Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-01
Farm and Stock Notes.

1TOm HIS QUE anu quarter acre peach or
chard, set seven years ago, he has already
realized $4,000. His peaches have retailed
in Boston at 20 cents each.
1t is said that an infallible test for dis.
tinguishing butter from butterine is tC
melt the substance and then suddenly
chill it with ice. The lard will go to the
bottom and the butter to the top, the line
of separation being distinctly visible.
Keep the horse collars clean. The dust
and dirt which adhere to collars when
they are wet with sweat works into humps
and ridges, and sore shoulders are the re.
suit. If the collars become hard wash
them clean, pound them and apply oil.
The authorities of the Iowa Agricultu.
raj College make the following classified
tiOns of the relative values of various
foods as milk producers: Corn, per 10C
pounds, 80 cents; oats, so cents; barley,
80 cents; wheat, 65 cents; wheat bran, 7C
cents; oil meal, 81 40; clover hay, so cents
timothy, 90 cents; potatoes, 10 cents.
The time is at hand when you should
carefully examine your henhouse and
fOrtity it against the army of insects SC
injurious to your fowls. A careful use OF
kerosene oil will keep off lice. Coal tai
is also frequently used to good advantage
for the same purpose. Apply it with q
brush into every crack and creVice where
there is any chance for Yermin and it will
keep them off.
Red clover will produce the heaviest
crop of hay on suitable land that can be
grown. About four pounds of green grass
make one of hay. Orchard grass produces
a pound of hay to less than three pounds
of grass. Alsike clover Yields less than
the red variety, but the proportion OF
grass to hay is the same. While it is adj
visable to secure as large yield as posi-
bic it is best to grow mixture in order
to secure quality.
Ten years ago neither India, Australia
nor the Argentine Republic had sent a
cargo of wheat to Europe. This year the
amount of eXportable wheat from India
is estimated at 100000 bushels, from
Australia 25,000,000, and from the Argen-
tine Republic at 100000 bushels, a total
of S5,000,000 bushels. In each of these
countries the opening up of the country
by railroads is stimulating wheat produc-
ton in surprising manner.
Insect powder, or ''Persian POWDER" il
fresh and good, will destroy cOckroaches
and crOtOn bugs inevitably. 1t should be
pulled into the crevices between the boards
and under the sink, where they are usu-
ally found. If this is repeated every
morning for a week there will be no more
living bugs visible for long time. Should
this plan fail you may be certain the in
sect powder is not of the best quality or
that it has deteriorated.
The Germantown telegraph says that a
farmer who grows quantity of onions
every year has patch of ground near his
house which he devotes to onion raising
which is entirely fertilized by refuse slops.
Instances of this kind serve an important
purpose in showing the value of the pro-
ducts of the house that are generally
thrown away as of no value and cOnse-
quently useless. But let farmers try such
an experiment and they will be satisfied
of the value hidden therein.
An experiment made by DR.. Laws, of
England, showed that an acre of rich pas
ture in Leicestershire produced 800 pounds
of increase in the weight of fattening oxen
in six months grazing. 1t required $500
pounds Of clover, 1,600 pounds OF corn or
oil cake and 10000 pounds of Swedes to
produce the same increase. This fodder
was considered equal in value to three
and One-half tons Of English hay. Neither
soil nor climate in this country are favor
able tor the maintenance of such pastures
here.
Weakness in young calves is due to the
poor condition of the COWS, and often to
exposure to cold, which reduces the vi
talIty of the COW; and, of course, the
calves suffer. The best thing to be done
is to give the COWS some nOurishing food
for some time before they calVe, as Oat-
meal or linseed Cruel, with a teaspoOnful
of ginger and pint of mOlasSeS, and to
give the calf little weak gin and water
well sweetened, by means Of a spoon. An
ounce or so will be enough each time five
or six times day.
The experiments conducted during the
last GnGSiOO q tho MiCsOnri Gto4o A
cultural College fully demonstrate, says
the RurdJ World, the ACCESSIBILITY OF
mulching potatoes. We believe every ex.
pertinent, so far as reported, gave a SINH
lar result. The cost of the materials for
mulching is usually very small, leaves OF
straw being plentiful and cheap upon the
farm. The materials manure the ground
and mulching saves hoeing. The potato
requires a cooler climate and mOister soil
than our latitude affords. Mulching tends
to secure both. The result in every case
has been largely increased yields of supe.
rior quality.
If the cows get to pasture before they
drop their calves it will often stimulate
the milk glands to such an extent as to
fill the udder with milk several days be-
fore calving. In such cases the milk
should be drawn out at once. Serious in
jury may result from the long continued
distensOn of the udder, which becomes
painful, or from the absorption of the milk
back into the system, poisoning the blood
by the fever it takes with it. The better
the animal as milk producer the greater
the danger from this cause, which is one
reason why so many of our fancy ANIMALS
die from milk fever. These causes enfee-
BILE more constitutions than bad breeding
or high feeding with stimulating food.
For rough and ready filter make a
partition across a small wine barrel, from
which the head has been removed, by
means OF circular piece of wire gauze
supported upon light frame of wood and
fitted across the barrel with few French
nails. Sift upon the gauze some clean
silver sand to the depth of from two to
three inches, then place on the sand some
small charcoal from which the dust has
been sifted away previously. A two-inch
layer of the sand above this and about an
equal thickness of clear sharp gravel on
top completes the filtering arrangement
the barrel may then be filled up with
water and the purified fluid drawn from a
tap near the bottom as re quired.-AmeTi-
can Manufacturer,
At a recent meeting OF the Agricultural
Association in New York one OF the men,
bers said he had received one of the little
bags of sample wheat sent out for the
benefit of the farmers of the country by
the Department of Agriculture at Wash
ingtOn. From the one bag were produced
on his farm four kinds of wheat. three
kinds of barley and one kind each of oats
and rye. A bag of turnip seed was also
sent him and not one of the seeds grew.
Whereupon VtcE's Illustrated MdqQzjHe
for March remarks-with, we fear, too
much justice-that, departing from the
original intention of its establishment,
the Agricultural Department ''has become
a sluiceway through which, with some
things that are good, flow the screenings
of the seed trade of the world"
The BelgIans grow alfalfa (lucerne)
largely. They first pillow and clean the
land thoroughly, dress literally with good
farm-yard manure, plow this in early in
the spring { say in March,, and harrow
down. They SOW the seed the second
week in April broadcast all over the land
(twenty- eight pounds of seed per acre J,
half this quantity sOwn one way and the
remainder the opposite way to insure reg
ularity of plant. They harrow in we'll
and roll down. One cutting may be made
in August, but only one the first year.
They tOp-dress the following winter with
farm-yard manure; roll heavily in the
spring, and from three to four cuttings
can be taken yearly after this by manur-
ing every winter. When the land becomes
foul, which it will do after five or six years,
they pillow up the lucerne, well clean the
land and re-sow, unless they try another
field.
A question often occurs as to the amount
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