Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-25
HERE AND THERE.

"A frst-class morning meal for fifty
fowls is very quickly and easily pro-
vided by pouring two gallons of boiling
water over one gallon of corn-meal; put
in some salt and stir well. Farmers
Home Journal
If you live on farm, raise potatoes,
sort them for market; if you don't know
what to do with the small ones, try
boiling and MASKING them and feeding
to your chickens while hot Farmers
Home journal.
"A fruit farm requires more energy
and watchfulness than farm for live
stock and grain. But occasionally the
receipts will be immense, and, with
care the average will be well sustained
near first-class market. FARMERS
Home journal.
Owners of valuable horses should
be careful not to keep them shut up in
too warm and close stalls this time of
year, for plenty of good fresh air is one
of the best things to prevent serious
attacks of epizootic and other blood dis
orders that are so prevalent, Rural
| World.
The idea that the earth must be
moved deeper to produce great crops is
not fact of universal application; no
more is it that the exhausted surface
soil can be improved everywhere and
always by burying it for year or two
beneath ten or twelve inches of infertile
soil plowed up from below - Rural
| World.
Luckily for the prosperity of the
whole country the question of roads
has at last been taken up in America
by thoughtful men who are full of en-
thusiasm. 1t has been enthusiasm that
has accomplished every reform of every
kind since the first reform was made,
and enthusiasm will some time bring
good roads. Rural World
Strawberries need manure, water,
culture and mulch. Each is important
in order to grow the crop When grown
they must be picked and shipped by an
honest transportation company to an
honest commission man or firm. All
along the line one has chance to lose.
Eternal vigilance is the word-not
guess work. Farmers Home Journal.
The first glimpse of farmers
homestead gives us an index to the
character of its inmates. No matter
how plain the dwelling, if it be adorned
with flowers, vines and blossoming
shrubs, we know that it is the abode of
taste and true refinement Nor does
this necessitate any great expenditure
either of time or money. Country Gen
tleman.
Better work may be done by the
plowmen of the west, but it must be
under the eye of the farmer who, by
practical experience, knows how it
ought to be done, and has reason why.
1t does not follow that we are lot of
chunk-heads because we do not pillow
deeper always and everywhere, and yet
better blowing would be good every
where Rural World.
Some one says there are three things
that our common schools should be
compelled to do: First, get the young in
love with land and home; make home
so intensely interesting that the chill
dren prefer it to all else; second, teach
them to make agriculture profitable,
and, third, make farm life intellectually
and morally on level with the best
possible life elsewhere. Rural World.
An orchard of trees carefully plant.
ed and cultivated, each tree erect well
pruned and shapely, is handsome
sight, particularly when in blossom and
when loaded with fruit. It speaks for
itself, and it speaks for the owner. An
honest commission man also speaks
for himself, and swindling one speaks
through his fine clothes, rings and
+ jewelry, and swell talk. Farmers
, Home journal.
: Glover hay, early cut and properly
5 cured, contains per cent of albumin
, ODDS or hesh-forming elements, anC
. good, bright straw from wheat, oat,
, or barley contains per cent, Will,
r good timothy hay contains about ~
0 per cent. Therefore, one ton of Glove
: hay and one ton of good straw would
d, have, when mixed, almost exactly tn,
+ feeding value of two tons of the bes
Q timothy hsy.-Rural World.