The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-03
Farm Notes.

IN London the milk of the goat is sold at
three times the price OF cows milk. being in
demand for young children. Goats in Eng
lard are largely used for producing milk
and they are pedigreed aud bred 70 certain
INES OF strains in the same manner as are
cattle in this country.
Seed pumpkins, squash and other yeSeta-
pes OF this nature act powerfully on the
urinal organs, and should be removed when
Isd 70 any kind of stock. Cows giving
mix are especially affected by them. and
by increasing the urinary discharge the
strength OF the animal Is so much exhausted
tnat she cannot giEe the accustomed WELD
of milk. 1900
10 send flower buds BY post, cut a potato
into two pieces, bore holes into them and
insert the stems of the buds. with cotton To
support them. There is sufficient moisture
IN good sized potato to support "a flower
Tor two weeks in moderately cool temper
AZURE Flowers from bolquets or baskets
may be preserved in the same way. The
potatoes can be hidden by leaves or moss.
There is often greater profit in a small
mock of sheep, especially on small farm,
IMAM there Is In large one. Sheep are ex-
ceuent scavengers, and will eat more varie-
tieS OF vegetables than any other animal on
the farm. Ia the apple orchard they are
lively and quick to gather fallen fruit, and
Will eat the earliest small windfalls that
hogs will hardly touch, even though half
starved. Almost every farmer keeps a few
pigs to eat what nothing else will He
might we'll keep a few sheep for the same
purpose with better assurance that thew
would not eat anything that could injure
the quality of their meat
Thorough blowing is the half of cuItiva-
ton. This is just as true of fall blowing as
OF another Where weeds and trash are
only turned ouer and not thoroughly buried
tney are apt to get good early start in the
spring and give trouble all tnrough the sea-
son. Where tie weed seed is deeply and
thoroughly buried by good blowing it will
be late starting, aud much Of it will not
grow at all This Is one advantage or good
plowlng that cannot be overestimated.
One of the difficulties in banking I'D all
Kinds OF roots or cabbage is that of the
ground becoming fr> zen and sealing them
up until the weather becomes mild. A far
mer, who has tried the method, suggests
that cabbage be packed in barrels and the
barrels being so arranged as to allow the
caooages to be taken out as required, and
the barrel head covered with straw.
1t is not necessary to thrash oats to feed
the grain to sheep. If given to them In
racks where they will not mus it, sheep will
nat straw and oats together in winter and
thrive better on it than on hay Sheep
have stronger digestion than any other farm
stock. excepting poultry, and no kind of
gram needs grinding to enable them to eat
1t without loss by passing through the stom-
ach undigested.
The following is also said TO be a good ap-
plcation to prevent metals rusting: Melt
one ounce OF rosin i'll a gill Of hnseed oil,
and while hot mix it with two quarts of
Kerosene oil. This can be kept ready to
apply at any time with brush or rag to
any tools or implements required to lay by
Tor time. preventing any rust, and saving
much vexation when the tools are to be used
again.
1t may not always be necessary for farm
ers to sell their wheat for half price and be
compelled to pay three whole prices to get
it lack in the form of -four. Time was
when they C uld take their wheat to the
little girls mill and have 1t changed to -four
by giving the miller mis- toll; of that oppor-
tunlty they have been robbed by the flour
trust. But relief will sooner or la er come
in the shape of portable Touring mills, just
as 1t long ago came in the shape of portable
steam engines. Indeed, small mill stones,
called bJhr stones, have already been in
troduced into this country and are being
used in portable mills. Grist mills can now
easily be moved from one place to another,
just as threshing machines are moved.
A. s. Hall. correspondent for Farm
and Home, says: Do not hunt for borers at
all, just doctor them little. Make mix
ture of about one quart of wood ashes to
pail of water aid STIR it we'll Next make a
ridge of earth around the tree few inches
from it, and nigh enough SO when you pour
your mixture into the circle it will run into
the holes anG kill TIE worms. 1t is sure
death to them, and cost less than ! cent. a
tree have used it for years with pc feet
success. You may have to do it twice the
first year, but after that very little care
will keep your trees free from them. If
you have no wood a,hes, use thin white
wash of lime in its place. If you have a
large number Of trees, you can use strips of
zinc or sheet iron about four or five inches
wi % and long enough to put about the ee
in place OF the circle of earth, which absorbs
the water too freely.
One of the most successful writers on
food in this country is Prof o. w. At
water of Wesleyan University, Midi e.
town, Conn. he saws of making pork:
There are two things for the pork maker to
do-6rst to make leaner pork and then to
get better access to forei On markets. Leaner
pork can be made, he says, by the use of
foods, skim milk, bran, shorts,
cotton seed meal-if it can be advants-
geouslY utilized-beans. peas, clover, alfalfa
and other leguminous plants. 1t is, how
eve, impracticable for many pork produc-
ers to change their system of feeding at
once. The bulk of the pork in the country
is. and for some time must be, man fact
ured from corn, but where nj rogenous
foods are available they should be used, and
where they are not available the attempt
should be MADE to introduce them. Here is
a strong reason for experiments with legu-
minous plants; besides helping TO make
leaner pork, they have the advantage that
with them poor hay, straw and oornstalks
can b. utilized, and that they make rich