The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-17
soraps from Here and There.


Scraps from Here and There.
An exchange says that a sheep is like a
government bond IL carries It's coupon
on It's back and can be clipped annually
The mutton sheep has two coupons and
can be clipped twice anuuallV-One cOu-
pom in the shape of lambs, turned of in
the fall. and the other in the wool taken
OF in the spring.
Work horses need a liberal allowance
and variety of grain food during the
season of heavy farm work If mares
which have young colts must be worked,
shut the colts in u secure cool place in
stead of allowing them to follow. Both
mare and colt will soon become accustom-
ed to being apart for half day at a time,
and it viii be better for them than if
allowed TO follow about in the field
A Nebraska farmer tells an exchange
that a remedy for scours that has never
failed for colts is raw eggs. The best
way is to break the eggs in a cup, hold
the animals head up, open the mouth and
drop in, keeping the head up until swal-
lowed. Don't be afraid of giving too
many, anywhere from fonr to six at a
time, and then in a short time repeat the
! dose; have known as high as two dozen to
| be given in day. Milk, in which NUT
ton caul fat has been boiled, is also an eX-
cellent remedy for scours.
Inc DeSb way 10 Tlu Il farm OF IuOltS,
says Texas Live Stock Journal, is to soak
some corn in a solution of strychnine and
place a few grains in their runs early in
the spring when first commencing to
pillow up the ground. To be successful in
killing mOles, always place your bait in
the side track, or where they branch off
from the main line. These are the places
of deposit. They never eat anything in
their main run, but always carry their
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place in these runs and drop your bait in
and lay a clod of dirt over the opening,
so he will suspect nothing when he enters
to take his meal When he dimes he gets
thirsty, and Immediately goes for water
to never return again Try this and you
will have no more trouble with moles.
In the isle of Jersey the cost of growing
an acre of potatoes would brighten most
American farmers First. the rent of
the land is from $40 (the lowest) to $50
per acre; then comes from fifteen to
twenty-five tons of barnyard manure,
and from SIS to S25 worth of commercial
fertilizer per acre, together with the cost
of seed, blowing, planting, cultivating,
harvesting and delivering to market.
Men receive from so TO 90 cents per day;
women, 30 to 3715 cents, and boys, % to
80 cents. The cost to grow, pota-
toes cannot be far from $50 per acre.
The cultivating is done almost entirely
by hand. When the plants are about
four or five inches high, they hitch a man
to a small wooden pillow, with another man
to hold it. and plow furrOw against the
plants. The digging is mostly done with
a fork. The potatoes are sorted into first
and second quality, and neatly packed
into shipping baskets that hold about
peck each. Daley steamers land them
within twelve hours in London.
The feeding of straw to horses during
the winter IS a very common practice, and
while Oat straw in good condition can be
| safely used as a substitute for hay in
| times of scarcity, the use of wheat straw
| is to be avoided. Straw of any kind con-
| tains a large percentage of indigestible
matter, and in wheat straw this percent
| age is so large that it frequently causes
attacks of collie and obstinate constipa-
! ton. Horses fed on straw should also
| get good supply of bran mashes or boiled
feed to counterfeit the constipating ten
dency of the straw. Musty feed Of any
| kind is an abomination and q frequent
cause of disease.
Among the many new strawberries
! which have come out within the past few
| years, none have fulfilled their promise
of usefulness better than the Parker
Earle. 1t has the two good qualities of
| being very late and very productive,
and extreme lateness is quite as valuable
| as extreme earlinesS. Neither the Ores
cent nor the Haverland can compare with
| it in productiveness. 1t continues long in
bearing, giving good picking for four
weeks. This opinion is not the result of a
single seasons test, but of several seasons
! of close experimentation. We should ad-
wise all who are making new paintings
this fall to give it place.
Time is money-in stock growing as
well as in other things. 1t takes a good
deal of time to improve herd by using
low grade animals. But by using full
blood sires and adding careful selection
to this 1t can be done so rapidly that you
will not get tired waiting for the results
to show. The money invested in good
breeding animals will earn vastly better
interest than if tied up in per cent loans.
Yet we know farmers who think it wiser
to put little money away for rainy
day than improve their stock This is
shortsighted policy.
A correspondent in an exchange SAYS:
The United States is not the only coun-
try that has more horses than it knows
what to do with. Australia is in a much
worse condition. They are not troubled
there. neither are we here with an over
production of good horses, but of the
poorer class, which nobody wants be
cause they can neither trot nor put on
draw heavy loads. The Australians
have hit on a novel plan of getting rid of
them. The ranchmen in the northern
part of Queensland have decided to kill
them and boil them down to save pasture.
They sell the product in England in the
shape of hide, hair bone, glue oil and cats
meat. They are satisfied ii they realize
$50 per head.
Horticultural Mofas