The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-24
Farm and Stock Notes.


Never feed animals or poultry for thirty
SIX hours before killing, nor give water for
twelve hours. By so doing it will be easier
to dress them, and a saving of food will be
the result if large herd or flock is TO be
slaughtered.
The digestive powers of animals differ.
10 allow certain quantity of food to each
COW, treating every cow in the herd alike,
may result in an insufficient quantity for
some and too much food for others. The
individual characteristics are to be consid-
cred, and each animal fed according to her
requirements and the product expected.
Men talk about skilled labor. A good
farmer is specimen of skill in labor Every
good farmer has served large app entice-
ship at his trade. and no man who did not
so serve ever was good farmer. II requires
about three years TO learn the art and
mystery" of a mechanical trade, but no man
ever equipped himself in three years for
successful farming.
Corn meal in small quantities, linseed
meal in small quantities, and liberal guam
uty of good bran meal with the rough Iess
will make an admirable winter feed for
mich cows, and if given literally. with good
shelter. 1t is possible to secure a good flow
OF milk during the winter; provided, of
Co rse. that YOU have good breed Of cows,
that is feed can be given to during the
winter.
There has been great deal written about
hog cholera, says an exchange, but the hogs
keep dying. There has been more or less
inv -stigation, but the hogs die; and they
viii keep on dying unless we quit stuffing
our swine with corn. 1t does not make any
difference what the real chs~acter of hog
cholera is. The important fact to know
is that hogs that are strongly developed in
bone and muscle are able 10 ward off dis
ease.
The finer the condition of the manure
and the more evenly it is spread over the
surface the sooner it will be converted into
plant food and the better it will uourish the
p ants As the fall is an excellent time to
haul and spread the manure little care
given the matter of spreading it now will
be amply repaid in the spring.
Insecticides have been given careful trials
on experiment farms and by fruit-growers
the past season. One farmer reports that on
making an experimental application of
Paris green to one side of an apple tree, the
half to which he applied the solution was
completely cleared of worms, leaving the
other half attacked.
TIE best time to give full allowance of
corn meal is when the weather is very cold
Corn pi omoUes warmth, and a liberal feed
of corn is the best protection against cold
lext to shelter. During moderate weather
The supply may be diminished according to
the necessity of the case.
II the buttermaker would thoroughly
please his patrons and secure from them
the highest prices going. his butter must not
only be of good quality but uniformly
good. 1t will not do to furnish poor arti-
Gle one month out of the twelve, or even
one week out of the fifty-two. When but
ter is so evenly superior that customers are
able to detect no appreciable variation in it
the maker should lie getting fine price.
As about our times as many bus els of
sweet potatoes can be raised on an acre as
corn, their great value as apork producer is
obvious. Both the vines and tubers are
greatly relished by hogs and cattle, and for
the latter few things are better for the in
crease of rich milk and butter Horses,
too, are very fond of sweet potatoes, and
when fed in moderate quantities (aftor
washing the dirt Off, of coursel they are
highly nutritious. If fed 100 freely at first
they are liable to produce collie.
Bone dust may be converted into an ex-
cellent soluble fertilizer 10y mixing it with
unleached wood ashes. Put the mixture in
a barrel and keep it somewhat moist, occa-
sonally adding a small quantity of liquid
manure to the mass to invite decomposition.
Fac result will be the formation Of puos
hate OF potash, which is more valuable
THAI the commercial superphosphate gener-
nlly used.
To measure bin for wheat, corn, pota-
toes, ETC., multiply together the length,
breadth and hiS he 20 geL the cubic feet. Di-
vide the product by 81, aud multiply the
quotient by 40. The result shows the con-
tents in bus els, stftBe measure. There re
about four-fifths as4h&hy bushels as Gu bic
eet in contents IF hin, hence it will
be sufficiently accurate to divide the prod
uct by ;, aud multiply the quotient by 4.
By this rule the contents can be known in a
few minutes -silA"