The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-27

roots of the vines where they will be less
affected by sudden changes OF tenn
perature that usually precede attacks OF
mildew and grape rot.-American Cul-
tivator.
Regular Sailing of CdNs.-Salt in mode
rate amounts as doubtless an aid to diges-
ton. The craving for II is natural with all
herbivorous animals, and is especially
strong in those that chew the cud. IL cows
are not sailed regularly the cream from
their milk viii not make butter 80 quickly.
This is possible because lack Of salt allows
food in the stomach to ferment before il
can be digested. This always causes fever
and increases the caseine in the milk. The
same result is caused by the change in fall
from green feed TO dry. Cows should be
sailed at least twice a week. 1t Is better
still TO keep some where they always can
have access 90 It. They will not eat too
much for their good.
knowledge is power In farming. The
farmer who reads what others are doing
Is receiving the experience of those who
have been successful or made mistakes,
which enables him TO adopt any superior
methods or avoid errors that he may make
unless informed. The most unwise course
pursued by some farmers is their OPPOSE
ton to anything seen i'm print. and it
Is strange that this class of persons is
a large one. Without experiment and im-
provement, and a diffusion of know
ltuHe OF agriculture, the farming interests
would retrogfade instead of progress. The
farmer who reads about what others are
doing can sift the wheat from the chaff
and adopt the best.
Ferulizing Orchards.-It is hard to get
the soil too rich or too fun of vegetable
matter for the best production of vege-
tables With fruits the case Is different.
To secure the best results on thin land
orchards must be fertilized, but Ii must
no houp pgtt Ind ax-
planned In the Farmers Review.
Excessive applicat tons OF stable manure
or other heterogeneous fertilizers should
always be avoided, especially after trees
reach bearing age Such applications
induce rank, sappy growth
more liable to blight and viii surely
cause destructive rotting of the stone
fruits. With apples there Is less danger,
and they may safely be fortified quite
heavily. Excessive wood growth is, how
ever never desirable in Va bearing orchard
OF any kind. The trees should be carefully
watched and be given such treatment
as viii give crop of well-developed fruit
and at the same time a moderate growth
Of wel-matured wood The leaves should
always be Of a dark, rich green, for pinch
ed. yellow foliage indicates starvation.
There Crops In One Seasonal northern
man living in West Tennessee in a letoter
home says: ITO show the productiveness
OF our lands | write you this. In February
last planted Irish potatoes on a half acre
of land and sold them off in May a good
crop, at net price Of 20 cents a bushel.
! then reversed the bed and planted every
second row in. watermelons, blowing out
the intervening row later on. / am now
having nice, large melons from this patch,
and soon they all ripen L will take
off the vines, broadcast some homemade
fertilizer on the same land and SOW turnipa
he lat ~ AaIO 40 haf fafIs
TO grow turnips, l expect fine lot of them
for winter use.
Soil over rich in humus, and consequent-
ly likewise in ammonia, Is not the kind
that Will give the most satisfactory
suits In tomato culture. The land must
be rich enough In the mineral elements,
potash and phosphoric acid, however, with
just enough ammonia to make fair sized
vine, to render it suitable for the best re-
suits. Our ordinary uplands are not ordi-
narily faulty in this respect, and usually
1t is necessary to supply some little am
monia, at least, and there is no better ma
terlal to be used for the purpose than pure
ground bone Ozone dusD If not already
present in the soil, potash must be sup
Piled and for our average soils i'm field
or garden, there is no better application
for tomatoes than mixture of fine bone
meal and ashes, either cotton seed hull
ash or oak or hickory ash thousand
pounds Of bone meal with five hundred
pounds of cotton seed hull ash per acre
lightly plowed into the soil, or narrowed
in, four to eight weeks before planting out
the crop, is a fair application of fertilizer
for medium lands, fairly Supplied with
humus TO adapt il to growing a good crop
of tomatoes. Intensive truckers or garden-
ers, cognizant of the true condition of their
soil might apply double this quantity per
acre and find 1t profitable. Then again.
half the quantity might be found sufficient
for the needs of the one crop, but there is
very little danger of making an over APP
plication when the larger quantity is used
| and plowed In broadcast. Where hard wood
ash Is used to supply the necessary potash
a thousand pounds of 1t to the same guam
| THY Of bone meal is proper enough for gem
eral use.
I In manuring for tomatoes, broadcast
| application is to be preferred always and
| when these substances are used, should be
applied suggested. some weeks in adj
vance of planting.
| All that a farmer has TO do 70 iuau-
| gurate a system of Improvement in his
| poultry is 10 kill off every scrub cock and
| replace them with thoroughbreds; next
season they will all be half breeds. long
| steep ahead.
Half breed chickens, where Plymouth
| males are used. will grow faster and
| reach the broiler size sooner than dung
hills They will also be larger ana finer
fowls at maturity.
| Lime will kin lice 1t is a good disinfec-
| tant; it will purify the air. II win make
| the poultry house clean and free from
| vermin of all kinds.
When oats are fed to fowls they neither
| enervate nor fatten. They make good
ration 10 feed 10 over fat hens--too fat to
| lay well.
In raising poultry for market the profit
| lies in Matching early, pushing the chick
| ems forward as fast as possible and mark
| citing carly.
| If eggs shells are fed to fowls they
should be crushed very fine otherwise the
egg eating vice may be introduced. into the
| poultry yard.
Geese cost very little If allowed the liD-
| erty OF the fields, with access to pond or
stream with its usual vegetation. To at
tempt to make them profitable otherwise
the result will be questionable