Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-07
Farm and Stock Notes.


young ones having the same milk-pro-
ducing capacity. The period of profitable
milking does not terminate at the same
age with all cows alike. Some hold out
longer than others, but, as rule, the best
effects do not reach beyond the eighth
year of the cows age.
1t requires 100 bushels of good sized
onions to set an acre of ground for grow
ing seed. The best success is secured by
setting just before the ground freezes up in
the fall and covering six or seven inches,
Tldglng up over the roots, so that though
frozen they will be dry. They are occa-
sionally, though not often, injured by ex-
cessIYe freezing and thaWing.
Take of saltpeter and common salt each
one tablespoonful, dissolve in little hot
water and add twelve quarts of cold water.
Apply to the cabbages in the heat of the
day when the sun shines. If you apply
with sprinkler and do your work thor
Oughly one application will be sufficient.
l think this is the same remedy that de-
stroyed the currant worm in a certain
locality few years age, but l am not
sure. have had no occasion to try it,
but hope some afflicted person will do so
and tell us if he is successful or not
Correspondence american Farmer.
'Stringhalt is nervous disease and is
WI hAAASuAb anu oOAlCblluGS pOS5lDlt W
cure. 1t is caused by failure of certain
nerves to act, by which the contraction
OF the muscles is not controlled and the
limb is lifted up invOluntarily. This eX-
cessiye muscular action wearies the horse
and interferes with his usefulness. 1t
may be beneficial to give ten grains of
nux yomica daily for three days, then to
stop for week and repeat, and do this
for three weeks. Brisk rubbing of the
fn1I w
with a rough wooden cloth for fifteen min
utes night and morning may be useful.
AS cure for thumps in pigs, it is said
that fOXgloVe (digitdhS) is certain. By
administering one or two drops at time
F. d. Curtis says he has cured severe
cases. One drop is enough for a young
pig. Let it be given once every three
hours. Mr.. Curtis says that thumps is
caused by the palpitation OF the heart,
and owing to this palpitaJiOn the pig has
no inclination to suck or eat and it dies
from exhaustion. The disturbance with
the heart is caused by excessive fat and
lack of tone or muscular development.
Digitalis acts as tonic and helps to OBJ
tain full and natural action of the heart.
A well-infOrmed dairyman estimates
that fully so per cent. of the COWS of the
country drop their calves between the 1st
OF February and the last Of MAY. This
leaves the supply of good butter quite
limited during the winter, with prices
cOrrespondingly high. Winter dairying,
which is so rapidly becoming the habit of
our larger dairymen, will do much to
remedy this. But there is more than bet
ter markets and higher prices to commend
this system. One strong argument in its
favor Is the leisure the farmer has to de-
vote to dairying during the winter. This
system equalizes his years labors, the
summer being given to crops, the winter
to his stock and dairy.
A good suggestion with regard to the
destruction of weeds is made by the Amer
tcdn CuttiUdtOT. Do not, it says, be con-
tent with killing those which are upon the
cultivated land or among the crops, but
those which are around the borders Of the
fields should be dug out or cut down be-
fore they ripen their seed. A Well-culti-
waited field with a row of tall weeds about
1t ripening seeds to fill the land with foul
stuff for another year has more a slovenly
look than one not hOed. 1t looks like pre-
meditated laziness, while the field left un-
hoed may have been neglected by reason
of sickness or lack of time. If it is worth
while to hoe at all, it is worth while to
hoe to the end of the row.
The shrinkage in weight of cattle after
being placed on grass in spring is we'll
known to experienced grazers, but we
have found intelligent farmers who were
not aware that this was the rule. If more
grain or hay is fed for few DAYS after the
cattle are put out on grass the tendency
to lose weight may be counteracted. 1t
is often wiser to keep fattening cattle on
dry feed in the spring, even though it be
desired to keep them two or three weeks
after the grass is in good condition. When
the system OF the cattle has become ac-
customed to the change the gain is often
remarkably great. At no season in the
year are so great gains usually made as
during June.-BTeederS' Gazette.
Ground oats, corn and wheat mixed
with boiled potatoes do not make proper
food for fowls. A certain portion of it
given occasionally, as when fowls are fed
for fattening, is good and wholesome, but,
as a rule, soft food is injurious to poultry.
1t is not well digested and produces a
common blood disease, a sort of anthrax
fever, marked by blackness of the comb,
stiffness and lameness of the limbs and
the dropping of the wings of the chickens,
To remedy this the fowls should be given
dose of a teaspoonful of linseed oil and
small pinch of powdered sulphate of
iron, and have no food, but only water,
for two days. After that light feeding
with oats and some chopped grass or
clover would be useful; but no corn should
be given for few days, and then only
sparingly.
In an article upon the kinds and quail
ties of silk worms, the South and West
says that for raising the large, pure white
cOcOons, 1t Is best to purchase he Turk
ish eggs. These are not considered a two
crop worm, though many of them will
produce a second crop in this country.
They make fine, large, pure white cocoon
and are easily raised II properly cared for.
The value of the cocoon, as to the quality
of silk, must not be judged by the size.
Frequently large cOcOons are very thin.
and a small worm will often spin more
silk than large one, the smaller cocoon
being the heavier of the two. AS a gem
eral thing the white cocoons are not so
solid, nor do they contain as much silk, as
the straw or yellow colored cOcOons of the
same size.
Sometimes an acre of ground, accord
ing to estimate, will contain 10000, 600
earth worms. The amount of manure
vOided by the worms and deposited on
each acre is stated to be about ten tons.
Such manure cannot be said to be rich. or,
rather, it adds nothing to the soil, as
great portion of the food is the soil itself,
but, in addition to this, leaves and other
accessible vegetable substances are eaten
by these creatures in large quantity. The
great service of worms to agriculture lies
in the pulverizing and admiXing opera
ton performed upon the soil while pass
ing through their bodies, an operation to
which is almost wholly due, as it now
seems, that RIGA layer of fine, uniform
black earth near the surface called Vege-
table mould.
Butter is in the cream in the form, prin-
cipally, of particles of fat, inclosed in a
membraneOus covering, the whole called
a globule. The particle of fat has al in
dividuai structure. This structure may,
by the force of heat or friction, be de-
stroyed. To save it in its natural form is
to "preserve the grain" Butter with a
perfect or natural grain has many essen
tial qualities that give it value. 1t has a
finer color and clear, waxy appearance,
unctuOus taste, and a good keeping quail
ity. The melting point of butter, upon
which mainly depends its keeping quality
when subjected to high temperature, de-
ponds, in turn, mainly upon its structure
or grain. If butter, on its way to the
consumers, is to be exposed to the influ-
ence of heat, it must have it's structure
preserved; in other words, it must have
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