Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-17
Farm and Stock Notes.

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Farm and Stock Notes.
A prominent fruit grower says weeds
will never bother a farmer if he will keep
the land in grass, turning sod for crops,
and reseeding again to grass after one or
two plowings.
The heavier an orchard is cropped the
more manure it requires. From 100 to 200
pounds each Of bone dust and kainit (pot-
ash salts per acre is recommended by the
best orchardists.
Breeding sows should have plenty of
room for exercise and be fed plentlfully
on grass, while those intended for slaugh-
ter should be fed on concentrated food and
kept closely confined.
In packing apples for shipment not one
should be placed in the barrel that has the
slightest trace Of unsoundness, as such
apples decay sooner than the others, and
also affect all in the barrel.
If brood SOW gets too much feed by
accident or lack of care she may be speed
lily relieved by giving her a quart of char
coal. 1t Will tone up the stomach of
hog quicker than anything else.
A Georgia dairyman figures the cost Of
good butter in this State at 1917 cents
pound, where good pastures can be had
on easy terms for ten months in the year
and the butter sells at % cents pound.
Lambs can be safely weaned and sepa-
rated from their mothers at four months,
and should not be allowed to suhsist upon
the ewes longer than five months, as they
cannot thrive best while raising lambs.
A cultivator who grated grapevines
after they had grown a foot or two said
that a month afterward they had done as
well as those set in December, and all the
H.
When colts rerunning with their dams
care should be exercised while feeding, as
any food that has the least tendency to
make the mares loose in the bowels will
operate on the colts in the same manner.
Salt is a necessary article of food to all
classes of stock, and especially to those
turned out to grass. 1t should be fed reg
ularly and not at intervals. A lump of
rock salt at a convenient location is an
excellent method of providing them with
it.
When little pigs get the scours one of
the best remedies is to boil the skim milk
fed to them, thickening it with little
flour. Then add a spoonful of sulphur,
stirring well and give three times day.
If they are Stockings feed the sow in the
same manner.
Alabama has demonstrated the value Of
of rich phosphate beds in Perry and Au-
tauga counties is one of the most valuable
that could be made. 1t is thought that
Dallas and other counties will also show
rich beds Of phOsphates.
OF the use of oatmeal for COWS, says a
dairy writer, mention is not often made
in this country; but when spoken of it is
always with praise. That it is better
than cOrnmeal there can be no doubt; it
is richer in both albuminOids and fat, and
the usefulness of these two nutrlments,
and especially the former, for making
milk, is shown not only by the results of
numerous careful experiments, but by the
Acknowledged usefulness of oilcake meal.
Where this meal is used freely there would
| be less use for oatmeal; but under some
circumstances it might be adyantageously
| substituted for the bran IN the fayorite
mixture for cows of Indian meal and bran.
There are two kinds of peanuts-the red
! and the white. The red generally sells
! the best in market. Three pecks IN the
| shell will readily plant an acre. When
planted in hills one bushel will usually
! plant an acre and half. When the last
! cultivation is given all the spikelets
| should be covered, as each one, if it
| touches the ground and is covered, will
/ make pea. In a loose mellow soil they
| are harvested by simply pulling up the
| vines; but if the soil is packed they will
have to be dug or plOwed out and the peas
gathered up. If the weather is dry, so
| that they can be thoroughly dried out, you
can leave ON the vine until this is done
and store away to be picked off in the flu
! ture. The vines make very good rough
1 ness.
! Flies may be kept from annoying horses
! by making a wash of carbolic soap and
water, with small quantity of kerosene
| oil added to it. This is sponged over the
| hOrse's coat and let dry two or three times.
| Its effects remain for about three or four
| hours. By repeating it at intervals the
flies may be prevented from annoying the
! poor beasts at this season. Another rem
edy is to procure Persian insect powder
| put a quantity of it in flour dredger or
| large pepper box and dust it we'll into the
hair. This is sure death to flies and is
| harmless to animals. II it is blown up
| into the air OF the stables at night and
! busted well upon the posts and ceiling,
as well as the animals, these will enjoy a
| good nights rest. 1t will also clear flies
and mosquitoes from rooms.
The parsnip is far from being popular
| lied, though much older than the potato.
| 1t is a prime cattle food, good for beef and
| milk and greedily eaten by swine. POta-
| toes are everywhere; they Will grow about
as plenty as corn and wheat. But the
|
| rule, even upon the farmers table. A
small patch is raised, of a bushel or two,
if raised at all, to be dug In the early
| spring for a change of diet. 1t is a whole
| some and appetizing vegetable, and could
be used to advantage for half the year.
We begin to use them fresh dug from the
! bed in October; and before the ground
| freezes them in lay in a store of several
| bushels for winter use. In the spring we
| dig the reserve and have parsnips until
| June. They are a dainty dish steWed,
| and still better partially boiled and then
fried brown in long slices. A good crop
| can be had sown any time before June
american AgrjcUItariSt.
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man thus describes a cheap creamer: He
! can get a timer to make cans twenty
| inches deep and eight inches in diameter,
with balls and covers. Such cans are
| sold at the shops here at Is cents each.
| Next. have the carpenter make tank of
pine plank two inches thick, in a substan-
| tial manner, as large as needed. A tank
| eight feet long, two feet wide and two deep
| will give an abundance of room for the
| cans. A smaller tank can be used, but
the larger one will hold more water, which
| will keep at more even temperature than
| in the smaller one. The cans hold about
! two pailfulls and your correspondent can
easily estimate how many he will require.
lie Will ma III an advantage TO have a
| few surplus cans, in case it is not conve-
! nient to skim just on time. The above
| outfit, with liberal supply of cool water,
will give as good results as any of the
ereamers offered, and not cost anything
like the sums asked for the patented af-
fairs.
Stephen Powers writes to the Ohio
| Former. GA wise Providence has given
the American the corn plant and the
Englishman the turnip-and not take the
goods the gods provide? After 200 years
of discipleship we have not yet learned to
value Alright the Almighty's best and
! greatest gift to this continent, Indian
| corn. After 200 years in the wilderness
we still lust after onions, the leeks and
the garlic of Egypt, the turnips of old
\ England. 1t is the stereOtyped advice of
| the average writer on agriculture in whose
veins runs English blood: My good farmer
friends, would you get rich fast, grow a
crop of turnips.' l admit that forthe pro-
duction of the very tenderest, juiciest
mutton of the English stamp a supply of
roots may be advantageous, even neces-
sary; but for the average farmer in the
hot and comparatively dry climate of the
| region this side of the AlleghenIes to en-
gage to any extent in the growing of
roots. while he allows his fodder to rot in