The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-16
Farm and Stock Notes.

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up in slices and fry.
Farm and Stock Notes.
Poultry relish chopped cabbage this sea-
son.
Feed whole corn as an evening meal for
fowls
Warm all poultry food whether whole or
mixed.
Sheep of different breeds should be kept
separately
The Missouri farmers have lost 81 ,OOO,O 600
by the Bohemian oats swindle.
The Colorado brand-book contains the
names of 1900 Colorado cattle owners.
Farmers in Minnesota and Dakota have
| raised more hogs than usual this season.
A good farmer will value his sons and
daughters moro than his horses and cows,
and study for their Improvement.
A very simple remedy for sore teats is
said to be to wash with CASTLE soap and
warm water and apply equal parts Of lime
water and linseed oil.
A worm about two feet long, supposed at
first to be linen thread, was found in
head of cabbage at MOwequa, Ill.
A Michigan boy rented two acres of land
of a farmer last summer and planted onions.
He raised 500 bushels paid for the land in
half the product and had $500 worth for his
| share. He regards the summer as profita-
bic
AS an evidence of the proftableness of
small fruit culture, the Platteville Witness
states that George H. Robbins, of that place,
| sold $50 % worth of blackberries from one
sixth of an acre. He sold the yield of SIS
quarts at 15c. a quart.
There are IA, 600 acres of vineyards along
| the Hudson river valley, and the average
| Weld is four tons to the acre. At Sc. per
pound this means $40 per acre to the
grower. Some grow larger crops than this
| average and realize $500 per acre in sales.
Begin to look around now for bargains in
bran and mill feed, says tho american Ag-
1lcultu'ist. The little mills in the country
are often chOked up with this most excellent
COW feed and will sell it very low to get it
out of the way. 1t can be stored to any
depth in dry place.
The garden needs more manure. This fact
should always be kept III mind and every
bit of waste that is likely to have any value,
mechanical or otherwise, as manure should
be added to the heap 1t is wonderful what
lot of manure may be got together by
those who keep this always before them.
Horse troughs should be thoroughly
washed with warm water occasionally, as
there is more or less food left over which in
ground food remain in the trough and the
weather become somewhat warm it will
partially ferment, and in that manner rem
der other food unwholesOme.
Broomsedge, a worthless plant that over
runs old fields in the South, is rapidly dis
appearing before the introduced forage
| plant Japan clover A writer says that no
land is too poor for the latter and none too
| good. Its seeds are carried everywhere,
and it is taking possession of the waste
| places, converting them into valuable pas
| lures.
To keep cows hair out of milk, even at
the season when the herd are shedding old
coats freely, the American Ddirynlan adj
svises LAYING two thicknesses of fine cheese
cloth in basin strainer, wire-clOth bottom.
"a single strainer lets through a vast
number and double one is little better.
| The hairs get into the cream and butter and
make endless trouble"
Honey will be high this year. The three
leading honey producing States-Illinois,
Wisconsin and Michigan--have absolutely
no honey at all, and in many parts of these
States the bees are being fed on sugar to
keep them from starving. Last year Cali
fornia sent honey to the East by the car
load; this year there is scarcely enough there
for home consumption.
Prof. Curtis SAYS: "For a lasting grass,
and to endure all the changes of weather
and climate, consider the red-top the best.
All kinds of stock relish the hay, and also
the pasture from it. 1t will outlive all
other grasses and affords twice as much
pasture as timothy. Orchard grass / like
for its earliness and constant growth. On
good land it will furnish new bite in three
or four days after having been eaten off"
A cement floor is not the best for dairy,
as it absorbs the drippings Of milk and be-
comes foul in a short time. A good floor is
of matched plank, with tight joints and
painted, so that it will absorb no moisture.
Whatever drippings that should fall from
the churn could be washed off such floor
without leaving any traces. Brick quite
as absorbent as cement. A 1ag-stone floor
with close joints set in cement is the best of
all
You will save your horse the pain of
sore mouth if you will always dip the bit in
a bucket of cold water before putting it into
his mouth This ''takes the frost out" Of
the bit. If you want to know what would
happen if you did not do this put your
tongue against the bit after it shall have
been hanging all night in zero tempera-
ture You will not take it away as easily
as you put it there, and when you shall get
loose you will leave piece Of skin behind.
If the bit be put in cold water first this will
not haDneu