The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-15
IN FIELD AND GARDEN.

thoughts appropriate TO the season.
The most profitable crop of Irish y otatoes
ever grown in the United States, perhaps,
was toat grown in the past season by W.
J. Sturgis, Buffalo. Wyoming. He COM
peted for the prizes offered by the american
AqriCultuFiSt, and won the iirsfJ one with
the following crops on one acre, to wit: 974
bushels, of which 83S bushels were mer-
ohantable and 1876 bushels smuI, and only
suitable for seed or feed purposes. The
planting was made on May On new soil OF
q rich, sandy loan. The acre was laid off
into burrows six inches deep. H,nd two and a
half feet apart. The sets we're dropped
eight inches apart in the roIE, which gave
., SSC hills per acre. The see d was dropped
by hand and covered with a rake. Tha
crop was harvested Sept III, and the total
expense of making it was $is4 so.
A Texas lady writing to Home and
Farm tells how she makes use of the abund-
ant garden dock which is very annoying
weed in most gardens. Six says: Here is a
way to use dock plant VIII lch will be new to
many, if not all Most persons use it for
green's, but as we are NOT fond of it pre-
pared in that way We usb it for pies. Take
the stems, she says, peel and cut in small
pieces; fill your pan haue full of the pieces
and add two tablespoonleuls of good vinegar
and one-third of sugar. Some may like
more sugar. Bake with two crusts. They
ore better when warm, and the pies are al
ways treat. especially when fruit is scarce
as 1t was the past year. The dock is very
hardy ana grows from the seed the first
year large enough to use. 1t REQUIRES very
little care, to be sure. and seems to get bet
ter as it gets older. The first thing out in
thespring, it remains green until mid winter.
It's equal in flavor to the rhubarb or pie
plant and we call it here the Texas pie
plant. Try it; Pm sure you will find it
delicious.
The most famous butter cow of the age
IS the Jersey COW Eurotisima, owned by
i. t. Appleton of Massachusetts In the
year from April %, 'S9, to April %, 80, the
product Of butter from this remarkable
cow amounted to 945 pounds and 9 ounces,
al the rate of two and tnree-tifths pounds
yer Gay the year through.
fFlor to this record Sandsur's Fancy wore
lae belt, with an annual product of 936
g0unds and IA ounces. Mary-Anne of St
lambert led the van prior to tine latter, with
o0 pounds.
correspondent writing about bone meal
" ne A3Ttcutturist says: For commercial
iSltilzer l am using pure bone meal. ap-
pnlng 1t principally to my wheat at the
ra'e OF 40O pounds per acre. The bone
ma seems to do more good on my sandy
Snd Than any of the phosphates. Its
'AgcS appear to be much more lasting.n
r III Twelve or fifteen years we have been
~sng our farmers to resort to finely
s.oInu bone for our sandy soils. For
SLue.Aing or gardening it is by all odds the
10y form of commercial fertilizer to be
i,ar. fou will get your money back from
correspondent Of the Ohio Farmer OBJ
'''@ very much to the practice that some
-~uiscturers have of adulterating oil
n -sai with the meal of corn cobs. There is
hug unnatural about this objection, to
gure. AS oil meal sells for SIS to S22
r- -G.e Is no profit in buying the latter at the
d do,ve g ol she former. The same correspon-
Sou ss-S lourd his wheat bran aduluerated with
NJ gu! IS and refuse OF several kinds, all
viii 'ich shows that some manufacturers
VIII VII, for the sake of little extra gain.
s"lhde the farmer and any one else who
'Oinpelled TO buy their stufs.
lug massachusetts PJOt1nlGn says grapes
- ,lOGio be pruned as soon as possible after
r ns caves caves fall. The longer the pruning is
Ana ~ ~ the more likely will the vines bleed
Daslo sne mo danger that the work will he
pT rested entirely or improperly done. The
and ans ts are always borne upon the new wood
TlIt, negiect to prune out the old wood re-
car; ~ loss with grapes more quickly and
Amot.uuly then with any other fruit crop
rr1r"' urs are more than likely to neglect q
para per pruning Of grape vines forgetting
rra5 iaps That 1t is only the new growth that
''0auces the grapes
@"are raised an enormous crop Of
Gnu -a'oes the present year, the number Of
STes put up by the factories amounting to
ponr a. q JOO,OOO. As each can contains three
oye- ~ tals makes the weight of tomatoes
os- 1o'UOOOOO of pounds. A ton of toma-
~, a. otlhey come from the field, will fill
d.. ~ to $50 cans. The Gamers took
Io'OVO tons from the growers.
n ., 80" persons comparatively are aware
'.o INTENSITY Of the raisin business of
,i-t iy,hia. IL Is stated that one and
~ milton boxes will be put up in that
M year II 10 unusual loss occurs from
,,va,.'F other causes. This product Is
81 y lines greater than the product ia
c.l'.lla ~ times the amount In 1917.
MA = great stats, anyhow. No