Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-09
Farm and Stock Notes.

Minnesota's butter production for 1883
will nearly reach 5000, 900 pounds, worth
$5,300,000.
Every successful farmer should keep a
system of accounts as matter of econO-
my, profit and Of record as we'll.
The Sorghum Sugar Company, at Ster-
ling, Kan, purposes showing its faith in
TINS new industry by risking an additional
100000 ON its works.
The latest remedy for the cabbage nest
IS smartweed pepper weed), whioh is
thoroughly dried, ground to powder and
sprinkled over the plants.
California farmers raise g. bushels of
sunflower seed to the acre, and after
grinding a gallon of oil from each bushel
leed tne refuse to cnIcKens and COWS.
Thirty thousand dozen eggs were re-
Gently receiv d by a single steamer in
New YORK. They came from Germany.
ana many OF them were lined by supe-
rior German process.
Mr.. Madden, of Pike county. Georgia.
owns the largest grape vine in the United
States, which is eighteen years old, quar-
ter of mile long, and thirty-fOur inches
in circumference at its base and bears five
wagon loads Of fruit.
Hickory and cherry require growth of
thirty years before they are valuable for
timber, maple twenty years, and beeches
Walnut. however.
VIII produce trunk fourteen inches in
diameter in as many years from the seed.
Proftableness of making sugar from
sorghum depends largely on utilizing all
waste products. The scums and sedi-
ments make manure hardly inferior to
guano, while the begassa can be turned
into manure by being thrown into the
hOg-pens.
A New Jersey farmer writes to the New
York Herald that he gave dressing of
salt (eight bushels to the acre) to land
badly infested with white grubs, and for
three years after raised good crops of corn,
which was impossible previous to this APP
plicatiOn.
Very early turnips can be raised on new
land or well-brOken clover sod. They are
easily sent to market and bring a good
price. The crop can be got rid of in time
for late potatoes. A little super-phOsphate
will persuade the turnips to be crisp and
get out of the way quickly and do no harm
to the potatoes.
One of the best tonics for poultry is that
known as the Douglas mixture, composed
of one ounce sulphuric acid, one pound
cOpperas and eight quarts of water. Put
a tablespoonful of the solution in a six
quart drinking vessel. 1t invigOrates
poultry, reddens the combs and assists to
ward off disease.
Ground cannot we'll be made too rich for
currants and gooseberries. Plant in rows
four feet apart and three feet apart in the
rows; give thorough culture or deep mulch
over the entire surface, cut out all wood
of three years growth Cor after first crop
is often considered better), and good
crop is almost certain.
By the ''intensive" system of farming
the soil is regarded as mere support to
h. 20 o.,I
Under the extensive system a reliance
is placed exclusively on the natural fer
tility of the soil and the slow process by
which the plant food already contained is
made available to crops.
A writer, after making careful esti-
mates of the damage done by dogs in the
Northern States alone, finds that it costs
not less than $33,000,000 annually to sup
port our dogs, sum that would buy
1860 farms at government prices for
land, or it would purchase 1872, 900 neigh
bOrhOOd libraries of 200 volumes each.
An Indianapolis lind. fruit grower
says: Last year | put twelve mOles in
my strawberry patch of five acres to catch
the grubs, and they did the work. | never
had dozen plants injured during the
summer, either by the grubs or moles. /
know some people do not care for moles
on their farms, but l want them in my
strawberry patch.
The Hon. g. M. Clay says that the Jer-
seys are the native cattle of Russia and
he could load fleet with them at from SO
to $40 per head. If this is true there is no
use in the farmers of the Channel Islands
allowing the supply to fall off. 1t is more
than probable if we should import directly
from Russia a little careful judgment
would give us stock of Jerseys that
would be hardy, vigorous and able to shoe
their own row.
The Ayrshire is a particularly heavy,
long mixer, usually giving five times her
weight of milk in a season. The milk is
somewhat low in specific gravity and per
cent. of cream, but is over the average of
cheese production. Such is the result of
experiments at the Canadian Agricultu-
raj College,; but the Ayrshire, like other
breeds, shows exceptional cases of large
percentage Of cream, and the feed often
has an influence on the composition of the
milk.
The special foods to cause hens to lay