Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-06

1t IS said that SOluIl0n made OF water
( and poultry droppings Will prevent the
1 striped bugs from iDjuring squashes. The
7 mixture should be allowed TO ferment,
I quently. 1t viii also greatly assist in
| Fastening the growth of the vines.
The grub worm descends into the ground
/ on the approach of winter and lives three
/ years, feeding on the roots of grass and
! other vegetation. In the third autumn it
| forms a cocoon Of earth, coming forth a
/ beetle in May or June. 1t is not only de-
/ structiye as grub, but the beetle forages
at night, doing much damage to buds and
tender shrubs.
Never use manuHn from the stable on
/ lawns, as the seeds of weeds are thus
scattered, which terminate, grow up and
disfgure the lawn. A fertilizer made Of
200 pounds sulphate OF potash, 100 pounds
superphosphate and 100 pounds of ammo
MIA will be found excellent. The quantity
I is sufficient for an acre and should be APP
piled in October and April, half the amount
/ being used at an application.
A resident at Sheboygan Falls, Wis,
| fifteen years ago came into possession of
seyenty-fye trees from an Eastern nurse
rY. No one there would buy them and he
| set them out on his own grounds. A few
died the first year. The next year half
the remainder died. A flOwer-bed was
wanted on part of the ground which
took in two trees. Like the rest, these
| two appeared feeble and sickly, and, IN
stead of grubbing them up, they were left
to take their chance and die in the flower
bed. The bed was made tour feet wide,
sand and manure were copiously applied,
( and the bed raised six inches above the
level surface. The two pear trees in it
were twelve feet apart. At the present
time, after fifteen years, those two are all
of the seYenty-fve that remain. They are
rank in growth, fifteen feet high and bear
abundantly.
! The best way to handle young pigs is to
let them run with their mothers until the
mothers dry up, and to allow the young
ones to go into an enclosure by themselves
where they can be fed extra on milk or
wheat ground and mixed with milk or
/ oatmeal. Any OF these grains are good,
and so is barley ground and mixed with
milk or fermented slightly. BY feeding
and sucking at the same time there is no
sudden change and the pigs will hardly
miss the mother, and, in fact, they may
| be weaned when six or eight weeks old by
| being fed in the manner described, and
! they will be content in their feeding pen
when kept entirely away from the mother.
! Wheat, oat or barley meal may be cooked
/ for the young pigs, but it is not necessary
to do 50; but it is essential to have it fer
mented. The feelings should be often
and little at time, and this should all
be eaten up clean or less should be given.
! -Nelo Yorker.
! A Frenchman experimental on the depth
! for planting wheat. He made thirteen
! beds and planted $50 grains in each, at
/ depths beginning at seven inches, de-
creasing to the surface. In the seven
! inch bed five grains out of 100 terminated.
! They gave fifty-three heads, with 6S2
! grains. This return kept on increasing
! for each bed as it decreased in depth at
! which the seeds were planted. AT three
! and three-quarter inches deep ninety-three
! seeds sprouted, with 992 heads, yielding
| 1854 grains. At ~ inches, sprouting
! 142 seeds, there were 1860 heads, contain
ing 5,S16 grains. At l = inch depth sixty
! four grains sprouted, growing 529 heads
! and 1857 grains. On the surface only
| twenty grains terminated, yielding LOGO
| grains. The greatest returns in grains
and straw was attained by the 1A-inch
bed. The sower should, therefore, endea-
vor to cover the seed not more than two
nor less than one inch.
The ash of the apple tree contains II
per cent. lime. That of the pear and peach
nearly as much. This fact, taken with
another. viz: that it is rarely thought
necessary, and still more rarely prac-
ticed, to apply lime as fertilizer to fruit
trees, will be quite sufficient to account
for the wretchedly miserable appearance
OF many old orchards, as well as to ex-
plain why orchards that are planted upon
lands rich in lime are so thrifty and bear
such handsome fruit. If we should follow
! reason and analogy in respect to the man.
agement of orchards, we should apply
lime every third or fourth year with Hbe-
| rality. Good farmers dress their fields
! once in five years with fifty bushels of
| lime per acre, as an encouragement of the
clover; why, then, should we not as pro-
fusely lime otfr orchards, which require
so much of this element, when clover,
which contains less than halt as much, is
so literally treated ?-Nelo York Times.
The sunflower is grown to limited ex-
tent in the United States-nowhere, we
believe, for any purpose except for Orna-
| ment and for feeding the seed to stock. In
Russia an1 India this plant has long been
| cultivated for producing oil from the seeds,
and latterly this has been taken up in
Germany and Italy. With the rapid in
crease of population and the necessity for
greater diversity of rural pursuits, may
not the cultivation of the sunfower be-
come profitable pursuit in this country
Fed judiciously, it imparts glossy coat
to the stock, and is highly recommended
as food for poultry. II grows readily in
most soils, but prefers light, rich, calca-
reOus land devoid of shade. In Great
Britain the rule is to plant SIX inches
apart, covering the seed an inch deep, and
when the plants are a foot high to draw
the earth up around them. Nosubsequent
attention is required. The yield of seed
is much increased by topping the plants.
Each plant usually produces 1000 seeds,
chiefly on the main head.
A correspondent asks us for remedy
for the leaf pest of the currant, saving
that he lost last year a fine crop of cur
rants by the sudden disappearance Of the
leaves, which had been eaten by this de-
structiYe worm. We know not how often
we have referred to the depredatiOns of
this pest. Their operations are rapid,
and unless their first appearance is
| watched they may do their work before
! one is aware of it. There are several
remedies. We have used fine, sifted coal
ashes, first sprinkling the leaves thor
oughly with water, so as to reach the I'M
der parts apply the dust profusely, and
repeat it once or twice if necessary, which
may be the case. But there is nothing so
effective as white hellebore, busting it
over as well as on the under side of the
leaves, which never fails in destroying the
worm. 1t can be had at the druggists
and some general stores. The leaves
should be watched as soon as they ap-
| pear, as the worms sometimes get to work
very early Germantown telegraph.
After grating, says a writer in Farm
Home, all the new sprouts that start should
surely be kept off until the cions get well
to growing, AID if in that time any of the
old limbs or spurs should commence grow
ing very vigorously they should be clipped
| to check their growth. After about
August 1 stop taking off any sprouts
or checking the growth Of the old limbs
in any way, for if they are allowed to
grow the cions will stop growing the sooner
and have chance to ripen. The next
year aft9r grating, in May or June, take
off thar Portion of the natural limbs and
sprouts that interfere with the growth of
the cions, taking care only to give the
advantage of space and sunlight. Then
no more training should be done until an
other year comes around, when all the re-
naming natural tops can safely be re-
moved. Where two cions are growing in
hub one should be taken out when 1 or,
at most, , years old; saving off with a
slant, taking a portion of the old hub,
which will cause it to heal over quicker
and smoother.
The best chemical authorities tell us
| that the main use Of plaster to vegetation
| is its power to attract ammonia from the
atmosphere and ''fix' it in the ground for
| the use of plants. Now, the more the soil
| is pulverized the more its absorptiye pow
! er is increased, and therefore the better
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