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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1897)
(Fm fl ter/j L> \ >3 A' a 'it it i 7, /\T * I.V1 13* CALF FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. Calf feeding experiments at some of the European stations resulted in greater gains iu weight when the calves were fed from a good artificial feeder indead of from a pail. The latter system does not prevent ap pearance of diarrhooa, but diminishes the number of cases. A simple calf feeder is much used in this country— a pail or box with a big rubber teat attached.—New England Homestead, PLANT CORN WILE. G. H. Turner, of Burgess, Mies., has a neighbor who always plants corn in rows seven feet apart and makes forty to sixty bushels per acre, while ad joining fields of his neighbors planted in four-foot rows yield from six to thirty bushels. Mr. Turner asked the man of the wide rows the reason for his practice aud success. The answer was that experiments show that ut tasseling time a stalk of corn takes from the soil through its roots and throws off into the air through its leaves a quart of water per day, if it can get it; and if it can’t get it, it does not thrive. Hence, thinly seed ed corn will thrive through a dry spell that will ruin thickly seeded crops. impressed that Mr. Turner was so ho determined to experiment with cot ton. One piece was planted 2x4, an other 4x4, and another 5x4 feet, one stalk to the hill in all cases. That planted 4x4 yielded twice as much per acre as the piece planted 2x4, and tho one planted 5x4 (four acres) did still better, yielding more than a bale to the acre, though the whole four acres had never before yielded as much –3 tiro bales when planted in three and four foot rows with a stalk every eight or twelve inches. Two Texas farmers report similar success with wide rows, Of course, iu such wide rows cultiva tion is much, more easily, quickly and cheaply done, ami at the last cultivat ing peas or some other catch crop is sown in the broad middles. — Home and Farm. "-x ALOFT MOULTING. Those who witness tho moulting of the hens do not, perhaps, consider how important the operation is to the feathered tribe in general. It is the casting away of the old covering, the putting on of new clothes, so to speak, say the Poultry Keeper, but tho pro cess is a gradual one, requiring three months for its completion. The majority of persons have no patience with a moulting hen. They think she ought to lay when she is moulting, but, if they will reflect a little, they will conclude that nature is economical in her workings, and does not devolve upon her creatures tho fulfillment of more than one task at a time. It is ns much as she can do to piss through the period of moult ing safely, for, should she catch cold or become sick from any cause, her system will be too much out of order to arrive at good health again. Although the hen becomes, as a rule, rather fat while moulting, this is due to the fact that when her food is assimilated, the feathers require for manufacture nearly all of the lime, phosphoric acid and nitrogen that is contained in the food, but require very little carbon. The hen may, therefore, grow fat and yet be weak, for she may be richly supplied with certain elements of which she always has an excess, while being very de ficient in other elements that are ab solutely requisite for the purpose of ply moulting. As tho hen has now to sup her own bodily wants, as well as to grow feathers, she has a great drain on her system, and to neglect her for a single day makes it very precarious for her. Then, again, during tho process of feather making, there are other min erals that are urgently demanded by the system, such as iron and sulphur. When the hens are moulting, give them a generous supply of bone meal, charcoal, meat and vegetables, tinc ture of iron in the drinking water.and a few pinches of red pepper occasion ally, makes a tonic for them. The hens that moult the earliest al ways begin to lay the soonest, and, therefore, it is best not to dispose of those that moult early. When once ft hen is through moulting she has a good start ns a layer, and has no further work to do till the succeeding fall but lay, and, if well, will do well in the winter, especially if the quar ters are warm. If early pullets are well grown the late moulting hens nm.y be sent to market, and they will retain laving till warm weather in the, spring, and late pullets will not lay iu ■"inter at nil, unless they have ma th, eu quickly. BUTTED SALTING. Salt ir, n quefflioii of taste on the part of the consumer, a thing to bring out the flavor a little sharper. It is not a preserver of butter, says John Gould in Ohio Farmer, salt butter so that it will suit ever .Y ouo is a difficult thing to do. Ny way will not suit somo other butter maker who makes No. 1 butter, and bis will not agree with my views. But however we may do it, it is simply ono °* munv way3 to get dissolved salt evenly through the mass, aud if tho 8a h* is all dissolved in tho muss of butter, there is only about a half ounce of salt to the pound, and if more, it is salt grams undissolved, which in no case can do the butter any good. All this simplifies what we have to say. There may be better churns than the revolvers, barrel or box, but if so. the best experts have failed to fiad them. Tho best churning cream is that which carries fully thirty-threo per cent, of actual butter fat, and such cream churns out the “cleanest” at fifty-two degrees. But these are figures that proporly belong to separa tor work. Fill the barrel churn a little less thau half full of well mixed, slightly acid cream, and if in summer, it is to be presumed at fifty-eight de grees. The time to commence to salt the butte* is just before the cream begins to distinctly break, at which point a conplo of quarts of fair brine at fifty eight degrees should bo added to the cream to break up the casein and help to liberate the fats. As soon as the cream has come into distinct grains of butter add a gallon of water at fiftv* live degrees for each two gallons of cream and agitate slightly, and within a few minutes draw out the fluid with out disturbing the mass of butter on the surface. Repeat the washing, but it is well to dissolve a little salt iu this second wash ; some say it is to prevent dissolving out the flavor. Let this, after mixing, run off as thoroughly as it can without assistance. “Guess” an ounce of salt to the pound of butter as it lies on the bottom of the churn and sprinkle on. Stir it up with a little wooden fork, gently, lifting up the butter as the salting proceeds, the objects of which, lifting up ihe butter as flaky as possible, to facilitate tho even distribution of the salt. Put on the cover and churn the butter into lumps, and then with the fork break them up and churn again with a slow swing as at the start. Place the butter on a clean worker,and with a flat roller press cut auy surplus moisture and pack into some of the fancy packages at once. The butter worker is not neces sary as the churn can do it all. This butter should be salted as nearly as possible at fifty-five de grees. If it should not work well it will be on account of the temperature, which can be raised a little, or low ered if too soft. There is much in the cow and the character of ths feed given that must be taken into account, and methods varied to suit tho case. From the worker pack directly, or print, for with such salting of the but ter nothing can be gained in securing better texture by keeping it twenty- final four hours before putting on the touches. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Chopped onions are beneficial if fed to your poultry occasionally. Provide your poultry with a warm coop and a good scratching place if you want eggs this winter. White Wyaudottes lay brown shelled eggs as a rule. They are equal to Ply mouth Rocks in this respect. In order to secure satisfactory re sults it is customary to mate cockerels with hens, and cocks with pullets. Never use kerosene on tho body of a fowl. Lard alone is sufficient. All greasy substances will soil the feathers. Tho Plymouth Rock, according to the Standard, should have five points on the comb, but six points are al lowed. Look out for those commission firms that solicit consignments of butter, cheese and otffer farm products offer ing a price above the market. They often pipve to be frauds that fail to make any returns rather than bigger ones. In the creameries o: Australia and New Zealand it is the general rule to heat the milk before separating to from 1G0 to 180 degrees. This is practioally pasteurizing both the cream and the skim milk before skim ming and may be one reison why Aus tralian butter is eo satisfactory to the English markets. A warm, convenient “barn base ment” furnished with waler, and an adjoining silo, aud containing one thousand bushels of beets and man golds, some for every aniaal ou the farm, except the dog and cat, and not even excluding the chicksns, “will make a cow laugh in winter,” as my grandfather used to say in regard to the wisp of hay his hand lake would glean while crossing the hayfield. And if a herd of cattle laugh often you may be sure they will grow fat. SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. THE NEW NAVY. Interesting; Figures From An Officer of the Cruiser Kalelgli. In his address at Tampa, FI a., be fore the Const Defense and Harbor Improvement convention, Lieut. W.F. Fullam, of the cruiser llaleigh, gave some interesting facts concerning the strength of the United States navy in comparison with the navies of other countries. Among other things, the lieutenant said: “We have heard a great deal about the “new navy” of the United States, but it is important that the people shall not get the false idea that we have now built ships enough to meet the naval needs of the United States. The following table shows the number of ships iu our own ami foreign waters: England...... 333 France....... 237 ltussia....... 131 Italy......... 100 Germany ..... 80 United States 72 including all that are authorized to be built. Foreign nations are constantly adding to their fleets. Since 188‘J England lias added one hundred aud seventy-nine new ships to her navy— more than twice as many as we have altogether. “In torpedo boats we are still fur ther behind, as will be seen from the following table: England..... 1GG France ...... 234 Russia....... 173 Italy......... 179 Germany_____ 145 United States . 18 including all that are authorized. Thus, foreign nations have from eight to four teen times as many torpedo boats as the United f?tates has, for the protection of its 13,000 miles of sea and lake coast.” A Fifty-two Years* Case. “Tetterine is the only remedy l ever sbld that would make a permanent cure of tetter. 1 sold It to a person w ho had tetter on his hand for tifty-two years, and two boxes cured him ” 11. 11 Tannek, McDonald's Mill, tin. 1 Box by mail for 50c. in stamps. J T. Buvptkine, Savannah, Ga. Be silent or say something that Is better than silence. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cured. 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Practical experiments at Ala bama Experiment Station show conclusively that the use of “Kainit” will prevent that dreaded plant disease. All about Potash—the results of its use by actual ex periment on the best farms in the United States—is told in a little book which we publish and will gladly for mail free to any farmer in America who will write it. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. Hi NDY CATHARTIC i -> 11 CURE CONSTIPATION 10 * ST? 9 . ALL 25 * 50 DRUGGISTS ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED tej pie and booklet free. Ad. STERLING REMEDY CO., Chicago, Montreal, Can., or New York. 217. The Tost. “That follow puzzles me—I can't make out whether he’s a philosopher or u fool.” “That’s easy to find out.” “How?” “Call him the latter. . Tf he makes a fuss he isn’t the former.”—Somer ville Journal. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists soil at 25c. per bottle. Wiikn bilious or costive, oat a Cascarot, candy cathartic; euro guaranteed; 10c., 25o. 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