The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-05
Farm and Stock Notes.

Do not depend upon any one crop. Have
something to keep you reasonably busy the
year round and make everything pay at
least a small profit.
Laying off the rows straight saves labor.
1t is sometimes annoying, when working
corn or other crops, to work between rows
that are laid off without regard to their
appearance or facility of movements of the
horses.
Old fields that have been abandoned
should be plowed and a green crop of some
kind grown even if only few inches of
growth can be obtained) and the.crop turned
under This is better than to allow it to
remain in fallow.
In mating fowls to procure eggs for hatch
ing purposes ten hens and a male may be
yarded together of the large breeds, such
as Brahmas, Cochins and Plymouth Rocks,
and fourteen hens and male of the small
breeds, such as Leghorns and Hamburgs.
Prof. Storer says that many farmers in
New England have found that mixtures of
bone meal and wood ashes serve them an
excellent purpose when used as substitutes
for barn-yard manure. On good land apply
800 pounds of bone meal and 20 bushels Of
unleached ashes.
Dettweiler, German chemist, has esti-
mated that, including bedding, one COW will
that the cost of manure of one cow for one
year estimated on four different farms in
Germany was respectively $11, $l4, S. and
$2S, or an average of S12.
In selecting cantaleupes do not aim to Sc
cure large size for family use The best
favored and sweetest varieties are the small
kinds, and they are also the earliest. Water
| melons, however, should be large, as the
larger the melon the less waste, while they
kinds.
Mr.. A. L. Root thinks that if he should
own small apiary and discover foul brood
in it he would burn up the whole business
rather than endeavor to experiment in cur
| ing the disease If the larva be elastic and
ropy it is a sure indication of foul brood.
| This is a sure test, but the odor is not to be
! relied upon.
Voelcker found from analyses that in
| farm-yard manure which had been rotted
! for three months there vera per ton "a
pounds of potash, Of phosphoric acid and
| Is of nitrogen. Allowing Sc a pound for
the potash and phosphoric acid, and but
! 10c. for the nitrogen, the ton of manure will
be worth 49,
The old method of sailing the asparagus
bed is not now approved of by our best gar
deners The salt kills the weeds but does
| not really benefit the asparagus One of the
best special fertilizers is soapsuds which,
being in liquid form, find their way to the
roots of the plants. Soapsuds are also ex-
cellent for celery.
Samuel Frampton, of Nodaway county,
Mo-, still keeps and takes good care of the
horse he had when he rode off to the war in
1861. The animal is 30 years old and is ac-
tive and in good condition. Mr.. Frampton
asserts that during Prices last raid IN Mis-
souri, he rode this horse so miles between
sunrise and sundown.
Any community of farmers can, by CO.
operation in the purchase of a thoroughbred
male, greatly improve their stock in single
season and at but a small expense to each,
while the enhanced value of the stock would
more than compensate for the effort. 1t
really costs nothing to improve, as improve
ment is simply adding additional value to
the stock.
1t is not safe to suddenly change the food
of cows from the dry hay and grain to an
exclusive green diet. If rye shall come in
for pasturing allow the COWS but few min
utes upon it the first day, gradually extend
ing the time every day thereafter until they
shall become accustomed to the green food.
In this manner may be avoided bowel dis
eases and falling OFF of milk.
Kindness controls and guides any and all
animals, says the Line Stock Indicator
This is true when their life commences with
such treatment. A bull or a heifer that has
run with its dam and has had no attention
from man until six or twelve months old will
fear every object that is new to it, be it
man, boy or anything else. Overcome the
fear and it is ready to be taught.
An oblong square, as long again as wide,
is the most profitable shape for garden, as
the rows are equally long and less time is
taken up in turning the horse. The size of
the same should be in proportion to the
number Of the family, bearing in mind the
fact that one-fourth of an acre we'll ma
nured and cultivated will produce more and
better vegetables than whole acre not so
well attended to.
The Poultry Record gives this method Of
lining eggs for long keeping: To one pint
of salt and one pint of fresh lime add four
gallons of boiling water When cold put it
in stone jars. Then with a dish let down
your fresh eggs into it, tipping the dish after
It fills with the fluid, so they will roll out
without cracking the shell, for if the she'll
be cracked they spoil. Put the eggs in when
ever you have them fresh. Keep covered
in a cool place and they will keep fresh for
a year.