Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-31
Farm and Stock Notes.

a 100-acre field, and sometimes on smaller
surfaces harvested as high as As bushels
per acre.
Don't neglect to pinch off the sprouts
which appear on the stock where YOU set
CRAFTS this spring or badded last season.
Throw all the vital force of the stock into
the new growth.
The heaviest fleece so far reported was
taken from the celebrated ram LANE"
owned by John Bell. of Tekonsha, Mich,
and is of the almost unparalleled weight
Of Az pounds, at 1854 days growth.
The nurserymen recently held conven-
tiOn in Chicago and agreed to make large
exhibits at the coming Exposition at New
Orleans. Edgar Saunders, of Chicago,
was elected President of the association
and d. W. Scott Secretary.
A farmer with only acres living near
Lackawanna, n. T., cleared $3.50 from his
farm last year, the products being onions,
strawberries, raspberries, currants, seeds
and herbs. Besides that amount quite a
large number of cans of fruit were put up
for family use.
Pastures are frequently reduced to less
than half of their natural production by
being eaten off too closely. If the ground
be too bare it dries out until the blades
ana roots of the plants are scOrched. If
enough grass be left to protect the soil
and keep it damp, the pasture viii be
much more productive.
A Western dealer gives the following
figures showing the weight of different
varieties Of the apple: Ben Davis is light,
weighing only 40 pounds to the bushel;
NandeYere, 40; Winesap, "A; Rome Beau
ty and Rawles' Janet, AZ Baldwin, IS,
and Little Romantic, 49,. A bushel of
large apples weighs more than small ones.
At this season of the year it is some
what difficult to keep eggs in good condi-
ton. One reason, perhaps, is that the
fowls allowed to run at large pick up more
of their living and, getting less grain, the
original quality of the egg is not so good.
Careful attention to feeding and giving
plenty of pure water are as important now
as at any season.
The raising Of carp has become very
popular among gentlemen farmers and
even among the owners of small country
residences around the suburban part of
Philadelphia. Almost every pretty little
secluded place has its pond stocked with
carp. They are easy to get, as the United
States Fish Commission supplies them
upon proper application.
A writer in the Mirror says s&illful
milking not only means gentle, rapid and
complete extraction of the milk from the
butter is ruined before the milk has left
the barn, Cows should be brushed clean
before milking. The tie-up should be kept
always clean and always well ventilated,
so as to be quite clear from foul odors.
Many colts are stunted for life because
their mothers are poor suckers at best,
and poorer still if required to do hard
work on the farm as we'll as rear their colt.
Such colts should be trained to drink cows
milk. A little trouble viii get them in the
way Of j and put $50 on their ultimate
value. Ifthe cream is needed give skinned
milk. There is no better market for it
than the colt.
e. G. Partridge, of Wisconsin, present
ed a suggestion at a meeting of the Min
nesOtap Horticultural Society relative to
employing two sorts Of staminate straw
berries, one early and the other later, to
fertiliZe the pistillate blossoms which
open early and afterward those which
come late. The absence Of late pollen is
believed to be the reason Of so many small
and imperfect berries from the late bios
SONS.
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man says that in 1882 the Baldwin trees
in a small orchard were nearly all pro-
fUsely filled with blossoms. From three
trees, which were more abundantly filled
than the rest, all the blossoms were
sheared. Last year these three trees
blOssOmed pTOfuseiy. The correspondent
is firm in the belief that the bearing of
fruit trees may be changed at viii by the
shearing plan,
1t is asserted that milk from a cow suf-
fering from tuberculosis is not only liable
but absolutely certain to produce that
disease in the human being who drinks it.
1t is believed that there are many COWS
so afflicted in New York, and that they
are responsible for many deaths occur
ring from tubercular consumption. How
urgent q subject this is, may be inferred
from the fact that the deaths in New York
city from tuberculosis last year numbered
$3.50.
A prize essay on corn recommends farm
ers to plant on rich sod land, making the
soil very fine. Plant with the horse
planter in drills, a kernel every foot.
Drag with a Thomas harrow once before
the corn is up and twice afterWard. Gull
tivate every week with Il fine implement,
but never deeper than two inches. Cease
cultivation when it becomes difficult to
get the horse between the rows. Cut up
when the corn is glazed and bind with
fine enameled wire.
Taking the best specimens Of steers, says
the LOUg R13iSteF. it is found that bE the
best system Of feeding in the nTst year a
calf or steer can be made TO improve ,335
pounds. The second year the steerWill gain
$50 pounds, third year 702 pounds, and
fourth year 81 pounds. Thus is seen that
in the average fOrthe three years after the
first the increase is not half what it was
the first year, while the animal partakes
of twice as much food and represents
twice as much capital.
Peter Henderson, the gardener and
scotsman, of New York, says he has sold
$500 worth Of early cabbages from a single
crop on one acre; that he followed il with
a crop Of lettuce, which brought $40, and
the lettuce with celery, which brought
5000. AS this is equal to $3.50 from one
acre it shows what may be done under a
high system Of culture, and though it is
not to be expected that many persons will
be as successful as Mr.. Henderson, yet
there are opportunities for much larger
returns from one acre than is usually Sc
cured.
Prof Levi Stock bridge advances some
interesting ideas concerning the ''dew
theory" as formerly held and the later
views on that subject. The earth IS al
ways some ten degrees warmer than the
air. Moisture is always going from the
earth TO the air, even when it is frozen
This moist air is condensed as it comes in
contact with the colder air Immediately
above it, and it is found upon the grass
and plants, and we call it Hdew." Inves-
| LEGATIONS have been made lately on the
/ high and low Alps in Switzerland, and
@be same results were obtained as were
reached at Amherst in the sneakers eX.
periments a few years ago. The reason
| why there is no dew when it is cloudy in
the morning is because the clouds act like
a comforter or blanket, and prevent the
lower stratum of air from cooling sufii.
GENTLY to cOndense the moisture when il
rises from the ground.
A well regulated garden cannot be con.
sidered complete unless it contains Sc
lection of some of the principal varieties
Of sweet, aromatic herbs for soups and
other dishes. Some of them are really in.
dispensable, and almost all herbs are ser
Viceable in various culinary operations
In most gardens the herbs are found to
occupy some out-of-the-way situation
smOtnered with weeds and grass, and il
is very fortunate if a variety or so can be
found when wanted for use. Although
herbs in general can be grown in almost
any soil or exposure, they should not be
placed under trees or in shaded situations
They love a moderately enriched, deep soil
Along the sunny side of the garden fence
| is as good a situation as any. A little
patch of a few plants of the principal
| kinds will furnish an abundance Of fresh
| herbs for an ordinary sized family,a vel
/ as a supply for use in a dry state. To Sc
cure them in the greatest perfection fol