The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-09
Farm and Stock Notes.


Animals that seem to eat all they can get
without gaining in size should be got rid of.
The general aspect Of the dairy animal is
thinner, sharper and more angular than the
feeding animal
The Treasury Department has decided
that rams imported specially for breeding
purposes may be admitted free of duty.
The question is not what could be done if
we had certain other things, but what we
can do to make the most of what we have
Be liberal but not a wasteful feeder
Let every kind of food be fed in that man
ner which give the largest and best returns.
Large profits do not always depend upon
large crops. One may grow an extraordi-
narily large crop, but the expense of so
doing may balance the receipts.
A Connecticut dairyman tried warming
the water for his COWS to drink in winter,
and the increase of butter in ten days paid
the expense of piping the trough.
At the Ontario Agricultural College an
experiment with peas showed that it re-
CURED 81 pounds more of cooked than I'M
cooked to make 100 pounds of pork, live
weight.
A Wisconsin apple-grower says he made
money by reducing his orchard so per cent.
and giving the part that remained the same
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over the whole.
Sheep here do not pay as great profits as
| those in England Everything depends on
the mode of management. Our farmers
compel sheep to forage, while in England
| they are treated as carefully as are CATTLE
An advantage found in the use of silage
| in winter, according to an observer in Mas
sachusettS, is that the color of the butter
made from COWS fed upon it is as yellow as
in the month of June, when they are at pas
| ture.
A strange sight in Mount Vernon, Me-,
| recently, was a man moving on the ice.
| The swamp, which was too wet to NOW in
summer, had frozen over, and good swath
was being cut, pitched into the rack" and
hauled home for bedding.
| An ignorant farmer is inexcusable in these
days He may have had little opportunity
for school life, but he has the advantage Of
| farmers clubs, Institutes and agricultural
papers and, if be will, may profit by the
combined experience of many Others.
There is a wide difference, says the Breed
| er's Gazette, between &c. pound and 5,
| and it is quite evident that there is some
| thing wrong when farmer raises steer to
mature age and then sells him in thin
order at the very lowest price for some one
| else to feed few months and sell for much
larger price.
See that the cellars, fruit houses or pits
in which the fruit is stored are well venti-
| lated, for usually at this season Of the year
the weather is variable, and as .One OF the
most important items in keeping fruit is tc
maintain an even temperature considerable
will be necessary until cold, freezing wealth
er shall have set in.
A bull with an ugly temper is dangerous
| whether with horns or not. A Polled An
gus bull in Minnesota some time since dashed
| It's owner, an old gentleman named Sher
win, to the ground, and then, falling on it,
knees, butted him repeatedly, inflicting sucl
injuries that its victim died shortly after
having been rescued.
The NeV England Farmer saws that Mr.
Seth Davis, of Newton, Mass. who recently
celebrated his Tooth birthday, has made
| milk a chief article of food for large par
of his life Crackers and milk for break
fast and bread and milk for supper have
| been his simple diet Milk is one Of the bes
| and cheapest forms of animal food known
and Nh Davis experience is pretty gOot
proof of it.
If wheat, corn, cotton or tobacco be sow
or planted for successive years the land will
become exhausted and often deserted anC
the region depopulated, as was the case il
! Virginia and many or the States. Expert
| ence has SHOWN That lana annually demands
a change of crops to yield to the farmer full
reward for his industry, and it is rotation
of crops or the discovery of new crops tina
must restore again the wasted lands of thu
older States.
Farmers and gardeners should gather W
all the bolfes scattered about the yards anC
prepare them foruse in fertilizing thei
| lands. There are various ways Of doing
this One is to mash them with an old az
or sledge-hammer, the finer the better, anC
! place the broken pieces into barrel or othe
vessel, interspersed with layers of good hare
wood unslacked ashes. Keep the mass moist
not allowing the I've or potash to escape
In few months the bones will becom,
! jelly.
An ingenious plan TO save a dying pea
tree was adopted in the garden Of l.. NJ
! Chase, of Boston. The mice had girdled th,
tree so that it seemed hound TO die Mr.
Chase planted four small trees around i
and close TO it, cut Off the tops, pointed TIT
ends and, making incisions in the bark o
the pear, bent the small trees and grated
them upon the dying trunk They all liveo
and that tree draws its nourishmont from
the small ones. This season a bushel o
handsome pears were taken from it.
Popular Science.