The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-09

Milk pals and other vessels for keeping
milk and cream should be thoroughly
cleansed-first well washed and scalded with
boiling water, and then aired to keep them
perfectly sweet.
White Leghorn eggs are now the fashion
in New York. Egss are sold in that city at
SO many for 25 cents, and not by the dozen,
as elsewhere. At present White Leghorn
and other choice eggs are sold at the rate of
seven. eight, nine or ten for IS cents, &C
cording to the fashionableness of the selling
store.
At the Louisiana Experiment station
good many varieties of potatoes were tested
the past year. Among the most productive
sorts are named the Boston Peerless, the
Vermont Early Rose and the Beauty of
Hebron. Early Puritan also proved good
yielder. All of these produce about 400
bushels per acre.
Should the supply of eggs begin to fall off,
it means that your hens are too fat, or they
desire change of food. Substituting one
kind of food for another will often show a
wonderful effect, because the food given
may be lacking III some constituent element
essential to the production of eggs. Change
the food frequently. There is nothing so
good as variety.
Orchardists, as rule consider spring the
time to prune fruit trees, and so it is a good
time; but we prune late in the autumn or
early winter. We do so pecaues we want to
be forehanded with our spring work, and
thus clear the deck Of everything that will
stand in the way. After growth ceases it is
safe to prune. All young trees should be
gone over annually to cut off suckers from
the trunk and main branches, and such
branches as cross or interfere with others,
and such as are likely to make the tree too
dense. An open head is needed and a sym
metrical one, also. Use a small, thin-bladed
saw for all limbs over one-haif inch thick,
and pruning knife for smaller ones. Leave
a smooth, clean cut. Forked trees should be
avoided; cut one branch away.
1t is not easy to raise young turkeys up
to the time when their heads begin to get
red. At this period, for some reason, the
young birds are exceedingly tender, and ex-
posture to a sudden shower or to continued
damp weather will kill them easily. They
are also most susceptible at this age to the
carries off a large number. To save the
young birds, it is advisable to keep them
cooped up until the grass is free from dew
in the mornings, and to keep the coops on
clean, fresh ground by moving them fire.
quently. If they cape and shuttle, give
few drops of turpentine in their food, which
should be cracked corn, rye and shreds of
fresh meat. Turkeys consume many insects
and require some animal food when in con-
inement.
Prof. Bailey maintains that the loss of the
fruit crop the past season was not due to the
cause generally ascribed to it, viz. cold or
wet weather when the blossoms were out :;
but to blight fungus. such as causes the
leaves to fall in early summer. He may be
right in this, for surely the failure to set
fruit would not have been so general
throughout the country on every kind of
fruit, early and late poisoning kinds, had
frost or rain anything to do with it.
Whatever the cause, is is a very serious
matter, should have the earnest considera-
ton of every orchardlst in the land. If the
leaf blight fungus, which is so prevalent in
the summer, is to get in its evil work also in
poisoning times. we may expect furthur
promptly and effectually.
There is probably no better way to re-
store the fertility of WORKOUT rose beds
than by the application of at least two
inches Of well-rotted stable manure and
working this thoroughly into the soil to the
depth of one foot. In the absence OF suita-
BILE stable manure bone dust may be applied
at the rate of ten pounds to every 100 square
feet of surface. This also should be well
Incorporated with the soil to the deDth mem
toned. would also use nitrate of soda, if
TO be used conveniently, in light but re-
peated dressing, say at the rate of one
pound to 200 suuare feet, or in solution at
the same rate. This substance may be
bought of all fertilizer firms near the sea
cost, and costs about 50 so per 100 pounds
in small quantities. In the absence of nj
trate of soda Chill saltpeter) nitrate of
potash common saltpeter) applied In some
what smaller doses, will probably give good
results.