The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-13

! yearly quota or soap for household use
unleached ashes as a fertilizer on the
| lahd ana buy soap for making the concen-
Irsted potash that is now sold in every
| Sountry store. There is great varia tion
IN wood ashes, and the broughten potash
/ Is much more certain to make good soa2
man Is the supply of potash in the ashes
| from the winter fires. The old-time soap
| grease was also a very ill-smelling and
unsa tlsIactory product to handle II was
reuse scraps of fat and lard from ali
/ sources Kept with no regard for cleanli-
ness, II being supposed that the lev would
correct maggots with which the rotten
nIess usually abounded. All kinds Of fats
( are now so much cheaper than they used
I 70 De that even those kept scriipulouslv
Clean are not very costly. With boughten
potash ana clean fats for it to work up
| Ine much-dreaded and disagreeable bus
ness OF soap making will be so changed
MAJ those who remember the old times
VIII De surprised at the difference. The
sam 70 Irult crops from using the I'M
ieached ashes in the orchard will many
lihleS repay the cost of the boughten ma
1ttIIlaIs Ior soap, or, better still, will en-
apIe the farmer to buy his SOAP bv the
9oX already made, as many farmers now
,, Do Do Not Neglect the Forage.-It is to be
/ hoped that the time is not far distant
| When our southern farmers will come TO
| appreciate the Importance of growing
Iuch larger quantities of fodder than
/ they 90 now. This important item is al
! together too much neglected by the ma
/ 9orlty of farmers. very many Of them
| depending entirely on the limited amount
aHorded by the stalks that grow the seed
/ corn, the saving Of which frequently costs
more than 1t is worth. Some supplement
| TINS with the crabgrass hay saved from
me corns fields and frequently saving this
alter II mas gone to seed and has there
Iore become comparatively worthless ex-
cept as an amendment to other food
vi course there are some here and there
VINO regard this subject differently and
attach great Importance to securing an
abundance of forage, and generally we
nnu that these farmers constitute the
prosperous ones. If anything does tend to
make farmer feel cheerful and to inspire
MIN with energy in his work. it is to look
upon Well-fed stock and to show that he
mas me Wherewith to keep them so Plen-
y OF forage means plenty of milk and but
ter, lat beef and mutton, plenty of manure
well conditioned horses and mules. eoual
10 plenty of fine work Surely we must
come TO look at this matter in it's true
lght II we would have our farming put
ana kept upon paying basis We have
Such splendid list of fodder plants we
nave no excuse whatever for being with
out an abundance of forage, green or dry.
every month in the year.
The Theory of Thinning.-We have be-
come familiar with the statement that
thinning the fruit on overloaded trees
says the Rural World, while it is young
does not materially diminish the number
OF bushels of fruit, the lessened number
of specimens growing large enough to
compensate for the difference. The SUI
peff1cial observer sees apples on a tree
lWO lntItS III uldmeter. and another
-FOUR inches, and at once pronounces the
larger ones twice the size of the smaller.
4 being twice the number 2. but he decides
hastily, for the cube of 2 is ONLY & while
the cube of is 81, or times that of the
2 The large fruit is no less than times
the size of the smaller, and 1t would re-
quire eight times as many specimens of
the smaller to fill a barrel. This is Of
course, an extreme case with extreme
measures; but smaller results will be OBJ
tanned on smaller scale. For convent
ffraltF nd Is,-s.1s
the inches to quarters, and it will be
found that globular fruit eight quarters
IN diameter Will be more than twice the
size in cubic measure of one six quarters
in diameter. ANY number of similar cal
culatfons may be made with like results
NO wonder, then, that an orchardist found
that nus thinned fruit produced more
bushels than that from the crowded trees.
second crop PotatoeS-Second crop pota-
toes Such as are grown in the south for
seed, are raised from the early crop of the
same season. In digging the first crop the
potatoes to be used for planting the second
one are spread out in the light for a few
days to get greened. They are then spread
IN any convenient place and covered with
pine straw which is kept moist Previous
TO this covering 1t is best to chip off a
small piece of the end of potato as they
sprout more readily with the skin merely
broken. The potatoes under the straw
will Sprout from the first of August on
and We plant the sprouted ones up to the
middle of August. These grow until killed
down by frost usually the latter part of
November Being out of the ground so
short a time these make the best of seed
for early planting, as they grow with the
strong growth of the terminal bud.
w. F. NJ.
Hardy bulbs may be taken up in the
spring after they are done towering and
the foliage has died down, kept dry until
autumn again; or they may be allowed to
remain in the ground year after year. l
prefer the latter way, says writer in the
Housekeeper, and plant some lowgrowing
annual among them to cover the ground
during the summer. If the bed is in dry
exposed place. there is nothing better than
portulacca as it will bear a great deal of
sun. So will the common single petunia l
sometimes plant Verbenas in my tulip bed.
The bulbs are benefited by covering of
Well-rotted manure applied in the fall, so
that the winter rains and SHOWS may wash
the strength of the fertilizer down to the
roots.
Dehorning.-The practice of de-
and the sentimentalist may make
up his mind tc it, am not quite
sure whether it would be too radical to
advocate making 1t compulsory for every
cattle man to dehorn. When the cattle
have horns it takes more shed room,
larger trough or tank for them to drink
from, and larger feeding troughs and
racks and an old boss" COW can occupy
more space than any four dehorned ones.
An accident in the family caused the
writer to dehorn long before it became
popular in the vicinity of his farm, and
the neighbors threatened him very Sc
riously for such cruelty CD to his cattle.
Some of those who were the loudest in
Their threats are now the strongest ad-
vocates of dehorning. have concluded
that the fall of the year is the best time
to perform this operation, although some
persist in doing 1t in the spring. There
is greater danger of trouble with flies in
the spring than in the fall l once had
mint of trouble when horns were fashion
able, by one COW, through some means,
getting free from her stanchion in the
night and making life a terror for the
others that did not, but since they have
been deprived of these useless weapons
they can do little damage should one
happen to get loose during the night. In
stead of ii being cruel to take the horns
off, / have become educated to look upon
it as a most cruel thing to permit the
horns to remain. / have not used the
alkal which is advertised to take horns
off Of calves. but prefer to have this done
every fall, when the flies are all gone, and
while the cattle are yet young, and have
li.c-A 70 lnan l. h. or. filnIa