Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
FABM AND STOCK NOTES.


Most people choose fruit by the eye
more than by the palate. This is why the
most productive al snowy sorts are prof
liable TO the growers.
Nearly all of the best families OF Jer-
seys are closely inbred, by which means
the best qualities have been perpetuated.
1t is a remarkable fact in breeding that
although in-breeding, unless judiciOusly
done, occasions a loss of VigOr, yet the
most important traits and characteristics
are more strongly rendered inherent than
by the Out-crOss method.
For quality, the POlled Angus; for early
maturity and size, the ShOrthOrn; for grass
beef, the Hereford; for general utility, the
Devon; for butter, the Jersey; for milk,
the HolstCin; for cheese, the Ayrshire;
for cold. the Galloway; for heat, the
Brahma. and Tor starvation, the Texas.
This is tie way it was put by an old
dealer AID breeder to the Ier0S Lire Stock
journal.
You 2 turkeys require great attention
up To the age Of six weeks. A person of
experience might not lose more than four
or five out OF fifty in a favorable season.
No hard grain should be fed until they are
five or six weeks Old. Bread and milk,
With hard boiled eggs, should be tel at
first. Atterward the cugd from cl3bbered
milk is one Of the best things for them,
alone or mixed with ground oats. Scalded
milk can be used for q change.
good wash for roofs aud buildings is
as follows: Stake lime in a close box to
prevent the escape OF steam, ana when
slaked pass 1t through sieve. To every
Elk quarts of this lime add one quart Of
rock salt and one gallon of water. After
this boil and skim clean. To every five
gallons of this add, by slow degrees,
three-quarters Of pound of potash and
four quarts Of fine sand. Coloring mat
ter may be added if desired. Apply with
a paint or WhiteWash brush.
A British paper speaks of revolving
fork attachment to ordinary single-furrow
plows, by which soil can be plowed and
prepared for seed by once going over it.
The additional piece of mechanism adds
no eppreciable weight to the draft of the
pillow. At the Royal Agricultural Society
Show the judges were 50 pleased with its
work in breaking up ridges that they gave
1t a high commentator. A pulVerizing
attachment for breaking pillow has lately
been patented in this country.
The new breed Of fowls, heretofore
known as the American Sebrights, are to
be called the Wyandottes, that name haV-
iEg been selected for them at the last
meeting of the American Poultry Asso-
citation. The former name COMPOUNDED
them with the diminutive Sebright Ban
tams; but the WyandOttes are a large
breed, With spangled plumage, rose combs,
yellow legs and heavy, compact bodies.
They are good layers, excellent mothers
and rival the Plymouth Rocks as market
fowls.
The Bronze is the largest of the turkey
family, many of them weighing so far in
excess of our ordinary turkey as to bear
no comparison in regard to value of car
cass or profit to those who keep them. AS
one gObbler is sufficient for almost any
number of hens desired, the cost Of i'm
proving with the large Bronze is not
great, considering its advantages. Pairs
of these turkeys reach fifty pounds and
over at times, and the cross between it
and the common turkey makes a superior
market fowl.
All vegetable substances are composed
of 80 per cent. of the four organic ele-
ments, the other 5 per cent. being fur
nished by the mineral. OF the ten min
eral elements that compose the other 5
per cent. Of plants, six are found in nearly
all soils in sufficient quantities for the
supply OF the plant, but the soil is def
cient In the other four, viz: phosphorus.
potash, lime and soda. These four ele-
ments, joined with any substance con-
tanning nitrogen, are necessary to make
a good manure in order to supply the soil
with the lacking elements.
Among all the products in our country
the meat product stands foremost, the
the order being: - Meats, (2) corn, (3)
wheat, (4) hay, 90 dairy products. (6)
cotton. the eXpOrIs and consumption
are enormous, and have never been
equaled by any nation. About $4,000, 600
animals were killed in this country dur
ing 1880, and their value as meat was
1854, 100000. Hides, horns, tallow, fats,
glue, 5ristles, ETC., bring their total value
anNsfe Of oh,
beef during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1894, were valued at $18,431, 131. The
exports Of fresh beef have exceeded those
of any previous year, but canned meats
are less in request.
Those who prefer to have the finest fin
ish on their harness after it is oiled can
have it by following these directions:
After you have saturated the leather
with as much oil as it will readily alb
sOrb, sponge off the harness with a thick
lather made of CASTLE soap, and when
dry follow in the same manner with So
luton Of gum tTagacanth, of which take
half an CuUce, and boil down with two
quarts OF water to three half pints. While
boiling stir the contents freely, as the
gum Is apt to set to the bottom of the YES
SCI in which it is boiled; and when nearly
or quite cool lay 1t on quite thinly, for if
laid ON too thick it is apt to crack and
prove quite unsatisfactory.
Never set ironware in the sink or on the
work table while cleaning it, nor yet on
the stove, thus scOrching your hands and
face while scraping out. Even If you
wash these things in an outside kitchen,
do not get them on benches or tables there.
1t is untIdy and makes a great deal OF
disagreeable and needless cleaning. Keep
large squares Of thick pasteboard hung
convenient to slip under pots, kettles,
stew dishes and spiders whenever you
have occasion to set them down. You
have no idea how much "crocking'' of
benches and tables it will save. Cut a
small hole near one corner OF the square
to hang it up by, and when too much
blackened, burn up and replace with new,
Or the pastebOards may be covered with
OilclOth, in which case they can be washed
at pleasure and used to an indefinite
length of time.
The Denver Lire Stock Record gives the
following information about alfalfa: SOW
% pounds to the acre and no more. Do
not SOW any other seed with it. The plant
to get rooted needs the sunshine and
warmth TO assist it. The shade Of oats or
other grain detracts from it. 1t will yield
but light crop the first year, but should be
cut all the same. Cutting it induces the
plant to stool out. In Colorado we SOW it
anywhere between the 25th of April and
the 10th of May. In Kansas il will do ten
or fifteen days earlier. The earth needs
TO be thoroughly warm before the seed is
cast on it. It is quite important to pillow
de6p-from 10 to IA inches. This allows
the roots to go down quickly, before they
are dried out. Our farmers as a rul SOW
broadcast and harrow in. The plant is
delicate while starting, but after the first
year can scarcely be killed out. Sod laud
will do, if properly prepared
IT has been discovered that the yelks OF