The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-02

growing on it dries it out as deep as you
want to pow. When cay fed has once
been plowed while too wet 1t often Injuries
its productive capacity for several years
thereafter
Sprayiug-A knowledge of why we spray
and how to spray is coming to be regard
ed as essential to successful farming, or
charding or gardening. Formerly 1t was
considered fad, but now it is rapidly be-
ing recognized as a necessity. Spraying Is
often ineffective because applied too late
II is preventive and must be resorted 20
early in the season before the enemy has
made it's appearance. With insect and
fungus pests the old maxim that pre-
Vention is better than cure specially APP
plies. Nearly all the experiment stations
in states where fruit culture is at all
prominent now issue spraying calendars,
telling when. how and with what mixtures
of spray for various insect and fungous
enemies. Readers@interested in the subject
should write to the experiment stations OF
their respective states and secure copy
OF the spraying calendar that nearly all
now issue
Feed Roots to the Hogs.-Many feeders
who believe in root feeding 70 stock, and
practice it, are prejudiced against feed
ing them to swine. For some reason they
believe that any food which will not add
to the weight of the swine is not suited
to them. This is a decided mistake, for
until hog can make the proper growth
OF bone and muscle it is not in condl-
ton to take on fat properly or proftably.
Ii is not that roots have any great
amount of food value. for they do not,
but they act on the digestive organs and
increase the appetite for the food of
fattening nature; hence for this purpose
alone they are valuable as part OF the
winter ration. Hogs that have been corn
fed for many weeks in succession fire.
quently get off feed, and one of the best
correctives for this trouble is q mess Of
roots fed daily for two or three weeks.
Sugar beets and carrots contain more
sugar than most any other root crops,
but mangle wurzles are not to be despised
as giving variety in the ration for swine.
|. Just So.-Market gardening is good
business when in charge Of the right sort
Of man. Any man of industry and ordi-
nary intelligence can grow or learn to
grow the garden truck, for this is the
easiest part of the business. But there
is a business feature as important as
production. The gardener must know
what the market requires, when 1t re-
quires this that or the other, and have
it of proper quality and at the proper
time. All this is easily learned. But
he must know how to market his produce,
and here again he must study his mar
ket. for the purpose of pleasing his Gus
toners and thus loosening their purse
strings while catering to their alimentary
pleasures This requires business talent
and tact, and this talent is not possessed
by all men. nor by all gardeners. Many
of the best gardeners, and best men in oil
ages of the world and in every country
have been sadly deficient in business tall
ent. The market gardener needs business
talent to make his business successful.
Quick Insures Clean Milking.-A COW
when slowly MIXED will not only tend to
reduce her yield in quantity and thus go
prematurely dry but it has been fourd
from experiment that as between slew
milking versus quick milking there was a
difference of 10 per cent. in the butter fat
in favor Of the quick milking, and that
this difference continued during a greater
part of the period of lactation, says the
Market Basket. A COW to yield the larg
est quantity of the richest milk must be
quickly MIXED and cleanly MIXED, for if
this is not done the animals yield is very
much reduced in every respect.
The above from an exchange cannot be 100
fully impressed upon the owner of a single
COW or of a herd The slow mllker makes
the COW tired, and she withholds her milk
little by little until she dries off. In the
strippings are double the butter fat con-
tanned in the milk first drawn. Therefore
milk clean. Quick and clean milking add
both to quantity of milk and amount CT
bitter. and consequently to the profit of
the dairy. And with clean and quick milk
ing have clean hands and clean utensils.
How to Make a Hotbed.-Ifotbeds are
best made in sunken pits below the leve'
of the ground, so as to protect the sides or
the bed from cold winds Without pro &c
ton of some sort the best made beds soon
become cool. The soil taken out e. the
pit can be packed around the outs de Of
the frame to shelter any of the bed that is
above the ground level and also the $ de
of the frame From two 10 two and a
half feet of manure firmly packed together
| will hold the heat for a long time. In the
| MANAGEMENT of hotbeds point Of the first
| importance is to provide for the escape Of
steam from the freshly made bed by tilt
ing or raising the lights at one end. Steam
| is deadly in its effects upon vegetation
| while il lasts. A little air should be left
on at night-say about half an inch-and
of course by day the amount must be Civ
en- in accordance with the strength OF the
! sun. The back of the frame is the proper
place to put on ventila' ion, as it is the
highest point, but If very cold, cutting
winds are blowing from that direction it Is
safer to put air on the front of the sash
until the wind moderates Cover up the
frames at night with mats or STRAIN. etc,
to preserve the equability of the tempera-
ture, but in doing so see that the exit of
the steam Is not prevented. j. H.
Don't Feed Too Much Corn-There is too
much feeding of oorn 60 stock generally
on farms during winter. 1t seems almost
impossible to convince some farmers that
a plump or fat animal is not receiving the
| proper food Corn is without doubt the
most excellent of all grains for fattening
| purposes, but the corn-fed COW is not the
milk giver, nor is the corn-fed eve the
one that drops her lambs and suckles them
without trouble.
Where corn is used as a grain and corn
| stalks for a roughage, 1t is simply ohse
of too much corn. If one feeds corn sim
ply because he has plenty of it, there is
| even less excuse for him than for the man
who must buy his grain. Take some of
the corn to the mill and trade it for wheat
| bran, or sell some of the corn and buy
wheat bran, if you cannot trade. Then
| get hold of some oats as well and fix up
a ration of one-third wheat bran, one
third oats and one-third corn-meal. Give
pound of this mixture to each COW for
every hundred pounds she weighs, and
let her have hay and cornstalks for roug-
hage. This Will keep up the milk supply
! all winter. If she is with calf. feed half
| the quantity of the mixture, and she will
come through the winter in good ehape