The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-02
Farm and Stock Notes.


Chopping hole in the ice to allow the
cows to drink is simply a method of chilling
them, thereby causing a shrinkage in the
yield of milk Warming the water is easier
and much cheaper in the end.
Two thousand five hundred dollars worth
of onions, lettuce, cabbage, spinach and
celery were raised from three acres of land
last summer by f. P. Marion, of Woburn,
Mass. Two men and boy managed the
work
A Colorado beekeeper who lives where
alfalfa is extensively grown for forage says
the bees will not work on it when other
bloom can be visited. He is convinced that
alfalfa as honey plant is greatly overesti-
mated.
1t would be better to kill a few of the
young pigs at birth than to compel the sow
to suckle too many, as lack of milk and cold
and cause the weaker ones to die. Large
litters are at no time desirable, and espe-
cially in winter.
In certain parts of Europe the belief is
prevalent that busting the trees with lime,
ashes or road dust tends to fruitfulness In
the orchards of the Volga, where the fruit
rarely falls, the southeast winds are loaded
to suffocation with the dust of the desert.
The first calf, says a contemporary, makes
or mars the cow, and from the first preg-
nancy, when the mammary glands begin to
develop, up to the coming in" is the most
important period of a cows life. What is
gained then may be held and added to:
what is lost can hardly be recovered.
To economic hay an excellent authority
sugg SITS: 1.-TWO pounds of a mixture of
middlings, bran, ground oats and corn, of
equal parts, added to twenty-four pounds
of straw or corn fodder, will give more
growth than twenty-five pounds of the best
ND a haI
With trees set a considerable distance
apart, as we find them in the apple orchard,
the land may be seeded without much in
jury to the trees if small circle be kept
open and cultivated about the tree. This
will be no great task and will save the or
chard and keep it in good, thrifty, growing
condition.
The farmer should remember that if he
can plow at any time during the winter he
will gain so much time for spring work
Ground that will be exposed to frost may
be plcwed wet, dry or in any other condi-
ton, as the expansion and contraction of
heat and cold will prevent its clogging. The
frost is the best pulverizer known,
The JERSEY Bulletin says there is nothing
more useful than new-process linseed meal
in correcting deficient rations for cows.
Being about as rich in albuminoids as in
carbohydrates, it will make up the deficient
albuminoids of corn meal corn fodder, poor
hay, etc. 1t also has laxative tendency,
thus often preventing fevers as well as pro-
noting the secretion of milk.
Experiments made to discover how much
butter can be made from pound of milk
show a great variety of results. 1t has
been found that the quantity of milk re-
quired to produce a pound of butter de
ponds on so many greatly varying circum-
stances that no definite quantity can be
fixed upon. Even the same cows milk va
ries in quantity, as well as quantity from
one day to another,
As illustrating the difference between the
time consumed in tillage where the rows are
long or short, Secretary Bonham Of the
Ohio State board of Agriculture, gives an
instance of a field of corn in which the
rows were ITO rods long, the piece being
about one-third as wide. The cultivation,
covering about rs acres, required three
days for the long way and four-and-a-half
days for the cross cultivation.
Oil, says the American AgricuLturtst,
is fatal to every insect it touches, and sui
phur is very offensive to them. mixture
of four ounces of lard and one of sulphur
we'll rubbed together, and with the addition
of one ounce OF kerosene oil and one dram
of creosote, will be found an excellent rem
edy against all sorts of insect vermin, while
the liberal use of kerosene oil on poultry
roosts will free the fowls of their torment
ors.
If pork has ever soured or spoiled in a
barrel it would not be safe to use the barrel
for pork again, no matter how thoroughly
it might be cleansed The cost of new
barrel warranted TO preserve the pork is
much less than the value of the meat which
it will hold 1t is true, the fault NAV not
originally be in the barrel. but rather in the
mode of management; yet having once
spoiled lot of pork the barrel had better
thereafter be left TO other uses.
The bones of well-bred, well-fed hog are
said TO present only about one-twentieth
part of bis gross weight An animal of
this nature must necessarily carry a great
deal of fat, but the importance of making
it well muscled TO keep it from complete
degeneracy is self-evident to any thoughtful
person; hence, inasmuch as the natural
tendency of the hog is to fat feeders should
make il a point to cOuuteract the evil by
using the most nutritious feed to the ex-
clusion of fat forming food