The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-26
Farm and Stock Notes.

liz Is said that the life of rose plants greatly
varies Some Of the hardest kind wi / bloom
Ior thirty years, while others die off after
several seasons.
Fences are nuisance unless kept in
repair 1t requires more labor to watch
the stock and drive the cattle out of the
cornneld than TO build a new fence on a
small field.
Large seed is better than small. They
Iurhlsn more nutriment to the young plants
imam the small seeds do, which gives them a
vigorous start early in the season, and en-
aples them to keep ahead of the plants grown
from smaller seed.
Whenever the shoulders of a work horse
are CALLED the harness should be examined
10 remove the cause. A horse in such con-
dltlon should not be made TO work until a
cure is made.
More butter is injured by keeping the
cream too long before churning than in
any other manner. The churning should
be performed as soon as the cream is ripe,
even If there is only a small quantity to
churn.
Reports of large yields of corn from
certain new kinds should not induce
farmers TO discard the old varieties. as the
soil, manure and climate are the most i'm
portant factors that enter into the yield of
a crop.
The wet season is very trying on sheep, as
they thrive best on dry locations. The flock
should be kept out of wet pastures, and
placed on the stubble fields until the ground
becomes dry.
The farmer who strays off habitually to
town or elsewhere for pastime loses interest
IN his work, forgets what is to be done and
goes down to the dogs by sure degrees
leading pinched and miserable life on land
that might have supplied him and his with
more than competence.
h. =. Carman, of the Rural NelC Yorker,
says that for fifteen years he has planted all
Inc new stra wberrieS he could hear of, and
during these years he has raised many new
seedlings, mot one of which has shown that
1t was worthy of introduction
The majority of insects are vegetable
feeders, but there are great many that feed
upon or within the bodies of other insects,
causing them to die. These latter are called
pedaceous or parasitic, and, in the main, are
beneficial, as they destroy many injul ious
forms.
the COW soon becomes accustomed 10 the
mixer, and if treated kindly will cease Civ
| ing evidences Of vices. To strike her places
her III fear, and she will seize every oppor-
| tunity to kick or move her position. Milking
should be performed quietly, the COW being
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milk.
An ardent admirer of the Holstein-Fries-
lanS contends that experiments by Rhoda
| and Others in Europe and America have
! shown that the Holland breed can produce
| milk at much less cost than other breeds
kept in same stable and on like food, and
that they not only vie successfully with the
pure butter breeds, both in quality and
| quantity, but they are proftably bred and
grown UP for beef.
A correspondent of the american Guilt
GATOR Is inclined to tank that here is too
much liberty Of Shoe ing in this country.
The bitter prejudice against the game laws,
which came III with the first settlers, still
exists here, and the average American citi-
zen would conceive it a hardship indeed if,
with gun in hand, ne could not roam where
he listeth and blaze away at anything wild
at his own sweet will.
Farmers who object to paying large sums
| for choice animals should estimate the In
| creased value due to improvement, for a
! single season, of the young stock. Such q
| calculation will show that if the flock OF
herd is large, the gain of the stock will be
greater than the cost of a male or any OF
| the thoroughbred breeds. 1t is consequently
| economical to improve, and the farmer who
| does not do so is really extravaganza, as be
| deprives himself of tue advantages of bet
| ter stock, higher prices aud larger profits
without any increase in the expenses OF
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