The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-24

are kept in a convenient place and poured
INTO wet boots after being taken off they
Will absorb the moisture from the boots
and in so doing cause the boots 10 &etain
their form and prevent shrinking. so that
they may be easily put on the following
day. The oats, on being emptied out
should be dried, and will serve the purpose
for a long time
If you want TO keep horses. cattle and
sheep healthy give them salt regularly.
There is no better vermifuge than salt
Much of the So-called hog cholera is due
10 intestinal worms. Plenty of salt pre-
vents the accumulation Of these worms
All animals desire salt showing that il
Is a need of their nature, and undoubt-
edly for wise purposes.
Narnish for cloth sash for cold frames
on pits is made in the following manner:
one quart of linseed oil one ounce of
pulveriZed sugar of lead. four ounces of
pulverized rosin. These ingredients dis
solved and thoroughly mixed in an iron
vessel. While it is hot apply one coat to
the upper surface of the cloth, which
viii render the cloth air tight. and early
transparent, and is better for some plants
a second application can be given, but
one is usually sufficient
Merits of Pie Plant-The American Bee
Journal says: A most excellent Negeta-
BILE that should be grown in every garden
since II can be had so easlY-is rhubarb.
or 'pie-plant.' I do not recall another
vegetable that is so useful, and so pleas
ant in a hundred instances. Nothing can
be more healthy or enjoyable than pie
plant stewed with honey. The children
love it literally spread on their big slices
of bread incidentally, You save your
butter. II not only tastes good and nour-
ishes well. but il is excellent TO keep the
stomach and bowels in natural COndi-
ton. Jelly made of ii rivals that made
from currents or crab. BY all means.
can lots of it for winters supply. Set out
big roots this fall for next years use.
poor mans orchard. 1T possesses all the
good qualities of the fruits, besides some
special merits OF its own.
Hens VS.. the COW.-MlChael *. Boyer
last year made a test for profit between
one good family COW and fifty hens, TO see
which would yield the most profit. The
result was the cows milk was worth at
market rates $14410. and the poultry ac-
count. which was mainly for eggs sold,
equalled Sl4Os1. II cost S52 to feed the
COW year. and $50 for the hens. Ine ma
nure of both were of about equal value.
But the biggest item in favor OF the hens
was in point of labor, it requiring double
the amount to attend to the COW that it
did to the fowls. The test goes to show
that James Rankin's claim that his $50
hens gave him a better profit than his
sixteen cows is not a wild assertion. More
poultry and less cows on the farm would
certainly be a profitable change IN the
mana cement.
Local Atrophy.-We could not decide
whether the case was one of azoturia, or
aZote, as your hoss-doctor calls II; but
lameness. or wasting Of certain muscles
of the posterior parts of the BODY some
with friction to the parts once daily, Tor
some time. a sufliciency of liniment
made Of say, eight ounces OF spirit OF
camphor. and two ounces each OF oil OF
tlrpentine and tinCture of canthardes
This should be well shaken before each
application, and be kept well corked IN
a cool place. Let the horse have con-
tinued liberty out of doors.
The hams and shoulders should he put
into paper bags and the ends twisted ana
firmly tied They should be hung up.
ny. ia, I,. eprtFpI in a Ike manner
or packed away in clean wheat bran.
For a small quantity for home use II
is well to cut the sides into pieces small
enough to so into d large paper pas suOh
bags as are used to put up Hour in
The meat can be kept for some time
in bulk in "A dry sailed condition If 1t is
SO desired, and smoked later on IN the
winter or early spring. The thing Is TO
use plenty of salt when first killed, expos
ing the meat for one night or TWO 70 lhe
cold air.
Joint meat can be packed away in ashes
to advantage oftentimes.
A New Variety of Wheat.-The lie Roy
N. VI Gazette reports that a. NJ. Jones OF
that place, who is an extensive originator
of new wheats has produced a variety
by a cross with the Clawson which prom
ises to outyield any other. Ihe grain
shows berry that IS nearly douoie 81 me ne
that in small plots ii has yielded 60 to 70
bushels per acre, and thinks 1t can be
made to do this when grown IN large
a dairy writer in the American Guilt
vator discussing the value Of the succu-
lent food of the silo says: I'VE do not,
as a rule. realize the value of succulent
food for our milch cows especially in the
winter season, when nearly all food is
ant to be dry. In the summer time the
cows obtain from the grass and roots
sufficient juice to make milk flow easily
and in large quantities. Now, exclusive
dry feed in the winter, no matter how
rich or how much is given, cannot give
the best milk results. 1t is in fact a
very poor substitute for the succulent
food of summer. We often try to make
ourselves belieV that we are giving good
slcculent food to the animals by mixing
the drv feed with warm water and giving
it to them in this moist condition. While
this is beneficial, II does not act as d
substitute for succulency. If we exam
inc green grass or roots we find that
about 50 or 80 per cent consists entirely
of sueculent roots. If roots are dried they
are reduced so that it takes nearly ten
pounds to make one pound. Green corn
stalks are largely juice, and the real
amount of dry matter contained for food
from them is small. 1t is the same with
many other green vegetables and folders
that make the cows yield milk in the
summer"
fact that some vegetables may be frozen
while in the ground without injury, pro-
vided they are not disturbed until thawed,
has led to the belief that soil somehow
draws the frost out. Really what the
covering does is TO exclude light. II is
very injurious to frozen vegetables to be
exposed to light and currents Of air.
Light causes rot. partly, we suppose, be
cause in the light oxygen, which Is the
basis of all decay, is much more active
than ii is in the darkness.