The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-25


or something under 2S cents per 100
pounds.
The Scrap Book.
Hog Raising in the South.-It is simply
astonishing the interest that is being tax
en- in hog raising in the south during the
present season. The writer scarcely pass
ed a day without receiving inquiries IN
regard to purchase or care of swine The
few pigs he breeds are sold before they
are born, while if he answered fully all
the questions asked as to the matters OF
management and feeding and in regard to
the merits of the different breeds he
would indeed find it no small task
BeggarWeed a Soil Renewer.-RObert
Young, owner of a 100-acre orange grove
at lnterlachen, in private letter, says.
MY superintendent writes me that the
beggarweed between my orange rows is
so high that he cannot see the mules
twelve feet away. This Is very encour-
aging to me, as 1t indicates "A reliefffrOm
the vest-pocket style of commercial fer
tilizing." Maj Campbell in a letter to
the Farmer and Fruit Grower, speaks of
peas and crab-grass growing in the or
ange groves. not only feed for stock buy
nature own fertilizer. The freeze has
been a valuable lesson to the Florida
farmer in the discovery Of home produce
ton and home fertilizing. In beggarweec
particularly, we have all the advantages
fertilization, and its acreage is annually
increasing.
Rye and Barley-Rye is a good crop to
SOW for winter grazing. II does not re-
quire the richest soil to grow satisfactor-
lily. 1t stands the abuse of stock hoofs
we'll Ii is a hardy plant. Well rooted be-
fore winter cold will not kill ii out In
the spring stock should be taken off and
the plant permitted either to mature a
crop of grain. or when in the blooming
stage turned under for fertilizing purposes.
FeVp vTfrl Ter ma q
the grain-the latter to be sold for seed
ought to prove profitable to the farmer.
As toj barley, it has been said by one in
whom we have confidence as a judge in
such matters. that enc acre of barley, on
rich soil, will afford more winter grazing
than the combined one acre each of wheat
rye and oats. The soil must be rich or it
is useless to SOW the seed with any eXpec-
fancy of profit from the crop. 1t is a crop
too scantily grown in the south. As with
rye, there is nearly always scarcity OF
homegrown seed, and homegrown seeds
are the best.
Both crops ought to be sown in the fall
as early as practicable in order to give the
best returns.-Southern Farm Gazette.
Fall Top Dressing-It used to be
thought that much of the value of manure
left on the surface was washed away by
rains in winter and spring, and evapora-
ted during dry weather in summer
Farmers have learned better now. Ex-
cept on land which is overfiowed and
while the soil is frozen there is no waste
OF manure from washing away. The
rains which fall dissolve what is soluble
but they carry this fertility into the SOIL
where it is taken up by particles of
earth. The more thoroughly this is done
the greater good will the manure do A
dry clod of manure buried in the soil in
early spring often does not receive mois-
ture enough to do any good the entire
growing season. Leave it over winter
on the surface of grass land or winter
grain and the fertility in the lump of
manure will be washed into the soil and
thoroughly Incorporated with 1t. Top
20
winter grain. 1t not only helps the grain
crop, but ii insures a good catch of clover,
the seed terminating under the manure
and soon getting a strong root hold in
the rich soil beneath il.
Starting Onions-Though it is very late
to do the work, yet seeing that the wealth
er has been such that ii was almost inn
possible to set out onion sets with sue
cess earlier, few may yet be planted
If the winter is mild, they will live and
come in earlier than spring set ones
Onion seed may be sown in cold frames
to make plants to set out in early spring
Sow thinly, so that the plants may have
room to grow through the winter. If
seed of the Italian varieties was sown in
the early fall, the plants should now be
ready to set out in the permanent rows
Set out six inches apart in the row and
the rows twelve inches apart The land
should be made very rich.
A Vigorous Plant saw during the
past summer in a New Hampshire farm
house magnificent wax plant full of
bloom in ten-inch flower pot, and the
owner of the plant told me that the
ticle of soil added 20 the pot for fifteen
years! Nor had the plant ever been
moved from the window In which 1t was
plant had been potted by the only son
of the lady who owned 1t, and a few
weeks later he died. The mother felt
that she would like to keep the plant as
long as possible exactly as it had come
to her from her SON. AS it never showed
any sign of having exhausted the soil
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the plant coul be any finer than 1t Is
If it had been repotted every year. This
however, is no argument against the re-
potting of plants, although l am con-
reporting is done, and that plants are
often shifted from small to large pets
when it would have been better to have
kept them in the small pots. florist
once told me that some of his finest
plants had been brought into full and
perfect bloom without any reporting at
things and bring about many results en-
tirely beyond the scope of those who
cilities.-Success With Flowers
When Cattle Suffer From Boating
They must be relieved in some way, and
whatever aid is given them will have to be
The trouble is of such frequent occurrence
and so dangerous in character. that every
stock owner should be prepared at all
times to deal with a case in his herd. Va
rious methods are commonly employed to
help animals attacked by this distressing
complaint and many of them are barbar-
Gus in the extreme: so much so in fact
that it is hard to understand how intelli-
gent people can expect any benefit to fol-
low such illogical and brutal practices
Even if a cure can be brought about by
thrusting a pointed stick down a COW S
throat for the purpose of letting out air.
or from other prevalent methods equally
inhuman, and of doubtful value, there is
no excuse for resorting to any of them
when safer and more reliable remedies
are available. There are several decoc-
lions recommended as very useful for re-
lieving cattle suffering from the effects