Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-02
Farm and Stock Notes.

will be required, with what hay used adj
ditional.
Nothing is now better settled than that
4 a pig should make steady and cOntinu-
| Gus growth from birth to the day of sale.
/ II should make steady gain of from to
! 10 pounds week, and be sold at 10 to y
months old.
/ A Baltimore firm has introduced the
/ Japanese peTsimmOn into this country
I and planted 100000 trees. The fruit is
/ said to be delicious and the general Opin-
/ ion is that it will be well received when
offered for sale.
Professor Low, an English authority,
says that boiled potatoes, mixed with cut
straw or hay, may be given to horses of
every kind, even when on the hardest
work; and this forms a species of food
both wholesome and economical.
If every farmer would keep a record of
the number of eggs laid, chickens Matched
and those sold or eaten each year they
would form the basis of most interesting
statistics and manner of surprise to every
| one of the value represented by them in
money.
1t IS claimed by our most experienced
stock growers that colts should never be
permitted to stand on a hard floor, such
| as plank, brick, stone or cement, until
after they are year old, as hard floors
are liable to iniure their feet and limbs.
There is quite a difference between the
common turkey and the large bronze va
riety. Young gObblers of a years growth
OF the bronze have been known to weigh
40 pounds, and pairs of bronze turkeys, of
longer growth, often weigh three times as
much as pair Of the common stock.
In order to lay out a field so as to plow
il without having the team tread upon the
plowed land, find the centre Of each end
and set up stakes. Then measure from
each stake, in direct line with the other
one one-half the width of the end. Set
up new stakes at this point and begin to
plOw.
Direct combinations of extremes have
not always resulted satisfactorily. Short
horns made no improvement on the cattle
OF the plains, the cross being too violent;
but when grade shOrthorns were resorted
to and the progress of Improvement be-
came gradual, more favorable results were
obtained.
The farmer who has neat, well-kept
garden is almost sure to have a neat and
well-kept farm, a comfortable and we'll
appointed home, tidy Outbuildings and
stock in good condition; and the house.
wife who takes pride in the garden gene
rally has home to take pride in and to
be proud Of.
Many a man has had his pork fail to
keep properly because it was sailed in a
frozen condition. Frozen meat, whether
beef, pork or mutton, will not properly
assimilate with salt and cannot be de-
pended on to keep in hot weather. A mo-
menfs reflection will make this seem so
reasonable that one will wonder why he
did not think of it before.
A correspondent of the Kansas Farmer
says: "The scientist will tell you there is
no way to determine the sex of an egg,
but if you select the largest eggs you will
have a prepOnderance of male birds"
This may be perpleXing to those who are
aware OF the fact that hens will lay whole
litters of eggs of the same size. which
would make them all of one sex.
Each head of clover contains about sixty
distinct flower tubes, each of which con-
tains portion of sugar not exceeding the
iive-hundredth part of grain. The pro-
bosclS of the bee must, therefore, be in
serted into 500 clover tubes before one
grain of sugar can be obtained. There
are 1000 grains in pound, and, as honey
contains three-fOurths of its weight Of Dry
sugar, each pound of honey represents
100000 clover tubes sucked by bees.
Horatio Seymour has recently written
letter warmly encouraging the planting
OF wild cherry for lumber uses. 1t makes
a rapid, straight growth. and its wood is
likely to be more and more valuable. as
it is capable Of high polish. Mr.. Seymour
has one fine old tree of this variety shad-
ing his house which has grown up within
the last forty years, and he has many
other trees planted in various places on
his farm.
The Boston Ctiltirator says that some
farmers claim novel benefit from sowing
salt on wheat in its effect in preventing
so deep freezing of the soil. They saw the
', , heat on which salt is sown is not so
po2oms prowth in fRd J jS ready to make
benefit it would seem that salt might be
soWn in winter as well as at any other
season. 1t is, perhaps, worth while TO
try the experiment on small plot to learn
It5 onoote.
During the meeting of the Indiana State
Swine Breeders Association last week
at indianapolis, opinions were advanced
that the white hog was the best ia che
market and found tho roauIeSt sale. The
Jersey rcd was the poorest selling, while
the POland-China could be placed on the
market earlier and at a greater weight
than any other hog. A resolution passed
requesting the members of Congress to
use their influence to have foreign restric-
tiOns removed from American pork.
All kinds of domesticated fowls, whether
of the barnyard or improved races, lay
eggs more or less. There is no sort of
fowl, under any kind of treatment, but
what will pay in eggs alone (if all are
gathered that the hen will naturally lay
twice over the expense of her annual
keeping. If fed well and properly she
will lay more eggs usually than if she be
starved and neglected. In either case her
egg product will sell for double what it
costs to keep her every year.
From all quarters the Wilson straw
berry has been attacked, but the source
of warfare may generally be traced to
those who are endeavoring to supersede
it with something of their own. Newer
varieties are given all the benefits of
mulch, manure and cultivation in order
to make them attractive. If treated as
the Wilson has been they would soon pass
away. Having stood in high favor for
more than ten years, it still remains the
champion berry for shipping and pro-
ducing under adverse circumstances.
One of the chief causes of decay, when
apples or other fruit is stored, is close
contact. Should an imperfect apple be-
come diseased, the disease assumes con-
tagiOus form, and spreads from one apple
to the other until all are destroyed. This
is more particularly noticed with peaches
and plums, and it reminds us that more
care should be exercised in preserving
fruits over winter. Lemons and oranges
come to us from foreign countries wrapped
in paper and packed only in small lots.
1t has been demonstrated that apples,
when placed on a Shelf each being sepa-
rated from the other, keep well; and why
cannot lesson be taken from the foreign
methods, which enable fruits grown in
warm climates to be safely transported to
long distances? When fruit is wrapped
it is partly protected from cold, and the
difficulty from freezing is not SO great. 4
cool place should, therefore, he selected
for storage. No doubt many may object
to the proposition of using so much care
with fruit, but if the good quality and
soundness result in an increased price
no objection should be made.-Fdrn9 and
Garden.
One who observes the habits of sheep
and cows in a pasture will notice how
they prefer some parts of field, eating
the ground there quite bare aud neglect
ing other parts. There is a reason for this.
Sheep prefer hillside and generally the
shortest heritage. Cows prefer higher
ground and will 90 over and over hill
slope, leaving the low land at the foot.
The reason for this may be found if one
plants such land with sorghum and uses
the crop for making syrup or sugar. 1t
will then be found that the cane grown on
these hillsides is much richer IN sugar