The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-13
DYNAMITE FOR TREE PLANTING.


Some California and Oregon soils are so
hard that it is very difficult to properly
dig the holes for planting trees. Dyna-
mite is now used for this purpose, using
the 80 per cent. grade, which is regarded
as strong enough. A crowbar hole six
feet deep is made in the ground. The
dynamite is put down with a fuse at
tached and the hole is filed with sand.
Very little earth is thrown into the air
but the soil is looseRed so that it can be
dug readily. 1t is a much better prepar-
alton than where the hole is dug without
the dynamite. The soil is loosened far
beyond where the tree roots first extend.
This loosening of the soil enables it TO
hold more moisture, and as it is spread all
through the ground, it is fed TO the tree
more evenly. Fruit trees planted in this
way grow faster, set more and better
fruit and ripen it, because the deep loos-
ening of the soil always affords a reser-
voir of moisture.
Home made manures should be utilized
just as far as possible before spending
money for commercial fertilizers. Animal
manures, mixed with little refuse hay
sweepings from the stable, and other
waste material about the place, will &C
cumulate with great rapidity Careful
outstanding of these domestic resources
will often make one wholly independent
OF the factories. These are the best and
most dura bic sou can have"
FEED LIGHTLY IN WARM WEATHER.
There is general complaint among farm
ers that young pigs will not stand heavy
feeding with corn. But after cold
weather begins the pigs have a healthier
appetite and will eat corn without injury
IL is commonly said that their digestion
grows stronger as they grow older This
may be partly the reason; but the diff
Guilty of digesting large amount of car
bonaceous food while the air is balmy
may have something to do with the result.
Cold air is more condensed, and has
larger amount OF oxygen. AS it enters
the lungs this cold air expands with ami
NAL heat. increasing lung power and free
ing the blood of its impurities If blood
and lungs are healthy the digestive organs
can take heavier burdens than where
lungs or blood are in bad condition
Not nearly so much is said nowadays
about the Importance of getting muck
from the swamps in winter to fertilize
higher land. IL has been found that the
greater proportion of muck is not worth
drawing any long distance as a manure.
1t is usually most deficient in the min
eral elements that the soil most needs,
and If it is to serve by affecting favora bly,
the mechanical condition of the soil, II
certainly cannot be hauled very far with
pAOHO' AhoLC ciO NUN D6uS WucIS 1uo
muck is mixed with blue clay that con-
tains phosphate. These are valuable for
manure, as farmers near such beds have
generally long since discovered.
PLANTS AND SEED FORMATION.
at is a well-known fact" says Calvin
Cooper that most plants absorb the
most valuable elements in the soil at
about the time of the formation and
ripening of the seed. Hence, the farmer
who allows this rough material TO seed,
not only loses valuable fertilizing matter
from his land, but in permitting this in
creased hIndrance TO his next seasons
crops. Progressive farmers in Lancaster
county, knowing this, watch the time
when Objectionable plants are blooming
in their stubble fields, and setting the
moving machine high enough not TO in.
Jure the young grass, hitch the team TO