Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-03-02
HERE AND THERE.

1t Is estimated that forty-five mill
lions eggs are consumed every day. in
the United States. Somebody's hens
must be1laying.
"A cure for frosted or frozen combs
and wattles, is equal parts turpentine
and sweet oil, applied twice daily, soon
as discovered. Glycerine is also good,
Farmers will find IL paying in.
vestment to buy vigorous coclserel of
some of the thoroughbreds, to cross
upon their common focks. 1t will i'll.
crease both the looks and profits OF
your flock
John Boyd, OF Illinois, feeds his
cows 40 pounds of ensilage, pounds Of
oil meal, pounds of bran and pounds
of hay per day at a cost of 1915 cents,
and they average pound of butter
each. When not in full flow Of milk
they are cut short on oil meal.
Land well manfred and thrown up
with the plow into ridges about four
feet wide now will be ready to SOW
early beets, radishes OF turnips, or to
set lettuce on hitch earliet il the
spring than if it lay fat all winter.
Lime in some form should always
be kept before your fowls. Prepare a
V-shaped trough with three divisions
and keep it filled with pounded shell,
bone and charcoal. Keep the trough
under shelter where young fowls can
help themselves.
Eggs will keep in a dry, cool place
for months if packed in common salt.
Have a layer of salt between each lay
err of eggs. When the box is filled tack
on the cover, and turn the box bottom
side up once week.
"A very successful New Jersey dairy
man makes up his feeding rations OF
the following ingredients and proper
ton: LOO pounds, Of malt sprouts,
1000 pounds bran, 900 pounds corn
meal, 800 pounds cotton-seed meal. He
feeds to large sized COW quarts per
day in two feeds.
IF our southern planters could only
make up their minds to eat less pork
and to make what they do consume,
and to make it out of grains grown at
home, it would be better for us all.
Let us hope that the lessons of the
pork market of to-day will be fraught
with the best of wisdom to all our peo-
pie. Southern Farm.
Farmers are too careless in regard
to keeping an account of their busi-
ness. consequently they often raise
crops which are not profitable to raise
and sell off the farm, yet the farmer
can, by knowing the feeding value OF
the manure produced from it, make q
calculation of what crops can be sold
off at profit, or to sell one crop and
buy another.
Rye is an excellent food for dairy
cows, and in some respects is worth
more than wheat bran having less in
digestible fiber and mineral matter,
and more carbonaceous matter. It's
estimated value is 81 100 pounds, and
thus it should be cheap at SIG ton.
1t would be improved by mixture OF
oil meals of either linseed or cotton
seed.
One of the strangest conditions ever
known in the hog market is seen in the
fact that southern hogs are now being
shipped north for slaughter. The pack
ers of Cincinnati have bought every hog
that could be easily found on the mar
kets in Tennessee. This looks indeed
like carrying Goals to Newcastle" but
it is sign of better times to the people
of Tennessee. Southern Farm.
He who carefully lays out his farm
in proper fields, making map Of the
same, devoting each field to success
sion of crops, with suitable manuring'
basing the rotation upon the adoption
of one crop to fit particular soils, and
pursuing all his operations with plan
for doing everything just at the right
time and with determination to make
experience and the lights of science as
available as possible in his calling, will
undoubtedly reap the most abundant
reward for bis labor.