Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-13

The Country Gentleman recommends
evergreen hOughs as being the best pro-
lection to the strawberry bed in winter,
saying they never smother or otherwise
Injure the plants.
The Chemical ReUier states that it is
now fairly established, on sufficient evil
dence, that BOytrytlS iRfeStdnS, the para
site which occasions the potato disease,
is the same which gives rise to diphtheria.
Every grower of Seeding potatoes, says
the New York Tribune, well knows hat
it takes from three to i've years to fix the
shape, color and type of any Seeding. and
that by careful selection he can almost
produce potato TO order. BY taking ad-
vantage Of the tendency to Improvement
we can constantly improve any variety
we choose.
An acre OF land contains 1850 square
feet. To cover this with manure two
inches deep, as farmers sometimes tell OF
manurlng their fields, would require a
pile OF manure more than thirty feet square
and eight feet deep, or nearly Itty-seven
cords per acre; very few farmers ever put
on that amount. The common OX-cart or
wagon, holding thirty bushels of potatoes,
needs to be heaped pretty well to hold
One-third of a cord of manure.
Says w. d. BOyntOn, in the Prairie
things to be kept in mind by the fruit
raiser-pTuning and mulcbng. If these
two duties are we'll performed, success is
nearly always certain. If well muched.
the tertlllZln9 material is thus suppiiie1
by filtration from the mulching down to
the feeding roots, which is the very best
self-regulating method of fertiliZing. By
allowing this mulching to remain in sum-
mer as winter the roots are kept moist
and vegetation prevented from sprInging
up around bushes or a heavy sod from
forming"
Carey Smith, in the I0lCd Homestead
says that after trying nearly all the "sure
cures" for lice on stock, he has gone back
to the tobacco remedies. Tobacco can be
bought cheap and stems from the cigar
makers for nothing; steep until you have
a strong decOctiOn and apply to every
part. Apply the second or third time
10 eXtermInate one must not only kill all
the lice on the stock but burn all the bed
ding, fumigate or whitewash all stables
ano -,, Ia being careful to have the white
wash penetrate every crack and corner.
III once rid of them, examine every new
animal brought on the place and, if neces-
saTy, doctor Immediately.
Professor Johnston believed in suppIy
ing the desire Of the growing (embry0)
calf for bone by feeding proportion OF
that substance to cows. In his agricul-
tural chemistry be states that a COW Civ
ing 100 gallons of milk in year and rails
ing a calf whose bones will weigh twenty
pounds, VIII pass off in her milk as much
phosphate as is contained in thirty pounds
OF bone dust, and in her urine as much as
is IN seventeen pounds, making sixty
seven pounds Of bone material which are
needed by healthy COW each year. or
course, some portion of this is supplied by
the food, but the Professor recommends
feeding cow one tablespoonful Of fine
ground bone every week.
The Dayton Journal publishes the fol-
lowing: 1.-TWO adjoining fields, of ten acres
each, on William Vansciyer's farm, were
sown with wheat the last week IN Septem-
Der. Both were of the same kind of soil.
upland clay, and both received the same
kind of treatment at seed time. The same
quantity and quality of wheat was sOwn
on it with drill. In the spring field No.
did not show as good a stand as field
NO. 2; in fact, it threatened a total fail
ure, and his neighbors advised him t. DloW
it Tor corn. AS soon as the ground was
dry enough, about April 10, IL. G. OAR
nell, who was cultivating it on the shares,
put harrow on No. and thoroughly
loOsened the soil. No. 2 was left un-
touched, as it promised a good yield from
the start. Both fields were thrashed. No.
l yielded II bushels per acre; No. 2, 10
bushels per acre."
Mr.. A. b. Allen, who is excellent au-
thcrity, writes to the New York Tribune
that in order to satisfy himself in regard
to the benefits or injury by crossing fowls,
he purpOsely experimental with that view.
lie mated White Leghorns and White
and kept an accurate account
of the eggs of the resulting hens for three
years. The figures proved that they gave
the same number as their parents. In
that experiment the fowls were crosses,
but to test the question of breeding-in-
and-in, he bred male to his own pulIets.
which resulted in small diminutiOn in
the annual number of eggs. The produce
OF the second in-and-in cross (breeding a
brother to sislers) resulted in failure, as
not One-fOurth the number of eggs W IS
produced In comparison with the number
laid by the original stock. Instead of be-
ginning to lay in September and October,
when about six or seven months old, they
did not lay till March, when they were
nearly year old, when they then laid
sparingly till August, and then ceased
The experiments demonstrate
that it is not positively injurious to breed
a sire to his daughters, but breeding "a
brother to sisters is ruinous. The safest
method, therefore, is to avoid in-breeding