Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-23

of turf exist in Russia covering 10000
square miles, which would furnish suffi-
cient material to provide all Russia with
light for 10000 years, this seems indeed to
be hiding their light under bushel.
1t is said that the largest truck farm in
the South is in Louisiana, near New Or
leans, where the cultivation Of early cab
bages, cucumbers and tomatoes for North
ern markets is made a speciality. Last
season the yield was 200 barrels of cucum-
bers. 5000 boxes of tomatoes and 10, 900
heads of cabbage. In addition, straw
berries, peaches, grapes, etc, are Guilt
waited, and an apiary yields an annual
production of 10 barrels of honey.
According to the Ii,didRd Farmer, 3
man near Nashville, Tenn, is making a
profitable business growing persimmOns.
He has realized as much as $40 bushel
for his best cultivated variety, and has
devoted a goodly portion of his land to a
persimmOn orchard, with the intention Of
showing the American people just what
can be done With a product that grows in
every old field in the Southern and Central
States, and has heretofore been looked
upon as little less than a nuisance.
The best soil for plums, says J. B. Moore,
is one that is stony and heavy. The plum
is a hardy tree and requires the same
method of pruning as peaches. Never cut
off the small branches until they die, as
it is on the small branches that most of
the fruit grows. The following varieties
are recommended: BevaY's Green Gage,
Bradshaw, Goes Golden Drop, Green
Gage, Imperial Gage, Jefferson, Law
rence's FavOrite, Ponds Seeding Princes
Yellow Gage, Smiths Orleans, Washing
ton Yellow Egg.
A writer in the american CaltsrdtOr
urges the Importance of allowing grains
to ripen fully before harvesting. Early
harvesting Of wheat, he says, causes de-
terioration in the quality of the flour,
shown by its working soft and sticky.
For seeding it is especially important that
the wheat should be thoroughly ripe. But
one and quarter bushels of seed will be
required per acre if well ripened, while
over two bushels of immature seed are
often required, and it is much less able to
resist insects. or, if fall wheat, to with
stand winter killing.
If coal oil is whipped up with an equal
quantity of sour milk it forms sort of
soap or emulsion which can be dissolved
in water without separating from it, as
clear coal oil does. One tablespoonful Of
this emulsion dissolved in pailful Of
water destroys slugs, worms, lice and
( beetles. 1t Will destroy the large sinking
squash-bug. But to destroy him it must
be made much stronger and applied fOrci-
bly,, which always increases its efficiency.
| Oapply this most successfully one should
have a greenhouse syringe, atomizer or
spraying machine.
Experiments with corn smut show that
it comes either from the seed or lodges and
grows on different parts of the plant. An
experiment was made of rolling sweet
corn in smut spores, which resulted in not
single stalk being free from smut. An
other trial was made with corn that had
/ been thoroughly washed in a solution of
/ bluestOne blue vitriOl), and a crop was
| produced entirely free from smut in both
stalk and ear. AS smut ON wheat is pre-
vented by washing the seed, the same re-
| suit will occur when the seed of corn is
treated in the same manner.
1t is a certainty that raising poultry for
! egg production pays the farmer. AS a
| general thing the fowls that the farmer
/ keeps in his barnyard, and on which he
/ eXpends but little, pay best Of all his live
/ stock, but when attention is specially paid
! to fowls, properly fed, housed and attend
| ed, after deducting the cost Of keeping,
! care, interest per cent. from the amount
/ for which their eggs sell, there is, in nine
/ cases out of ten, larger balance on the
| credit side OF the ledger than is found in
| connection with any single department of
| farm ndustry.-RUrdl Home.
! A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man tells how he overcame the trouble of
cream fQamir. in churning and the but
! ter being hard to come: l had four gal
! Ions Of cream three days old, in earthen
! jars, put into room where the thermom-
] eter stood at 50 degrees. The milk when
/ put into the churn was at 90 degrees, and
! the churn go degrees; this was in a room
at so degrees. In 10 minutes the butter
was ready to be taken out Of the churn,
! and as pretty, yellow butter as ever saw.
/ This certainly pays for heating room
( and having the milk at right tempera-
! tUre.