The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
The scrap Book.

Cracked Corn.-The use of crack
ed corn is more largely employed
among those who breed the
smaller breeds OF poultry. yet some use it
with all varieties. 1t always seemed to
me that the better way should be to buy
smaller kernel corn or plant a dwarf va
riety that would avoid the necessity of
cracking IT at the mill In doing so you
get just what is wanted and avoid the trou-
bic of having TO pay for a great deal of
meal made in grinding the corn, which is
not eaten by the flock and permitting 1t
to lie in the feed bins long brings the
meal worm about and makes the entire
grain musty and unpleasant TO handle
The Breeding Turkeys.-New blood
shows more improvement with turkeys
than with any other kind of poultry. The
best foundation is the common flOcks Dis
card all the males and procure a gobbler
of some pure breed and the next year let
the gobbler be procured from some flock
different from the first. A surer plan is
to use "A gobbler of one breed the first
year and one of a different breed the next
As 70 which Is the best breed of turkeys
we doubt If any breed can be said to ex-
eel the others. The bronze turkey is the
largest, but the point to observe is to Sc
cure hardness and Vigor, without regard
to size and this must be done by selecting
the best mems and procuring vigorous
male each year.
Drawing Sand on Gardens.-Many heavy
clay soils are improved by mixture of
sand with the surface soil. 1t Is especially
valuable for melons, cucumbers and ear
" vegetables. A very slight covering Of
sand less than an inch I'm depth, VIII sur
flee If the land is not plowed very deeply.
The pulverization of clay soils Is greatly
helped by having some sand mixed with
them, as this gives chance Tor water
TO soak into the soil and for frost to pene-
trate deeper This so is greatly aided by
undertaking, which almost all clay SOILS
need.
Oats and Laying Hens-It Is common
to recommend oats as one of the best feed
for laying hens, yet we have never made
this an exclusive feed without diminish
ing egg production for several days there
after. The feed that we have found best
to make hens lay is whole meat, adding
in very cold weather little corn and a
few whole oats. Poultry never requires
ground food. 1t VIII grind any grain IN
It's gizzard, and the exercise Of the giz-
gard required to do this keeps the diges-
ton good. Probably the large proportion
of chaff I'm oats causes 1t TO be less per-
fectly ground than other grains.
Sacaline-For two years ! have watched
carefully a clump of this plant growing
the University of Nebraska. In spite of
the fact that the plants have had better
care than they would have in an ordinary
field they have made but a moderate
growth. at no time exceeding three feet
in hight The foliage Is neither dense nor
abundant, while the stems and branches
are very tough and hard. me latter are
evidently unit for forage, while thus far
no animals have shown a disposition to
eat any part of the plant.-Prof. 6. f..
Bessey Nebraska Experiment Station.
Fresh Water for Hogs-No animal suf-
fers more frequently from thirst than
does the hog, especially when 1t IS fat
tening If IL is fed milk and swirl the
latter made salty by the addition Of the
brine made from salt pork While II IS be-
ing freshened. its case is so much the
worse Milk contains some water, but 1t
is SO mixed with fat and casein that 1t
cannot serve as a substitute for water,
as any one may see by placing fresh wa
ter where the hogs can get IL at VIII.
hogs stomach is not large enough 10
hold a great bulk either of food or drink
But the hogs that have fresh water VIII
have better digestion, and If fattening
will be more free from fever for having
pure water. on many farms so much
salt meat is freshened. and the water
used i'm doing this Is saved for the swill
barrel, that the hogs fed swirl are con-
stantly suffering intense thirst, making
them unhealthy and diminishing tnelr
ability to make the best use of the food
Mixing Fertilizers.-It does not pay to
20 into the business of preparing mineral
manures such as bones or phosphate
rock unless il can be done on large
scale. Bones are hard to dissolve either
with acids or alkalies and cannot be got
into condition for spreading evenly over
the surface, except under difficulties that
make ii Improbable. The commercial
uhosphates are sold lower than farmers
with the bones furnished free of cost. Be
sides. raw bone makes ar excellent poui-
try feed and it produces, as might be
expected a strongly phosphate manure.
what the poultry can't eat, should be
ground as finely as possible, and mixed
with composing stable manure, which Is
usually deficient in phosphate.
Keeping a Large Stock OF FoWs.-We
have often been asked our opinion about
the keeping of fowls IN large mum p ,.
and we have always discouraged the idea
unless the poultry farmer was an expert
enced hand with fowls and had a certain
amount of money to spare in making the
Experiment. The number of poultry that
"a \ nroftabIy be kept by one person de-
nends tIDon the accommodation available
FOR the purpose, the time at disposal for
the feeding and cleaning of houses and
wards, and the expert knowledge OF the
person in charge. Also there Is the OPP
nortunity to sell the eggs ana surplus
stock AT a fair price to be considered.
Wfth experience and suitable premises one
man could attend to from 500 to 800 fowls,
with a little assistance, and make them
nav we'll but ninety-nine OF 100 would
make a failure of the attempt
Making over Old Peach Trees.-Some
of the older peach growers IN the south
seem to have a method Of making the
peach tree renew its youth after FIVE or
Six years Of bearing, by saving on the en-
ire tree five Of six feet from the ground
and letting it send out new branches.
year of fruiting Is lost, but young, Wgor-
0us and prolific branches are the result
in semi-fropical regions where yegeta-
ton is so luxuriant.
The tree strawberry of strawberry
raspberry is a unique introduction from
japan. 1t is dwarf plant fifteen to