Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-20
Farm and stock Notes.

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/ it is of no use to eXpend force in scratch
/ ing in the hard soil, fetid with their own
/ eXcrement, which communicates every
/ morsel OF food given them and in which a
worm or bug has not been seen for months,
4 and are thus deprived of the most natural
/ food which they like, and would do them
much good if they had a chance to roam
/ at viii and search for these precious NOR
/ sells at their leisure. Out Of doors recrea-
ton serves double purpose; the fowls
! find much food daily and get enough of
/ pure air and exercise to make them
/ healthy.
For years, writes a correspondent of the
/ Country Gentleman, | have cured warts
/ very easily on animals, no matter where
/ located, by applying butter of anthony
with feather two or three times, at in
| tervals of two or three days. If the warts
are dry scalded, l scrape them lightly at
| first. 1t simply dries the wart down to
! hardness, when it drops off without leav-
ing soreness or irritation. The best milk
ing COW which l own l purchased out of
Va drove of beef cattle on account of her
superiority in having all the excellent
milking points, and the discovery that her
teats were literally covered with pointed
warts, which had no doubt was the rea-
son why she had been fatted and sold.
The amount of food required by differ
ent animals of the same kind and of nearly
the same weight differs much more widely
than is generally supposed. AS with per-
sons, some are dainty while others are
hearty eaters. The rules for giving so
many pounds per head are valuable, and,
in feeding flock of sheep together, it is
! always best to weigh what is given. Even
in flock, however, some viii eat twice
or three times as much as others. With
single animals it requires close CbserYa.
ton to decide how much can safely be CIV
en-. 1t is best always to give just as much
as will beeaten up clean. More than this
is wasteful, and with sheep, especially,
will be less promOtive of thrift than ra-
ton slightly below what would be eaten.
A correspondent in the Country Gentle
man says: II have had the care of cows
on small scale for fifty years. l always
fed Turks Island salt and, with two eX-
! ceptions, l never had a COW abort. Some
eight years ago / had some Syracuse salt
left after sailing pork and fed it to my
| COWS. The result was that two out of the
five COWS aborted. / became so fearful of
/ Western salt that l used no more of it
| until the winter of 1888, when | tried some
more Syracuse salt and had only one COW
abort. l made up my mind to use none
| but Turks Island salt. The first / ever
! heard Of abortion as an epidemic was in
the vicinity Of Syracuse, and as the salt
made there came East, abortion followed.
l think there is some mineral in it that
! causes the trouble.
There are several diseases known among
farmers as heaves, some durable and some
not, and requiring therefor veterinary ex-
animation before deciding upon the form
of disease and consequent remedy. The
broken-winded horse is called heavy when
! the real trouble is in the throat, some of the
muscles of the throat being paralyZed.
| Again, a horse full fed on dry and musty
| hay with no grain, often seems badly al
fected with heaVes in starting out, but after
! long driving and plenty of drink appears
! greatly improved. There are types of the
| disease which an ordinary condition pow
| der, and especially one containing saltpe-
| tire, will ameliOrate. Where the trouble is
| with an excess of dry hay the feeding of
! small quantities of cut feed, mixed with rye
! bran, and the mixture wet up with warm
water, will often prove of much service.
! A farmers wife thus suggests, through
! the orange County Farmer, the idea of
| canning milk, which may in some cases
be desirable, as, for instance, to bridge
! over dairy drought: 'Vlsiting a farm a
| few years ago, some excellent coffee upon
the table disclosed the presence of cream.
| This surprised me, for l knew the cows
were dry and there were 20 very near
neighbors. / asked and the answer was !:
| 20, that is canned milk Since then
! have done the same way two seasons, and
| intend to do so again soon. When the
milk is brought in and strained, put it on
! to boil in a steamer or pail set into kettle
| of boiling water. AS soon as il reaches
\ the boiling point and begins to bubble,
| pour into glass jars already prepared and
! heated, and screw up Immediately. Keep
| it where it will not freeze and when need
| ed it is ready for USE"
| Dark soil withstands drought much
better than Hght-colored. The corn crop
| of the hot and dry year, 1881, was a COM
| plete failure on the light-colored land of
| Illinois, while the dark soil of the State
! yielded considerable crops. Different per-
sons observed that black soil was sur
| prisingly moist during the extreme heat
| and drought Of the year. The astonishing
moisture was doubtless condensed by the
| intense warmth of the atmosphere coming
| in contact with the much lower tempera-
! ture Of the earth near the surface. Dark
! ness attracts and absorbs light and heat,
| while light and heat radiate after their
| kind. Hence, dark soil attracts more
! heat of the sun to it's surface, and the i'm
mediate lower stratum being of so much
| lower temperature, that moisture is con-
! densed near the surface like it always is
when widely varying temperatures meet
suddenly.
T. Bennett, near Trenton, n. j., gives
| the following remedy for killing grubs at
| the roots of cabbage or cauliflower: To
one part of well-slaked lime add four
parts OF fresh wood ashes, together with
a small handful of fine salt to about every
peck of the mixture. Let all be well
| mixed together, spread over the surface
of the ground, well raked in and mixed
with the soil at the time of sowing the
seed or transplanting into frames. For
small gardens DIR. Sturtevant recommends
for the killing of such worms the use of
an emulsion composed of one ounce of
common yellow hard soap, one pint of
kerosene oil and IA gallon of water kept
continually stirred while using to prevent
the oil floating on the surface and used
through the nose of a water pot. He
claims this will destroy all worms that
get thoroughly wet with the mixture and
does not injure the plant or poison those
who use the vegetable.
The first prize fat steer at the recent
exhibition at Chicago weighed, at 3-year-
old, 2,450 pounds; at 2 years, $3.50, and at
year, 1,400. The second years growth
of $50 pounds was made by feeding 1000
pounds of shelled corn, besides abundant
pasture; the third years growth of only
200 pounds was made by feeding $500
pounds of shelled corn, with pasture.
The excessive feeding of the second year
1OTc6Q G06 CROWN SO JudI O0c-QdII more
feed the next year made only 200 pounds
of live weight. Mr.. g. w. Hoffman gave,
at the Elmira Farmers Club, an instance
of heifer which he forced for a large
milk production in her first years milk
ing; the quantity of milk produced was
very large, but since then the COW has
fallen off to the product of very ordinary
cow. Such experience is so frequent as
to entitle it to be held as a rule that to
force an animal by excessive feeding not
only ruins it but its progeny with it.
The Dirigo Rural tells of an experiment.
ing farmer who purchased 100 pounds of
ground bone, placed it in half a hogshead
tub and applied forty pounds of sulphuric
acid, adding water as desired. In five days
time the whole mass was reduced to
consistency of thick jelly. Water was
then added and 300 pounds of plaster used
as a dryer, the whole being worked and
shoveled over until it could be readily
handled. The phosphate so made was APP
piled to one acre of corn and one acre of
potatoes, both being MANFRED sufficiently,
and a small quantity was left, which was
applied to his wheat field and plat of
grass ground, just to see what it would
do. The result of this manure in the two
latter instances was most marked, while
the corn was heavy the growth being dark
colored and stout and the potatoes good.
The entire cost of the phosphate was 81 80
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