The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-12

pred bull, buck or boar will increase the
value OF each animal produced from 81 to
SlO-sometimes vastly more than this
This increase of value will often mark the
difference between profit and loss With
Jhe present low prices st which pure bred
slres may be obtained, the farmer who
does not use them is foolishly blind 10 his
own interest
Wood ashes make a good fertilizer for
potatoes. They can be applied broadcast
over the surface when there is full sup
ply or they can be applied in the Hill with
benefit. When this plan is followed il is
well to prepare the soil to a proper filth
for the seed-work out the rows, running
the burrows reasonably deep, and then
drop the ashes where they are wanted
by using garden trowel they can be
stirred into the soil and the seed dropped
upon them and covered. This plan places
the fertilizer directly where it is needed
and where it can be used by the growing
plants.
There are a few things which every
dairyman must learn before he can make
his business very profitable, but which
some of them never do learn. One of
these is that the bodily comfort of the
cows must be considered and fninistered to
IN order to get the best yield of milk. The
comfort and ease of the COW must be stud
led, and facilities given for perfect rest
when it is needed. Another point is that
1t is not the number of cows in the herd,
but the individual excellence of each
which makes the herd valuable Often
the more animals there are the less profit.
reduction of mum bers, careful weed
ing out of the poorer animals, is often the
surest road to better results.
AS q rule we should try to follow nat
ure as far as we can consistently with
changed conditions of our domesticated
animals. All animals that eat grass feed
with the mouth near the ground and the
organs are adapted to swallowing with
the head in that position, also the same
position in drinking, but how is it in our
stables2 Is there any one stable that
makes any professions to this order of
nature unless trough gets broken down2
What is the remedy Put the trough
down in the bottom of the Manager and
let board or two run up, making the
width of the trough. This will keep the
hay from getting in the trough and will
also keep the horse from wasting the
grain; he will keep his head over the
trough.
The hull of the oat gives this grain
more bulk in proportion to its weight than
any other, and this is one reason why this
is the best feed for horses. Another quite
as important reason is that the kind of
nutriment it contains gives strength
rather than flesh, but whole oats are not
perfectly digested, and to give the most
feeding value they should be ground with
equal bulk of corn and fed with cut,
moistened hay. This is the standby for
working horses among good feeders. This
combination is quickly eaten and easily,
and thoroughly digested, and teams can
be kept at hard work upon it for weeks
and then be in better condition than when
they began.
Feed regularly, have certainu and set
times and let nothing keep you from feed
ing at those times. Regularity and
punctuality are the keys to success in
business, and this is also true of the
farmer and pig feeder. Feed literally,
but this does moi mean to feed waste
fully. There are millions of dollars lost
annually in the United States by waste
full feeding. When fattening pigs, make
them eat all they will You cannot make
them eat more by keeping corn laying
before them all the time, and they will
not do as well as when fed only what
they will eat up clean. What is usually
wasted, if saved, would make hand
some profit.
The good points of COW are not her
good looks. She may not be, and prob
ably is not, very good looking, except to
the eye of an experienced dairyman. She
certainly is not fat while giving milk, and
to be a really good COW she should never
be long enough between the times of milk
to fatten. She will most likely have
large paunch, which gives her something
of an ungainly look after it is well filed
and we never knew a COW giving large
messes of milk which was not a hearty
feeder. Hence her digestion must be
good. She should have a broad chest,
which would indicate large lungs There
is never good digestion without good lung
power. She should be deep from the back
down to the belly, but with a thin and
rather fat neck. The skin of most good
cows is Of velvety texture and looks as
if it had been groomed for several gen
erations.
In laying by corn the nearer to q level
the groundi is left the better. But to do
this the plan must pervade the crop from
the beginning, In the process of cultiva-
ton a little earth will be thrown into the
drill; this can't be helped, and it is often
necessary to the destruction of small grass
in the drill. narrowing, or smoothing
down with harrOw-toothed cultivator,
will not entirely remove the ridge If, as
is in many places the custom, the corn is
planted upon bed and covered with a
double furrow, a considerable ridge will
be piled up around the stalks before the
season ends, and a correspondingly deep
valley in the middle will drain the water
out and cause the ridge to dry rapidly
Here is where the advantage of listers
comes in, and corn thus planted and cul-
tivated on a level will not only stand up
better Contrary to a very common opin-
ion), but will remain green longer, stand
drought better and make more of both
corn and fodder Rain will not injure the
corn after laying by, and the whole plan
should be based on the probability of
drought. The difficulty of level cultiva-
tion on lands without sufficient drainage
can generally be overcome by careful in
spection and planning the rows judi
ciously. A smooth surface will suffer less
from too much water than one corrugated
with ridges and water burrows
Black Pepsin.
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