The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-06
Farm and Stock Notes.

Fifty years ago the average weight of
beef cattle was 800 pounds; now it is 1, 400
pounds.
The western portion of Allegan county
Mich, shipped !, 2l5, $40 baskets of peaches
during the past season. About 1000 trees
were set in 1887
Oats, barley, rye, beans. peas wheat,
bran, Indian corn, buckwheat, shorts and
middlings and oil meal areall suitable feed
for fattening sheep.
The Country Gentleman says: "While
the Kieffer may not become a general ia
vorite as an eating pear, it has remarkable
qualities for canning"
Prof. Arnold, a WE'LL known authority,
has clearly proved the wastefulness of Civ
ing corn meal to cattle without carefully
mixing it with more bulky food.
If the wood ashes be carefully saved and
applied to the canes of blackberries and
raspberries early in the spring the result
will be rapid growth and strong canes.
A COW left in the barnyard on very cold
days and compelled to drink ice water will
fall off in the yield of her milk more than
sufficient to pay for warming the water.
All young animals quickly learn to eat
ground oats and there is no ground grain
better for them. They will grow and thrive
upon oats even when, drawing milk from
the dams.
In using eggs for Matching the largest and
strongest chicks will come from eggs layed
by the hens or fully matured pullets. Eggs
that are small or double-yelked arc not suit
able for Matching.
New England horticulturists say that the
rosebug on the grapevine can be prevented
by laying the vines on the ground, thus
causing early blOssoming, and before the
roSebug shall get around
Look out for lice; while thew are not as
hard on hogs as they are on chickens, they
are very unsightly and cause the poor crea-
lures a great deal OF discomfort when they
have to keep up an incessant scratching.
Corn should be used more freely in win
ter, especially during very cold weather,
than at any other time, as it is the best
grain for promoting warmth of body, but
the quantity should be lessened if the ami
mails be very fat.
A person cannot offer a greater insult to
some of the farmers wives than to usinu-
ate they do not make good butter. Yet the
amount OF poor butter on the market ex-
tends into tons and the number of poor but
termakers is legion.
Never in the history of breeding and feed
ing domesticated stock of every description,
says the Rural WOrjd has there been mani
tested so perceptible and so marked an anx-
lety to know how to feed WdlclOuSly and
effectively as at the present time.
Formerly DR. Sturtevant had considered
breed as inferior to feed; but after six years
work in the experiment station he has made
up his mind that the breed is the more i'm
portant He also says that in those six
years he had never been able to change the
quality of butter by changing the food.
The best business in which the farmer can
engage as a general industry in a country
adapted to grass, say the Boston Cltitirator,
is to keep every cow-and good one every
time-that he can keep well and persist in
the industry, and he will be as sure Of sue
cess as in any other branch of agriculture
Since the color is pleasing to the eye,
Prof. Alvord saw no objection to adding
coloring matter directly in the butter. In
answer to a question as TO what breeds give
the best milk for infants food he said that
physicians recommend the milk Of Ayrshres
and the various Dutch breeds, since it was
not too rich in fats
A hoed crop should be part of the regu-
lar rotation on all farms, for the reason that
such a crop requires close cultivation and
when removed leaves the ground clean
Unless this be done the weeds will at some
time take possession of the fields. though
much benefit will result from the use Of the
cultivator if a corn crop be grown.