The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-08
Gleanings From Here and There.

the Wisconsin experiment station as fol-
lows:
Corn silage, 40 pounds; clover hay,
pounds; wheat bran, pounds; corn meal,
3pounds.
Another is: Silage, 30 pounds; hay, 10
pounds; corn meal, pounds; cotton-seed
meal, pounds.
Another is: Silage, 80 pounds; hay 10
pounds; corn meal, pounds; cotton-seed
meal, 3 pounds; gluten meal, pounds.
The bulletin says that it cannot assert
too emphatically that heavy feeding pays,
other conditions being right. A COW pro-
ducing full flow of milk should receive
over 20 per cent more food than is re-
quired for the maintenance of her body
it is the excess over maintenance that
brings profit to the dairyman. Keep only
cows that respond to good feeding. Feed
literally, but not to waste. Select such
feed stuff as will supply fair quantity of
protein Raise more ensilage and clover !;
bran shorts and oil meal when needed,
and when Obtainable at a reasonable
prlce.-EX.
Our experience and observation of and
with mules leave US to believe that they
are harder than horses, can stand more
work on less food are seldom sick, their
shoulders hardly ever become collar sore,
and they are more easily taught what is
wanted and expected of them than are
horses. 1t is true they 'take the studs
| occasionally and run off, but scarcely
ever do any damage as they cease run
ming as soon as they become the least
weary, while with horse it is run to
a finish; that is to finish up anything
they are hitched to. Our mules do better
when we give them the run of lot with
an open shed in it, with rack of hay and
a trough full of corn or oats that
they may eat whenever they
want to, and we have never yet known
of one of them eating an over
supply, or be injured in any respect from
over feeding. For steady work and hard
knocks we prefer the mule every time
especially when Tom, Dick, or Harry are
working the teams. The farmers of the
west are beginning to appreciate them at
their true value, as the number of mule
teams now in use to what there was a
few years ago fully attests..
The fruit of the citrus trifoliata is not
edible; it is very bitter. In fact it can
not be called fruit. 1t is shell full of
ontaining from twenty to fifty
seeds in each orange. When seed are
ordered 1 ship the fruit and all unbroken.
This is the only way to preserve its germ
mating qualities until spring, which is
the right time to SOW the seed. Once the
seed gets dry it will not sprout. The
seed should not be extracted from the
Ifulb until ready TO planJ,
A farmer, writing in Home and Farm.
says: In answering G. c. Brooks, Shilo,
La, about the best hogs for the south,
you say: ''In preference to the Poland
China we could have the red Berkshire
or the Essex. for the reason the red hog
seems to do better in the south than the
white or full black" We have the black
Berkshire, and what we call the red
Jersey hogs lis this a different breed
g.. a., ~. -
sameO l bought pair of Ohio improved
Chester pigs last spring and they did so
well that l would not give them for all
the black and red hogs in this country
to ''breed from" My white pigs at
six and a half months old, will weigh
more than twice as much as some of my
fathers Berkshire hogs at nine months
old, and my pigs have not cost me lin the
way of feed,) more than half what my
fathers cost him. Have my pigs done
better than common (they will net about
200 pounds,) for o. |. 9. hogs or not2
Successful growers of potatoes have
learned that to insure a good crop the
seed must be selected carefully the pre-
vious fall. The best results come from
making the hills as they are dug, choos-
ing well formed potatoes, free from scab
or prongs and with smooth surfaces.
Neither the very large or very small po-
tatoes should be taken. The first will be
misshapen, and the last will be apt 10 be
poorly ripened. Something depends on
how the potato has been grown. If the
vines kept healthy until the crop of tubers
was fully ripened. the very smallest may
make good seed. After selection the
main point is to keep the seed at as low a
temperature as possible without danger
of frost. These conditions are best
secured by keeping potatoes in dry ,out-of-
| doors pits. In our northern climate after
the covering of the pit has frozen over it
will not thaw out again all winter. If
there is danger of thawing too early, a
covering of straw will maintain an even
degree of temperature below freezing,
while protecting the potatoes from too
much cold. The tubers will come out
with eyes as dormant as when they were
put in the pit. The potatoes will be
harder by evaporation of their moisture,
while those kept in cellars will be made
soft by starting of the eyes, which
rapidly takes out the substance needed
to give the potato set its first start after
being planted.
A writer says. kill as soon as the
weather gets fairly cold, about Dec. l, if
hogs are in proper condition. 1t is well
to kill the moment the wind gets into the
northwest after rain. Begin early in
the morning, clean and hang up. In the
afternoon take down and cut up and lay
the meat, skin side down, on a grassy
place in the open air, rubbing in the salt
freely.
The following day take up, rub in more
salt to which add little salt petre land
little sugar to add to the favor.
Then pack away the meat compactly in
boxes or hogsheads.
Then cover all over with salt several
inches Any time after week it can be
smoked, using green hickory wood to pro-
duce the smoke.
Before fly time, that is, just before
March l, rub the meat over with molasses
and sprinkle or rub in freely black pep
per ground; cayenne pepper will do.
Poultry breeders cannot AFFORD to be
without kerosene. Its uses are many.
When the fowls sneeze and show signs Of
cold in the head, a tablespoonful poured
in the water will not only effect a cure
but act as a preventive Of the spread of
the disease. One-half lard and one-half
kerosene will kill lice and take the scales
off the legs caused by parasites. Kero-
sene poured on the roosts and in the nests
will kill the lice that harbor about.
Whole corn soaked all night in kerosene
and fed the next morning Is good for
roup. These are facts worth remember
ing.
Careful feeders of horses know that in
feeding oats. especially the whole grain,
much depends upon the hull or chat 1t
is not always the heaviest grain which