Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-13
Farm and Stock Notes

Farm and Stock Notes.
The Rural NelC Yorker warmly advo-
Gates oats and peas as an excellent green
food for mich COWS. For this purpose
one and one-half bushels of peas and two
and One-half bushels of oats are sown. As
peas are not easily covered by harrow,
the seed should be sOwn on the narrowed
ground and covered by the cultivatOr or
plowed in.
Capt. Jordan, of the Bremen County
Live Stock Association, Waverly, Iowa,
is of the opinion that eventually the Amer
lean horse breeder must come TO the p0-
sltion now held by the British breeder,
namely, breeding special animals for spe-
cial purposes. One kind of horses, he
holds, is needed for draught horse, one
for roadster and another for riding
horse.
A correspondent says that young horses
should never have shoes imposed upon
them until it is well proved that they can
not do without them. He predicts that
the day is not far off when some humane
benefactOr of his kind and horse-kind will
produce a breed of horses having such
firm, tough feet. in addition to all other
good qualities, that shOeing will be unne-
cessary.
A fact that should be borne in mind by
those engaged in horse training is that the
horse has very acute faculty for under
standing and interpreting the tone of the
voice. If you talk confidently, the ami
NAL. acquires confidence; if your voice
shows fear, he notices it and is afraid
Talk kindly to your horse and be sure that
he understands. the meaning OF the tone if
not of the words.
The negroes of Sumter county, Alabama,
have farmers club in successful opera
ton, with some very practical features
worthy the consideration of white folks.
If any member fails to attend properly to
his team, or keep his fences in repair, he
is fined from 81 to $40, and the money is
collected out of the first proceeds Of his
crop. Membership in such a club would
prove expensive to a good many white
farmers.
An agricultural writer, speaking of the
best methods of feeding cOrn-fOdder and
other coarse foods, calls attention to the
fact that since these are in themselves in
complete foods, lacking the heterogeneous
and fatty elements, they should invaria-
bly, be supplemented with some food which
will supply these. He regards cOtton-seed
cake, or linseed-Oil cake, as among the
best, as they not only supply the needed
elements, but also greatly enrich the ma
nure.
Our ideas of high farming differ very
| materially from those of the agricultur-
! lists of many sections of Europe, where
rents run as high as $500 per acre, and
! where farming is made to yield good in
1 come even at those figures. France, Eng
! land, Holland and other countries are
| long away ahead of us in the matter Of
| making every foot of land give its largest
| possible yield, and this is accomplished
| by manuring highly and cultivating with
| the utmost thoroughness.
If you do not get as good price for
! your butter as some one else does you may
| count that there are nine chances out of
! ten that the fault lies with you and not
/ with the purchaser, remarks an exchange.
] Really choice butter is not so plenty but
! that any one who makes a really first-class
/ article can easily obtain the highest mar
/ ket price. 1t is very natural for one to
! think that their butter is just as good as
! their neighbours, but if their neighbours
! brings higher price 1t Will paw to try and
improve the quality little.
The editor Of the american Cultirator
| says that in an experience of many years
! he has found that clover seed sOwn in
! February or early in March is more sure
! of catch than that sOwn later. Some
! theoretical fears have been expressed lest
| the young plants be frozen to death before
/ spring; but that these fears are ground
| less is shown by the fact that self-sown
| clover seed, or that turned up By last falps
D OlUCu gives u SOOu lDlS
must have la on or near the surface of
! the ground through the winter.
! A correspondent writes to the Garden
! el's Monthly: "W ater cress is grown by
us MOntrealers without the aid of spring
! water or running brook. We simply stick
/ it in the form of cuttings, on we'll
drained bench of sweet soil in the fall, in
house where the heat is about forty-five
/ degrees all winter. Sprinkle freely and
!, oil
| if required, by shading. Some of our Mon
treal hotels must have the water crosses
on their tables all the year round.'
Mr.. T. d. Curtis thus tells the readers
of the Farmer and Ddiryn1Gn what cOnsti-
tutes balanced ration" Goods are
divided into two classes, carbonaceous
and heterogeneous, which are sometimes
called carbohydrates and albuminoids.
No food is wholly one or the other. The
two terms have only relative significa-
ton. All foods are more carbOnaceOus
than they are heterogeneous, but when the
proportion Of nitrOgenOus elements is
comparatively large the food is called car
bonaceous. Foods are composed of a large
number of ingredients in different pro-
portions, but if we are careful to get two
of them in the right proportion the rest
will be present IN sufficient quantity.
These two are carbon and nitrogen"
joined the fence-cutters by ordering the
cutting of the wire fences with which
number of wealthy cattle owners inclosed
large areas OF the public d0main in Ne
braska, New Mexico and other Western
Territories. The managers of the ranches
are now in Washington in order, if posi-
BILE, to adjust the difficulty. They confess
that they have violated the law in refusing
TO permit the government mail-carriers to
Nl,0sv
only argument they use to retain what
they have illegally seized upon is that by
raising cattle cheaply they make meat
cheaper to the consumer. The govern
ment, however, is not likely to modify
its decision that the fences must be re-
moved.
From our own experience, says the
Nelg ENGLAND Farmer, if asked to answer
in general way whether the use of COM
mercial fertilizers pay, we should reply
that they pay on some land a very much
better percentage than on other land;
that they pay better applied TO some crops
than to other crops, and that they also
pay much better in some seasons than in
others. If land is so coarse and loose
that it cannot hold water enough to ma
ture crop, or is too wet for plants to
grow in, it would be wasteful to cover it
with a fertilizer whether that fertilizer
be a concentrated chemical substance or
a load of stable manure. Again, if fer
tilizer is used for growing a crop that is
not wanted in market, like our apple crop
of the present year, there can certainly
be no profit from growing il under such
circumstances; and, again, if the season
is so untavOrable that all, or nearly all,
crops fail, we cannot expect a field to
produce well merely because it contains
a sufficient amount of fertilizers to pro-
duce a crop, provided other conditions
were favorable.
Piles PiIes!! Plesl!i
Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itch
ing Piles. One box has cured the worst