The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-09

! iluNH INJURY. ltS roots also hold the soil
from washing by rains, and this grass is
often successfully grown on hllsides.
! though il is mainly used for low land seed
| ing
Sailing Cows Regularly.-S is an i'm
| portant aid to digestion, and especially to
all ruminaut animals. If cows are not
sailed frequently, they will eat more than
Is good for them when they do get access
to salt. In large quantities salt is laxa-
tive II being an irritant to the bowels
which are therefore purged to get rid of
it, Failure to salt regularly will make
the cream more difficult to turn into but
ter. thus repaying the farmer for his care
lessness by giving him longer and hard
er job at churning.
Red Pepper for Poutry.-The habit of
dosing fowls with various hot condiments
in order to improve their condition is very
like similar habits in human beings. Ii is
likely to result in permanent loss Of
health. Only when chicks or old fowls
are sick Is 1t allowable to use such means
to restore health, and then only medicin-
ally ana for one or two doses If chickens
are chilled by being draggled through the
wet, two or three small pieces Of red pep
per Will excite the internal organs to ac-
uon. Then II food is eaten IL will be di-
Sested and no more dosing will be need
ed. some people dose fowl with pepper
IN cod weather to keep them warm. If
| fowls are out Of condition and moping in
| winter 1t is more likely lack Of gravel or
| broken clam shells to dll their gizzards
| with and enable them to digest food than
| Tor any other reason. In summer time
no grown fowl that runs at large needs
any condiments to keep it healthy.
Keeping the Ground Covered.-The best
rule for successful farming is to have
something growing wherever growth is
possible and at other times to keep the
! soil covered with some kind of crop that
| Will prevent its surface being compacted
by rains There is almost every winter
| some weather when hardy vegetation can
make some growth. 1t may not be much
value in itself but whatever grows in
winter uses up fertility that without il
would be washed away. Besides this even
a slight growth i'm winter and spring helps
| to draw off superhuous water from the
| soil, thereby making il warmer and more
! open TO light and air Wherever crimson
clover will succeed, that is much the best
! crop TO sow in fall to cover the ground
over winter We are not sure, even If il
is all killed out in winter. that its fan
growth would not more than pay the cost
| of seeding vacant land with crimson
| clover Ii has considerable manurial value
! even to rot on and cover the ground.
| Destroying Burdocks-It is comparative
| ly easy matter to kill the burdock, though
| il may be hard enough to eXterminate it,
because it seeds so plentifully and the
seed will remain in the ground for years
until it has favorable chance to grow
AS the burdock is biennial il dies out after
it has seeded the second year.
! but that is only after il
has provided thousands and tens of
thousands of seed to perpetuate its kind
/ All that is needed to kin the plant is to
take a dull ak and chop the root some
thing below the surface, and then throw
on a handful of salt. The burdoek root
! being soft and moist dissolves the salt
! which quickly rots it, so that further
| sprouting of a new top Is impossible. No
| amount of cutting without the salt will do
| the work. The burdock like most weeds,
| is very persistent seeder. We have seen
| il mown down with the scythe two or
! three times during the summer, and yet
| in fall showing several clusters of seed
! burrs near the ground containing enough
| seed TO start hundred burdock plants
| the very next year. The seed burrs cling
! to clothing and to the fur of animals
/ brushing against It, Hence the weed Is
sure to be always widely distributed.
Selecting Seed Corn for the South--The
particular variety to be selected for each
of the different regions depends more on
! the care with which the seed has been
! selected during the last two or three years
/ than upon it's original source, and without
| constant care in the selection OF seed any
variety will soon run out The first
! picking viii give better seed than VIII the
/ later gatherings and If the seed be saved
from the best stalks only, the practice Will
soon work a marked improvement In any
| variety Even when this cannot be done
for the entire crop, it will be easy to Sc
| cure enough OF the selected seed 10 plant
| a small field which Will produce sufficient
seed for the entire crop of the second sea-
| SON. so says the Mississippi experiment
] he Itf he fnlInutnp
this plan that nearly all OF our best va
rieties have been developed and the su-
| periority of any variety is usually very
| good measure of the care and judgment
/ which were exercised in selecting the seed
/ plants OF the original stock.
! Whitewash for Scale-A Tennessee cor
! respondent refers to Mr. Saunders note
/ In regard TO the destruction of scale by
/ limewash. and remarks that he practiced
! Il successfully a half a century ago, add
! ing. however. a little SCOT with the lime
/ wash in order to take away its glaring
color Ii has also been in use by the old
German settlers of Pennsylvania for a
couple of centuries, who applied II not
! merely for the destruction Of scale, but for
! All other insects and injurious fungus
| No trees can be healthier than those old
fashion people can present. No one need
! fear the San Jose scale, or any other scale
| who APPLIES annually a coat OF WhiteWash
as described. 30 many Oh ti'rt ooh'ii" p4N
! horticultural practices Of our forefathers
| have been suffered TO fall into disuse to
! be replaced by other more complicated
and less satisfactory applications that cor
respondents like Mr.. Saunders, who bring
/ these Old worthy practices again to the
| foreground, deserve more thanks than
those who are continually talking Of new
! notions Meehan's Monthly.
Planting Strawberries.-Land should be
! got ready for planting out strawberries
| Pillow deeply and then harrow finely. so
/ that the weed seeds may gerrninate. XIII
/ the weeds as soon as terminated by har-
rowing again and again. In this way the
/ plot may be cleared OF weeds, and Is then
| ready for planting. The use Of potash as
"a fertilizer for strawberries Is very highly
commended by number OF the largest
| growers. Some Of them apply as much as
| 500 pounds Of kainit or 30 pounds Of muri-
| ate Of potash 90 the acre. These heavy
| applications should be well worked into
/ the land before setting out the plants. n
farm-yard manure Is used. II should be
well rotted. so as 10 be free from weed
seeds. Re careful 20 select varieties that
| are known 10 do well IN your section for
/ q main frou 4 SELECTION Of different va