The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-11

until the grass has some substance In
it, and this both for the welfare of the
COW and that OF the pasture.
Making Bordeaux Mixture-When prop
erly made, bordeaux mixture is the best
remedy for apple scab and the different
fruit blights rots. rusts and mildews that
is now in use but IL improperly prepared
il may be very unsatisfactory in It's re-
suits. The formula is six pounds copper
sulphate or blue vitriol. four pounds stone
or quicklime and fifty gallons wafer. Put
the copper sulphate in spllnt basket or
bag and hang it in a cask or tub contain
ing several gallons of water and it viii
dissolve in few hours. Put the lime in
another tub and pour on a little hot water,
having plenty more at hand TO add as the
lime Stakes TO prevent burning or drying
out When slake,l slowly in this way the
lime Will be very fine and free from
humps and not apt to clog the nozzle in
spraying. Dilute the copper sulphate So
tuition to twenty-five gallons in one vessel
and the lime mixture 10 twenty-five gal
Ions in another. and pour the two together,
Don't try 10 prepare the bordeaux mixture
In any other way. 1t is less work to fill
up the spray tank with water and then
add the lime and the copper sulphafe mix
lures, but you can't get good results from
bordeaux mixture prepared in this way.
If you have a large amount of spraying
to do, Stake twenty-four. pounds of lime
at once. which is enough for six times
and dilute to twentv-four gallons Then
measure out four gallons Of the mixture
for each fifty gallon thankful In the same
way, dissolve twenty-four or thirty-siX
pounds sulphate of copper in as many
gallons of water and take six gallons for
each application. Put in one-half pound
paris green to every fifty gallons and you
will kill the tent caterpillar. COOLING moth
potato bugs and other eating insects
Farm and Home.
Sorghum for Feed.-Leroy Gardner Of
Idlewild farm wants to hear from some
one who has raised sorghum for hay.
June 8 of last year we sowed a few acres
at the rate of one bushel of seed per acre
with drill. The season seemed to Just
suit. 1t grew to about five feet. making
the finest of hay. Sept. 13 | cut ii with
mower, let il cure about eight days and
hauled II in. | would. however, recon-
mend sowing earlier, in this latitude
about May 20, or soon after, according TO
the season, so the hay will be ready TO cut
earlier, giving a better chance to prepare
the ground for the fall crop
In preparing the ground for sorghum
pulverize 1t very fine, then SOW with drill
shallow just sufficien, 10 cover. Sow 10,
less than one to one and a half bushels
per acre. When soW&d thick il make :
finer hay and is more easily handled in
loading and unloading. The horse fork is
the very thing to unload with. For nay
cut about the time il heads out; If soweI
lhick ii will not head out much seed AS
for result ! I'M well pleased and will in
crease the acreage. Sorghum makes NOR
iced per acre than any other crop, h@lds
its own in a dry season bstter than some
crops, doesn't spoil as clover or most any
other hay if a wet spell follows cutting. If
sorghum Is planted in rows about three
ana a half feet apart, hills of about eight
| 10 ten stalks each, about eighteen inches
| apart. it makes more seed, and Is an ex-
cellent feed for hogs and cattle Com
mence feeding just as soon as it heads out.
| Stock will eat seed and stalks up c!tan.-
| Rural World
Fertiizng the Orchard Richness OF
soil in plant food is just as important
IN an orchard as elsewhere. Too often
| The orchard is neglected in this respect
| and no orchard can go on giving profita-
| Bile returns for long series of years with
| out being fec. This must be done by APP
| plying manure among The trees, as it is
not possible to rotate. One of the best
manures for fruit trees is the manure
from the horse stables 1t is hardly posi-
bic to improve upon it for general fertil-
| ling. Spread il under the trees in liberal
doses in winter or early spring If the
trees are large, cover the entire ground
except foot around the trunks. Thus
scattered, it encourages root cts to fill the
soil completely and add to the strength
Of the tree. If the poultry house is in OF
near the orchard, and the poultry yarded
therein, they will greatly increase the
fertility of the soil by their droppings
and perhaps keep in check the insects
that sometimes play sad havoc with the
crop of fruit. In this section of country
a low shrubby manner of growth is de-
sirable. as il shelters the trunk from the
blstering rays of the midsummer sun
For the same reason moderately thick
top should be grown. The vitality of all
fruit trees must be A No ] if they ere
to be of any value. The extreme chang
ableness of the weather renders it ahso-
iutely necessary.