Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-27
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

AS table fowl the Light Brahma is one
of the best. The young chicks are large
enough at eight or ten weeks old for broil-
ing, and at this age will make at least
one-third more of good palatable eating
than a common chick or one of any other
breed than the Asiatics. At seven or
eight months old they are excellent tor
roasting, and If well fed to this age they
pass for as nice eating as young turkey.
DR.. Bowman has found that wool washed
in tepid water Is bright, but becomes lus-
treless when washed in warm water.
Some of the sheep dips in use also tended
to make wool lose its lustre. The surface
of the scales is covered by formation
resembling gelatine and very delicate.
High temperature causes fermentation
and the destruction OF this coating, with
a consequent loss in lustre and value Of
the wool.
Most animals eat in proportion to their
weight under average conditions of age,
temperature and fairness. Give fattening
cattle as much as they will eat and often
times day. Never give rapid changes
OF food but change often. A good guide
for safe quantity Of grain per day to
maturing cattle is one pound to each
hundred of their weights, thus an animal
weighing 1000 pounds may receive ten
pounds Of grain.
An English paper says that American
horse breeders are taking the cream OF
English horse.f1esh out of that country.
The same journal also asserts that the
English horse on importation into this
country develops new vigor and increased
size, and that in this country he is des-
tined TO reach the highest state Of perfec-
tion; also, that England must soon look
to America not only for work horses but
for breeding stock.
A Michigan fruit grower has fruit
house constructed on the cold-air system
without the use of ice. He is able to keep
his house within 8 degrees of freezing for
five months, and when the thermometer
outside changed go degrees in "a hours
the change in the fruit-room was imper-
ceptible. Such results are effected by
building q house with triple walls Is
inches In thickness, 10 inches Of which
are filled with sawdust.
No one breed Of hogs is suited for all
conditions where hog-rRising can be made
to pay, no more than one breed of cattle,
horses or sheep is suited to any and all
conditions. One breed OF hogs will be
best adapted for pen feeding. but II they
are to be pasture grown another would be
far preferable. Some breeds need to 6e
crowded almost from birth and turned in
SIX or eight months, others will not ma
ture under fifteen months.
Ground grain is the cheapest form in
which the nutrimeBt can be given to
working horses. But to produce the best
effect 1t should be mixed with cut hay,
not to give greater bulk, but for this the
horses stomach does not require, but to
make the food more porous in the stomach,
so that the gastric juices may more freely
work through 1t. Meal alone, especially
OF corn which has scarcely any chat,
will compact in the stomach and be less
easily digestible. The heavy chat of oats
is one of the reasons why this grain is so
valuable for horse feed. Another is that
the oats abound IN heterogeneous or mus
cle-torming food, and is therefore worth
more per pound where strength is re-
quired than corn or oil meal, whose chief
constituents are carbonaceous or fat pro-
ducing.
1t seems difficult TO settle the question
as to where the largest and Oldest tree in
the world is found. Here Is an account
OF one that is large enough and old enough
to satisfy the most greedy wonder-seeker,
but later narrators will probably give us
something a little larger and much older /:
''Trees have been found in Africa which
were computed TO be Afb0years old, and
acypress in Mexico is said 10 baye reached
a still greater age.1 The Oldest Individual
specimen. of any species--ln fact, the old
est living thing on the globe-is probably
the cypress of Santa Maria del Tule, in
the Mexican State ofSOaXaca. If esti-
mates OF tree ages are to be relied upon.
the life Of this venerable forest monarch
may have spanned the whole period o;
written history. At last accounts it was
still growing and, in 1851, when Hum
boldt saw 1t, 1t measured AZ feet In diam
eter, 146 In circumference and 282 feet
between the extremities Of two opposite
branches