The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-18
Farm and Stock Notes.

An English paper reports that 2, $40 ewes
in % flocks have produced 1902 lambs-a
return of 155 per cent.
HoGrdS DGirymGn thinks that the con-
slant breeding for beef and talking about
milk is one of the glaring Inconsistencies of
the day.
The pigs will be more thrifty IL kept in
clean, dry pens and well Uttered, but will
make more weight if they have a run on a
clover lot
A sheep breeder up in Manitoba reports a
eve which never has less than'three lambs
at time And he says her daughters keep
up the record.
Feeding in sheep husbandry is like any
other problem in live stock. However good
the breed, without good care and feeding
they must necessarily degenerate.
Prof. Roberts says there is no such thing
as native cattle" The term is mis-
nomer. Our so-called natives are a con-
glomeration of all the best blood of Eu-
rope.
Jerseys and Holsteins are to be sharp con-
teStants for first place in the dairy world.
Neither will ever fill the place of the other,
and perhaps there is plenty Of room for
both.
An enthusiast says that the silo will make
dimpleS on the faces of a good many dairy
men, and that if they fill the silo according
to the latest light on the subject they will
never regret it.
In feeding calves we should remember ma
ture and feed often and warm the milk to
so or 90. 1t is only when calves are fed only
once or twice day that there is any dan
ger of overlooking.
A very successful breeder Of Poland
Chinas never feeds old sour swill to his
swine, confronting that it is poisonous to
them. All milk, steamed food, ETC., is fed
within twentyfour hours of mixing.
A tree that is making too much hight
without corresponding branches should be
trimmed off at the top in the fall, which
will encourage greater growth in the
branches next spring.
Allow the stock FREQ access to salt at this
season, as it assists in counteracting the eff
fects of a grass diet Should scours appear
keep the stock up for day or two and give
each animal a warm bran mash. Salt is
necessary at all seasons. but more particu-
larry in summer.
When the farmer shall begin to estimate
the value of sheep from the standpoints Of
meat, fertility and general advantages to
the farm he will not allow the market price
of wool to determine whether or not he will
raise them.
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more milk from cows fed on beets, two
bushels per diem to the COW, than from
ensilage The milk yield ran up to twenty
quarts. He asserts that he can produce beets
at cost of cents a bushel, 1000 bushels
to the acre.
Much that is often allowed to go to
waste upon the farm could profitably be
gathered up and made into good fertilizer
and applied to the land to aid and increase
the yield of the crops. Give, as far as
possible, the kind to each crop best
adapted to secure the best growth and
yield.
Prof. Stewart says: Neither corn meal
nor bran is the best milk-producing food.
With the best clover-hay corn meal should
| be added as a part of the ration, but with
corn-fodder, straw or poor hay, good wheat
| bran should be added instead of corn meal.
Bran will balance poor fodder much better
than corn meal.
Many cases of milk fever may be traced
to the manner 10 which the cows are fed be
fore calvlng. If the COW is waiting to come
in, and has boon dried off, she will require
but very little grain. The best food is grass,
with a light mess of moistened bran at
night. If too fat the chances are that she
will have milk fever.
In a majority of cases the loss of young
chicks and turkeys may be traced to lice
At this season, when the weather is becom-
ing very warm, lice multiply rapidly, and a
few days only are necessary to have the en-
tire flock infested. Constant vigilance
should be exercised III order to prevent lice
from destroying the young poultry.
sIAll grass crops make the best if cut be
fore the seed-heaps form. When plant pro
duces seed it has performed its mission and
stored much of its nutritious matter in the
seed. To secure the larges amount of nutri-
ton in hay the grass should be cut while
the stalks and blades contain the element,
that would otherwise be directed to the for
nation of seed.
Pigeons will thrive In small yards if kept
in lots of twelve or more, not exceeding
twenty as limit. They must be mated
however, as an extra male will cause then
to quarrel it has deem demonstrated that g
larger number of squads can be produced
in this manner than when the parent birdl
are given full liberty. The yards should bC
covered with wire mesh.
Crab grass, which SO persistently takes
possession of the ground after a rain, is d
warm weather crop, and will cause extra
labor unless kept down. II is very easily
killed with a harrow or cultivator when
young, but if the work be delayed for a
week or ten days it is difficult matter t.
get rid of it. It is pest in all corntields,
and in order to keep it down the rows