Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-07-26
HERE AND THERE.

In manipulating butter never allow
the hands to come in contact with it,
as their warmth melts and Injuries the
grain.
Make it rule to kill every white
butterfly seen in the cabbage patch, as
they are the parents of the cabbage
worm.
One cock with ten to fifteen hens,
one drake with six ducks and one
gobbler with a flock of twenty hen
turkeys is the rule.
Corn cut before fully ripe will
make good seed corn. Some advocate
and follow the practice. Care must be
taken in curing it. If put in large
shocks while green there is danger of
the corn being injured by overheating.
Sweet potatoes and melons can
endure quite period of dry weather,
but no weeds should be allowed in the
hills, as they will rob the occupants Of
the rows of both food and moisture.
AS a general rule scraping trees
does more harm than good. A good
wash, if properly applied, will destroy
the pests that may infest the trees and
the necessity for scraping be avoided.
The better quality of fruit is more
difficult to raise than lower grade,
yet, at the same time, it sells much
more readily and at better prices, so
that large profit can be secured.
For grazing slone blue grass is
one of the very best grasses that can
be grown on the farm. Once well
established it will withstand heavy
tramping and close cropping with less
damage than almost any other grass.
During the very warm days the
poultry-house demands attention. The
droppings should be removed at least
twice week, and the interior thor
Oughly saturated with kerosene oil, in
order to prevent lice from taking pos
session. A few days only are neces-
sary for a poultry-house to be overrun
with lice, as vermine multiply rapidly.
See that the fruit trees are not too
heavily loaded down, Often valu-
able tree is ruined for want of little
care in this particular. A little work
in thinning out, few supports set up
under the limbs, will often avoid UNI
necessary risks.
e. S. Golf, horticulturist of the
New York experiment station, found
as the result of long series of tests
that the productiveness of any strain
of potatoes can be materially increased
by the continued selection for seed o.
tubers from the most productive hills
The Dairy World says that al
Illinois genius has invented travelling
milk separator, that he sets up in &
''giffen or two,n at the door of each
farmer, and puts the milk through
leaving the sweet skim-milk on the
farm, and goes on his way rejoicing
with the cream to the butter factory.
"A young colt should not be worked
hard, but it is all the better for han
ding and light exercise at very earl,
age, says writer. No attempt at rid
ing should be made until the horse i
three years old, but almost any thins
else may be done with mucl
younger colt. The teachableness o
colts depends good deal on breeding
1t is dreadful waste of cow-force
says Hoard, to turn her out where sh,
roams over several hundred acres o
land. She will be doing it most al
day, if there is no fence to stop her
and will be sure to do it, If the pastur
is thin and sparse. She had better b
fed what she needs; on a small space
and then lie down and attend to he
, legitimate mission on the earth-mak
milk.
A pig that takes its head out q
the trough while eating and acts as
the slop had run down the wrong wa
has the snuffles. says the Lire Stoc
, Record. He should be removed fror
, the herd and cared for, as the diseas
is contagious. Put pine tar in tn
| Stops and smear both the nose and fac
, with it. Feed sulphur and turpentin
) with it. A free use of carbolic aciC
: both externally and internally, shoul
} | slse be made.