The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-15

two pounds of cot ton seed meal, bran two
pounds, oats four pounds, fed with all the
nay or cut corn fodder the cows will ca I
up clean. If the COWS are small aud light.
and haven't capacity TO assimilate this
ration, they get less. On this ration the
cows have made the best quality of butter
at the least cost, but not always the most
In quantity. Many experiments go to
prove that the cheapest product is not the
greatest, but that which is made at the
least cost in the ration Some cows may
be forced too far and become diseased,
and then the extra yield is very costly.
The val e Ofland for farming PURPOSES
must ways depend largelyupon it's near
ness to II rket. The increase of railways
has oroue ut for these staple grain pro-
ducts ives tern farms almost as near to
market as those of the east Not nearly
50 much progress has been made in i'm
proving the country roads, and so simpli-
flying the matter of getting to the home
mark cts. The need for good roads be-
comes more pressing as the farming cOun-
try Is intensified each acre producing
more each year than formerly thought
possible. A market gardener or small
1rulJ grower can not well afford to be
over few miles from market unless he
has roads that are good at all seasons of
the year. A piece of bad road. especially
If 1t be hill, lessons the value of land
~ luS luItllcE away. anu bub DGLler the
land the greater will be this difference in
price 1t is this that makes it so difficult
TO improve some land. Roads are so poor
or the distances to market is so great
that the owners know the marketing FACT
lities will not warrant any great effort
in that direction.
The Rural New Yorker truthfully re-
marks: There is no person on earth who
ought to enjoy life better, sleep more
huU w hot saF.
and who is more Independent generally,
than farmer who owns his own farm,
stock and tools. He ought to be the hap
pest OF men," So spoke a man whose
boyhood had been one of hard work and
deprivation; who had been in turn farmer,
manufacturer and merchant, and who
now in old age is resting on his oars
People call him successful He has &C
cumulated considerable property which
is largely Invested in real estate which he
leases to others. But there are many
things to worry him, and he says he can
not sleep as he used to do The perplex-
tiles he daily meets harass him so that he
becomes very tired. The debt-ridden
farmer is not an object ofenvy, but where
is there to be found a more ind ependent,
care-free life than that of the independ-
ent contented farmerl
The total production of sugar in the
world last year was estimated at 6,075 600
tons. OF this about So per cent. was
beet sugar. This is about a quarter of
million tons less than that of the year be-
fore. The preliminary estimates for the
present year places the production at
65OO,OO0 tons. The European beet sugar
crop is expected to exceed that of last
year by about 35S, 900 tons. The worlds
annual consumption of sugar has in
creased about 40 per cent. in tine last ten
years.
A western farmer gives the advice to
smoke the selected ears Tor seed corn with
corncob smoke, without heating too hot,
and crows, rats, mice and squirrels will
soon leave it alone. In the fall we pick
out the best ears when husking and put
them overhead in our smoke house on
wire netting, then smoke at the same
time we smoke hams. Or, if cold and
damp, build a smudge of cobs to keep it
dry until we are ready to smoke hams.
Then when hams are well smoked the
corn IS ready to bag. 1t looks darker
when the plants are well up, and l think
the smoke adds to the plant food in the
corn"