Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-14
Farm and Stock Notes.

care given the stock, as well as increased
production from the land.
There is much difference in the black
slirt got from the woods, which. is CON-
monty called leaf mold. Some of it is the
lIold from decaying trunks of trees. which
is less valuable than that from leaves.
Poultry cannot be made to pay unless
provided with properly arranged house
Tor their accommodation. This is as ne
oessary to their well-being as il is that
horses and cattle should have good sta
Bile,
4 correspondent of the New Haven
Miro thinks that cions can be best pre-.
serVeu in sawdust, which keeps them
moisti nd green. He keeps them in the
cellar; bat dampens them when they are
dry.
SurpI is stock are q nuisance in the
poultry qual tiers. They eat as much as
the heEL and yield no return for the feed
consum: 1. Where fowls have their lib
erty one sock to a flock of twenty to TWEEN
ty-fYe b: rs is enough, but where they are
re strlctGG to small runs one cock to six
hens will be necessary.
The quantity of seed wheat required de-
ponds g-3fstly upon the manner in which
the seed covered. If the soil is made
yeTyf ra& I'd the seed drilled and rolled
in, set ha: it is well covered. to a depth
gsrT5iEAsa ian if the work is imperfectly
%c1a, a=::s- yield will also be larger.
THO 81. = 1gal separator, or daily GEN.
I'll @Is,istc appliance which more COM
2l2ts.y sap ates the fats from the milk
tz3r acyes ner yet devised, leaving an
STarage OF only 80 per cent. fat of the
weight of the whole, milk in the creamed
milk. Skim-milk from a centrifuge has
been analysed which contained but per
ii no ,F0a Y ntad
cent.
A. B. Allen states. that he finds wheat
bran an improbable feed for swine. They
do not seem to possess the power of di-
costing it, consequently much of it passes
through them only partially assimilated.
Ii mixed with corn meal it does better,
and can be fed with advantage to cattle,
along with cut hay, if mixed with it and
well Wetted, as it then undergoes a second
mystifcation.
Natural vegetable acids do not harm
milk, but. the artificial acid of fePmenting
food introduces an element into the con-
sumption that is not possible for nature
to neutrahze, and hence affects the milk.
The amount Of ferment may b0small and
do little injury, but if carried beyond a
certain point will have deIeterious eff
feet, which experiment, time and again,
has demonstrated.
One of the most difficult things TO cure
for fodder is the green corn stalk. Great
quantities of good winter feed are often
lost by early frost, and the american Cul-
ttOdt0T suggests as remedy drying the
stalks on platform of rails or loose
boards, laid so as to allow a current of
air under the stack, with a column of
| barrels built up through the middle to
! give additional ventilation.
| ''Soil Sickness" a disease indicated by
the failure of clover, beets and some other
| plants to grow satisfactorily, is pretty
certainly settled 20 be due to insect para
| sites on the roots, and not to a deficiency
| of proper mineral elements in the soil as
| was supposed by Liebig. In Germany it
| has been found that covering the ground
! with some light material and then burn
ing it off win destroy the parasites.
Charles Downing says, in the New York
| Tribune, that great deal of canned fruit
! is prepared when quite hard and unripe,
which makes it look inviting, but it does
not compare in quality with that which
is put up ripe. Sugar when cooked with
/ fruit renders it hard and indigestible; but
| the practice, now happily coming into use,
| of using no sugar when canning, but add
ing 1t when put upon the table, is great
| improvement.
So fast as the sweet corn is picked from
the garden, the stalks should be cut and
fed to COWS. They are much richer and
| sweeter than other corn stalks; but if left
! to dry up, as they often are, much of their
| value is lost. Where milk is sold, sweet
corn cut up with ears on is profitable
feed for COWS. The small varieties will
ear freely when sown quite thickly in
drills, with spaces between the rows wide
enough for cultivation.
Silk culture is not advocated as a very
lucrative business, but as a home indus
try it adds largely to the wealth of the ma
| lions engaged in 1t. In France its meth
DDS and practice are taught in all the
schools. The raising of a few pounds of
cocoOns each year need not materially in
terfere with other duties, and it is by each
household raising few pounds that makes
it profitable as a whole. Large rearing
establishments seldom pay.
Maturity of stock has been FASTENED by
good breeding, says the New York Times.
That is, pig or a sheep which matured
at three years, or a steer which was ready
for slaughter at five years formerly is now
ready for the butcher at less than half
these ages. Pigs are said to be ready for
pork at nine months, Wethers for mutton
at twenty months and asteer at two years,
though it is feared that these claims are
greater than may be justly allowed.
A New England farmer purchased a
farm UI neavy clay that had been badly
run from oyer-cropping and blowing when
wet, and seeded it with grass. 1t was a
good catch and the land presented so much
better appearance that it was immedi-
ately salable at considerable higher price
shan he paid. Afterward he only plOwed
as fast as he could thoroughly underdrain.
and the once despised clay became one of
the most productive soils in the country.
Mr.. c. c. Crockett, of Richmond, Ind,
! reports the following test of his young
COW, MabIe Crockett 1879, . years and 5
months old: Began saving milk morning
of May %, ending on evening May 81, seven
days. Cream was churned tWice-on w ed
nesday during week of test, and Tuesday
the following week. Result as follows
| 3O711 lbs. milk; daily average 43 TBS. IA OF. !;
making IA lbs. OF. of butter. Test began
two weeks after calving. Feed, nothing
but grass.
Northwestern sheep men have all along
| given more prominence to mutton than
! do the fl0ckmasters of the old sheep-rais-
ing States, and now that wool is getting
so low it is not strange that they are pay
| ing increased attention to the carcass. A
high class of mutton comes from that
country, too, and the tendency is rather
! toward improvement than deterioration.
! 1t is claimed that Colorado alone will
sides 100000 lambs.
! The Elmira Farmers Club has been dis
| cussing the cucumber beetle. After try
/ ing many remedies the old method of pro-
tectIng the plants by screens of netting
was considered the only practical one,
| though they have taken a new form-a
conical shape-requiring in use nothing
more than stick thrust into the ground,
projecting high enough to hold the netting
! a foot or so above the plants, the rim
| stretched taut and held down by slight
covering of earth.
! For large hanging baskets the Madeira
vine is very satisfactory. 1t is best not
to give it very rich soil; its growth win
! not be so strong, but the leaves will be
closer together and more attractive. Pinch
it back mercilessly till the basket is COW
| cred with foliage. After that let a few
vines grow, allowing some to drO0p and
/ others train up along the chains suspend
| ing the basket. Keep the glossy leaves
clean, and we can assure you from our
own experience that you will have a
/ charming plant.
BY a knowledge of vegetable physiolo-
! gy, says the Rural Home, the farmer
would understand the mystery OF vegeta-
4 BILE growth and the conditions that best
1 Yniuiater etO growth He would notice