The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-30
Farm and Stock Notes.


Keep your stock up, feed them well and
regularly.
The raising of forest trees is one of the
most profitable industries in California.
Make the farm house pleasant and your
children will be glad to stay with you.
1t should not be attempted to keep geese
and ducks where water is not accessible.
Milk, potatoes, meal and other food for
swine should be fed to them directly after
mixing.
Exercise care in buying grass seed to get
that which is pure. No one can afford to
SOW weeds.
The depredations of insects in the United
States has been estimated at from ~ TO
$500 600 900.
There is just as much in knowing how to
feed hens as there is in knowing how to feed
any other farm stock. This is the next inn
portant item to look after as soon as good
houses shall have been provided.
OF two colts similar IN disposition and
sense one may develop into a steady and
valuable family horse, while the other may
be everything that is vicious, treacherous
and uusafe-all because Of a difference III
the men handling them.
Fowls cannot possibly thrive and do well
if they be compelled to stand around in the
mud and filth all day long. They must
have a place to scratch and exercise. The
horse stable is a most excellent place for
them to range in if allowable.
A writer in the Farm journal tells how
he prevented abortion among his cows, with
which he had before been much troubled:
II procured some bone meal and fed a ia
blespoonful to each COW every other day and
continued to do so until very recently. l
now feed two spoonfulS twice a week to
each cow"
What the colt wants is plenty of exercise
clean place to sleep, shelter from bitter
storms, plenty of good grass of different
varieties, good clean hay without dust, and
good, sound oats Colts raised in this way
will not look so well nor win as many pre-
niums, nor sell for as much money, but
they Will last.
Prof. Henry, OF the University Of Wis
consin, who Is well known as a conservative
and careful agricultural experimenter, adj
vises, where cornstalks are to furnish the
principal rough food, the following as
DAYS ration for q cow, to be fed at two or
three feeds: Cornstalks cut, ID to lSpounds;
clover hay, ; pounds; bran, b pounds; corn
meal 4 pounds.
A horse should not be allowed to drink
freely Immediately after eating Hon. John
| NJ Russell, ex-Secretary of the Massachu-
sets Board of Agriculture, tells Of seeing
| some horses in France fed on coarse beans,
then watered all they would drink and inn
mediately killed and dissected. He observed
that a considerable quantity of b ans had
I been washed out of the stomach, and some
of them were found in the lnteStlneS.
As an example of what some men can do
with an acre of LAND by judicious manage
meut and the skilful application of chemi-
cal manures a Scotch farmer recently har-
vested crop of greentop Swedish turnps
which weighed over 80 tons per acre. But
this record is outStripped by another Scotch
farmer, who mas ctopof turnipS calculated
10 average 50 tons per acre; the roots of
good shape and weighing from 10 to II
pounds each.
A farmer Of many years experience gives
in the Farm and Home some of the many
causes of the deficient hay crop. He says
it is the close cut of the moving machine
and the dull knives pulling up the grass
roots; also the scratching and narrowing OF
the renlorseless wheel-takes held down to
get the last spear, followed by the close
Dasturing in the fall. Moral: Raise up the
cutter-bar and keep sharp knives for the
good of the team, if nothing else. Above
all things, keep off stock in the fall Also
use topdreSsing.
The DARN World learned that several
members OF a family We're made sick by
drinking the milk from young cow. An
investigation was made by that paper with
the following result: In the correspond
ence we drew out the fact that the cow was
rather a wild one and had been driven from
the auction on a fast run, and that before
she had cooled off the milk had been drawn
with the results above stated. We have
time and again warned readers that milk
taken from a frightened or heated cow is
unfit for food, and sickness in some form or
other is sure to follow its use.'
Three trials in feeding mich and butter
cows at the Wisconsin Experiment Station
resulted in a saving of 36 per cent Of the
fodder fed in the first trial, 81 per cent. III
the second and 3 per cent. IN the third by
cutting the corn fodder. This shows an
average gain in cutting corn fodder Of over
- per cent that IS to say, 100 pounds Of
corn folder cut into inch lengths produced
as much milk or butter AZ l25 pounds of
uncut fodder. Prof. Henry thinks that the
gain from cutting the mammoth varieties
of Southern fodder corn may run up to
fully 40 per cent In another case, III
pounds Of cut corn fodder produced as
much as l ,ls3 pounds of uncut fodder, or
gain Of more than 90 per cent.
Popular Science.
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