The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-26

The forest lsnd in the United States, ex-
Guiding Alaska, embraces 500, 100000 acres,
or Is per cent. OF the entire area. The
farmers own about 81 per cent. of the forest
area or some lS5, 900, 600 acres. The rest is
owned by railroad corporations, mine own
ers, charcoal burners, tanneries, hmbermen
and SPECTATORS,
Rotation of crops battles, in a measure,
the root enemies, both insect and fungus,
that prey upon them. Each plant has its
OWN peculiar enemies, and changing of
plants removes them TO fields unoccupied
by such enemies. This is true of the enemies
of the above-ground growth of plants to an
important degree.
The annual report of the Commissioner
OF Agriculture, recently issued, states that
pleuro-pneunonia is now restricted to small
er areas than at any previous time in many
years There is now every assurance that
the present policy of the Federal and State
authorities, continued for another season,
Will entirely exterminate this disease.
The most porous land will stand the
drought best. The increased earliness of
fruits and vegetables on well-drained land
Is we'll understood. They will be at least
four days earlier on soil of the same condi
ton and exposure where IL is well drained.
This means better prices, a larger yield,
a longer season and a better margin of
profit.
A farmer cannot afford to have cracks in
the stable, as they are too expensive, the
closing of the cracks being but a small mat
Ter compared with the cost for extra food
to keep the animals warm. Unless a stable
be warm and comfortable extravaganza in
feeding will be the result Shelter and pro-
lection can be provided at less cost than
grain.
The Netc England Farmer says: "a flock
OF young mammoth bronze turkeys often
average 1917 pounds each, while 40-pound
toms are to be met with by all successful
breeders, and in three year old form they
sometimes reach the enormous weight of so
pounds each. A cross of pure-bred tom
with common hen turkeys will increase the
yonng stock from 3 to 8 pounds each"
The best soil for the strawberry is deep,
strong loan, with an impervious, hard pan
sub-soil. This land should be an old field
that will grow three-fourths of ton of hay
to the acre and should be planted to corn
the first year, the second year to potatoes.
These two years to hoed crops will well fit
the land for the strawberry and will clear
it of the white grub, the worst enemy Of
the strawberry plant.
1t is just as important with horses to
breed for intelligence as it is with the hui
man race. A dumb, stupid colt can never
Do tOuCdUGu W De IL NdludUle uOTs6. w llu-
out intelligence it will always be sluggish
and will never have an attachment to its
master nor manifest any disposition to obey
and serve him as a pleasure. Most intelli-
gent horses are naturally docile or can be
easily trained to be kind, reliable and even
affec tomato.
Prof E. W. Stewart, who is noted for his
experiments in stock feeding, states that
one ounce, or less, of oil meal to a gallon of
warm, sweet whey will make it nearly equal
in feeding value to whole milk for raising
a calf to three weeks old, and after that
another quarter of an ounce may be safely
added. The oil meal should be dissolved in
hot whey before mixing with that of the
right temperature to feed.
A gardener recommends SCOT as an excel
lent fertilizer for plants, especially pot
plants: An easy way to apply it is in water.
Tie the SCOT up in bag and place it in hot
water, working it around with the hands or
a stick until the water shall have washed
the SCOT from the bag; dilute with cold
water. Soot-water is excellent for roses,
ADDITIONS, pelargoniums and other flower
ing plants. With the pots full Of roots it
appears to be especially effective.
An old Kentucky breeder of swine places
salt first in Importance as preventive of
cholera, and believes that salt, of all sub
stances, is the best promoter of digestion as
well as an antidote against worms. This
breeder has adopted the plan of sailing all
his animals in water. tight troughs, keeping
a supply of salt ON hand continually He
also feeds some charcoal with the salt to
swine that are closely penned and gives
ashes occasionally under all conditions.
No man who owns a COW can afford to
have her afraid of him, for it would be
loss to the owner every time the COW should
l. g..
cow to pasture is like throwing money away.
The COW is simply milk making machine
and should be kept in the best working con-
dition, and for her this condition is one of
quiet. A COW that should be in any way
worried will not do her best. Make pets of
the cows and they will make money Tor the
owner.
There can be no possible objection to feed
ing straw, but care should be taken to de-
rive as large an amount of benefit as posi-
BILE. 1t must be fed in such a way that a
good gain can be secured with the stock.
Wintering stock to keep it alive is one
thing; wintering SO that good steady
growth will be made another. In the one
straw can be made to answer, in the other
something else is necessary In the one
there is no profit; with the other a very
fine profit may be secured.
Another good farmer who has half bred
Poland Chinas says he put up some of his
shoats, Z months old, and fed them two
months He shelled and boiled the corn
and fed them three times a'day. He killed
and dressed them, and four weighed $50
pounds, averaging POS pounds each. He
says with the aid of good clover pasture he
could make his half-breed Poland Chinas
weigh 300 pounds net at 9 months old. He
does not know what the full-bloods would
weigh, but the half-bloods are good enough
for him.
Mares in foal should have exercise and
moderate work, but under no circumstance
should be subject to harsh treatment nor
should they ever be allowed to go where
they would be in danger of being fright
ened. Under such circumstances the I'M
born colt is quite likely to be influenced
and may for its whole life be nervous,
timid horse, shying at every trihe, inclined
to run from every new and strange object
it should meet. This quality, if inherited,
be overcome, hence the necessity of
avoiding those things that might cause it.