Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-09
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.


wood contains but ten pounds o! ashes,
cord of soft wood but five pOunds."'
A cord of green oak wood Will probably
weigh ton or 1900 pounds. Then it would
take 200 pounds OF oak wood to produce
one pound of ashes, In burning a cord
OF oak wood one pound remains in the
fireplace and 1919 pounds go up the chm
ney and mingle with the atmosphere.
Even the moisture which vegetation takes
from the soil comes from the clouds.
\ The low price of fiaxseed is causing its
more general use for stock feeding. Much
care is needed in its use, as it is very lax
alive, and If fed in too large quantities
may cause too open a condition OF the
bowels. In small quantities it is excel
lent for any stock. Fed to cows or horses,
| with cut straw, it will do no injury, but
rather good, as IL helps to counteract the
too constipating character OF the less nu-
tritiOus feed.
These points as to his method are given
by farmer who knows how to raise 400
bushels of potatoes to the acre: Rich. light
soil; plOw deep early in spring; plant 10
inches apart; cover four inches deep or
more; keep down the weeds, but do not
work the ground after potatoes begin to
bloom. The main secret, he says, is in
selecting the seed. He always cuts off
the blossom end. One eye will yield more
| potatoes than two.
All chickens of jet black breeds, the
adult fowls of which are black, produce
chicks with white breasts. When they
get their adult robes the feathers become
| black. Many amateurs or beginners have
| been disappointed when breeding Black
| Spanish, Black Leghorns, Black Ham,
burgs, etc., to see little chicks with white
breasts running around their premises,
the remaining portion of the young birds
being black or rusty black.
Houses for storing fruit, says the Coun-
| try Gentleman, which are cooled by ice
are costly in structure and expensive in
running. They are warranted only on a
large scale, where vast supplies of fruit
| will sell at high prices after being kept
! some months beyond the usual period of
maturity. Some of them have rallied be-
cause the reservoir of ice, which must be
secured the previous winter, fails of its
| supply in autumn when wanted for au-
tumn fruit.
A Southern farmer writes: Whenever
| my hogs look puny | give them cotton
| seed rubbed in wet dirt and so far l have
| lost no hogs from cholera. The horses and
mules Will 60 to the pot where the seed is
cooked for the cows and eat of the con-
tents. feed it to my horses and mules,
in small quantities, once week, mixing
it with wet bran. The cattle get it regu-
larry. 1t is better than condition powders
for horses. I think the oil in the seed re-
moves worms from stock.
A community of small farms has many
advantages which are not known where
large farms are the rule. The farms are
better cultivated and cared for, and the
whole section bears more thrifty APP
pearance. Neighbors are nearer and gen.
orally Of the most intelligent class, while
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houses, stores and other conveniences ne
cessary to the most advanced civilization
are more numerous, and their advantages
can be the more easily and conveniently
enjoyed.
OF the more than 400 species OF trees
found in the United States there are said
to be 16 species whose perfectly dry wood
will sink in water. The heaviest of these
is the black iron-wood of southern Flori-
da, which is more than 80 per cent. heavier
| than water. or the others the best known
are the lignumvit@ aud mangrove; an
other is a small oak, found in the noun
tains of Western Texas, Southern New
Mexico and Arizona, and westward to the
Colorado Desert, at an elevation of 5000
to 10000 feet.
Prof. Budd says that in setting trees it
| is always best to lean the tree toward the
south at strong angle. This may not
| look near 80 well as TO set them upright,
| but we must pay more attention to profit
to ourselves and good health for the tree
| in this matter. By leaning the tree to the
| south in this manner sun-scalding is pre-
! vented to great extent. for the top being
partly between the sun and the trunk
| shades and protects 1t from the heat; as
the tops aud roots both are strongest on
the north side they will gradually pull the
tree back into an upright position.
Aluminium, which only, short time
since was so rare a metal as to be found
mainly in cabinets, is now produced in
such quantities as to have gwen rise TO
excessive manufacturing works. ts alb
solute freedom from liability to ozidIza-
ton renders 1t peculiarly valuable tor the
purposes of articles exposed to the action
OF water, acids or damp atmosphere; and
tor that reason prominence is given in the
| list of manufactures to which il is now
habitually applied tn articles for outdoor
use in which an ornamental surface is
desired. Among the articles for which
the metal has been found specially SER
viceable, apart from white-metal table
ware. may be mentioned ship propelers
vacht-sheathinV. ships fittings, horse bits
and harness fittings. railway carriage
handles, locks, keys, chains, wire and
wire ropes, tubes, chandeliers, wood
screws, tenders. tre-irons, fishermen's
trawlng ropes, carriage lamps, pens, sill
ver prida riVpta etc.