Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-07-18
HERE AND THERE.

Warm water will not answer for
the COWS on warm day. Shade is also
indispensable for stock in the summer
season.
Wet grass is injurious to young
chicks even in the summer. DO not
turn the hen and her brood out until
the sun is well up.
Keep the soil around cabbage
plants frequently stirred and they will
grow faster. Weeds and grass must
not be allowed among cabbages.
-Duclklings of the Pekin, Aylesbury
and Rouen breeds can be made, with
high feeding, to attain the weight of
five pounds each when they are ten
weeks old.
Water the young celery plants
with a solution of a pound of saltpeter
in twenty gallons of water. Thin them
out if too thick, and use only the strong
and stocSy plants.
"A solution of gill of carbolic acid
in a bucket of water, sprinkled over
the floors and yards of pig-pens, will
assist in preventing bad odors and less
en- the number OF flies.
Sell the young geese in preference
to the old ones. Old geese make the
best breeders, and are more careful
with their young, and give a larger
supply of feathers when plucked.
1T is not too late to set out more
sweet potato plants. AS the ground is
still damp they will get good start
and grow rapidly. They love plenty
of sunshine and warmth.
1t is very important in transplant
ing trees, plants and vines, to cut back
severely. Very often trees fail to
grow, simply because too much top is
left in proportion to the roots.
Sweet corn is one of the most inn
portant of garden vegetables, and in
order to have constant supply for a
family of ten persons about fifty hills
should be planted every ten days until
July l.
Keep the burdoclSs down. They
delight in plenty of food, and plant
of burdoclz will rob the soil for yards
around its base As fast rs they show
their shoots above ground they should
be chopped off.
Plant potatoes in deeply-ploughed
burrows and cultivated level. They
will stand drought better thus than il
planted shallow and hilled up and will
bear heavier crop, but it will be q
little harder work digging them.
The tent caterplllars are unusually
numerous and troublesome this year,
The usual remedy is TO brush off the
nests with a conical-shaped brush on q
long pole, doing it in the evening OF
early morning when they are all in the
nest
II you haven't got the capisal to &c
into fancy poultry, try commercial
poultry. We know it will pay, and thi
market is not likely to become gluttet
soon.
The Georgia horticultural society
will meet this year at Griffin, holding :
three-days' session, from July 81 t.
August 2. Griffin is ia the heart o
one of the best fruit-growing sections
of the State, and easily accessible t.
others.
If the 1888 corn crop were loaded
on two-horse wagons. thirty-thre'
Bushels to the load. and the wagon
were placed twenty-six feet apart, o
as nearly as possible in string, tn
string of wagons would reach twelv
times around the globe, 100000 miles
The presidents of both the Tenncs
see State Alliance and Wheel hav
called joint meeting at Nashville
Tuesday. July %, for the purpose @
uniting the two orders into ono unde
the name of the Farmers aud Labor
ers' Union of America.
. Practically an egg is animal food
and yet there is none of the disagree
able work of the butcher necessary
, obtain it. Be it animal or vegetable
} the vegetarians of England use egg
! freely. and many of these men ar
/ eighty and ninety years old. and hay
been remarkably Tree IRON illaess.