Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-01
FARM AND SIOUX NOTES.

The Egyptian farmer with ten acres Of
ground pays more tax than an American
with 100.
New York sells annually about 100000
eco pounds of butter, of which the Com
missioner Of Agriculture claims over one
half is bogus.
A good remedy for lice on chickens Is
made OF , pounds sulphur, l drachm car
bolic acid (fluid). Pour the acid into the
sulphur and mix thoroughly with pad
die or spoon, after which it may be han
died with the naked hand, and is excellent
when put in the nests or rubbed among
the feathers Of sitting hens or busted into
the cracks and on the roOsts in the fowl
house.
The atmosphere may be allowed to waste
manure as rapidly as the rain. Where
fermentation is rapid large quantities OF
ammonia, very valuable manuTial ee-
ment, are evolved and will escape into the
air This is always the case when the
compost heap is loose and cOnical. The
manure frefangs and loses the greater
part of its value, The remedy for this is
to keep the heap level or lowest in tee
miGdle and tramped solid. This will g. a.
orally prevent the waste q ammonia,
4 correspondent Of the FoTm and Gqr-
dep has discarded poles i'm growing Lima
beans. 4 liberal supply Of manure is
placed in deep burrows, mixed thoroughly
with the soil, and seed dropped every four
inches in rows three and a half feet apart.
When we'll up the plants are pushed with
heavier stuff than for tail peas. The
vines having reached the top of the sup
port are pincbed in, which repression re-
suits to the advantage of the crop. BY
this method he gets larger product from
a given space than in the old way, and
has a smaller surface 10 tOe.
The California fruit growers are now
cultiVating several varieties OF Japan
plums-real plums, Of the Prunus dOneS-
ticd variety, not what we here call the
Japan plum,V which is no plum. but
rather a NeSpilus. Botanically, it is
ErjOb0tbryd JGpOFicd, or LOQudt, an ever
green of great beauty, which is grown in
abundance aud perfection in New Orleans
and its vicinity. The recent use of the
word LOgUqt has given rise to confusion,
many people supposing that the latter
was new fruit and taking some trouble
to obtain what they already had!
Cotton-seed meal is a highly heterogeneous
food and should only be fed with cOaTser
feed to prevent injury. But a small ration
can be given to cows daily, as it makes a
very rich milk, and in winter helps to give
color to the butter. Bran is excellent to
feed with cOttOn-seed meal. 1t is not safe
to give the meal 20 calves or other young
stock, as some have been killed by Inju-
Gicijus feeding. Only that which has
been wen cleaned from the husk should
be used. rs the husk is especially indi-
gest.H.e and injurious. Some dairymen
who market choice butter sill not feed
their COWS with c0ttOn-sccd meal
What is mcrobe: 4 great deal is
said and written OF microbes, and the
little THINGS are charged with great deal
Of mischief. ! he word was originated by
Dr. Charles SedllOt. Of Strasburg, in Feb
ruarv, 1878, in paper read ny HIM on the
application Of PasteuT's discoveries to
surgery. The word is derived from the
Greek mikr0S small aud bi0S life), and
this signifies minute living organisms. !
The term was adopt d by Pa5teur and has
come intO general use. A micrObe is an
exceedingly minute organism which is
parasitic upon animals and plants. and !
which is supposed to produce most, il not /
all, the diseases which flesh and Vegeta- |
bles are heir to, especially those which /
are contagious.
The difference between an egg laid by a /
plImp, healthy hen, fed with good, fresh |
food daily, and an egg laid by n thin. /
poorly fed hen is as great as the differ /
ence between good beef and poor. A /
fowl fed on garbage and weak slOps, with /
very little grain Of any kind, NAV lay /
eggs, to be sure, but when those eggs are /
broken 10 De QSeO KOr CAKES. PIES. etc. !
they will spread in a weak, Watery way .
over your dish, or look a milky white in
stead Of having rich, slightly yellow
tinge. A ''rich egg" retains its shape as
far as possible and Yields to the beating
of the knife or spoon with moro resist
ance. and gives you the conviction that
you are really beating something thicker
than water or diluted milk.
The Southern Wisconsin Bee-keeping
Association held that the prevailing Opin-
ion was in favor Of black native bees; I
that they hang to the cluster In sWarming
and are less liable to sting; that doubling |
up weak colonies in the autumn is adj
vIsqDle; that swarming may be prevented
by keeping the drOnes killed off, or by ex-
tracing the honey; should a swarm issue
return il to the hive and destroy the queen
cells every week; that some pure Italian
queens are black; that sections best
adapted for securing straight combs with
ont the use Of dividers are sections that
are one and three-quarters inches wide:
and that in driving out bees from surplus
boxes that all should be driven out below
with smoke, then take OIL the boxes and
carry into dark room, leaving the door
partly open, when all the bees remaining
viii return to the hive.
After many observations at sea level
and at $4,000 feet above. Prof. $. r. Lang
lev concludes that the mean ahSOrDtion /