Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-01
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

The veteran bee keeper, Rev. l.. L..
Langstroth has recently published the
discovery, made 20 years ago, that spid-
ers, when allowed the opportunity, will
etfectually protect empty honey-cOmbs
from the bee-mOth.
Clean fences add greatly TO the appear
ance of farm, as compared with one
having its fence corners crowded with
weeds. briars and tangled grass. The fall
is an excellent time to clean up and put
the fences in order.
A contributor to the New York World
says: 81 think 20 cents worth of plaster
on a clover meadow will make half ton
of hay worth 81. l consider this a good
investment, while, at the same time, your
lands becoming richer"
There are annually raised in England
nearly 2,400.000 acres Of turnips, which
average about 81 tons per acre, which are
mostly fed OF on the ground where grown.
so large a crop of roots shows the es-
TEEN in which the turnip is held in Eng
land.
Dry soil is an excellent non-conductOr,
made doubly so by being l0Osened and
thus intermiugled with air. THIS is pre-
cisely the condition OF the soil after q
thorough cultivation. When thus render
ed fine and light the surface becomes truly
q OuoAlOAA VI 0AA oAA vi CNAA tAs
To prevent cabbage heads from burst
ing 90 over the ground frequently, says
Mr.. Gregory. the scotsman, and start
every cabbage that appears TO be about
TO mature by pushing them oyer side
ways. Heads thai are thus started will
grow to double the size they had attained
when about to burst.
Any COW car be MIXED dry in few
weeks by Irregular milking, sometimes at
intervals Of q hours and sometimes six.
Separation from her usual company, 4
change to R new location, a strange milk.
er and soolding voice, are sources Of irri-
tatiOn that more or less impair the milk
ing qualities of the COW.
The Wistaria wants age before bloom
ing. 1t should be- encouraged TO grow
and make large plant. During the early
period Of its developmentits force is spent
in growth, but when this Is accomplished
and numerous branches have formed, the
annual growth Of each shoot is less, and
tnen there Is tendency TO bloom.
II 10 noticeable fact with all orr crops
that If planted in well prepared soil with
all the elements OF plant food supplied.
that they are but little affected by Amos
pherical changes that weather and season
are Of secondary Importance where the
soil is thus prepared and seed sown prop
sil1s Itb Tue Aditutl AthithAOtl thnA do
you SOW 80 snail you reap.
Some years ago We got the weeVil in
our wheat-bins. saysa writer 20 south
and West, The affected wheat was at
once removed. and thu bins scru bbed out
with strong brine, heated boiling hot.
Care was taken 10 get the brine In hi the
cracks and creyices, which DESTROYED the
weevil. Since then we have whitowashed
the interior of the bins each year before
putting Ia the new crop, which keeps the
weeyil out. Make the wash hot; apply
with an old broom, and get II into all the
cracks.
The treatment usually practiced for
scab in sheep 10 10 steep one pound OF to-
baceO in a gallon OF boiling hot water;
then add iour ounces d0ur OF sulphur
and stir reqpently until, the liquid is
colored 10 100 deg. 10 10 then poured over
the sheep, along the back aud as IL runs
down rub II into the soabby part with the
hand, using also u Oorn-cob 10 break up
the scabs. The same treatment will pre-
vent healthy sheep from being Injected.
Apply once or twice, and then keep the
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