The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-20
Farm and Stock Notes.


manure or its equivalent in vegetable mat
ter, or apply plant food in some shape to
| induce the growth of vegetation.
A Western fruit grower used IS bushels
| of wood ashes on his strawberry vines last
season and the crop yielded $50 bushels per
| acre. He thinks the ashes also counteracted
| the effects of the drought to a considerable
| extent.
1t requires about one-sixteenth less food
| to put an animal in condition in warm than
| it does in cold weather. If the dairyman
| expects his cow to be profitable he must
| look after their comfort both as to food and
| shelter
Corn and timothy are far from a well
| balanced food Timothy has no excess of
heterogeneous material, while the corn is
| highly carbonaceous. More muscle and
| milk forming material would make more
and better milk.
horticulture is taught in the common
| schools of Germany, the pupils being re-
quired to bud, graft, transplant, plant seeds,
cuttings, etc, and they are given instruc-
| tions on the subject of plant growth, adap-
tation of varieties to soil, climate, etc.
| President Smith, of the Wisconsin State
| Agricultural Society, thinks that artificial
watering, as ordinarily done, is of very little
| benefit, and has estimated that to water
! properly an acre of cabbages or strawber-
| q
| gallons of water.
Breeding sows require food rich in the
| elements of bone and muscle. Corn is not
| suitable, as it causes an excess of fat, which
is always detrimental in breeding stock
| Plenty of scalded clover hay in winter,
| with roots and ground oats, shorts and bran
| make the best food.
| An experiment at the Ontario College in
| feeding Is head of cattle with 10 pounds of
| no 2 dc # q Dc IF
wheat bran daily, and also the same amount
of hay androots but with the different kinds
| of grain, resulted in the lowest cost of pro-
duction on the bran ration.
The farmer who means to keep up with
| the times, says the RurdL NeU Yorker, will
make sure to have barrel of plaster kept
| constantly in his stable for use back of the
| cows. When a farmer begins to fall in
| love with manure" he gives one of the best
| indications of we'll balanced mind.
Do not use any manure when planting the
| young peach trees. Simply remove the top
! soil, then dig holes for the roots Set in the
| tree firmly, throwing the top soil next to
| the roots. Firm down the earth well, cut
| the trees we'll back and stake them if there
| be danger of their beng severely shaken by
winds,
The soil at first may contain all the ele-
mentS required to feed almost all varieties
OF plants, but after continued cropping for
a series of years it may largely exhaust a
portion of these and their place must be
supplied by the application Of fresh material
| that will make up what has been used by
the crops.
A correspondent of the Fruit Recorder
| says he has boiled leaves and stems of to-
| mato plants until the juice has been all OK
tracted, and has found the liquor deadly to
caterpillars, lice and many other enemies of
vegetation. 1t does not injure the growth
| of plants and its odor remains for long
| time to disgust insect marauders.
| An English authority states that new oats
| are unfit for horses, as they sometimes cause
bowel disease. After being stored oats I'M
| dergo some kind of change and are then ex-
cellent. In this country no such complaints
are made against new oats, as they are fed
| to horses from the time the oats are thrashed
! until the coming in of the next crop.
The Supreme Court of North Carolina
| holds that if a crop be III the actual possess
| sion of the tenant his taking the same would
not constitute larceny; but if after the crop
| has been put in the actual possession of the
landlord, though undivided, the tenant in
taking the same would be guilty of larceny,
| the legal ownership being in the lessor
| Sweet potatoes are grown in sufficient
| quantity to be reported in twenty-one
States, the highest average yield being that
| of Florida, 100 bushels; Nebraska, curiously
enough, following with III 6 bushels, though
the latter State probably produces not one
tenth the total amount that Florida does.
The lowest yield is that of Kentucky, So
bushels; the next highest is reported from
| Ohio and illinois, GO bushels.
There is a breed Of sheep that has created
some note recently. They are the Chinese
or Nankin sheep. Their particular charac-
teristic is that they frequently give birth TO
| three or four lambs alta time and also breed
twice year. Theyprobably will not prove
of much value as mutton sheep compared
with the English Dorset and Sommershet-
shire sheep, which are superior. The Chi
nese sheep are considered almost worthless
as wool producers.