Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-19

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phere.
A recent letter says: "France is lite
rally one garden. Every inch of soil is
cultivated. In riding from Paris to Dion,
$50 miles, we counted only 80 cattle. We
saw no sheep or hogs. The farms have
usually from one to ten acres. Some farms
have Ealf an acre, and some have as many
as 20 acres. They are usually from 80 to
900 feet wide and from 1900 to 1000 feet
long. There are no fences between them.v
The improved Leicester she ep is horn
less; has small head, bare poll; large,
bright and prominent eyes; clean white
face and legs; square, deep neck and
shoulders: strait, fiat, broad back: deep
body; fine bones and juicy, tender flesh,
with the preponderance of fat more on the
outside than the inside Of the bouy. The
fleece is fine, silky, glossy and white, of
moderate length, often weighing ten
pounds.
a farmers chief profits arise from doing
things well and in avoiding unnecessary
expense. In the matter of fattening hogs
the most important step is to commence
the process in the early fall. Hogs ought
always to be ready for the knife as soon
as the weather is cold enough for sailing
and curing pork. Hogs fatten slowly and
with a much greater consumption Of food
after the hard weather Of winter has set
in. a barrel of corn in October will put
as muca fat on hog as two in January.
According to the late Charles Delmonico
boiling water is an art. Sew people
know how to cook water,' he used to say.
''The secret is in putting good, fresh water
into a neat kettle, already quite warm,
and setting the water to boiling quickly,
and then taking it right off for use in tea,
coffee or other drinks before it is spoiled,
To lot II Gtnauo and GimTnEr and auo 20
until the good water is all in the atmos-
phere and the lime and iron and dregs only
left in the kettle-bah! that is what makes
a great many people sick, and is worse
| than no water at all"
DR.. H. Z. Haven says that 90 per cent.
of the deaths of children under six months
of age are due to feeding the children with
farinaceOus food, which they ought not to
have. The child should not, as rule, be
fed with starch on account of the force
required to digest, which force the child
can i'll spare. There is no starch in moth
ers' milk, which is the most easily digest
ed of any known food. During the child's
growth the digestive organs should have
the least possible amount of work which
is possible and keep it alive. Children
sometimes die from starvation when
starchy food is forced into their stOmachs,
but which they cannot digest. Pure air
and proper clothing in connection with
proper food secure the best possible re-
suits.
An experienced nurseryman offers the
following excellent suggestions on the Sc
lection of fruit trees: In selecting nursery
trees farmers should look to the thriftiness
of the tree, to their age and to their shape.
Those whose trunks and branches are not
smooth and clean should be discarded.
Select straight trees which have not bad
crOtches or crook at the root. Do not
select trees too old. A three-year-O!d tree
is much preferable to one four or five years
old. 1t is more APT to live and its growth
is not so much interfered with by the re-
setting. a well-knOWn tWO-year-old is
usually preferable. See that the trees are
stocky. If grown too thickly in the nur-
sery rows the trees are apt to be spindling
and tender.
The use of electric lights affords sug-
gestion which may be of use to the farmer
where certain insect pests are very abun-
dant. Prof. Cook had cigar box full of
insects sent him, which were attracted by
an electric light and killed. Among the
insects were some of the most dreadful
pests to the farmer, and especially to the
fruit grower. Rose chafers, so very trOu-
blesOme to fruit interests in some sections,
were III abundance. The plum curculiO,
tent caterpillar and cut worm moth were
aA5O lUuuus many VI OuI MOISb 1uSeCI
enemies fly by night and are attracted by
lights. In those sections where certain
night-fliers are so numerous as to entirely
destroy some crops, could not some strong
light, with a reflector and insect-catcher
behind it, be proftably arranged?
Sensible remark from National Stock
man: "While the whip seems indispensa-
BILE in the handling and working of some
horses, there is no question in regard to
tn-&
trouble about having one of these instru-
ments Of torture too convenient is that 1t
is generally used when the use OF it is least
needed. Unfortunately the handling of
horses is done often by class of men who
have less sense and judgment and sense
of prOpriety than the horses them selves.
Such men, on the least prOvocation, are
ready at once to take out their spite and
revenge on whatever comes handiest,
which is generally the poor horses in their
charge. Were whips always in proper
hands the charges of cruelty laid upon
this seemingly necessary implement would
not be so great nor so grievOus."
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man has found out how to make cheap
and handy ladder for use in orchards and
kindly tells his brother farmers how he
makes it. He bought at the undergrad
a picket fence rail of good clear pine, 3
inches by 4, and 16 feet long. This was
tapered gradually to about 8 by inches
at one end to make it lighter. The largest
end he mOrtised into fOrked limb Of hard
wood (cherry), the two parts Of which
formed the two spreading legs. These
legs are about two feet long and spread
about two feet. From this fork up he in
serted, right across the long stick to the
top, rounds Of good dry hickory, spaced
conveniently. These rounds are IA inches
long, and thus extend inches on each
side of the upright. This completes the
ladder, which is thus IS feet long, very
portable, and can be put up in any tree
with perfect ease.
The Dirigo Rurdl tells of an experiment
ing farmer who purchased 100 pounds of
ground bone, placed it in half hOgshead
tub and applied 40 pounds Of sulphuric
acid, adding water as desired. In five
days time the whole matter was reduced
TO a consistency of thick jelly. Water
was then added and 800 pounds of plaster
used as a dryer, the whole being worked
and shOyeled over until it could be readily
handled. The phosphate so made was
applied to one acre Of corn and one acre
Of potatoes, both being MANFRED suffi-
GENTLY, and a small quantity was left,
which was applied to his wheat field and
a plat Of grass ground, just to see what it
would do. The result of this manure in
the two latter instances was most marked,
while the corn was heavy, the growth
being dark colOred and stout, and the po-
tat0es good. The entire cost of the phOs-
phate was 81 90, and he thinks it the best
expenditure in the way of purchased ma
nures he has ever made.