Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07

HERE AND THERE.

Feed the brood sows literally.
They require more than twice as much
as the other hogs when the pigs are
three weeks old, and if they do not
have it both the SOW and pigs will suf-
fer
AS a rule the more valuable the
crop produced the greater is the drain
upon the soil. In growing special crops
make your plans to expend a portion OF
the profit in restoring the denuded fer
tility.
Agriculture and chemistry are so
closely allied that every man who at
tempts to practice the first should make
some study of the second. That is what
our boys at the agricultural colleges are
doing.
Growing and selling hay is an easy
and pleasant system Of farming, but it
will deplete the soil about as fast as
grain growing If you attempt it, top
dress the meadows heavily every year
with purchased manure.
What are you going to do about it,
my friend, if you have at the harvest
ing time, in the fall, nothing but a few
bags of cotton, and that to be taken in
at five cents the pound to pay the mort
gage given in the spring?
What the southern farmer needs
this year, above all earthly things, is
the good crop of grain. With an album
dance of oats, wheat and corn, the cot
ton question is secondary. A big crop
of cotton and no corn will be the next
thing to absolute ruin, as far as our
agricultural interests are concerned
Southern Farm.
Start silo, if you have none. An
eminent authority-a teacher and prac-
ticer of agriculture in one of our big
gest agricultural colleges-says it will
pay any farmer who has five head of
live stock-horses or cattle to feed
through the winter if he will construct
a silo, and fill it in the proper time with
ensilage.
There should be no rule about the
number of times that given crop
should be worked, either upon the
farm or in the garden. The need varies
with the season. Keep careful watch
and let the eye be the guide. When
the weeds show, when the soil is not
mellow enough, or when the crop
seems not to be coming forward as rap
idly as it should, then is the time toput
the cultivator in.
Tits almost impossible for the dairy.
man to have more sweet corn than he
can use to advantage, and not quite
easy to grow any other crop that will
pay him better. 1t may be used for
pasture in the fall, when the grass is
failing; for green soiling through the
summer and autumn; cut for dry fod-
der and use in place of hay, or put into
the silo. For any of these uses it gives
large product per acre, has a large
feeding value, and is economical.
With several million bales of sur
plus cotton still on hand-the exact
number an unsolved problem, the esti-
mates running from three to five and a
half million-the men who are nearest
to the secret doubtless playing mum
as to the real approximate amount
with the big surplus-nobody will want
the new crop, nobody except the specu'
lators and gamblers. Five cents the
pound will be the starting figure if the
September census shows the big cror
forthcoming for the year.-Southern
Farm.
Commercial fertilizers may be used
with more profit in the garden thar
upon the farm, because the crops pro
duced are of greater value, and, beside
that, the action of the fertilizer will
sometimes stimulate a quick growth
that enables the gardener to harvest his
product some days earlier than he coult
otherwise, and this extra earliness be
comes a source of added profit Will
weat or corn there is NO such considera
ton, and the expense must be repaid
solely from the increased amount of thu
crop.
If you wish to have hornless cattl'
without dehorning them, begin will
the calf. Rub the horn and around i
as it begins to bud out with moistene'
stick of caustic potash. This will et
fectually destroy the growth, and tn
operation appears to be nearly painless
There is no doubt that hornless cattl
are quieter and more easily handles
than others, and the majority of cattl
feeders would at once adopt the practic
of dehorning if they were satisfied tina
it did not torture the animal, but Their
can be no cruelty in doing it as we hav
suggested in the foregoing. Southern
Farm