The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-30
Gleanings from Here and There.
SELECTING SEED CORN.


but little larger where it joins on the
stalk, should be the ones chosen for seed.
The greater ease of husking such corn is
not its only advantage. 1t will generally
ripen earlier, and this earlier ripening
makes crop many seasons when other
wise there would be soft corn fit only for
| immediate feeding. Corn that is ripened
under favorable conditions viii be filled
out to the tips, and these large round
grains have been proved by experiment
| to produce stronger plants than those
compressed and flattened in the middle of
| the cob. The present year, owing to the
drought, much corn has filled poorly.
| There will be many ears where the grain
| is scattering, as drought destroyed the
| pollen from the pistils before the silk was
ready to receive it. Such ears often have
scattering grains that, having plenty of
room, grow very large. 1t is worth while
| experimenting with such corn, as, if the
seed is well dried, it will undoubtedly
produce extra strong and vigorous plants.
MANUREs ARE NOT STIMULATES.
1t is a common mistake of agricultural
writers to speak of concentrated manures
as stimulating" plant growth. Plants
have no nerves, therefore they can not
be stimulated. All there is of advantage
in the concentrated fertilizer is that it is
soluble, and the plant food that it CON
tains is easily and quickly got at. The
plant grows rapidly because it is fed well
There is no reaction, as there often is,
from nerve stimulation; but if the supply
of food is small the plant stops growing
when that supply of food is exhausted.
The common remark that stable manure
feeds crops while concentrated CONNER
cial fertilizers only stimulate them is an
error. 1t is the constant aim of the good
farmer to get his stores of stable manure
in easily-soluble condition, so that the
roots of crops can feed on them as readily
as they do on the concentrated fertilizer.
That is the object of composing manure
1t has hastened greatly by adding to the
manure heap the mineral elements in
which it is deficient. In some cases.
coarse, strawy' manure needs more nitro
gen, and the addition of some citrate in
com bination with mineral fertilizer is
just what is needed.
THE CHRYsANTHFMUM CRAZE.
Although but a century since its intro
duction from China, this flower with the
Japanese mad been a efa76rfte flower for
800 years at least. 1t is fully styled Au-
tumn's Queen, as its period of towering
comes just after out-Of-doOf flowers end
and before the winter flowers in the
greenhouses have begun fairly to come in
In various parts of the east some of the
early Towering varieties particularly the
yellow, have long been faVerite fail hoW-
ering plants out of doors.
In the south, also, it is grand fall
Towering plant; on the prairies it rarely
flowers to be worth anything, except
housed in one form or another. Its grand
period of Towering in the DorSh will usu-
ally be from Nov. to 10,
during which time the chrysanthe-
mum shows are held The very large
flowers exhibited are the result of thin
ming out all Towers but one to "a stem, and
high feeding of the plant when growing.
1t is good plan, even tor the amatuer, to
thin out the flower buds as they appear
to about three to each shoot. This in
sures good sized flowers, which are better
for the windows or copserFatories. -Ex.
ARTICHoKRs FOR HOGS.
How many Of our farmers have tried
feeding artlchokeS to hOg5s / have grown
and fed them three years and consider
them the cheapest and best roots we can
grow. l cultivate the White Jerusalem
variety. They grow very large tubers
and need no. be stored away for winter
but just remain in the ground as they
grew, and used as needed, as no amount
Of freezing IN the ground williniure them
In taste and color they resem BILE the heart
OF cabbage. Five or six bushels will plant
an acre, and one acre in good soil will
yield from eight hundred to one thousand
bushels, and this will fatten from forty to
fifty hogs with only little corn TO finish
This may be planted either in spring or
fall. About Nov. i before the ground
freezes, is very good time to plant, as
they start TO grow very early in the
spring. The tubers are cut in small
pieces, planted and cultivated like pota-
toes. In the fall, when the stalk begins
to dry, you can turn your hogs in to
gather the crop. ] keep one lot over
winter to turn my hogs in for spring
market, The lot fed out in the fall has
enough tubers left in the ground for the
next summers crop without any more
planting or cultivating. They are also
excellent food for COWS, increasing the
flow of milk in winter ELI HEAToN.
Howard county, Ind.