Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-21
Farm and Stock Notes.

w men Il morse Is DIOuDl6u WIFI luulG6S-
tion, says the New Hampshire Mirror, it
should not have a large quantity of hay or
grain. Oat meal is the best food, being
easily digestible. Feeding often, with a
small quantity each meal, is better than
a large quantity at once.
The preservation of straw for feeding
purposes is very important. 1t is best Sc
cured at or Immediately after thrashing
time. The chat, especially OF wheat straw,
is most valuable and should, so far as pos
sible, be distributed through the stack.
That which is left in rear Of the straw
carrier should be put under shelter, as it
rots easily.
A New York farmer states that he Sc
cures the best stand of timothy by sewing
the seed between the middle of August
and Sept. l, between the hills of growing
corn. The corn should be cultivated both
ways and the soil kept nearly level. The
stalks should be cut close to the ground
and the land rolled. An additional roll
ing of the land in the spring is beneficial.
One of the advantages possessed BIZ the
Brahma fowl is hardness. 1t feathers
| slowly, which enables it to convert its food
into growth of carcass rather than teath-
ers, while its small pea-comb protects it
against the action of the frost in winter,
which is so injurious to the tall, single
comb breeds, such as the LeghOrns. When
matured they are heavily feathered, while
| in weight they are not exceeded by any
| other breed.
No greater mistake can be made, says
| the Maine Farmer, than to turn calves to
| pasture at from to months Of age, and
then leave them on the pastures for de-
| pendence on that alone. However plenti-
| full the feed may be the calf will not keep
! up fresh, plump condition on the grass
| food aIOnn- The oFnat hnSinpSG of the
| growing calf is to make muscle, and for
| this nothing is better than oats, which are
not Injurious to young animals.
| Root crops, which often demand the use
| of the hoe, cause the land to be kept very
clean, thus destroying weeds. 1t is best
| to put down such crops occasionally for
| that purpose, as they are important in a
! proper system of rotation, and also prove
! remunerative crops as compared with
other kinds. A crop that assists in de-
| stroying weeds saves labor the following
| year, and is therefore more valuable than
may be supposed in some respects.
! Healthy orchards can only be obtained
| from trees free from insects as well as
| diseasey properly planted, pruned and
| cultivated. Among the most annoying
| insects that infest the nursery, and from
! there carried all over the country, are the
apple root plant louise, the woolly louise
/ VI JuG dppl6g GuG OJbb6I SuGIl UdLh lOuSG
| and the borers. These are freely intro
| duced, especially by old nursery stock,
and once introduced 1t is almost impOssi-
BILE to eradicate them from an orchard.
In warm weather stagnant pools OF
water breed disease germs and are fruit
! full source of danger. The flesh of animals
/ that die of this disease is highly infectious
previous to the state of decomposition.
Rats and mice contract this disease, and
if eaten by hogs transmit the same. Old
! straw sacks or other porous substances
may absorb and retain the disease germs
! as source ofdanger for weeks and months.
! The dried excretions of diseased animals
in ships and freight cars retain these dan
! gerOus germs indefinitely.
The Rural Home gives an account of a
| limited strawberry crop raised by B. j.
! Case, of SOdus, n. Z, his whole cultivated
| ground being an acre and half. One
third of an acre is planted with straw
berries, from which he picked 1000 quarts,
| or nearly at the rate of 200 bushels an
acre, selling FOR about $500 an acre. The
plantation receives thorough and intelli-
gent culture, the leading sorts being Cres-
cent and Sharpless. Mr.. c.. is over 70
years old, and this culture of small fruits
affords him much pleasure in his advanced
years.
GA sea Captain who has" observes the
american CULtiUGtOr, ''sailed out of Bos-
ton many years, says he preserves the
freshness Of eggs during his voyage by
simply packing newly laid specimens,
small end down, in boxes Of thoroughly
dried sand, with perhaps an inch of sand
for a covering. A dealer in eggs also tes-
titles to the efficacy of the above simple
method, having kept eggs in fresh and
palatable condition for six months in per-
fectly dry sand as above stated, though
| exposed to the ordinary heat of the room.
| The weight of the sand might, in many
| cases, be an objection to this plan. But
| when the boxes need not be moved 1t may
be well worth trying"
The practice of looping off the tops Of
shade trees for the purpose of making
them grow thick has little to recommend
it. The graceful, sweeping boughs Of an
elm or the round and symmetrical top OF
| maple are much to be preferred over a
| truncated, lOw-headed, bushy-stemmed
tree. The heavy looping of the tops OF
trees is also injurious to the tree. No
! matter If the wounds seem to heal over
naturally-as they seldom dO-the tree in.
evitably suffers. A general heading-in
practiced by means Oflong-handleds shears,
and the occasional use of a fine-toothed
| saw, is to be recommended if the tops Of
shade and ornamental trees are not salts.
factory. CaLttUGtOr.
In the absence of manure perhaps the
next best fertilizer for Strawberries is q
compost made to initiate it as much as
| possible. Swamp muck, decayed leaves
from the woods and similar vegetable
matter should form the basis of it; to this
may be added one-tenth part of fine bone
and fourth part of wood ashes. These
should all be well mixed, moistened and
put into a heap and fermented for a few
weeks and then spread over the beds al
the rate of ton to the acre. This would
contain about as much fertilizing matter
as ten tons of manure. Strawberries love
a cool, moist soil, and on this account
swamp muck or some other organic mat
ter is necessary; fine chemical manures
alone will not do.
If butter is drained dry before the sail
is added a marbled appearance may be
noticed to some extent, but if the granu
lated butter when put upon the worker is
full of the brine used in washing it out tt
free from buttermilk, it win so dissolve
the salt during the working that wheI
ready to pack the objection raised will moi
exist. The packing would have something
to do with it if put into 56-pound tubs
Butter does well if put in well-glazed one
gallon crooks. About pound of butter
should be put in each time, and most thor
oughly crowded in with wooden potato
masher, and it will come out of the crock
of as solid color as one could wish. The
whole trouble of marbled butter is one o
sailing it too ''dry'' nd putting too mucl
in the package at time when packing.
The familiar horseradish. which mos
of us associate with some grassy, secluded
little spot about the house, has of latt
years become an important product o
market gardens. 1t is cultivated thor
oughly, and for profit. Quantities ar,
now ground and canned, and form no
unlmportant part of the grocer's stock
Plants set in good ground from root cut
tings In May produce a crop in late fall i
good culture be given. The roots are theI
dug and trimmed and kept in the same
manner as turnips. In this condition thu
gardener sells it from fall to spring. Cut
tings of horseradish should be made 0
roots a quarter or half-iRch in diamete
and four to six inches long. 1t is not ne
cessary to have any leaves on them. Gar
deners grow about 10000 plants to tn
acre. Each plant should yield from
half to three tourths of pound.
A pan of sliced raw onions placed in
room where there is diphtheria will al
! sorb the poison and prevent the diseas
from spreat ting. The onions should
buried every 4. Vorning and fresh ones 81
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