The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-04
BRIEF CHIPS
Taken Here and There.

taken Here ana Tnere.
The golden wax is a good eating bean, not
only for string bean in its season, but
when dried in the fall. To one who has
used only the small white bean for time
the change 20 fresh wax beans seems the
next best thing Co Limas. They cook dark
colored, but this is a comparatively slight
objection considering their excellence.
Straw should be literally spread early IN
the winter over the entire barn yard. 1t
will hold the liquid excrement and washings
from the solid portions that would other
wise be wasted. Toward spring, all this
straw then mixed with manure ought to be
piled in large heaps to rot and reduce its
bulk while increasing its available value for
immediate use.
The sweetness OF sorghum is Its greatest
recommendation as feed for COWS. To off
set this it's stalks are hard and not easily
eaten unless crushed. The bagasse or refuse
from sorghum after crushing is readily
eaten by cows. 1t contains much sweetness
that cannot be squeezed out of it, but it is
difficult to keep 1t from souring long enough
to feed large quantity.
The culture of tobacco appears to be
spreading over the whole earth. In 1868 the
land devoted to the culture of tobacco in
New South Wales, Australia, was S96 acres.
while the last crop covered an area of 8, 239
acres, yielding 81 ,724, 900 pounds Of leaf.
In Borneo upwards of 500, 900 pounds of
fine tobacco were grown last year. The
average amount of tobacco grown in the
whole Of Australia for the last five years
has been 20, 1850 pounds. The single
(Iarunan nf Ham h1rcr i'm DOPfa1 1DT O00
bales of Brazilian tobacco last year. also
g, 400 bales of roll tobacco from Brazil.
The little English sparrow is a nuisance
generally, but is especially SO to the grape
grower. If only few are grown for home
use colony of sparrows will begin on them
as soon as they commence to turn, and
scarcely leave any for the owner. The
scarcity Of other fruit this year makes their
depredstions all the worse on grapes. The
work of DISCRIMINATING the sparrows can
hardly begin too quickly.
1t is known to most farmers that the oat
crop is very exhaustive, and this is often at
tributed to its roots taking wider range
than barley or other small grain. Analysis
of the oat shows that there is still another
reason. 1t takes more of nitrogen and
grain excepting wheat. Hence oats should
not precede wheat unless the land is liber-
ally fertilized to make good what is taken
from it.
Hot weather often Injuries turnips sown
too early. 1t makes the tubers pithy and
they will not keep long. The turnip plant
is a hardy one and often grows all the better
after frost severe enough to check the
growth Of many weeds. The plant is not a
gross feeder in that 1t is not benefited by
fresh manure, but it loves the developed
plant food that is found in well>tilled soils
late in the season.
The broad leaves of potatoes help to hold
plaster and thus draw moisture, and with it
doubtless all the available ammonia that it
can absorb from the atmosphere. We have
often seen paris green applied to the potato
plants with plaster to kill larva OF the po-
tato beetle, when it was plain that the in
creased growth of the vines from the plaster
alone paid the expense of applying it and
that of the poison also. When the rains
wash off one application, dust them again,
two, three or four times in the growing sea-
son. This will attract more moisture and
keep the tops green longer than will one APP
plicstton.
In many rich gardens tomatoes ripen and
lie on the ground until they rot and their
seeds fall out Often the plants of these
self-sown seed grow 80 thrifty that they
are taken up while small, and never having
been forced grow rignt along, yielding large
crops but little later than those started in
green houses. Tomatoes do not often start
to growing before danger Of frost is past.
The seed terminates slowly in spring, as it
requires hot and dry weather to make much
headway Tomatoes thus grown wholly in
the open air cost less. and generally gives a
fair profit on the labor needed TO cultivate
and market them.
A Lucky Escape.
Fortunate is the man or woman residing in a
malaria-ridden locality who escapes the dreaded
scourge. Not one in a thousand does. When