright attrib-
utes his success to the fact that his large
heTd-twenty-seve in all-were raised
by using good treatment. He selects good
dairy cows, breeds them only to Holstein
bulls and thinks it much cheaper in the
end to raise heifers than to buy cows. In
addition to the sum realized for milk is
that derived from the sale of extra calves
and the pigs, which he also raised partly
on milk.
or the use of oatmeal for COWS, says a
dairy writer, mention is not often made
in this country, but when spoken of it is
always with praise. That it IS better
than corn meal there can be no doubt; it
is richer in both albuminOids and fat, and
the usefulness of the two nutriments, and
especially the former, for making milk, is
shown not only by the results Of numer-
Gus careful experiments but by the ac-
knOwledged usefulness of oilcake meal.
Where this meal is used freely there
would be less use for oatmeal; but under
some circumstances it might be adYan-
tageously substituted for the bran in the
faVOrifo mixture for COWS of Indian meal