The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-07
Farm and Stock Notes.

Breeders of fancy fowls, when pressed
with orders, sometimes send out eggs that
are small and understood. While such eggs
may hatch yet, as rule, the chicks Will be
weak and not easily reared. Only full-slzed
eggs should be shipped for Matching pur-
poses.
Potato beetles will attack young egg
plants in preference to anything else, and
they are also partial to tomato plants when
the latter are young and tender. Hence
when egg and tomato plants are trans
planted they must be searched over every
day and the beetles destroyed.
Go over the orchard at least once month
and search for the borerS or they viii bore
in too far to be reached. Remove the earth
from each tree and examine the trunk care
FULLY. The borer may be known by the ex-
udatlons of the tree where it enters, and
also by the ''chips" it throws out
Hybrid perpetual roses are hardy and
Will make the front yard very attractive.
They should be put in a soil very fertile and
IN dry weather the earth should be kept
loose on the surface, which serves as "A
mulch. Keep the bushes in neat shape by
trimming and watch daily for the rosebugs
and slugs.
The cheapest and best mode of keeping
lice out of the poultry-house is to add a
quart of kerosene oil to each bucket of
strong soapsuds on washing days and thor
oughly saturate the floor, walls, roosts and
every portion of the poultry house, forcing
the liquid into the cracks and crevices. 1t
will kill the vermin as soon as it shall touch
them, being one of the best insecticides
known.
Only one quart of milk per cow for each
day may be the turning point between profit
and loss in the dairy. AS some cows will
yield twice as much as others, it becomes
the duty of the dairyman to raise his COWS
and use only those from good milking fam
lies. No dairyman can succeed who buys
fresh cows to replace those that dry off, as
the chances are against him. No COW can
be depended upon as a mixer until she shall
have been tested.
Within the past five years many flock
masters have abandoned wool as the source
of profit from sheep and given more atten-
tlon to mutton, the result being that sheep
have paid large profits. 1t Is being demon
Strated that farmers have placed too much
Importance on wool, which is a mistaken
policy. The sheep will give larger profit
than any other animal on the farm, but not
only the wool but the mutton, lamb and
manure must contribute.
A correspondent of the London Mechanic
recommends sawdust or raspings of hard
and soft wood for filling the cracks and
WI ~ hCADo AZ OA1 LII lliOulO, WHICH says
he learned from the Oriental carpenters.
The sawdust is sifted through wire gauze
and each kind kept by itself. He says: For
a crack, worm-eaten hole or a deep flaw
prepare the proper dust by the admixture
of brick-dust in -four (also kept ready, or
whiting, or ochre, or any required TINT
Then take well-cooked glue and ON a house
plate stir it in slowly while hot, with suffi-
cient powder for your work. Dab the hole
or crack with your glue brush, then with a
putty-knife stir about the mixture on the
plate, taking care you have the right color
When sure on this point take some of the
cement on the end of the knife and insert it
in the desired place Then use as much
pressure as you possibly can with the blade
and keep smoothing at it. Sprinkle little
of the dry powder on the spot. When thor
| oughly dry sandpaper the surface with an
old used piece so as not to abrade the joint.
You can then varnish the mending Where
weevil aud wood-wOrms have devoured the
furniture, cautiously cut out the part till
sound place be reached. Poison the wood
with a solution of sulphate of copper in
iected into the hollow. Let it dry. Cut an
angular piece of same wood from your board
and with a sharp chisel make suitable
aperture for its reception. Fix it with glue
When thoroughly dry work with carving
tools or rasp and glass, scraping till the new
bit of work exactly matches the old.