The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-30
Farm and Stock Notas-

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are those who never seem to be busy, while
those who have a morbid habit of being
busy and never have a moments leisure are
the worst of time wasters
There is always more or less dust, dan
druH or filth on the udder of a COW. and no
COW should be MIXED until the udder and
teats have been carefully washed with warm
water and wiped with clean towel
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.
There is perhaps not nook or corner on
the average farm but what may be used for
some kind of crop that will pay well for
the raising, and the corners that now a e
eyesores and bugbears may be sources OF
income that are not exceeded by any other
parts of the farm.
There is yet room for some one to discover
a sure remedy for the cabbage worm. The
remedy must be non-poisonous, cheap, easily
applied and free from odor as much as pos
sible. Kerosene oil is an excellent remedy
but it imparts its odor to the cabbage, which
IS Objectionable.
The best kind of stock will fail to give
satisfac, ion unless given the care demanded
1t IS not the DreeI that tnriveS with little
care, but the one that receives care through
necessity, that pays. A good breed permits
the farmer to convert labor into profit.
Fresh manure should not be used if it can
be avoided, but should DO compos ed and
allowed to decompoSe. If placed on the
land it must still undergo a change in the
soil before it becomes pla It food, which
causes too much heat in dry weather.
An animal is never at a standstill. 1t is
either increasing or decreasing The rule
should be to never allow an animal to fall
off. pound gained and then lost is sim
ply doubling the work and food to reproduce
it, which not only increases the cost but les
sens the profit.
Shropshires are quite similar in type
and gene al character to the South
down, but have darker faces and legs are
somewhat larger and clip more wool of a
superior quality. They have neat head5,
with rather short, muscular necks, long,
level broad backs and round bodies well set
upon short legs.
Progressive men who have tried the bags
on tomatoes say that the tomatoes thus GOV
cred were SO delicate in color, so very smooth
and perfect, that members OF the household
did not, upon first seeing them, know what
they were. Now we hear Of perfect speci-
mems Of pears and plums raised in this way.
When cows refuse good hay there is some
thing wrong. Most probably they have
been overfed. The remedy is to cut the hay
with fodder-cutter, the cost of which will
be repaid by the saving in one year, and
wet it and mix bran with it, about two
quarts for each COW, adding aSlnall hand
Iull Of salt.
1t requ res several years to secure pas
ture. For that reason it is better to well
manure old pastures and keep the stocG off,
so as to renew them, than to plow the sod
under and attempt to begin q new pasture
The harrow may be passed over the pasture
where it can.be done, and the ground re-
seeded, but the manure is the most import
ant adjunct.
Some weeds provide pasturage when they
are young and tender; hence flock of sheep
turned on field infested with weeds viii
do good service in not only eradicating the
weeds but in converting them into mutton
By preventing weeds from seeding they will
soon become extinct unless they are Of va
rieties hat propagate from roots.
Farmers of Westchester county, N. Y,
are turning at last upon the scores Of COW
doctors who, in the usual free-handed way,
have dominated their district for months
past About 100 indignant STOCK raisers, :"
the report says, met at Mount Kisco last
Monday and, unappeased by the persuasive
presence of the leader OF the veterinary
band, whosought TO piacate the assemblage,
they passed resolutions dclouncng the work
of the Washington Bureau OF Animal In
dustry' as highly Injurious and demand
inS relief The speakers recounted their
experience with some OF the deputy inspec-
tors5 one critic declared that the average
Of these officials could not tell a cow from
a goat aud another charged that they
are by profession bar-tenders. dry goods
clerks and tavern-keepers.' 1t is an inter
esting and suggestive contest, aud tne sym
pathy of people familiar with the mana ge-
ment Of the nations ''contagion" business
must necessarily be with the oppressed ag-
riculturists.