The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-02

salt are frequently mixed in the feed. No
better way could be taken TO kill off the
birds. They need neither salt nor sulphur.
Why should theya Minute quantities of
salt may be harmless, but it does no good.
Sulphur is sure to raise trouble.
Those who have a good stood of hogs can
make paying business growing sows for
breeding and selling them when nearly
ready TO farrow. This is especially true
for auction sales where credit with interest
note 10 given. There are always farmers
who can see great possibilities in q SOW big
with young. At an auction they will bid
all or nearly all that she and her offspring
will be worth when the latter are old enough
to sell.
The egg machines are: Leghorns, MI
norcas, Houdans. Spanish, Hamburgs,
Andalusians and Polands. The table fowls
are: BrahmAs, Coohins, Wyaudottes, Ply
mouth Rocds, Dominiques, Houdans,
Games and Langshans. Those that lay
dark eggs are: The Wyandottes, Ply
mouth Rocks, Brahmas, Cochins and
Langshans. Those that lay white eggs are:
The Houdans, Spanish, Minorcas, Leg
horns, Games, Polish and Javas.
The Importance OF varied ration for VIM
ter feeding is better understood than 1t
used to be. Clover hay is perhaps as near
perfect feed for horned cattle as any one,
| but they will eat more if with Glow 81 they
| have something else to give variety. Grain
straw as compared with clover is much less
nulritlve, yet after eating clover and grain
STOCK Will turn and eat q few mouthfuls of
straw as a change. 1t is worth while to con-
suit the taste of fattening animals especially,
| as by so doing they can be induced to eat
\ more and fatten faster.
Sorghum roots rub deeply. and their
stubs, if left until spring. become much
harder and tougher than those of corn
stalks, making it impossible to put them
under in good shape for spring grain. For
! this reason the stubble OF sorghum should
always be fall plowed. Under the ground
the stubs keep moist and begin to rot with
! the first warm weather of spring. They
also hold the furrow up, allowing it to
freeze through repeatedly, thus adding to
the usual advantages Of fall blowing in
making q mellow seed bed.
Winter rye can be grown on many soils
too poor to grow wheat, but it pays for
care as we'll as any other crop. Il is most
profitable where there is demand for rye
straw, this often selling in city market for
| Wv P1N VI 80 q LOu- Nl6 uO6S uOb OK
| hausJ soils SO rapidly as wheat, though if
| grown on sandy land it will run them out
IN few years. unless aIternated with fire.
| quent clover seeding and manure. Rye is
not injured by Hessian fly, and may be
soWh early and pastured OFT in fall to pre-
vent too large growth OF straw.
There is more sweetness in the stalks of
sweet corn than in those OF common field
variety. The sweet and starch Of the
| grain comes to it through the stalk, aud
not all of 1t gets out. Growing sweet corn
| SO that it furnishes some nubbin ears
makes rich corn fodder. but it is difficult TO
cure such corn so TINT it will keep IN stack
or NOW. Ii left Ia the field the stalks either
! mldeW in their richest part near the ear,
| or else dry too much, losing much Of their
natural sweetness, and being little better
than stalks OF other varieties Of corn.
Que of the best fuchsias, vigorous in
growth and free-blooming, is the Earl of
Beaconsfeld, but it is not suitable to grow
as a standard unless you make up your
| mind to watch it and keep it constantly
cut back; if you do not it will send out
! long, spraying shoots, admirable for train
ing on q wall. but most unsightly for a
| bush fuchsia. Gen. Roberts is another good
| kind. with somewhat similar tendencies.
should recommend President, Lord Wolse-
ley, BerlIner Find, Frau Emma TOPPER,
Phenomenal and display. Phenomenal is,
| however, a late bloomer though when it
does come into flower the effect is superb.
Because much of the food given hogs is
in liquid form it is common idea that ad-
ditional water is unnecessary. This is a
great mistake. Milk is not drink, but food,
as any one may see by curdling it. IN the
stomach the first process of digestion is to
convert milk into a solid by curdling it. If
dishwater is added to milk it contains good
deal of salt, too much TO make 1t serve the
purpose of q drink. This is especially true
of growing pigs and breeding sows This
is especially true of growing pigs and breed
| ing soNs. Lack OF pure water makes the
SOW feverish aud restless, 1t Is often the
| cause of the mania that leads the SOW to
! devour her own offspring.
| LITERATURE OF AGRICUL TURE.