The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-23
Farm and Stock Notes.


Butter should be kept at temperature Of
about So.
Beets are much relished by and very good
for mich COWS.
Put salt in the food you feed swine and
thus help to prevent hog cholera.
Kentucky produces 81 per cent. of the
total leaf tobacco crop of the United States
1t is not well TO commence fattening hogs
from birth, as they are more liable to dis
ease.
When breaking in young colts put them
beside fast walking horses. The first few
lessons will make a lasting impression on
them.
The refuse bone from the family table
should all be saved and broken into small
pie, es for the fowls. They eat them greedily
and, when not supplied with bones, it is
good policy, TO buy them ground and ready
for use.
The farmers of this country use 5000
tons of Irvine annually upon the bind
ing harvesters. Allowing five pounds to
the mile this would be equal to string long
enough to go more than six tines around
the earth.
Ducks usually begin to lay in February
and until that time they may be kept at but
little expense. Cooked turnipS, with a small
amount of corn meal, make good feed for
them. After they begin to lay they should
have proportion of animal food.
The ounce is a great feeder and needs
good cultivation. No other fruit requires
SO much manure and such thorough cult
vation If the trees be neglected it is likely
that there will be no fruit, but if there shall
be some it will be of small growth and I'M
slightly appearance.
Small fruit trees can be protected from
in hxyt al III
old tin cans, so that the solder will be all
melted off; then wrap the tin loosely around
the tree snug to the ground. This protec-
ton can be applied to small fruit plants
when set out as a guard against cut worms.
There is no benefit in keeping too much
stock RunUS, stunted animals or those that
| seem to eat all they can get without gaining
in size, should be got rid of. Many losses
occur from keeping Improbable stock on
hand too long. An animal that does not
show the effects of good treatment in a
few weeks will be no better in as many
months.
The condition of hollow-horn is simply a
symptom of disease and, instead of direct
ing medical attention to the horn, the prac-
titioner should make haste TO look in other
directions for the disease; for the very fact
that the horns are insufiiciently supplied
with blood is proof that there is too much
congestion.
Ten drops of the oil of turpentine shaken
I'D with a tablespoonful of sweet milk viii
cure half a dozen chickens of the gapes,
each getting an equal part of it, or the same
quantity mixed with flour or meal and a
| small bolus forced down the throat of the
chick viii do the work promptly. The dose
| should be repeated several times-say morn,
noon and night.
When starting into the business of COM
mercial poultry do not begin upon too large
a scale. One or Two hundred hens, at most,
are sufficient. The business may figure out
nicely on paper, but there is a certain amount
of practice absolutely necessary to success,
ana when the beginner starts on too large a
scale he never comes up to expectations or
calculations and gives it up i'll disgust
1t is desirable to have a clean soil with
growing crops but if no crop be growing it
would be better to have weeds grow to be
powed in than to have nothing; weeds of
themselves do not do the harm, but with
growing crops or when allowed TO seed If
pIowed i'll green they will return to the soil
all that has been distracted from it and, in
addition. all that has been drawn from tue
atmosphere.
Somebody advises that in saving seed corn
the selected car be neither husked nor sepa-
rated from the stalk on which it grew, but
the stalk and hnhusked ear be hung up in a
dry place until the planting season shall
have come round. The claim has been adj
vanced that seed so kept has greater vitality
and produces. more vigorous plants than
even that which is husked and afterward
dried by fire heat.
The udder of cow is very complicated
affair Outwardly it consists Of series of
muscular bands crossing each other and at
tached to the abdominal muscles for the
support al the mass of the organ The teat
is not a simple tube, as has been supposed,
but consists of a large number of ducts,
which run into four or five or more channels
or tubes, each Of which discharges separately
into the orifice of the teat.
Pigeons are not troublesome and afford
much interest TO those who have the time to
attend to them properly. The fancy kinds,
such as pouters, tumblers, fantails, barbs,
owls and carriers, may be kept in the same
loft but they must be mated first. This
must be done by combining pair together
away from the others. After the pigeons
shall have been ali mated no danger will
,r;.o Of distinct braa1s u1iyinn