The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-08


Watering Horses at Work.-Horses hard
at work need water between the morning
and noon meal. and also between noon
and time for closing the days work. If
handful of oatmeal is thrown I'm the pail
of water. it Will prevent any danger of in
jury, and 1t viii also give strength as well
as retreshment. This stimulation has no
bad after effects and the horses watered
thus i'm the middle Of the forenoon and
afternoon will be less likely 10 inquire
themselves by drinking al noon OF night
of cold water while they are heated and
exhausted by the lahors they have per-
formed. II pays TO give the horse good
care. for the more ne can be u lie TO- do,
the more effective VIII be the ed help
that works with him.
Progressive NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is
no longer a mere art, a training school TO
which the unemployed. the vicious and the
ignorant are by a hard fate assigned
duty. to battle with the elements for
living. Education, business management
and machinery are supplanting, or have
already supplanted, the ideas and meth
DDS of the early settler days and are
demonstrating that successful agriculture
means mind culture as broad and deep
as the SOIL on which II reacts.-Farm and
Orchard.
The Strawberry Bed.-The new straw
berry plant should not be allowed to bear
fruit the first season. Pick of all fruit
stems as soon as they appear. Three
methods of training the strawberry are
in use. The hill system, where all run
ners are removed. The narrow row,
where only part Of new runners are al
lowed to form plants; and the fun mat
tea row, where plants are allowed to fill
all the space, excepting a narrow path
between rows. All have advocates and ali
have special merits, depending on soil,
climate, variety and grower. The full
matted row is most used, being easiest to
manage. Guard against too many plants
in small space They consume moisture,
suffer from drought and produce small
berries. Each plant should have from
four to six inches square space in which
to grow and mature its fruit.-M. A.
Thayer.
Manuring in the Hill.-It is much less
common than it used to be to put a fork
full of manure in the hill, even for the
plants that most love heat, such as Gu
cumbers, squashes and melons. In most
seasons the manure under the hill dries
IL up and thus does more harm than
good. There is a much better effect II the
manure is spread over the whole surface
some time before the land is plowed, so
as to have some of its soluble portions
mixed with the soil. If anythLA, is needed
in the hill to give it a quick start some
commercial heterogeneous fertilizer will 90
this much better than will stable ma
nure, and viii not dry up the hill as the
latter will. tits often forgotten that run
Idfl-
lies viii root at the joints If slightly
covered with soil. and this makes it nee
essary to manure the whole surface if the
vine is to be made TO produce all il -
capable of doing. Some of the most pro-
life vines of melon and squash are treat
ed in this way, layering their joints in as
many places as possible, and giving liquid
manure where each set of roots puts
forth. If very large single specimen
are wanted, they can be secured by pick
ing off all the blossoms except the earliest
and concentrating the entire vigor of the
vine upon that.
Humus in Soil.-No soil can be made
to produce good crops without the pres
ence of a fair supply of humus or de-
cayed vegetable matter. Freshly cleared
lands, and lands which have not been
piowed for many Years, usually contain
an abundance of humus. but when lands
have long been cultivated in hoed crops
exhausted and must be replaced before
they can be made profitable. Just how
this humus shall be supplied must de-
pend on the circumstances of each plan
tation. When 1t can be had in sufficient
quantity, there is no better material for
this purpose than is stable manure but
as this can seldom be secured in sufi-
Gent amounts, recourse must be had to
other materials.
Games.-The game fowl IS proba bly the
oldest breed known TO the world They
were bred and fought three thousand
years ago, and will be bred and fought
three thousand years after date We al
lude to the true game not the stilted va
rtety, bred for supposed elegance of form
and station. There Is no better fowl for
the farmer than we'll bred and steel test
ed games. Tney are generous LAYERS and
the finest table iowls ever invented The
latter fact Is never flsputed and never
doubted. After full Gathering they are
the hardest of all and VIII return home TO
roost with promptness Not only VIII the