The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-11

and less expensive to grow because il needs
no poles. Thus far it has proved free
from rust. which so often reduces the
market value of the horticultural and
other she'll beans, and for family use It. is
unsurpassed by any. excepting the large
lima. Although it looks small there are
not many if any varieties that Will yield
bushel to a smaller number of hills, or
a quart of shelled beans to smaller
basket of pods. In our experience we con-
slider 1t a decided acquisition, both to the
family garden and the market gardener
Potash for Clover-Clover is "A potash
plant, and in soils that are deficient in
this mineral it is impossible TO get a good
eaten. This is often the difficulty in seed
ing with clover on sandy soils Lime is
also usually needed on such soils. and
the dressing of sulphate of lime or gyp-
sum supplies plant food directly by its
lime as well as its probable influence in
enabling the clover plant to decompose
the air. But there are soils where even
a dressing of land plaster viii not make "a
good clover growth. In such cases Il IS
probable that potash is also lacking.
mixture of ashes and land plaster sown
early on land seeded to clover will al
most invariably secure a good catch. Both
the ashes and plaster attract moisture
from the atmosphere.
Warm Feed for Cows-All sloppy feed for
mich cows ought to be warmed at least
to animal temperature, and it will not
do any harm to have it go 10 TO 30 degrees
above. There is one time when this warm
ing of this feed is absolutely necessary,
and that is a few days after parturitlon
All the water drank at this time should
also have the chill taken off it. If warm
food and drink are given. the process of
digestion will not be interferred with
The effect Of a large amount of cold water.
or cold moist food of any kind when given
to cow is to at once paralyze the Ill
gestive organs. The internal heat of the
cow must be absorbed by the food until
it reaches the temperature of the animal
Not until then does digestion begin. The
loss of carbon from the system required
to warm cold food is just so much dimin-
ution Of the fat in the milk making milk
look blue and poor in cold weather. Cows
even in warm weather have no liking for
cold water. They viii often leave that
fresh drawn from deep well to drink
what has been warmed by the sun in some
shallow pond. Warm water in winter
for all animals that give milk will pay.
Ewes with young lambs need warm water
TO encourage a large milk production,
and, like cows, they are often injured by
drinking too cold water soon after par
turition.
Preparing Potato Seed.-Prof Henry.
several years ago. conducted a series of
experiments in the preparation Of seed
potatoes. The experiments included seed
of thin pairing, one eye to a piece; thick
pairing, one eye to a piece; cutting to sin
gle eyes, whole potatoes, seed ends and
stem ends, all received the same culture.
The results with the thin parings are in
teresting as showing how good a yield Of
potatoes may be obtained by planting
parings. When potatoes are cheap, the
farmer can better afford to plant a greater
weight of seed than to take the time to
cut into very small pieces. Further ex-
periments at the Wisconsin station
showed that as between cuttings and
whole tubers, the largest marketable
yield came from the heaviest cutting,
though the increase in the yield was by
no means in proportion to the increase in
the amount of seed The proportion of
small potatoes increased with the in
crease of seed. The sllaller whole pota-
to gave inferior results as compared with
the smaller cuttings. The hills were IS
inches apart each way. The trial with
hills as compared with drill planting
showed that no loss of yield followed
planting in hills. The hills We're three feet
apart each way, and in the last expert
ments the hill received two two-eye cut
tings of Rose Seeding potato. The drills
were also three feet apart, single two-eye
cuttings of the same variety being placed
eighteen inches apart