The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-02
Farm and Stock Notes.


Farm and Stock Notes.
Eggs for Matching should be kept in a
cool place, turned over every day, and the
hen given a comfortable nest for incuba-
ton.
A writer in the London Garden makes the
statement that the strongest and most ro-
buSt-growing rose seedlings are. as a rule,
worthless.
The Jersey COW comes in earlier than any
other, but it is not best to allow them to
breed too early. They should have time to
fully mature.
About thirty-tlve pounds of skinned milk
will produce one pound of pork. This is
better than hauling the milk to market and
selling 1t at very low price.
Bowel disease must be guarded against
among cattle at this season, as the young
and early grass that may spring up is too
much of change from dry food.
Experiments with wheats at the New York
Station give strong evidence that compact
ing the soil aids the plants to resist winter
killing and favorS increased yield.
When busting the fowls with insect pow
der put a newspaper under them; one can
in this way gather up some of the powder
for use again, and will be able to see also its
destructive effect upon the insects.
1t has been found that one part of Paris
green or London purple suffices for $50 parts
of plaster, when well mixed together, to
kill the potato beetle. One-half pound of
either poison suffices for five gallons of
water.
1t requires more labor to engage in gar
dening as compared with farming, but less
land is required. The most profitable crops
are not those that give the largest yields,
but which bring the highest prices com
pared with the cost.
The best gardeners say that the porous
common pots are not SO good for house
plants as those glazed or painted outside.
The reason is that evaporation is constant
from the sides of the porous pots, and the
roots are not only dryer but colder for it.
An excellent insect destroyer is said to
be alum water, made by dissolving pound
of alum in three quarts of water. If the
alum be added to whitewash it VIII not only
improve the whitewaoh but kill vermin IN
the poultry house when the whitewash shall
be applied.
By actual experiment it was found that it
required on an average 4. 12pounds of shelled
corn, or .074 bushels, to produce one pound
of pork in four weeks. 1t required f. 81
pounds of cornmeal to perform the same
service, thus demonstrating that when fed
dry corn is more economical than corn
meal.
1t is well known that gratis from bearing
trees will come into fruit earlier than trees
from seeds, and on the same principle gar
deners secure early tomatoes by keeping
root cuttings of tomatoes over winter in
greenhouses, which causes them to bear
earlier than those from seeds when planted
outside.
Sheep should be sorted into sufficient
number of fiocks to enable the keeping of
each grade separate-that is, the lambs, the
old and weak sheep, the breeding ewes and
the big weathers should be kept in separate
fiocks. This would give each grade an equal
chance and the sheep would do better in
consequence.
One of the strongest evidences in favor of
dairying is the fact that but few, if any,
farmers abandon dairying in order to turn
their attention to other pursuits on the
farm, unless it be to raise stock. The value
of dairying is not alone from the receipts
obtained for milk and butter, but also
from the gradual increase of fertility of the
soil.
Farmers who keep sheep can accommo-
date each other by exchanging, so that each
may have a half or quarter for use while it
can be kept fresh. With ice and refrIge-
rator in the cellar meat may be kept week
or more even in warm weather. These are
Oltl-i lllcbuOio. Dub bhtJ dlb Il IdIb
of the farmers privileges and happy are
those so situated that they can still live up
to them.
There are in America over 4, 000, 900 farms,
large and small. They cover nearly 30, O00,-
900 acres of improved land and their total
value is something like 10000, 900, 600
These figures are not, Of course, compre-
hensible They simply convey the idea of
vastness of area and equal vastness Of i'm
portance. The estimated value of the yearly
products of these farms is between s., 000,-
600 900 and s., 000,010,000.
If fruits of any kind are to be set out see
that the supply be purchased, and the
ground pickeI out and prepared, the stakes
set, so that when the time shall come for
transplanting there need be no delay. With
many spring is considered the best time for
setting out fruit, and if this plan he in
tended so far as possible the work should be
done early, 50 that the trees or plants will
be able to make a good start to grow before
not, dry weather shall have set in.
The peach tree fruits on the previous
years growth, not on spurs like other trees;
hence the aim of the orchardis. should be
to keep the young growth alive all through
the centre of the tree. To that end The outer
growth should be thinned so as TO admit tho
light and air. Also part Of the young
growth should be cut back to q stump about
an inch long, that new growth may form
for the following years fruiting. The peach
tree needs more pruning than any other or
chard tree, and very few growers prune
enough.
A correspondent of the North British
Agricutt1rist states that dandelions in pas
ture form valuable food for cattle, and espe-
cially for dairy cows. Some years ago no
had two fields, one with few and the other
with a great many dandelions. 1t was
found when the cows were put on the field
with many Of these plants their yield Of
milk was improved both in quality and
quantity. Since then he has planted dan-
delions IN falds laid down in grass in order
TO improve the pasture, and the effect has