The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-10

mounds. in trenches on each side of the tree.
Salt makes the best showing in crops in
drv season, says a writer in the Farm and
Fireside. During seasons of drought its
usefulness is set forth as follows: Salt
makes the best showing in dry seasons.
The results are then very plainly seen. No
one can doubt the good effects of salt while
looking at sailed crop while growing in
dry weather. had field in pasture. The
soil was rather light and thin, and the dry
weather of last year burnt it so badly that
if did not recover, so | concluded to put it
in corn, followed by wheat. and seed it down
again. had no manure to cover it, SO
mixed 200 pounds of superphosphate with
400 pounds of salt and applied the mixture
at the rate of $50 pounds per acre, at
a cost of 81 81 per acre. All
through July and August without rain it
stood green and hearty, while my own and
nv neighbours corn that had not been
salted burnt up and amounted to nothing
or almost nothing My sailed corn yielded
IS bushels of good, sound corn, while the
unsalted went about % bushels of miserable
Door corn to the acre.
ASIAN insecticide salt found an admirer
whose experience is interesting: In the
spring of 1885 plowed and planted 30 acres
TO corn. Twenty acres of the lot were
clover broken and planted to corn in 1884.
The rest of the field-10 acres-was moved
in 1884 and plowed in the spring of 1885
with the remainder. We were two days
PLANTING the field, and / saw no worms
while planting the 20 acres, but found the
10 acres alive with half grown cut worms.
The men planting it declared that would
not get a hill of corn on that part of the
field. The next day after the corn was
planted had $50 pounds of salt per acre
sowed broadcast on the 10 acres, and, with
my neighbors, who were very much inter
ested in the experiment, awaited results.
The corn came up and grew right along; no
worms bothered it; not single hill on the
sailed part was cut by worms, while that
part of the field where L expected no trou-
bic was fully half cut down and it had to
be replanted, some parts of it the second
time. harvested more corn from the 10
acres that had been sailed than from the
rest OF the field and the fodder was great
deal better. / sowed the field to wheat and
seeded it down, and had more wheat to the
acre and of better quality on the sailed
than on the unsalted part. l had good
catch of clover and timothy on the ten
acres, while / lost the seeding entirely on
thetwenty acres, owing to the very dry
weather in June and July, 1886, and was
forced to plow it up and put it in wheat
again. The balance of the field yielded
something over two tons of hay per acre.
Onion tops, salt and cowy ardlmanure make
good onions. Onions have made good crops
planted on the same ground 100 years in
succession. They are an exception in re-
gard to rotation of crops.
Salt water should not be sprinkled on
tender plants of any kind. 1.-THE writer has
used handful of salt to ten quarts of
water with good effect on cabbage plants
after they are transplanted, and on much
older plants he has used much more salt to
the gallon. 1t drove off worms etfectually
and did not injure the plants.
Salt should not be used ON cold clay landss.
1t has tendency to hold moisture and make
lands cooler.
OalG IN moderate uOSeS IL DeueuClal 10
nearly all plant life, and notably to turnips,
rape and cabbages; but it is to its qualities
as a destroyer of insect pests and a preventer
of disease that much attention should be
given.
Prof L. B. Arnold, our best American
authority on dairy matters, if not the best
in the world, says: salt ought at all times
to enter into the food of the dairy cow, and
1t should be kept where she can partake of
it ad libitum. Both the quantity and the
quality of the milk are considerably affected
by withholding salt till the COWS get hungry
for it, Cows, in the season of lactation, re-
quire more salt than at other times, and
those that give the most milk require the
most of it. In some experiments in June it
was found that by letting the cows go with
out salt for five days they fell off in their
milk per cent. in quantity and per cent.
mquality, making loss of o per cent. on the
cheese, which was at once restored by sup
plying salt again"
The quantity of salt required varies with
The food and other conditions The COM
mission of the French government recon-
nended ounces a day for working OK or
mich COW. DIR. Phipson, an English
authority, says a mich COW requires 4
ounces of salt day.