Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-17
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

In test made oy an Ohio pork-raiser
he found that bushel OF corn fed from
the coo made pounds OF pork. A bushel
VI corn boiled made l3}9 pounds OF pork.
ana bushel OF meal cooked made 1917
pounds.
The best time for blowing under green
crops is when they decay very rapidly,
the usual method is 10 attach a heavy
chaln 20 the beam OF the pillow, turning the
lufroW over the green material. leaving
the feld undisturbed until for a regular
crop.
Ihe man who drugs bis horse TO make
his hair sleek and shiny shows very little
sense. The best means to keep the coat
glossy scareful and daily grooming. This,
with plenty of oats and water and an oc-
casi0nal bran mash, is all the horse needs
When Ia health. The arsenic groom should
be discharged.
correspondent Of the American Gull
tivator sends in the following recipe for
breaking up the sitting habit in hens.
smut up the hen in close coop, feed as
much Indian meal at time as can be
rubbed IN Quantity Of hogs lard the size
OF an egg. Continue this regimen for
three or four days, and the most inveterate
sitter will be cured
There are two kinds OF strawberries,
the biseXual Cor perfect) and the pistil-
late or imperfect). The first will pro-
duce fruit OF itself, while the other re-
quires pollen from a variety OF perfect
plants before the plants can fruit. In set
ting out strawberry plants, therefore, a
row OF the perfect plants should be
placed every third or fourth row, in
order that the imperfect plants may be
tertilized.
Among the new or less known points on
Insecticides are the following: Mix py-
rethrum with four or five parts Of -four.
Gas lime water Tor the cabbage worm is
made by rubbing the inside OF a cask with
spoonful OF gas lime and filing the cask
with water. Burning straw over the
strawberry plants for the tarnish plant
bug has proved quite successful. The
effectiveness of pyrethrum is increased
by the addition of alcohol.
For plants grown IN pots, SAYS the Flo
raj Cabinet, guano should be mixed with
water at the rate OF one once to six quarts
OF water. But we should not advise its
general application until toward spring,
when the plants arein full growth and the
soil somewhat exhausted. 1t can be prof
ltably employed at any time on callas or
other plants that are vigorously growing.
1t 10 very strong plant food, and should
only be given to such plants as can digest
itreadily.
The Franklin Review and Journal. of
Tenn, says: ''W. J.. Wilkes has sold his
crop OF Bartlett pears from 10 acres. for
$4,000 to Mr.. Mobiles, OF Cincinnati. This
is the second $4,000 crop which Mir.
Wilkes has sold from the orchard within
the last four or five years, besides other
small crops, aggregating something near
$4,000 In that'time, or an average Of near
$4,000 year from 10 acres OF land in
pears, while the expense of keeping it up
has been mere trifle."
Mouldiness is Occasloned by the growth
of minute vegetation. Ink. paste,
leather, and seeds most frequently suffer
by it. A Glove will preserve ink; any es-
sehtial oil answers equally as well.
Leather may be kept tree from mould by
the same substances. Thus, Russian
leather. which is perIumed with the tar OF
birch, never becomes mouldy; indeed. il
prevents it from occurring ia other bod
les. A few drops of any essential oil will
keep books entirely free from it. For
harness, oil of turpentine is recon-
mended.
Nitrogen in commercial manures is gen.
orally rated as ammonia, although no
ammonia Is present as from its vOlatilena-
ture il could not be held; it is in the form
OF potential" ammonia, that is a fertih-
ger containing II per cent. Of ammonia is
known to contain Ii per cent. Of nitrogen,
which during the process of decOmpOsi-
ti0n in the soil combines with 3 per cent.
OF hydrogen to form II per cent. of am
mOnia; the necessary hydrogen is also
furnished through the decomposition of
water and other substances of which it
forms part.
The Seckel pear originated near Phila-
deiphia before the Revolution. A noted
sportsman known as Dutch Jacob" used
to bring home every fall some small but de-
licious pears, declining to tell anybody
where be procured them. About that Pc
cd the London Land Company, which
owned some land below the ci Y, mace a
sale, and Dutch jacob purcna led the
lot upon which his pear tree stood. 1t
afterward became the property Of MIR.
Seckel, and, as be permitted nurserymen
10 take gratis and buds from the trees,
they gave the fruit his name.
The following are given as the food
equivalents Of a pound Of flesh: II you
want pound Of flesh matter, true and
dry, no waste, introduced into an animal,
you can get it, says the Stockman, from
pounds decorticated cotton cake, or
from pounds linseed cake, from 4
pounds rape cake, from Al pounds beans.
from 6i5 pounds undecOrtIcated cotton
cake, from a pounds oats, from pounds
corn, from pounds locust beans, from As
pounds potatoes, and from 100 pounds tur.
nips. As to grass, pound OF flesh will be
secured from 80 pounds clover, and from
to 10 pounds hay.