The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-28
Farm and Stock Notes.


acid and ammonia, or nitrates, appear COM
petent to grow large crops of wheat contin-
uously.
An English authority has computed that
in the last three or four years more pigs
have died in the United States from cholera
than have been raised in the British isles.
The Massachusetts Cattle Commissioners,
after due investigation, report that hog
cholera in that State is spread by feeding
swill containing germs of the disease brought
from the West in fresh pork.
President Mccain, of the Elmira Farm
ers' Club, has lately been shown potatoes of
the crop raised in 1886 which were still fresh.
They had been kept in cold storage and are
supposed to be superior for seed.
it has been found in California that cold
air blast dries fruit in the most satisfactory
manner. Samples of fruit dried in this
way-prunes, apricots and apples-two
years ago are still in perfect state of pres
ervation.
1t is scarcely possible to have land free
from weeds; seeds of the common weeds
seem to be everlasting and are so numerous
that the plants still continue to appear
after many years of most persistent de-
structlon.
The value of any kind of farm stock is
very largely determined by its feeding the
llIoU year VI us lll0. counts Tor
much, though every successful breeder
knows how greatly the character of young
animal is changed by innutritious or i'm
proper food. -.-.-
Mr.. Abbott, of the Lewiston Journal,
gives very sensible reply to a query about
the proper length for ox-yokes. For oxen
feet in girth, % inches between bows for
winter and Sc inches for summer Oxen
want room to work without chatting by the
chain or cart-tongue.
Prof. Arnold has said The sooner the
minds of dairymen are disabused of the
idea that the ripening of cream and the de-
velopment of high flavor of butter lie only
in the souring of the cream the better will
1T be tor their reputation and their pockets,
and also for the consumers.
In transplanting trees all the roots which
may have become bruised or broken in the
process of lifting should be cut clean away
behind the broken part, as they then more
readily strike out new roots from the cut
parts. In all such cases the cut should be a
clean sloping one and made in an upward
and outward direction.
When hens learn to eat eggs they never
forget the trick and should be killed before
they could teach Others the habit. Eggs
should be gathered twice day during cold
weather and only glass or porcelain nest
eggs shoald be left III at night. By noticing
which hens try to break these imitation eggs
the guilty fowls can sometimes be discov-
cred.
A little charcoal thrown to the pigs con-
fined in pens will be readily eaten and will
apparently do them more good than the
grain. 1t seems to be especially needed by
pigs fed mainly on corn, which is apt to sour
on their stomachs and destroy their appe-
tites Pigs, that are kept where they can
x-iII ,,fta = 81,
is no doubt that 1t is good for them.
By repeated cropping with the same crop
soils are more quickly exhausted than where
q rotation is practiced. The rotation is also
useful in avoiding diseases and insects which
attack vegetation. 1t would appear from
recent experiments with electric light upon
the growth of plants that this light is capa-
BILE of replacing sunlight, but whether this
can DO done economically has not as yet been
proved
Here is an OK for you, reported by the
Rural World: Height, IS hands; in length
from the poll to root of tail, II feet 3inches;
measures around girth, s feet inches; depth
of brisket, feet z inches; around arm, 2
feet inches; around the hook, 2 feet; when
walking or facing carries his head to 8
feet in the air; is dun, with some white
spots; weighs about 1000 pounds, but in
good, thriving condition.
1t has been asserted that given amount
of food and attention will produce as many
pounds of chicken flesh as it will of hog
flesh. If SO, why cannot farmers make
poultry raising profitable and eat nutritious
chicken meat instecd Of SO much bacon! A
pound of fowl flesh viii produce more phys
ica strength or muscular power than
pound of fat bacon, but there are many
people who do not believe it.
Staggers are the result of congestion of
the brain, due to overfeeding. Pigs are
more often overfed than any other animals
and it is the source Of nearly all the diseases
TO which they are subject. 1t affects the
nerve centres in the brain and spinal cord.
Give the pigs no feed at oil for IS hours,
but only water, then begin feeding very
lightly and give the food into a shallow
trough, so that it can be taken up only
slowly. JsSGf