The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-26

buy barrel and use it freely about your
sinks and cutters.
II is said that there Is no better or sim
pier way Of testing suspected water than
the following; Fill a clean pint bottle
nearly full Of the water TO be tested, and
dissolve Il In half a teaspoonful OF loaf
or graduated sugar. Cork the bottle and
Keep in warm place two days II the
water becomes cloudy or milky within for
weight hours it is unfit for domestic
use.
Weeds Rich in Nitrogen.-SOme kinds
OF weeds will grow on very rich soil.
or this class Is the common purslane
known as chickwced or pigweed and usu-
ally found i'm gardens. II makes an eN-
cellent feed for hogs when confined ia
pens, and they eat IL greedily. These
weeds contain laree proportion Of nitro
genous matter and rot rapidly when en-
tirely covered by soil. But their roots
catch so easily on upturned soil that il is
safest after uprooting them in the garden
to throw them to the pigs. Anoher weed
that is rich in both nitrogen and potash
is freweed. 1t is coarse-growing plant
with rough, prickly steam. which springs
up after fires in the woods. Horses will
eat it, but we never saw IL eaten by any
other kind of stock.
Preventive of Plant Mildew-Boil
a pound of sulphur and one of lime in
TO about six pints. Put this aside to SCI
tie, then pour it off clear of all sediment
and bottle IL. When needed for use mix a
gin of this liquid in five gallons of water
Sprinkle the plants with this in the even
ing, or, better, apply with a syringe. II
this is persistently used on greenhouse
plants once a week during spring AMI
summer they will never be troubled With
mildew. This is used as a remedy but
II is particularly valuable as a preventive
II also has good effect in keeping down
insects.
Poultry.-The Black Breeds.-we now
have quite variety of black fowls In the
STANDARD, Black Wyandottes. Black
Javas, Black Cochins. Black Langshans.
Black Leghorns. Black Minorcas. Black
Spanish, Black Polish, Black Hamburgs,
Black Crece-Coeurs, Black La Fleche
Black Game, Black Game Bantams, Black
Rose Comb Bantams, Black Japanese
Bantams, Black Russians, Black Suma-
| tras, Black Turkeys, Black Cayuga Ducks
and Black East India Ducks. The Yucca
tans is new black breed not yet admit
ted to the Standard. In England the
Black Orpingtons are growing I'm popu-
larity.
Improvement of the Tomato.-when to-
matoes were first introduced they were
rough shaped; when cut into were seedy
and full of Juice rather than pulp The
/ nrst Efforts at Improvement were direct
ed TO increasing their earliness In ripen-
ing. Later than this a smooth surface
and q meaty surface were successfully
sought for. The amount of seed in some
OF the latest varieties is very small. and
the fruit can be cut into almost like a
piece of liver. These pulpy sorts are
much the best for canning, and as some
/ OF them are smooth in surface and are
reasonably early they will probably en-
tirely supersede the very early and rough
/ shaped varieties
The writer has raised hundreds OF
chickens and never lost a fowl from any
kind Of disease known In poultry yards.
| The fowls all died natural deaths; that
is, by having their heads cut off This
entire exemption from disease must have
resulted from reasonably good care, shell
ter. variety of food, and no overcrowd-
/ ing In the yards. good range Of grass
and very little grain in summer plenty
| OF grain, gravel, charcoal, scraps from
| table and some vegetables in the winter
1 with a warm, light house for shelter
| will make the hens healthy and cause
them to lay eggs when the price is high
est.
Not Too Much Corn.-Chickens fed on
an exclusive corn diet will not make a
satisfactory development, particularly OF
feathers. The bones of chickens fed on
a heterogeneous ration are 50 per cent.
| stronger than those fed on carbonaceous
ration. Hens fed on corn, while in good
health, become sluggish and deposit
large masses of fat in the Internal or
gans The flesh Of nltrogenous- fed fowls
contains more albuminoids and less fat
than those fed on a more carbonaceous
ration, is darker colored, juicier and
tenderer.
Breeding OFF the Horns-In 'ss I had a
herd of horned cows. l did not want to
cut off their horns, but determined to
get rid of them in some manner. 1 bred
them to a polled bull whose mother was
a horned cow. To my surprise, but one
in ten of the calves had horns. In 81 /
had fine heard of polled heifers, having
sold all my horned cattle. These polled
heifers thus produced from horned moth
ers by bull from a horned mother never
have had a horned calf, although all my
bulls have been from horned mothers.
| This shows how easy IL Is to breed off
horns. True it takes time, yet l think
1t the best way.
In my experience / find horned cattle
require as much again stable room as
polls for ! herd all my young cattle in
a large pen. like sheep until they are
| ready to drop their first calves. All the
older cattle are kept in another shed in
the same way, unless / milk them; then,
for convenience, ! put them in stalls.
| They gather at the feed troughs as thick
as they can crowd, none disturbing the
others 1t is not one-fourth the labor to
stable them, since / use no chains, stan
chions or matters None are vicious or
wild, though some of their horned mothers
| were.
The Horn Fly-Smaller and longer than
the common horsefy, has spread from the
south all over the country, and is one Of
the worst pests of dairy cattle In the
west as well as the south. They cluster
about the base of the horn-hence the
name-and also attack other parts of the
body especially where the tail does not
reach, causing cows to become irritable,
/ to loose flesh and shrink in milk. To
keep them off apply with brush or rag
either of these mixtures: (a) Crude cot
ton seed oil or fish oil parts. pine tar !
part; or (b) crude cotton seed oil or fish
oil 100 parts, crude carbolic acid parts;
| either TO be well mixed; this lasts FIVE or
six days, but makes the stock greasy. A
more clearly treatment that lasts only
j three days, is TO spray with the common
! kerosene emulsion diluted with water ten
\ times, adding a deeoction of one pound Of
tobacco leaves STEPPED in gallon Of wa
/ ter. The Mississippi Experiment Station
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