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

strange to advice applying wood ashes un-
leached to stable manure just before IL is
plowed under. Yet this Is often a good
thing 10 do. While exposed TO the air. es-
peclally if the manure be wet so as to
leach the ashes. there will be some loss
of ammonia. But so fast as the manure
and ashes are turned under, this waste of
ammonia ceases. The ashes cause the
manure to ferment rapidly, and in con-
tact with the soil none of the ammonia
will be lost In fact much of il will com
bine with the potash in the ashes form
ing nitrate of potash. which is the most
effective manure known
Stable Manure in the Soil--When coarse
stable manure is plowed under, and there
rs moisture enough in soil and manure
to cause its fermentation. il Immediately
begins TO furnish plant food for crops. 1t
does this all the better in early spring
as the manure under the furrow holds 81
up, ana admits warm air from above
which Is just what is required to cause
active fermentation. The release of am
monia as the manure ferments enriches all
the soil above it, as the constant tendency
OF warm air is to rise. Hence there is
sood reason for applying manure as top
dressing during the winter on land that
is TO be plowed for hoed crops in the
spring This blowing should always be
done in April, and the earlier the better
A-'N N"AiS biOWSu lduu gets more OF Nnc
pehent OF spring rains, and the manure
under the furrow begins to ferment more
quickly.
SOIL injured by Trampling There is no
time OF year when injury may not be done
to soil by having stock run over il. But
there is greater danger of this in moist.
open weather in winter than at any other
time in the year. There is nothing for
stock TO get at this season by roaming
over the fields. even IL they are bare Of
snow. The poachng which pasture and
meadow lands get by being tramped in
late fall or open spells during the winter
destroys much grass. 1t is not much If
any better when the field has to be plow-
ed in spring. The soil will turn up full
OF clods made by the poaching, and 1t will
take great deal of extra cultivation to
make the piowed surface into a seed bed fit
for any hoed crop.
Georgia Peaches-Only ten years ago
Georgia peaches were almost unknown in
Boston market, says a Boston exchange.
But few had ever been sent north and
few of these reached any point beyond
New York city. In 1899 the state shipped
800 carloads, and in 1896 II had reached 1000
carloads II is probably now the largest
peach-growing state i'm the union, having
grown in round numbers last year the
enormous amount of 6.500000 baskets. The
next states are Delaware, Maryland and
California i'm the order named. About
2.5OO,G00 peach trees are estimated to be
in bearing in the middle and southern
parts of the state with from 100000 to 200
900 more trees planted and growing, ard
some extensive orchards outside of these
limits. Some of these peach orchards con
tain from 10000 to 10000 trees, but most Of
them are of 1900 to 5000 trees, or twenty
five to thirty acres each Georgia Is also
one of the three leading states in the pro-
duction of pears, and, as is well known, the
greatest producer of watermelons. In the
melon season a Georgia darkey would rot
exchange places with a millionaire who
was where watermelons were unknown.
Charcoal for Hogs.-liogs that are fat
tening will often eat charcoal quite greed
lily. That from corn on the cob is prob
ably the best as the cob contains a very
considerable amount of potash. which cor
reefs the acidity of the stomach. Corn Is
a very heavy and rich grain and hard of
digestion for any animal In the quantities
that fattening hogs eat of corn II Is no
wonder If the stomachs are cloyed A lit
tie charcoal will greatly improve their APP
petite. Even hogs that are not fattening
will eat some charcoal. 1t has some nu-
triton and they are in no danger Of eating
too much.
Killing Pork Early.-After severe cold
weather begins, though the appetite OF fat
tening hogs improves, they need so much
of the carbon in their food to furnish heat
that a much smaller part of 1t can go to
make fat. There is very rarely any profit
in keeping fattening hogs after the first
of the new year During the holidays there
is a glut of fresh meats in market so that
pork does not sell so well as it does either
earlier or later. But it is often late in
spring before pork makes much advance
over what It was early. This advance the
farmer can get just as well by putting his
pork in the barrel instead of keeping 1t on
the hoof eating grain without enough gain
in weight to pay for it.
Soil Fertility.-The fertility of soil de-
ponds upon it's ability to supply plants
with all the elements of food which they
require No one of the elementary sub
stances which are always found In the
composition of a plant can be dispensed
with. AS an animal cannot life or thrive
without a proper supply of the ordinary
elements of food, so a plant requires a
regular supply OF these various elements
from the soil plant poorly supplied
with potash or nitrogen, for instance,
would produce only a sickly growth, and
if entirely deprived of these, or of any
other essential element. would die. Fer
tile soil, therefore, must contain not only
large quantities OF plant 1000, but sum-
cient quantities of every kind of food
which plants obtain from the soil 10 sup
ply the wants of the crop.
Deficient Fertility.--In a state of nature
fertility Is naturally maintained. Plants
that grow upon the soil die and decay
upon 1t. Thus, those elements of fertility
which have been withdrawn from the soil
by plants in their growth are returned TO
il by their death. In the process of agri-
culture by removing crops, we take away
a quantity of these elements, year by
year. If this is continued and nothing
is returned to the soil, in the course of
time it becomes impoverished. The supply
OF plant food is exhausted, and not enough
is changed to an available form, year by
wear, to produce a crop. Land that is
run out" in this way may still contain
large quantities of some elements of ter
tiiity. being deficient only in a few BY
supply the latter we may still keep up
the fertility of the land for many years.
Good Paste.-As farmers wives and res
idents of small villages are usually oblig-
ed to do their own paper hanging. it is a
great advantage to know how to make
paste that Is warranted to stick TO any
wall, no matter how often it has been
whitewashed No sizing Is necessary.
First stir your flour smooth with cold