The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-06

violently as it would otherwise do. Cold
ashes are good substitute where the dry
earth has not been saved for this purpose.
Coal ashes contain little or no fertilizing
properties but used TO absorb ammonia
from manure heaps they become a valu-
able fertlzer' ,,aag s.v. "a.
Swine Notes.AMothers with pigs should
be well fed with milk-producing food, but
not with fattening foods.
Brood sows should have bran, potatoes,
offal from the garden. refuse from the
dairy, but no fattening food. When preg-
nant her rations should contain some
grain, to be discontinued three weeks be-
fore narrowing and not resumed until
A quickly developed pig makes good
weight and better quality, and therefore
has a better selling price; and all this
Tor less money and in less time than is
required in the old style of doing-thar
process in which the hog comes near eat
ing his head off. 1t pays the farmer TO
push the growth of the grade pig.
Which is the better farming, to grow
pigs on grass or grain? Roots and clover
OF keeping pigs in winter. Pigs should be
kept growing from start 70 finish. Push
the young pigs from the day they are far
roWed; first by giving the mother plenty
of milk-producing food, and when the
young pigs are two weeks old allow
them. small daily ration of grain.-Ore-
gon Agriculturist.
Sulphur for sheep-The American
Sheep Breeder says: While sulphur is in
dispensable for sheep. as furnishing one
of the important elements of the fleece
1t must be given in such a way a to be
available for the purpose. 1t must be in
the food. 1t cannot be given in the crude
form. in which it is not food, but an
active medicine, producing a laxative ac-
ton on the bowels and an excessive ex-
erection through the skin. 1t is this which
makes it useful as an antidote to all kinds
of parasites, the sulphur thus passing
through the skin being extremely offensive
to all insects. But its action on the skin
is to open the pores and thus make the
animal more subject to changes of the
weather and especially to injury by
rains. 1t is thus not desirable to give
sulphur as food or nutriment except in
the food, such white mustard or any
other plant of the turnfp and cabbage
tribe.
Tillage and FertiEty.7-The fact that the
rocky particles of the soil are the sources
of phosphoric acid and nitrogen and that
they are derived by dssolving of the
rock, makes tillage a source of fertility,
since it tends to the more rapid disn-
tegration of these rocky particles. If
these particles were as easily dissolved
as the grains of sugar or salt our soil re-
sources would sooner be destroyed bv ex-
cess of moisture or by too frequent cult
walton. One of the great sources of deple-
ton of the soil is the too frequent crop
ping, which means double or triple de-
pletion. First the crop, be it hay, grain
wool, meat or milk taken from the farm
removes fertility. Second the tilIage I'M
locks the phosphoric acid and potash from
the rock, and makes a larger portion
available for the plants. Third the land
left bare much OF the year declines in the
percentage of the nitrates. This last is
more important source of loss that is
commonly understood.
Winter Wheat.-The condition of win
ter wheat is estimated by the department
of agriculture up to Dec 10 only a trifie
more than 81 per cent. Most of this
wheat was late sown, and is poorly fitted
TO endure the rigorous conditions of freez-
ing and thawing during winter and
spring. 1t is not usual for wheat to be
so low in condition at this season of the |
year, and unless the season is extremely
favorable much will be plowed up next
spring and sown with spring grain The |
amount of wheat sown Is set down by the |
department at 104 per cent. of the amount |
harvested last summer. But a year ago |
thousands of acres We're plowed and put |
in other crops. To be of value, the es- |
innate of wheat sown this fall should be |
compared with that sown a year ago.
That would make it not more than so |
per cent, as fully one-fifth of the wheat !
sown a year ago was put in other crops, |
and was never harvested as wheat.
A Desideratum-Good Baeon-This |
country is fast becoming nation of ba- |
con eaters, and the demand for bacon |
is very much greater, now, than It was |
only few years ago. This demand leads /
to a well-defned call for bacon breeds of /
swine and those breeds which can be de- 1
pended upon to produce meat well streak ]
ed with lean have a prospect of becoming /
very popular. The bacon made in Amer |
lea has hitherto been too fat to meet |
with great favor in the markets of the |
world. In Europe, Danish bacon has first i
place, while that of Canada is taken In |