Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-01-21
HERE AND THERE.

The best way 20 prevent sheep
from getting cockleburs in their wool
is to kill the weeds bsfore they produce
burs.
Cotton is the negro's best friend,
because it keeps him out of mischief
and prevents him from acquiring cx-
pensive vices.
Sheep require the constant care of
some one familiar with their needs and
habits if they are to be kept in large
numbers Kansas Farmer.
Cultivate less land do it better,
read more, and have well-fed thorough
bred hogs to do your grunting. This is
my recipe for better profits and much
happiness. Texas Farm and Ranch.
According to the scientific feeding
tables feed for horses composed of
equal parts by weight of corn chop and
wheat bran is better than oats, and
cheaper.
The south is suffering from Sc.
we're cotton blockade, in which it is
said that this staple to the value of
sixty million dollars is accumulated at
few points and interior towns. Kan.
sas Farmer.
Besides giving more satisfaction and
better results, a machine or implement
that is properly cared for and protected
from the weather will last twice as
long as when left where last used to
take its chances until needed again. -
Texas Farm and Ranch.
"A great saving is made by giving
machinery and implements proper care
and attention; yet II ride over the
country will convince anyone that
economy in this direction is one of the
lost arts.-Texas Farm and Ranch
The feed of foals seldom receive
care and the frequent inspection that
are so necessary to their future perfec.
ton of form and soundness From the
want of this horses feet often become
imperfectly formed, defective and UNI.
healthy.-Kansas Farmer.
The consumption of sugar in the
United States in 1901 is estimated at
1,522, 73l tons, an increase of about 24l%
per cent. over 1890 This is due TO a
large extent to the reduction in the
price consequent on the abolition of
the tariff on sugar Kansas Farmer
Any farmer who will give his bust.
ness as much study for as many days in
the week as the merchant gives TO Ss
business, and will be as methodical, in
dustrious and enterprising, will never
have to make an assignment for the
benefit OF his creditors, Texas Farm
and Ranch.
We shall never see a rapid and
universal improvement of horses in this
country until there is more complete
conservation and more general utiliz.
ing of the best mares that either by de.
sign or accident come into being. Stal.
lions alone will never give us great
race, or great races of horses. kansas
Farmer.
No farm is complete without a
flock of sheep-a small flock if neces
sary, but large enough to exactly fill
the place that would be vacant without
them. If well cared for, such n flock
will be found at least as profitable as
any stock on the farm-probably the
most profitable. Texas Farm and
Ranch.
The difference between the chem
ical test and churn test of milk is this
The first gives approximately the
amount of butter fats in the milk; the
second gives accurately the amount Of
butter that can be got out of the milk
That the chemical test is defective i,
shown by the fact that the product o.
the churn often exceeds the amount
determined by the chemical test. -Texa!
Farm and Ranch.
When farmer has good smoke
house with plenty of bacon and things
in it, lock on the door and the key il
his wife's pocket, and has enought o
corn, oats, potatoes, turnips and col
lards, and has his taxes paid, he is real
" more independent than one who ha,
a thousand dollars cash in hand which
he has borrowed from loan associa
ton at ten per cent and trimmings, Sc
cured by chattel mortgage. -Texa
Farm and Ranch.
Waste makes want"-a great trytl
in three words. On a well-regulate,
farm there should be neither waste no
want. Many large manufacturing con
Germs find all their net profit in u,ilizin,
The waste material. In packing houses
for instance, the blood, hair, horns an,
hoofs, and even the intestines and thei
contents are utilized by being convert
ed into marketable products. On mos
farms the waste equals the difference
between profit and loss. 1t has beel
well said that what hogs, sheep an
poultry will not consume may be satel,
allowed to 40 to waste Texas Farr
aud Ranch,