The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-25
Farm and Stock Notes.

LUIS 0otAilliUCO biIuO OIClo dIo lb,OOO
in the United States, with 1000 acres en-
tirely covered with glass, in the shape of
greenhouses, devoted to flowers.
Practice on the farm the Darwinian law
of 1.-THE survival of the fittest." Kill off the
scrubs and substitute thoroughbreds burn
all the old horse killing, soul-destroying
implements and substitute something mod
ern and effective.
If any one in the world has a right to
have choice berries, vegetables o. fruit upon
his table, it is the farmer. CarelessneSs is
generally the reason why many do not DOG
sess these requisites. They are cheaper, far
better and much more wholesome than the
strong bacon and coarse diet too often
found upon the tables of the tillers of the
soil.
On all fields where the mowers are to be
used the advantage of the land having been
previously rolled will be noticeable. Fields
that have been rolled can be moved easier
and the work done more completely than
where the land is rough.
Teams should be worked early in the day
and given plenty of time for rest at noon
with nutritious food. By working mostly
in the early morning and in the afternoon
they will escape the heat of the monday
sun.
Most flowers are quite tender at germina-
tion and should not be required to penetrate
a hard covering to reach the air and light
| they seek. Make the seed-bed very fine,
and as most of tho seeds are quite small
give them but light covering 1t is a
pretty good rule to adapt the covering to
the size of the seed, making its depth about
| twice the diameter of the seed.
Do not look for general-purpose sheep,
advises western shepherd. All breeds pro
| duce wool and lambs; some excel in one
point and some in the other. Decide what
| your location demands for a leading char
acteristic and then go and get it. If you
| have q flock of coarse, roomy- bodied sheep,
get Merino buck to improve the wool, or a
Southdown for early lambs.
| In keeping your cows healthy and seeing
that they have only clean and wholesome
food and water, you servea double purpose
| You not only improve your own chances
| for profit, but you contribute to the pro
motion of public health by offering only
wholesome dairy products for consump-
| ton.
A correspondent says that in all his expe-
| rience, (which is quite varied, with horses,
| mules and cattle, ne never knew a wart to
| withstand a second application of pure
| hogs lard, well rubbed in They generally
| began sloughing off after one treatment,
and to all appearance without the slightest
pain.
The best recipe for ''renovating" rancid
| butter is the following: Consign it to the
grease pot. Nothing could be better for
| the wagon axes, and a good application
will assist in lessening the draught on the
team This is the only way to renovate or
resurrect that kind Of stuff; but don't buy
any more.
If hogs are given variety of green food,
| with but little grain, in summer they will
keep in excellent health, and be in a proper
condition for fattening IN the fall Less
| food is required now, and it Is not beneficial
| to have the hogs fat at this season except to
| be in good condition, as many diseases are
| due to the system of heavy grain feeding
| during warm weather.
| There is always an uncertainty regard
| ing the temperature for churning. While
| from e. to 65' is usually accepted as the
proper temperature the milk from some
| cows produces cream that requires as high
| as 81 to form butter. On each dairy farm
| practical handling of the milk only can de-
| termine how best to churn for tirst.class
| butter.
Butter may be sailed in the churn. Draw
| off the buttermilk, add the the salt, and
dash the butter in the churn again. This is
| easily accomplished with rectangular
churns. Sailing the butter properly can
| only be done by practice, however. Some
thing depends on the season and the market
to which it Is be consigned.
1t pays to produce the best. An inferior
article is always sold at a loss, while the
man who has the best cows, the best but
ter, the best beef, the choicest poultry, we'll
dressed, or the best butter, put up in neat
packages, always sells his goods at profit.