Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-12
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

Horses are not fully maiured until
years OF age, nor do they arrive at their
full strength until Syears old. Immature
ANIMALS are often OVertaXeu and their tu-
ture usefulness injured.
Regarding the dehorning of cattle
Western paper says that experience
teaches that the growth of the norm can
be stopped by applying red-hot iron TO
the horn germ IN calves.
A correspondent of the American Gull
tivator says: Government aid, either
from the State or the national treasury,
may make syrup from mullen stalks and
induce cattle to eat moudy pine shaVlngs,
to the delight of progressive farmers
but cane sugar and English hay VIII new
ertheless find purchasers
Breed value consists in the animals
power of asslmilating (digesting) food III
the direction required. Slhe Jersey cow
turns larger proportion OF her tocd 10
milk and butter, at the expense or her
muscle, hence her famous milking quail
ties. The Durham, on the contrary, takes
on flesh enormously and is famous for
beef
writer in Gardening Illustrated says
that he uses black cotton thread stretched
tight four inches above the surface OF the
ground along the drills of peas and other
vegetables as an efectual means for re-
pelllng the sparrow. The birds do not
see the black thread and, humping brlskly
against it, are tripped or tumbled over,
and becoming alarmed quickly depart.
Prof. &. +. Morrow says: "FOr the
average country home | count 1t much
safer To have some simple form of the dry
earth closet and the daily removal of the
kitchen waste-even il some of tnls water
be scattered on the surface of the ground.
than TO have water closets and waste
pipes in the house. The ordinary 'privy
with its great vault is an abOmlnatlOn."
An annual manuring becomes, in time,
as necessary as an annual sowing OF
seeds. How few remember this in Or
chard management. The tree has TO
flourish in the same SOL for years-0r
perchance alter all The best of the soil has
been taken away by regular farm crops,
and then comes the ''Wo nder why our
climate will not grow trees as 1T once
did"
In test OF corn-fodder in comparison
with hay, a Wisconsin dairyman found
two pounds of stalks as equal to one Of
nay in Iced value. But these were ma
tured stalks which had yielded crop OF
grain. A fair test would have been to
drill the corn very thick in the rows and
cut Immediately after the bloom or at the
stage when the stalks have gathered all
their Vigor for fruiting.
1t is important in the breeding of live
stock to remember that permanent i'm
provement is thing of slow growth;
that is TO say, when we attempt to build
a strong constitution on weak fOunda-
ton, with view to reproducing it with
any degree of certainty, the result cannot
be effected in one generation. That which
is easily and quickly produced, is just as
easily and quickly lost by neglect of the
conditions that produced 1t,
To make cream cheese take a quart of
cream, or if not desired very rich, add
thereto one pint Of new milk: warm it in
hot water till about IS degrees; add
| tablespoonful of rennet; let 1t stand till
thick, then break it slightly with q spoon
and place 1t in frame in which you have
previously put fine cloth; press it
slightly with a weight, let it stand a few
hours, then put finer cloth in the frame;
little powdered salt may be put over
the cloth. 1t will be fit for use in day
or two