The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-02

dropped by a COW or horse. 1t must de-
pend on the kind of feed given. Whether
the COW does or does not give milk, and
whether the horse is working or idle have
much to do with the quality of the ma
nure. In practice horses get more grain
and concentrated food than COWS do, and
even II working their labor uses up less
than does the milk of the COW. Horse
manure Is therefore the most valuable
for its bulk, and it has the advantage cf
being dryer and decaying more rapidly.
so that what fertility Il contains is easily
made available. large proportion OF
the mineral plant food In the excrement
of the horse is passed off in the urine.
Unless this is saved horse manure is apt
70 be poor In phosphate and potash. the
horse manure is also more strongly nitro
genous than COW manure. This Is the
principal reason why II heats rapidly and
fire fangs' when left in heaps exposed
TO the air.
f. X. wants TO know what to do for roup
In fowls. Remove all the healthy ones
from the affected premises, as the disease
is contagious. Put the sick fowls in
warm place battle the heads with warm
water and clean out the nostrils. Put
tablespoonful of turpentine in one quart
of boiling water and hold the fowls head
over IL for five or ten minutes at a time.
repeat two or three times daily; also take
fresh burned charcoal and new yeast,
three parts each, sulphur two parts, flour
one part, water sufficient mix well and
make into balls about the size OF a halle
nut and give one three times day. Five
on little sugar or bread, given three
times a day Is very useful. If the heads
are much swollen. battle them with
acetate of lead ten grains. tincture of
opium ten drops, and water ounces.
In 1876 there were probably IL 900 tons
OF cotton seed crushed I'm the United
States" says II. l.. Simmons in the Amer
lean journal of Pharmacy. From this
there were obtained one million barrels OF
oil. IL is estimated that 100000 barrels were
used in Chicago for making lard. and that
st. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha took
100000 for the same purpose. About 250,0O0
barrels went to Holland for making mar
garin, and large quantities to southern
Europe for mixing. with olive OIL
A good deal OF mystery pertains to the
water level of the great lakes between tho
United States and Canada. They consti-
tute altogether an enormous fresh water
ocean embracing n, $50 square miles This
is an immense reservoir, and Il does not
seem likely that the withdrawal of 100000
cubic feet per minute by the proposed Chi
cago drainage canal would materially af-
Gently fell over these lakes, the amount Of
water added to them was 1.079, $40 l16,000
cubic feet. IL would take seven years for
tho Chicago canal to Withdraw this
amount of water. There are, however, pc
riodical rises and falls I'm all the lakes
which have never been accounted for. An
old boatman on the st. Lawrence river
says that these rises and falls OF the riV-
er occur in periods of seven years, the wa
ter steadily rising seven years. and then
falling as steadily for the same length of
time. At present the 81. Lawrence is at it's
lowest ebb. Next year II Will begin TO rise,
and by 1902 II will be as high as IL ever Is.
Our forefathers were ~oontented and
happy, because Il required less to make
them so. There was less debt, worry
anxiety and jealousy. because the tempta-
ton to spend and TO have was less; and
yet although many of the farmers fan
cied needs OF to-day are no more than
wants, he lives upon a higher social and
educational plane, and would be unwiil-
ing TO go back to the good old times
Yes, yes; that is all true. maybe. But
necessity will make us do some things we
are not Inclined to-
\ The value OF experience as to the best
methods of managing an orange grove
after its apparent destruction by freez-
ing is now apparent in this state. While
1t has not yet been fully demonstrated
that the cutting of both Seeding and bud
ded trees close to the ground and then
coating the wounds with hot tar and a
sprinkling of sand is the best way, the
present indications are largely in its
favor. Where the most vigorous and best
Of the several shoots which put up from
each stump has been tied to firmly set
stake, ii has attained a hight OF fully
twelve feet with numerous side branches
from two to three feet In length. While
the trees treated in this way will require
a year longer to fruit, IL is believed to
be the most profitable method. Many who
have left on the tops Of the old trees are
beginning to realize their mistake. for the
recuperation Of their groves managed
thus is sure to be slow and very uncer-
tain. 1t looks as If those who spared the
saw have spoiled their trees.
Gleanings tells the way that celery plants
on a certain big celery farm are set in
perfectly straight rows, follows: h
small rope, say something like clothes
line, is stretched from one end OF the
field to the other. Then a roller. heavy
enough to make the ground smooth and
solid is run over the rope, and the plants
are set in the print this rope makes in
the ground. The hard-rolled surface also
makes a nice place to walk on while you
are setting the plants. After the plants
are set, flooding them with water make g
a sure thing OF an even stand Sometimes
when the weather is exceedingly hot the
plants are shaded by one-foot boards
held up by piece OF drain tile at each
end of the board and one in the middle
AS these boards are used afterward for
bleaching the celery, they are always
nearby. ready for use
g.