The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-22
Farm Notes.

Whenever the pastures begin to run out
| and the cows have difficulty in securing
| plenty of food feed more grain or hay at the
barn. To keep in full flow Of milk the COW
| must be supplied either from the barn or the
| pasture, aud as the pasture fuctuateS in its
supply or grass 1t must not be wholly de-
| pended upon.
Something more than putting away tue
seed IS necessary if good crops are expected
| next year. The seed potatoes and the seed
corn should be selected and placed in some
| location separate from that intended for
| sale. 1t Is by careful SO ection that the
| quality is improved. Many diseases of
plants might be avoided by selecting only
| the healthy tubers and grains for seed, and
rejecting all that in the least manner give
indications Of being affected by rot or rust.
Keep the seed corn in dry place and the
potatoes in a cool bin.
| A pound of butter per week for each COW
make the difference between profit or loss
| The difference depends on the kind of COW.
1t pays to use only the BEST If your cows
are not up to the required standard, grade
| up the nerd with the use of thoroughbred
| males. Never allow a scrub bull on tae
| farm, even if the scrub CO " is given a
| place.
The healthy tree is easily distinguished.
The desper the green color Of the leaves the
| more thrifty the tree. A yellow color, no
matter how slight, indicates that something
is wrong. Examinations and comparisons
| of the trees in the orchard will enable the
grower to easily detect any lack of vigor in
| the trees by the shades Of color of the
| leaves.
Many dairymen make good butter, but
fail to realize high prices simply because
they do not try to sell to the best advan-
tage. The best market is sometimes in
the nearest town. Introduce the butter
into the homes of those who desire it of
good quality, and there will be no neces-
sity for shipping it off to distant mar
ket
1t is not always the best and most elab-
| crate poultry houses that shelter the
choicest stock. Success, however, mainly
depends on warm, dry coops, with proper
care and management and freedom from
overcrowdlng. This latter trouble is often
the cause of ill-suuceSs. If you wish a
healthy flock keep few in pen.
The guinea is a very useful fowl, notwith-
standing their peculiarities. In their wan
behring's over the farm they destroy numer-
Gus insect enemies and weed seeds, and do
little damage to crops by scratching and
eating. They lay large number of eggs,
which, though small, are Of good quality
| and nutritious.
Beets for sugar should be tried as an ex-
pertinent on every farm. AS so much de-
ponds on the soil, manures and fertilizers the
result of numerous experiments would be
valuable by enabling us to produce more
| sugar.
The agricultural colleges have done much
for agriculture by teaching the farmer and
| stockman the true value of foods. This
| knowledge teaches him not only how so
feed properly, but also how to avoid waste.
One OF the advances made in the matter
of destroying insects is that of propagatng
the parasites that destroy certain insects
| Parasites are sometimes the best friends of
| the fruit-grower, and do better service for
him, in the destruction of insects than he
can perform himself. Study of the para
sites is adding more light, and there is
prospect that before another decade many
destructive insects will be met by parasites
propagated by the farmer himself.
Milk cans should be washed in cold OF
tepid water first, and then rinsed In boiling
water before they are exposed to be aired.
The addition of little soda aud borax to
the hot water will increase its cleansing
properties.
TEAS a sheep dip the following is recon-
mended by a breeder: Add forty pounds
of soft soap to ten gallons of boiling water,
and while boiling add one pound of car
bolic acid. This may then be thinned down
with 100 gallons of cold water. The guam
tity is sufficient for dipping seventy-five
sheep.
Both the stallion and the bull will be more
serviceable for breeding purposes if made
to take exercise in the shape of useful work
of some kind. If the bull will not work
in the shafts, or by the side of on OK, put
him on the tread machine to furnish power
for the cutter, or feed mill.
Nothing is better to prevent loss of am
monia from the manure heap than soapsuds.
Keep the heap well saturated, and make
holes In the heap so that the soapsuds can
| pass down to the bottom of the heap
Chemical action is facilitated, but there are
formations of salts that prevent loss.
H. P. Hopkins of New York AYERS that
every time he churns unripe cream he
loses. He says: When cream is trifle
acid it is sufficiently ripened. l prefer a
conclusion churn to the friction churn.
White specks in butter come from coagula-
ton of the milk, which settles to the bottom
of the cans. They should be washed out
properly.
The attacks of the striped cucumber
beetle are repealed by planting beans IN
each hill with the cucumber seed. Gas,
lime or tobacco dust, applied with bellows
at least once week, or better twice, is good
for woolly aphis. For flea beetle mix thor
oughly one teaspoonful Paris green with one
quart of -four; this to be busted on the
plants while wet with dew.
Where skinned milk is plentiful devote
portion of it at least to your poultry. Sup
ply it occasionally in form of curd made by
heating the milk until the whey separates
from the solid part. Milk is very nutritious,
and as its constituents closely resemble the
white of the egg it is especially desirable for
LAYING fowls Ciabbered milk is also eagerly
eaten by fowls and Is good for them.
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