The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-01

on an exclusive turnip diet for any length
OF time, neither could they on many other
plants that are even better. Nevertheless
Mich cows, TO be kept in good health, and
TO have perfect distentiOn of the udder,
should be supplied regularly with some sue
culent food. 1t Is as indispensable 10 cows
as some kind of strawS or long food is to
all classes of stock. In respect to the latter
RECRUITMENT, we know that oat and wheat
straw and shucks. substances greatly lack
ing in the nutritive elements Will when
led MAINTAIN stock in a healthy condition,
where disordered stomach and conse-
quent i'll condition would follow if
they were long deprived of it. Sucn foods
may be considered Amendments, just as
apulylug SIND to clay soil, or rice uerSG,
will make it produce better crops. Consid-
erlng the ease with which they can be made
with so many tons per acre secured,
1t Is crop that must be
valued especially whenever mich COWS are
to be fed. Beets aud and sweet potatoes
are better pound for pound, of course, but
ample experience will always demonstrate
that turnips are the more economical crop,
all things considered.
SWEET POTATO CULTURE.
Between the two varieties, the Georgia
yellow yam and the St Domingo white,
which may be said to represent the two
are number of varieties cultivated in the
south, but as a general rule the inferior
nave encroached greatly upon the better
varieties, and 1t is quite difficult to find a
good variety that is pure. The New Jer-
soy and other northern seedsmen, in their
efforts to get early kind, have sacrificed
quality to earliness, and it is the case still
that the potato that is prepared for north
ern tables is considered in the south more
ar fpY ba hoe
lt Is rarely the case that we can find our
yellow yams in the market where fifteen
years ago it was abundant and the pink
SKIN Spanish that we have always consld-
cred the choicest of table potatoes seems to
have disappeared entirely from our section
For several years the best table potato that
our dealers have supplied is the pumpkin
yam. As it's name implies, it is a deeper
yellow than the Ge ]rgia yam. 1t is very
good table potato, and very productive
sort, and keeps well. The purple skin
yam (HaytD, the 'nigger-killer,n
of our boyhOod days, we have not
seen in several years. For "Mealness" the
essential characteristic to the yankee, it
was superior TO all other kinds. it is pity
the nomenclature of the potato is in such a
state of confusion. We know of nothing
that the Department of Agriculture could
do that would be more acceptable to tire
farmers of jteOrgia than to have aqualifed
committee TO classify the present varieties
properly and to introduce new ones by dis
seminating plants grown from the seed.
Cotton, corn aud oats have had all necessary
attention for the present, and it would be
good thing to have new flood infused into
this very important southern crop. From
having been so long propagated through
the method of sprouts, with the use often
times of diseased and half rotted tubers,
there Is now predisposition on the part OF
the potato to rot, to be less productive, and
of inferior quality. An effort should be
made to introduce new varieties before til
kinds now in use become utterly worthless
for table use. There are but few vegetables
that are equal to it, and that country is
blest that has it in abundance
S. A. Cook.
MuledgUiLLe, Ga,