The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-01
Farm and Stock Notes.

Do not put fresh skinned milk into the
churn unless you want to waste one-tifth OF
your butter in the buttermilk.
Tho cost of colt at years old is said by
a correspondent, who has computed it, to be
worth $751; He also states that such colts
should sell for $3.50.
Rail fences are not cheap if the annual
value of the land occupied by them is taken
into consideration. Wire is much better as
well as more durable.
There are many instances where thirty
five bushels of grain might just as well be
grown on one acre as twenty, if the right
variety had been sowen.
Old brush, rubbish piles, etc., afford ex-
cellent harboring places for rats, and unless
removed the rodents will work down and
burrow under the barn walls.
Sweet potatoes will fatten a pig sooner
than will corn. The small tubers can be
used, as well as those that may be
damaged, by cooking them for that pur-
pose.
Toads are the policemen of the garden.
They speedily transport insect depredators
to a place where they will do no more
harm. And this interior Jail is quite capa-
cious.
Mr.. Havmeyr of New Jersey has twenty
four silos of 1000 tons capacity. He re-
Gently opened one that was filed seven
years ago and found its contents in excel
lent condition.
The famous COW Riby Marchioness is
dead. She was bought in 1875 for the mag
nifcent sum of $6,6l5, although then only
5 months old. She has produced ten calves,
all noted animals of great merit.
AS soon as an animal is fully matured it
ceases to gain, except in fat, unless very
thin. IT is the young animal that makes
the heavier gain in weight, but it is easier
to fatten matured animal than a younger
one.
The great preponderance of testimony
shows that soft food is better for cattle
than is dry feed, and that in the dairy it is
no trouble, with plenty of ensilage, to
keep up a summer flow of milk all the
year.
In Holland $50 yearly per acre is often
paid as rent for land on which COWS are
kept. Yet the Holland dairymen are sup
posed to make large profits. They hold
their COWS at high valuation-an average
of $3.50.
A wheat farmer should be stock raiser.
The coarse crops raised ON the farm can
most prolitably be fed to cattle, sheep or
swine; the manure used to grow wheat,
which in turn is consumed, as are the fat
tened stock, by man.
Inc TOOK Oh Which, many WHO 6ubeT Tie
ranks of breeders Of good stock split is that
of stinted feeding. The Shropshire, Perch
eron and Shorthorn owe their excellence to
the fact that they can make good paying
use of large amount of food.
Foundation walls for barns and stables
should go down deep ON low soils that are
not well drained. Many walls go to ruin by
failure to go little deeper for the founda-
ton. An exceptionally cold winter may
cause damage from frost, and it is always
well to bank up as much as possible.
Grain crops should never be raised In an
orchard, or serious or permanent injury to
the trees will be the certain result After
the orchard has come into bearing there is
only one crop that can be grown on the
land without detriment to the fruit and
trees and that is some kind Of grass-clover,
orchard grass etc.
Place your manure heap under cover so as
TO be able to work IL over in winter. Rains
should never fall on the manure at any sea
son. It is of great advantage to turn over
the heap in winter, create heat, and thereby
decompose the materials, in order to render
them fine and in good condition for spread
ing on the land In spring.
The color of the hog seems to be mat
ter Of Importance. Experiments show that,
contrary to expectation, a black hog, such
as the Essex and Berkshire, thrives best in
the south, while the white breeds, such as
the Chester White, Yorkshire and Cheshire,
thrive best in tho north. The Poland-Ch
a spotted hog, and the Jersey Red are pre-
terred in the western states.