Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-01-19
HERE AND THERE.

Farmers who want to meet prosper
ity should grade up their draft horses
and breed intelligently for size and
action, and lose no time experimenting
with breeding speed or coach horses
from draft or common mares
"A good method of keeping potatoes
until spring is the storage in pits, This
may not be quite so handy nor so safe
as the cellar storage, but the tuber
comes out in the spring much fresher
and of better tast than when cellar kept.
The pits may be made in the field where
the crop is dug.
Our experiment stations are doing
a great work for the farmer, and their
reports do not get as much study by
the majority of us as they deserve.
They contain careful records of expert.
ments conducted by trained men, and
their value to Dur great agricultural
country as whole is nearly inestima.
BILE.
1t was the general practice not very
long ago, and widely accepted as the
correct method, to breed any mare that
was not good for any other use. If she
was unsound or tricky she would still
do to raise colt, and to this practice
is largely due the great number of poor
horses that our farms are now burdened
with.
The amount of fertilzing material
in the soil and the cultivation given de-
termine the amount and value of the
crop A wise farmer, who desires to
make his work pay, should not make it
his first effort to plow and plant a
great area of land, but rather to see
how rich he can make limited amount,
and then to apply the most thorough
cultivation to it.
Whatever breed of sheep you intend
to carry, if it is TO be thoroughbred,
stick to the same blood all along, but
changing to fresh ram or two of the
same breed from another flock each
year. In breeding consider the size,
bone, constitution and quality. IN most
cases the qualities of the sire will pre-
dominate in the offspring.
"A Tennessee inventor has patented
a guage for determining the age OF
horses. The device consists of steel
plate having tapered body portion,
one of its longitudinal edges being
marked by lines and figures. BY APP
plying the scale TO the teeth of the
horse its approximate age is said to be
determined.
"A farmer who studies his business
and who knows how to make the best
of the material produced on the farm
by reducing the same to an available
consistency, says that he does not feed
any hay from the last of September un'
til the first of April. His corn-fodder is
kept clean and dry, and fed to horses
cattle and sheep.
The majority Of the sheep raisers
in this country are the farmers who
keep from twenty-five to fifty or ever
J 100 head as a help on the farm. East
of the Mississippi tn, number of foclS'
reaching 1000 or more is not large
The sheep is one of the small farmer:
best servants. 1t not only produces
wool and mutton, but it keeps hi
fields fertile with manure, and M
farmer should be without at least {
small flock.
To get wholly satisfactory result.
from the winter dairy one must feet
literally, water often and house tn,
cattle in warm but well-ventilated sta
bles. Remember that the winter night
are long, and that if you permit the
cows to go until late in the morning
without feeding they will become hun
CRY and restless, and this will result il
q shrinlsage Of the milk.