The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-12

| is not a day the whole year in which we
| do not draw on our garden for a tooth
some dish or a substantial one ] think /
am safe in saying that our garden fur
uishes one-quarter of our table. Then We
have "A city market for our surplus, and
| there is not a week but what We sell from
one to two dollars worth of produce
Starting soon as frost is out. so we
can dig ana CRATE horse-radish, and get
! parsnips and satisfy and bunch rhubarb.
and sauerkraut cabbage, onions and GU
/ cumber pickles In winter, the sales from
our garden amount to $50 per year. We
! have ten acres of corn and four of po-
/ tatoes, and it keeps two cultivators busy
| most OF the time, while our garden docs
! not take more than one-half a day per
week, and you can hold all the weeds In IL
! in one hand. our first-class farmers
| pride themselves as much on the looks
of their gardens as of their farms. Set
me down in the back door yard and l
| can tell you what kind OF a housekeeper
| the wife is. Set me in. the barnyard AID
l can tell what kind Of farmer the man
| Is. Set me in the garden and / will tell
| you If they are, as "a family. up to the
present day in hygiene and living"
Better Than Condition Powders.-When
an animal falls off in appetite and does
/ not seem to relish the food some sim
| PIE treatment will often bring IL around,
/ such as to give to a COW one pint Of raw
| linseed oil, repeated the third day Thon
| give bran mash with one ounce Of salt half
an ounce OF ground ginger and the same
| Of sulphate of iron finely powdered II
/ the food is made up Of good hay cat
ana Wetted, and a small handful Of this
mixture IS given 1t viii probably remove
| the trouble A pound Of linseod meal
four ounces Of ground gcntian root, the
/ same of Peruvian bark, powdered two
/ ~ nj rs1sss,
/ Of iodde of potassium and two ounces Of
! carbonate of iron. All are mixed evenly
and kept in dry place. This is better
| than any of the common condition pow
ders and costs much less. The feed
| should be given I'm small quantities, at
four intervals in the day.
Treatment for Roup in Fowls-This d.
sease of fowls Is closely allied to the HUI
man diptheria, and is due to the same
| causes which IS poisoning of the blood,
| either by direct infection or by the spec-
| ial germ which produces it, or by the
| original cause, which makes the animal
! receptive Of the germ, which Is always
! more or less prevalent in the air. The
| symptoms are the swelling of the head,
| fetid discharge from the nostrlls and
| mouth and inability to breathe with
ease. The whole system is feverish, and
when the birds are in the fun stages OF
| II they lie about mOtionless. The cause
| Of II is aided greatly by any unwhole-
some conditions, as unclean houses,
dampness, and impure water. The rem
edy is to apply a solution of chlorate Of
potash to the mouth and throat ana wash
the head with hot vinegar. The poultry
house is to be fumigated by burning sui
phur in 1t while 1t Is closed, by sprinkling
air-slacked lime literally on the floor.
and by the most thorough cleanliness Of
| the roosting places. The food should be
| soft, and given warm, and q small pinch
| Of the chlorate OF potash Is given to each
bird in the food, or. if it will not eat in
a solution of water and poured down the
! throat, or by means of one Of the little
glass pipettes with n rubber bulb.
The Horn Fly-This insect received it's
name from its habit OF gathering in large
numbers at the base of the horns of cat
tie, but as it seems to be gradually los
| ing this habit perhaps the small cattle
| fly" would be a more appropriate name.
The insect Is a native Of Europe and has
only been in this state a few years 1t
was perhaps the most common two years
ago, and this year is also quite common,
! especially in the southern portion Of the
state. As bulletin % of the station re-
garding this insect Is out of print. the fol-
lowing is given here as being the method
of treatment which we have found to be
the best: Mix two parts Of crude cotton
seed oil with one part of pine tar and
apply to the cattle at milking time with
| a large brush. AS the flies are most nu-
merous along the back and sides Of the
| body, this is where the application should
4 be made. A small amount of crude car
| bolic acid added to the mixture will in
crease It's value somewhat and If the
| cotton seed oil cannot be obtained any
! other cheap Oil will answer. This mix
ture will keep the flies off the animals
for about three days and the cost Of
treatment is about three-fourths of a
| cent per COW. The increase Of milk will
much more than pay for the treatment.
An Iowa farmer who has had some
experience with the Russian mulberry as
a tree for wind breaks, speaks very ia
| vorably of ii for that purpose. He has
set them in rows eight feet apart, and
| two feet apart in the row, though he
/ thinks this too close in the row as many
| of the trees are dying He will thin them
out. Other mulberry trees, planted in
| the same way some ten years ago are
now model wind-breaks. This tree is said
| to stand a great deal of cutting back,
and i'm this way it is made to form
very close wind-break. We would advise
| at least three feet apart in the row for
best permanent effect, and to keep well
cut back.
The true seat of the yellows disease
! has never yet been discovered. 1t may be
in the root, but we doubt it. Years ago
we cured trees that we thought had the
yellows. by the liberal application of mu-
rate of potash. Now some one claims
that he has cured the disease by pour
| ing boiling water around the tree. 1t is
| very doubtful whether the trees in
either case had the yellows, and more
| likely that they were infested with root
/ lice. which were killed by those appli-
cations But Mr. Thomas Meehan seems
/ to be entirely correct when he states that
| for a few trees in small yards, where
4 they are convenient to a hot-water range,
no practice can induce healthier fruit