Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-12
FARM NOTES.

liable to be disturbed if placed in
dark corners.
Have your cattle fed al regular
hours; irregularity in feeding
COWS interferes with the secretion
of milk. With fattened stock it
interferes with digestion and in
terrupts the steady and continu'
GUS laying on of flesh.
Some butter makers have not
yet learned that butter should
never be rubbed with the ladle,
but always pressed. Press it to
get the brine out, press it into the
jar or tub. Rubbing destroys the
granules-makes it greasy.
Oats supply better than any
other available food the materials
needed to develop bone and mus
Gle. These are what are needed
in the colt, and if you can get
them, all other things such as
form and flesh, will follow in due
season.
1t may be an open question
whether it will pay all farmers to
feed cooked food to their hogs,
but there is no doubt that cooked
food will make more flesh than
uncoOked, because q larger pro-
portion will be digested and as
simulated.
Apples grown in grass ground
will keep longer than the same
fruit grown on cultivated land.
Late keeping varieties, therefore,
should always be grown in grass
lands. So said Mr.. Hadwen, at a
recent meeting of the Massachu-
sets horticultural society.
1t is necessary to balance the
ration of the soil as well as for the
animals. Feeding the soil with
something it does not require is
equivalent to giving all animal
food which it will not eat. The
best fertilizers are those which
supply the soil with that which it
requires.
A correspondent of the Journal
of Agriculture selected two hogs
of the same size, weight, age and
: thrift. To one he gave an ounce
of salt daily; to the other none.
The one sailed had a much Keen
er appetite than the other, and in
: three months weighed fifty
| pounds the most.
When the horses head is held
up by the Overcheck rein it en-
deavors to find relief by throwing
its head up in order to relieve the
pressure on the mouth, and to re-
lax the muscles of the neck. The
horse is in constant torture until
the rein is lOOsened, and at times
the pain causes loss of appetite.
In experiments made in feeding
cows at the Iowa experiment sta
ton it was demonstrated that q
3 COW will eat seventy.five pounds
of green food daily, if kept in the
, stable, and grain ration added,
and that COWS when fed on corn,
= peas and clover in the stable will
: give more milk than when fed Oh
a good blue grass pasture.
A correspondent has asked us
how to prevent hens from laying
soft.shelled eggs. First, we must
understand why the shells are
sometimes soft. The shells OF
eggs are made of lime, and unless
there is an adequate supply OF
this in the food the hens have
nothing to manufacture them
from. Give them an additional
supply, which may be in the form
of oyster shells, finely powdered
as in broken and crushed bones,
or even in wood ashes. 1t is es
timated that one pound of lime is
needed for the shells of each
seven dozen eggs.
1t has taken lis long time tC
get down to the fact that "break
ing" a colt is a very different
thing from educating and training
it, but we are beginning to realize
\ this at last. This training can moi
begin too young, and the sooner
it begins and the more steadily
S and firmly and kindly it is carried
n on, the more valuable the horse
= is bound to be. The colt SHOULD
be handled from his youth up
should be made so accustomed t(
human beings about him that HI
will not start when approached
Unexpectedly; so accustomed tt
kind treatment that he will come
to any stranger to be stroked OF
petted, when he has reached THU
stage it will not be any trouble tt
put a harness on his back nor {
bit in his mouth.
A good selection of apples fol
small orchard principally fO
home use, and one that is applica
BILE to wide range of territory
would be as follow: Early har
vest or Red astrakakan for sum
mer use, Porter or autumn Pippil