The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-29
The scrap Book.

It's a good idea to watch the success
full farmer closely and pattern after his
methods when you are not certain that
you know just exactly what you are doing
and that your ideas are the most ad-
vanced. Experience is not such a dear
teacher when it is the experience of 9TH
ers that you profit from.
Every farmer knows that he has not
yet reached the top in crop productions
that his methods of saving seed, plant
ing, cultivation and harvesting lack a
good deal of being perfect and all-satis-
flying. Look up your worst mistakes, get
rid of them and work yourself up grad
ually toward the point of perfection. II
will pay.
The best school a farmer can attend is
a good club, with monthly meetings at
the houses of farmers. Here prac-
and lessons can be learned that the indi-
Vidual, alone and unaided, cannot posi-
bly, solve in a satisfactory manner. You
are not in style any longer il you do not
belong 10 some sort of club.
A Horses Teeth.-At FIVE years of age
a horse has forty teeth-twenty-four mo-
lars or jaw teeth, twelve inc.sors or
front teeth, and four tusks or canine
teeth, between the molars and incisors
but generally missing in the mare. At
birth only the two nippers or middle in
cisors appear, and when a year old the
incisors are all visible of the first or milk
set. Before reaching the third year the
permanent nippers have come through a
year later the permanent dividers-neXt
to the nippers-are out. At five the mouth
is perfect At six the hollow under the
nippers, called the mark" has disap-
peared from them and diminished in the
divders, and at seven the mark has dis
appeared from the diViders and the next
teeth, or corners, are level, though show
ing the mark. At eight the mark disap-
pears ltogether.-Commerci Appeal.
Potato Scab. The remedy for potato
scab proposed by Bolley of the North Da-
kOta station is considered almost a spe-
cific for this disease. Bolley's latest rec
ommendltiOn is to dissolve 10 ounces of
corrosive sublimate in 60 gallons of water
and the general tendency among expert
mentors is TO use stronger solutions than
the ones first recommended The period
of immersion also varies from IL TO 8
hours. The terminating power of pota-
toes is some times impaired if they are
treated with the strong solutions for the
long periods recommended. 1t is advisa-
Bile, therefore, to get as clean seed as
possible, but, if the potatoes are scabby
to treat them with solutions whose
strength increases. with severity of the
disease on the tuber, at the same time
frightening the period Of immersion.
1t is important TO have clean land
Charcoal Valuable.-Charcoal is salu-
brious when fed to fowls. Like many 9TH
er creatures fowls are prone to take into
their crops food that is unsavory or hard
to digest. A little charcoal absorbs the
odors of fermentation and decomposition
and often prevents harm from oVer-eating
There are numerous cases in which a
spoonful of pulverized charcoal stirred in
a glass Of water and drank, will set to
rights a disordered human stomach There
fore, 1t is well to give the fowls some chal-
coal, or place it within their reach and
let them help themselves.
The Spanish Peanut.-In this we have
combination of hay and grain; can be
grown on almost any soil and furnishes
good hay from the tops and the nuts are
readily eaten by all kinds of stock; is of
short, stocky, upright growth, and, grown
for hay, is much preferable to the long
running kinds. Land should be prepared
the same as for common peanuts, except
that they may be planted ~ by feet can
be planted any time after danger of frost,
up to the 18th of July.-Southern Ruralist
Tar Water for Cabbage Worms.-An IN
secticide which has been used and found
effective against the cabbage worms in
eastern gardens, is tar water One or
two quarts of coal tar are placed in a
barrel of water, which is left out in the
sunshine for couple of days. The water
will then have a strong tar-lil1e Odor,
which is fatal to the worm when applied
to the plants. 1t should be applied
through a fine hose to distribute it over
the entire head. When the barrel is