Savannah morning news., 1885-08-24
FARM AND SrOCK NOTES.


as they lay less number of eggs every
year after the third.
Many eggs left in hens nest tends TO
induce sitting. Where fowls are kept in
large numbers, a 2-story fowl house isex
cellent.
Wisconsin has 456 cheese factories and
$50 900 cows, producing 30,000,000 pounds
of butter The total cash valuation of the
milk product for 1884, was over $2G,000,-
600
An Englishman said: "Show me a
country with no grass and l will show
you country with no cattle; no cattle,
no manure, no farmers; no farmer, no no.
thing"
There is no kind of stock that responds
so quickly TO good care and management
as sheep. but, at the same time, no stock
gives heavier losses proportionately
where neglected.
sifted coal ashes are said to be better
than sand for rendering stiff soils friable.
They are more easily disseminated
throughout the mass, aud contain pro-
portion OF mineral salts.
1t is said that scarcity Of water Is one
chief cause of tough beef. Animals fat
tened in summer on succulent
food are more tender than those of the
same age and character fattened in win
ter.
A Fresno (Cal.) paper AYERS that TO-
900 pounds of arsenic has been sold by
druggists Of that place since the prescrip-
tlon of mOlasses. arsenic and bran has
been found so efhcacious as grasshop-
per destroyer.
Teach the calf to eat whole oats by the
time it is 3 weeks or a month old, by
slipping few small handfuls into its
mouth Just after it has drunk milk When
il has learned to eat them, keep supply
before 1t In little box.
A contributor to a New York paper
writes: Il think 20c. worth OF plaster
on clover meadow will make half ton
OF hay worth 81. 1 consider this good
investment, while, at the same time, your
land is becoming richer"
The growth OF the cattle industry is
wonderful. Twenty years ago a million
Of dollars would cover the amount IN
vested in cattle ranches in the United
States, while now the investment is esti-
mated at a hundred millions.
One great cause of trouble with the feet
is that horses are after they are shOd, al
lowed to stand in filthy stalls, and anoth-
er Is In keeping shoes on too long On
these accounts they get out OF shape and
cOrns and narrowing at the heel follow.
The honey harvest is three times as long
In Cuba as In this country, and II is said
that the colonies average 400 pound OF
honey. The honey is extracted and ex-
ported in barrels. The bees swarm four
times year, and are free from loss In
winter.
The animal that is obliged 10 compete
for it's food among the herd and eat IL
after II has been befouled and trampled
cannot thrive. Give the animals we'll
ventilated, clean and quiet quarters.
Fatten them in the stalls, allowing them
ont for exercise, but never feed them Ia
the yard
The small streams which often flow
through farms are almost invaluable
sources OF fertility II the mud which ac-
oumulates in them every year Is cleaned
out and spread upon the land. All the
leaves, together with the fine mold OF cul-
tivated fields, find n lodgment In the beds
OF these streams. Several loads OF man
ure as valuable as that made in stables
may thus be secured every year.
Some time during the summer or fall. n
II has not already been done. prepare
shelter 10 which all the hogs can have ac-
cess during the winter. The sOws are
then carrying their pigs and have not
only 10 sustain their own systems ana
keep I'm flesh, but as we'll 10 nourish and
sustain the coming brood. To expose
them tn the extreme cold and provide Do
other shelter than what they can hnd W
the Ice Of a rail fence or barn Is 20 eX-
haust much of their vital energy TO sup
ply animal heat; hence many brOods come
too weak 20 live, and the hog cropis com
paratiye failure.
An enthusiastic grower Of grapes, with
100 varieties Ia his collection, throws
n damper on new varieties BY expressing
preference for tho old Concord 20 any YET
that "tho most promising kinds are
britOn, Duchess. pOokllngt0n, hoofe's
Early and NIAGARA. No one grape fe-
coived 10 much praise aa the Brighton
~ ia doing well, 20 far, wherever tried
But al agreo that Conoord y Oo only