Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-25
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

Orchardists whose trees were infested
with aphides have found tobacco water
the best remedy.
Sulphate Of potash (kaipit) is an excel
lent absorbent, and is equal to plaster in
arresting the escape of ammonia.
When a saw has cracked near the teeth,
20 prevent its continuing, drill a small
hole at the end of the crack. This is said
to be eifectual.
A Scotch veterinary surgeon states that
dealers in horses not infrequently pull out
their milk or temporary teeth so as to
make the animals appear older than they
are.
A single cross OF a pure-bred male is of
great advantage. At the recent Fat Stock
Show in Chicago the grades were heavier
and better proportional than some Of the
thOroughbreds.
Ground oats two parts, bran one part
and corn meal one part is an excellent
mixture for young growing stock of all
kinds. II is not necessary to keep young
stock very fat, but they should be kept in
growing condition at all times.
The fodder cutter should be kept con.
stantly in operation during the winter
season. BY cutting the coarse material
the unpalatable portions may be mixed
with concentrated substances, which in
duces the animals to eat the whole.
Rubbish should not be allowed to accu-
mulate. All matter not suitable fer the
manure heap should be burned, which de
strOys the harbonng places Of insects.
Even IT'D the manure heap all the sub
stances should undergo decomposition.
Two main points in a good farm wagon
are lO#ness, to save li,t!ug, and cut
under, for convenience in turning. The
latter, however, calls for very low fore
wheels. and the low wheels call Tor
springs. 10 modify the suddcnness OF the
lit over obstacles.
Mr.. j. Eaton, writing to the Fruit Re
cOrGer thinks that he Keeps the curculio
away from his plums by smoking the trees
after the fruit sets, and continuing for
two months every week with sulphur. A
little c0al-tar in the sulphur has also been
found an advantage.
DR.. Nichols, of The Boston Journal Of
ChcmjstyB states. that analyses made Of
manure taken from a Watcr-sOaked heap,
and a similar quantity taken from q barn
cellar, showed that the former possessed
less than 0nc-half of the money value OF
the sheltered manure.
No breed Of sheep makes SO quick an
Improvement on the common tlOcks az the
MCrinOes. They are small enough to
combine activity as q quality to blend
ti6es, and as they are industrious for
ayers, they are easily kept.
An experienced blacksmith says that
more horses feet are ruined by rasping
the hOOf than by any other cause. ThiS
outside coating is ImperyiOus to water
and does not eYapOrate. When broken
into by rasping the moisture of the foot
eyapOrates, leaving the hoofs dry and
brittle.
It is stated that Mr.. John Dim0n, OF the
Essex stock farm, Walkerville, Ont, has
a breed Of fowls that are too short-legged
to scratch, but are industrious in clearing
gardens OF bugs. They were originated
by him after fifteen years experiments
in breeding and are considered great GU
riositss.
Dissolve one pound Of cOpperas in two
gallons Of water and add to it one gill of
sulphuric acid, then add one ounce of
phosphate Of soda and the same quantity
Of common salt. Pour tablespoonful of
this mixture in quart Of drinking water
and YOU viii give the fowls a splendid
and cheap tonic. 1t lnyigOrates and wards
OF disease.
1t is great mistake to select a heavy
/ clay soil for a garden. 1t is too cold and
wet, and early crops cannot be raised
upon it. 1t would be better to abandon
such a location than to attempt to i'm
prove it, if it is possible to do so, because
it would cost too much to remedy the de-
ment necessary would be to thoroughly
underdrain it, to spade it over two feet
deep.
Onions cannot be kept well in damp
cellar. The secret of keeping onions is
to have them thoroughly dry when they
are put in the cellar, and keep them so.
Also keep them cool. Onions that are not
wanted until late winter or early spring
may bestOred in a dry loft and covered
with a foot or more OF hay or straw. In
this position, if the weather is tOlerably
even, they will remain frozen all winter,
and may be used as desired. They should
not be tnaTed out until wanted.
A san Diego (Cal.) fruit grower has
brought suit against the owner Of an
apiary for keeping several hundred stands
| of bees on government land three-quarters
of mile from his premises. The plaintiff
/ is engaged in cultiyating grapes for con-
! version iLtO raisins, and alleges that dur
/ ing the drying season the bees destroy
| large quantities of the fruit. He claims
that the aDiarist has no right to occupy
/ public land to his detriment, but does 50
maliciOusly, and asks for 81 600 damages.
Mari is carbonate of lime, as the COM
mon limestone is. Heat drives out the
/ carbOnic acid and leaves the lime pure
calcium oxide or quicklime, and this eff
/ feet is produced equally with mari or
/ limestone. Mari can be burned in kilns
or pits built up with logs and wood in the
same way that limestone is burned. The
burning is all that IS required to produce
I the lime. Mari, being less solid, requires
less burning than stone. Two or three
days burning is sufficient to make the
lime.
Fifty fowls can be kept in one house
provided the place is kept clean, well
ventilated and furnished with a good run.
The fowls should have wholesome food,
varied with green stuff, ground bone and
oyster shells. Fowls should become used
TO their quarters before extreme cold
weather. Be careful and protect them
from extreme cold winds. An open shed
facing the south is a good thing. A house
at least Il by % feet is necessary to keep
fifty fowls. Sand for the floor is most de-
sirable.
There are many farmers who are short
Of good hay, and, in fact, there are always
likely to be, since the conviction is fast
spreading that hay is really one of the
most expensive foods on which to winter
stock. Good straw cut up fine and mixed
with corn meal, wheat bran aud mid
dlings, makes an excellent feed for all
kinds of stock. One Of the feeds each day
may be cut cOrnstalks. With these a
farmer can winter a large amount of
stock with very little hay. Horses in TIE
early part of winter may be fed mainly
with cut straw and ground feed. AS the
time for spring work approaches increase
the amount of hay and the horses VIII be
in better condition for use than if stuffed
with hay all winter, according to the old
fashioned methods.
The drying of bricks ready for burning
is a matter of great Importance. and re-
quires more attention than it generally
receives. From handmade bricks it is
necessary to evapOrate some % per cent.
of water before it is safe TO burn them.
In n works requiring the make of 10000
bricks per day, more than % tons Of water
are eyaporated every q hours. Hand
made bricks lose in drTing about one
fourth of their weight, and in drying and
burning about One-third. The average Of
machine bricks-thOse made Of the stiff
plastic clay-dO not lose more than half
the above amount from evaporation, and
are. therefore, of much greater specific
gravity than handmade ones. The arti-
fetal driving of bricks over flues can, of
course, only be proftably carried on where
fua1 iS phpaD.