Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-03-01
HERE AND THERE.

Remember that implements and
machinery that would otherwise be
useful and entirely satisfactory often
proves useless and causes serious loss
outside of their own value, because
they are left to rust and rot where last
| used.
Now is the time to read bee litera-
ture. By reading now and thoroughly
posting yourself you will not have to
say in the spring: Wonder what was
the matter with my bees"
Draw the manure and spread some
on the fields as rapidly as can be. No
farmer wishes to be behind hand and
forced to haul fertilizers when every
effort should be confined to the prep
aration of the soil and sowing the
seed.
Hogs are cleaner than cows when
they have chance to keep clean. The
reputation the hog has obtained is not
deserved. Even his appetite is no
worse than that of fowls and his habits
quite as exemplary. Give the hog a
chance.
The almost innumerable small
farms in France, and the consequent
unexampled prosperity of the French
people, is the result of law put in
force about one hundred years ago, re-
quiring that when land owner died
his land should be equally divided
among the male children. There is
limit however, to this laws successful
fiess.
"A breeder says to cure scours in
young pigs. mix laudanum, "a drachms;
subnitrate of bismuth, 2 drachms spir-
titus lavender compound, 4 ounce;
sirup tolu, ounce; simple strip enough
to make ounces. Dose, one teaspoon
full every three hours until the bowels
check.
Dairy farming gives more scope to
the business faculty than any other
branch of agriculture. The waste can
be reduced almost TO zero, and the
farm, without additional cost, con-
tinually enriched. To make success
full dairy farmer requires level head
and every sense alert.
Live stock must form principal
feature in any permanently successful
system of farming. This is true for
all countries and in every age The
production of crops and their removal
for sale must sooner or later impover-
ish all soil and its owner. Live stock
enables the judicious farmer not
only to live and prosper, but to con-
tinually increase the value of his land.
"A prominent agricultural paper
says: Teach your children never to
talk about their neighbors, and set the
example yourself" Then who in the
name of sense shah they talk about?
Who are ones neighbors? Better let
them talk on any subject they please
and do so yourself; but teach them to
do it as it should be done, and be care.
full to set good example in this re-
spect.
"A. writer says the surest cure for
lice on hogs is to take cup full of
lard and putting into it ten drops of
quicksilver; work it together well,
then apply it. if a pig or young shote
to the ears and around the roots of the
ears and the head; if old ones, behind
the fore arms, around the hams and at
root Of tail Apply the second time in
eight days.
Buy every good tool or implement
you need and can afford, so as to do
the best and quickest work, at mini
mum of physical effort Use horse
wherever possible, and thus cheaper
the cost producing crop. 1t often
times lies in ones own power to lessen
costs and expenses, while it is not prac-
ticable or possible to increase the sell.
ing price of farm commodities.