Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-11
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

1t IS good advice to plant small fruits
on upland or near large bodies of water.
Lake Ontario kept the severe late spring
frost away for four miles distant from its
| shore.
Germany is buying her breeding hogs
from US, and so is Cuba. Sixty-fYe head
OF Poland-Chiuas were shipped to Ger
many lately by an Indiana breeder, and
larger number to Cuba.
The outside leaves ofcabbages are greed
| lily eaten by cows: hut with, however, a
bad effect on the milk, unless car G is taken
TO feed just after milking. Given this the
bad flavor gees of before the COW is MIXED
again.
The bee-moth, which does so much dam
age to the colonies, is the color Of old wood
and the wings cross each other, turning
up like the tail of fowl. 1t may be seen
lurking around hives in the summer even
ings trying to gain admittance.
An Indiana farmer states that he cured
heaVes in horses by withholding hay fTsm
them and substituting green food IN It's
place. He also gives ball as large as
walnut, composed Of equal parts OF bal
sam OF fir and balsam Of copaiba.
Two Oxford Down rams were exhibited
at the st. Louis Fair which are worthy of
special remark. One, Chichester" =
| year-eld buck, weighed 420 pounds, and
"BarOn Campbell" 1-year-old, weighed
| 500 pounds. Both were imported.
LOoseness of feathers is very unsightly.
Many birds run around looking as though
they were cold, their feathers hanging
limp to the skin. Such birds are out Of
condition, and should be let fly, fed well
and rusty iron kept in the water they
drink.
| Bots in horses are not easily destroyed.
| Their attachment to the stomach is me-
Lob, 1VfIl
! season for their escape arrives. There IS
no way to prevent them but by removing
| the nits from the hide whenever deposited
/ thereon.
/ The cattle that make the largest returns
/ for the food consumed pay the best. 1t is
/ the well-fermed animal that makes the
! most valuable meat. 1t does not pay to
| feed hogs that will only develop head and
snOut when there are good grades to be
| obtained.
A Montana correspondent has fire.
/ quently counted 100 stems and well-hlled
| heads of oats grown from one seed, while
| 200 to 500 grains to the head are common.
! Therefore, it is possible to grow 10000
| grains or more from one. This would be
Is bushels from one ounce of seed.
Sheep can be fed profitabl in England
on land wOrth $500 per acre, says Mr..
Henry Stewart, and they should prove
| equally as profitable here, where land is
| cheaper. England breeds sheep for NUT
ton rather than for wool, and uses none
but the best breeds for that purpose.
Water and boring insects cause rapid
decay of wood, and wounds from cutting
off limbs furnish favorable openings for
| destructive agents; therefore all wounds
| should be thoroughly protected by coat
| of varnish or paint TO keep water out I'M
til the entire wound becomes covered by
new wood.
Now that winter has set in an Occa-
sional allowance Ofsgreen food may be
had, when the ground is not covered with
| snow, for the cattle, by permitting them
| to Craze on the growing wheat and rye,
as no damage will be done the growing
crop by being eaten of, provided the
stock is not kept upon the pasture too
closely.
In the production Of 25 bushels Of wheat
to the acre the soil is robbed Of 123 pounds
or mineral matter. In the production OF
80 bushels of corn TO the acre the soil loses
500 pounds of mineral elements. 1t is
plain, therefore, that unless the soil is
provided with an equal amount OF the ele-
ments given up as food for plants it will
soon become exhausted.
Marshall P. Wilder says that the ma.
turity of fruit depends on the saccharine
matter contained therein, which is fol
lowed by the vinOus or acetOus fermenta.
ton, and to prevent the latter and pre-.
serve the fruit and all its beauty, freshness
and flavor, the temperature must be kept
below the point at which fermentation OF
the ripening process begins
Under the system of pasturing cattle il
is estimated that acres are necessary t.
support COW one year. With sOiling II
the summer and the use Of ensilage il
I int. ,.1,s fo,E 1r-f1
! keep a COW aud become richer in fertility
every year. The sOiling system requires
greater labor, but as it utilizes land The
proportion of profits as compared will
pasturage is greater.
The subject of "Insecticides" was dis
cussed before the Ohio Horticultural So
ciety. George NJ. Campbell recommended
mixture of kerosene and common sOf
soap, equal parts, to be diluted to any eX
tent desired with cold water. MIR. Bar
rows said he had found that a single pound
OF London purple, thoroughly mixed with
whole barrel Of land plaster, had proved
destructive to potato beetles.
Comb is valuable, for while the bees are
building pound of it they could gather
20 pounds of honey, and it ought not to be
left uncared for In hives where bees have
died, to be consumed by the larvae of the
bee-mOth. These Larvae are great cow
ards, and when the combs are lifted from
the hive poke out their heads, and may be
destroyed surely and quickly by exposing
them 10 the fumes Of burning sulphur.
"When the first prizes for merino sheer
were awarded American merinOs at the
International Exposition at Hamburg,
about 30 years ago." says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, "all Europe was aston
ished. The Yankee sheep took the prize
over the best flocks of Europe and they
could not understand it. After the first
surprise was over the European sheep
growers, at the close of the exhibition,
did the best possible thing-they pur-
chased the American merino, or Vermont
merinos, as they were generally called,
for the improvement of their own flccks,
at what was then an Unusual price.
Invalids for whom koumiss is prescribed
will hardly care to pay eXtravagant prices
! for it at the drug store when they learn
that it can be made for ID cents a quart
with very little trouble. Fill quart bot
! tie to the shoulder with good milk, then
| dissolve two tablespOOnlul5 Of white sugar
in a little water at high heat, add it to the
milk and drop a quarter of 2-cent cake
Of yeast-the latter must be tresh-into
/ the mixture. Whatremains to be done is
merely to stopper the bottle securely,
shake the contents wen together, leave
! the mixture to ferment for six hours at
any temperature from go to 50 degrees f. :;
cool il in the ice box over night and drink
| it at leisure.
| Whether you have medicine chest in
| the house or net, there are several handy
articles which should always be keEt
ready in a clean drawer in case of emer-
| gency. A little case containing pair of
| ordinary surgical lances of the old-fash-
| Toned bleeding pattern, surgical scissors,
| pins, needles and thread-these are all the
| instruments required. Appliances will
! include one or two bandages, some lint
! and oiled silk, bit of caustic silver in a
case, and some strips of adhesive plaster.
There should be a stimulant lotion, an eye
| lotion, a liniment for sprains, stiffness in
! joints, etc, and one or two kinds of Oint-
ment. POultices are handy to allay in
fiammation and to sOothe pain. They are
invaluable in swelling about the throat,
in wbitlOws, assesses, etc. A small bot
tie of tuTpentine and one of carron oil
should also find place in the family sur
gical drawer.
1t is impossible 10 offer to the planter
any suggestions on ornamental planting
of more vital Importance than TO remind
him Of the necessity of rational balance
of light and shade, and of artistic assOcia-
ton OF all the various materials Of en-
bellishment at his disposal. Let him but
give 4 serious thought to these considera-
tiOns and his natural taste, coupled with
horticultural energy, will soon discover