Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-27
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

The more wrinkIed the seeds of sugar
corn and English peas appear the better
the variety is said to be.
1t is we'll said that thorough breaking
of the soil and a free use Of the rake in
preparing the soil will do more for a crop
of Vegetables than double the amount of
labor in after cultivation.
Vegetables in light, sandy soil require
a great deal of moisture, and where the
weather threatens to be very dry, gar
deners should forestall the event by using
mulch as far as practicable.
Celery seed should not be sOwn too
thick. Half an ounce is enough to SOW As
square feet and will yield about 1000
plants. Room gives good stocky plants,
and these are always the best.
''Neutral Stock" is the term Chicago
rendering establishment applies to a
quality of lard which it prepares'and sells
for making country butter. Our readers
viii bear in mind that this is not OIeo-
margarine, but a new variety of Western
country butter.
To keep up a constant supply of fresh
crisp vegetables, such as always COM
mand the best prices, they should be
planted in succession every ten or fifteen
days. Okra, tomatoes, snap beans, let
tuce, radishes, green corn, cUcumbers,
squashes, egg plants, pepper, etc, may be
had young and fresh until midsummer by
these paintings.
There is economy in laying out the
beds of a garden that should not be over
looked. A grape trellis in the centre, in
stead of training the vines along one side
near the fence, is perpetual hindrance to
orderly arrangement and convenient
working. The strawberry bed, also, If
not to be plowed, should be on one side,
and not come between beds designed for
the plOw.
The waste and destruction by poultry
on the farm will keep a small farmer poor
if he does not tortify against it. They
must absolutely be kept out of the gar
den, and from the melon patch, grape
vineyard and fruit orchard, when the
fruits begin to ripen and fall. Begin
right. Fence them well out and you can
have all these things, and paying poul-
try yard besides.
Nitrogen, the most important of all the
gases to plants, is also the most abun-
dant, composing four-fifths of the great
bulk of atmosphere which surrounds the
earth; and yet, science has been able to
point out no means of separating it from
the oxygen and supplying it to crops in
other form and quality than as mysteri-
ously extracted in inlnitesimal quanti-
ties by the plants themselves from the
manures which contain it; or from the
atmosphere in the conjectural chemical
process carried on in the budding and
growth Of plants. The plants, evidently,
do not take nitrogen from the air directly
or crudely, else its prodigious fertilizing
power would long since have rendered the
earth uninhabitable for the mighty growth
and luxuriance of vegetation. They can
only receive it in the mysterious manner
UNEXPLAINED, and when our manufacture
ers learn 10 convey it in unlimited quantity
rs it abounds in nature, then indeed will
the struggle for subsistence be lessened
among mankind and millennium inau-
gurated. II IS mystery OF mysteries,
forty miles deep all around world 5000
miles IN diameter, potently engaged in all
life and growth, and yet, eluding the pow
err Of science to handle or control in APP
preciable quantity.
The Houdan is the Dorking Of the
French, with n Polish crest and beard, I'M
dicatipg mixed origin. With the latter
exception IL Is almost identical IN It's
characteristics with the DOrking. Both
have fine, unfeathered shanks and the dis
tinguishlng hYe-toed feet There are no
more profitable fowls under farming con
ditions. They are not regarded as equalt0
some otherses winter layers.
Grape growers thin grapes by pulling
of surplus buds and shoots aud shorten
mg-in canes, allowing but three or four
punches 10 each. cane, when the trells -
well covered. IL left 10 itself the grape
vine sets twice a. many clusters az Il Fan
bring to perfection. II alaree part OF the
clusters arc removed early, those remi fn-