Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-24
Farm and Stock Notes.

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warm soapsuds, using carbolic acid soap,
and selecting warm, dry day. Then
! grease the skin with lard, to which has
been added little coal oil, and clean out
the pen and quarters.
A method practiced by some farmers to
prevent haystacks firing is to scatter a
I few handfuls of common salt between
each layer. The salt, by absorbing the
humidity of the hay, not only prevents its
| fermentation and consequent heating but
1t also adds salty taste to its forage,
which all cattle like; besides, it stimu-
lates the appetite and assists their dIges-
| ton, and so preserves them from disease.
Mr.. j. G. Hill, of Ninety.six, S. c., says
The following recipe for picking beef can
not be eXcelled, and that his family are
now eating fine roasts put up in Novem-
| Der: To four gallons of water add ten
pounds OF salt, quarter Of pound of
saltpeter and one pound of sugar. Boil a
| few minutes and then skim off. When
| cold pour over your beef. Keep beet COW
cred in this solution and you can have it
to eat all winter.
A correspondent of the New York Tri-
bltne says: ST any one has a pear tree
that bears spotted or cracked fruit let him
sprinkle wood ashes freely over the soil,
beneath the tree, as far in diameter as the
branches eXtend-nOt a light sprinkle,
either, but liberal dressing. Then wash
the bark thoroughly with strong soapsuds
| (Old-fashioned soft soap preferred) with
the addition of lime water and a little
flowers of sulphur
If you want to rearrange your hives as
to position about the garden or yard now
is the time to dot. Swarming time being
best. Do it in the evening and place some
kind of obstacle before the entrance to
make the bees mark their new location.
1t will be just as well to put some small
box on the place Of the old stand to re-
ceive stray bees or bees that 90 back for
one or two days-Of course carving them
to the new stand at dusk.
A correspondent of the american Agri-
cutturiSt says that color in the skin of a
COW indicates color in the butter. He
has never seen a yellow-skin COW that
gave pale butter, or a very rich colOred
skin in COW that did not give yellow or
| or yellOwish butter all through the winter.
When the yOlk, which gives this color in
the ears, tail and skin, begins to show in
the calf, it Will probably never show less,
and what butter the COW gives will be Of
good color.
TO graft grape vines lay the canes down,
cut out the buds at each Joint, plunge a
knife directly into the nodes and insert
the cions through the joints; the buds
! having been removed, their places are
supplied by the cions or CRAFTS and cell
circulation is soon established. The ciOns
are prepared as for cleft grating, except
that a shoulder is left on either side, which
rests on the cut surface of the cane. The
cane and the inserted cions are then COW
cred with soil to the upper buds.
Mr.. s. w. Grant, of Massachusetts,,
thinks ensilage can be preserved whole
instead of in the finely-cut condition, and
that it will keep much better. His theory
as to the superiority of whole material
over that which is cut is that the less the
stalks are bruised or broken, and the less
exposure Of cut or broken surfaces or
substances to the air, the less liable it is
to decomposition, just as the apple with
the skin unbrOken win keep, while one
bruised or reduced to pulp will quickly
decay.
There are not so many good plowmen
now as formerly, in part, doubtless, a re-
| suit of using the sulky pillow, with which
! extra skill in blowing does not count.
Another reason, probably is that few hired
men now understand the art of setting
| pillow so that it will run both easily for
! both team and holder. The pillow should
run level, the point neither digging down.
| ward nor pointing up. 1t is but the work
| OF an instant to set the pillow right for one
| who understands the business. Good
| blowing is an art.
The quality of butter depends immedi-
| ately upon the character of the cows
! food, and should put the cautious dairy.
! man upon his guard to see that his COWS
! cannot get any kind of food that will in
lure the quality of the milk. Hence he
| should be sure to destroy all the weeds in
! his pasture even more carefully than he
! does in his own cOrnfield, and as water.
when tainted, will work the same evil as
bad food, he should see that only pure
| article is within reach of the cows
| Western AgrtcultariSt.
A cows cud is no part of its system; it
! is part Of its food, which is brought up
! to the mouth from the paunch by a mus
cular action, the reverse Of swallowing.
and is then chewed over again. The com
mon expression closing the cud'' is mis-
! leading. There is nothing to be lost, eX-
] cepting the activity of the stomach by
which these portions of the food are forced
| up to be remasticated. In case of indi-
| gestiOn or other disease the stomach does
not act IN this way, and the COW stops
| chewing her cud until restored to health.
The curculio, which is 80 destructive
to the plum crop, is of late years very
| damaging to the apples. The apple mag
got is another pest. 1t burrows in the
fruit, several of them being often found
| IN the same apple. The best preventive
is to keep sheep and swine in the orchard.
They will eat all infested apples and there
| by destroy the Larvae, which, if unmOlest-
! ed, viii do greater damage next season.
! In order, however, to eXtermnate such
| pests the farmers should unite in the war;
fare against them, as single individual
| can do but little.
! The question among some farmers in
| regard to heaVes in horses is whether the
! trouble is completely durable, In reDly
| to an inquiry correspondent of the Ne
| 6TGSEd Farmer states that he has known
/ complete cures to be effected in this man.
| ner: Take quart Of new milk and stir
! into 1t teaspoOnful of aqua fortis, which
will curdle or thicken the milk. Stir this
! into the oats which are fed at noon for
| three days; then stop three days and re-
! peat. Although the remedy is simple
! states the correspondent, it has effected "a
! cure in the most difficult cases wherever
| tried.
Josiah Hopes, of Eastern Pennsylva-
| MIA, says that experiments with many
! leading fertilizers have established the
! fact that nothing can compete with the
| best animal manure for producing vigor-
! Gus growth in young trees and shrubs.
Applications of wood ashes, ground bone,
! phosphates, ETC., answer an excellent
| purpose in connection with stable ma
nure, but alone they are less successful.
To winch we may add that the best wav
PROFESSIONALLY to apply ground bone is
to mix it through heaps Of fermenting
manure in thin successive layers or in
compost heaps.
In curing clover the sun only is neces-
sary to wilt it after cutting. When this
is well done the clover should be put in
cocks, small at the base but as high as
they can be well made. The cocks may
be tramped some in making them. In
day or two they become hot within and
must be opened out, but not until all dew
and rain has dried off. Take the cocks
down in flakes without shaking to pieces
and expose to the sun. After being thus
exposed for an hour or two the clover can
be removed to the stack or NOW. Each
layer in the stack should have a slight
sprinkling of salt.
1t is supposed, as was recently done by
a large French farmer in Algiers, that all
sorts. of weeds may be cut and advan-
tageously put into silos in England. Dur
ing very wet season in AIg1ers various
rubbish evergreen the soil, such as big
thIstles, charloek, yellow chrysanthemum
and other beautiful flowers and weeds.
These were cut when green and juicy and
put in the silo with lucern and other grass,
and made about as excellent fodder as
Indian corn passed through the stalk cut
ter and then sliced. This hint may be