The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-08-15
INQUIRIES and Answers.

No. ]. "Would truck farming and
''stock raising pay on a twenty-five acre
"farm immediately; upon Il railroad and
'eighteen miles from market?"
The locality is good and the distance
from market is just right. Dairymen in
New York State make money by ship
ping milk over one hundred miles every
day. But how to raise stock and sell
truck. from q twenty-five acre lot Is
'hucklcberry over our simmon." If tho
land were very rich and the locality heal
port himself by selling milk and butter
from that farm, but wo do not under
stand how he could do much more.
Possibly some of our truck farmers can
and will answer the above more satisfac-
torily than we can. We would unhesi-
tatiigly say there is no money in that
No. 9. "Will you please give us your
"experiencc with the red rust-proof
~"oats?" =
We havo been giving this to the public
at least once q quarter for nearly ten
years, and were we to attemptto condense
it in one writing we would have to pub
lish an octave volume. We say to you,
if YOU never have tried the red oats, buy
one, five, or ten bushels at once, as soon
as possible after the cotton in your best
field is picked over tho first lime IN Sep
tcmber, run two shovel burrows between
every two rows, SOW the oats atthe ratio OF
one and a half bushels per acre, and cover
with one furrow made by a shovel and
heel sweep, or two shovel burrows. In
February knock down the cotton stalks,
and when ripe cut the oat crop. House
the oats one week after harvesting, and
cut up with cutting knife what is fed to
plough or work animals, and if you have
enough to last always neither you nor
your work stock need ever care whether
corr is ten cents or ten dollars q bushel.
No. 8. II have seen you quoted as au-
"thority for giving strychnine to hogs to
"keep or thieves. I've used tho pre-
"scription' with good results, but have no
"idea that it would hurt a pork stcaler to
"eat q hog that had swallowed it,"
You have seen us misquoted, for we
counselled against such a policy when
once appealed to. If, however, the public
could be as successful rs you have been
in frightening off the thieves, we would
not hesitate to recommend the use OF this
deadly poison, for though deadly to man,
dogs and perhaps other animals, strych-
nine is not poisonous to hogs. We have
a fine Essex SOW that we gave daily what
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a eocket-knire, during last winter, until
She ate more than an ounce. She seemed
to be improved in health by it; we would
simply put it in q biscuit and give her the
biscuit to eat.
No. 4. "Have you ever tried the Victor
"N1ill and Cooks Evaporatar?
We have not tried the Victor Mill, but
have seen it frequently at work, and we
know it does good work but why 60 thai
far from home far a mill? AS good
mill as any man need wish to own was
made for us at the Nisbet Iron Works, in
Macon, Ga. and as mills are made in
Charleston and Columbia, [John Alex
ander, Of Columbia, makes such ar
ticles at lower rates] why mot buy
nearer homo, if you only save freight
We once invested in a Cooks Evaporation
and never felt that we had proiitcd by the
Investment; indeed we thought it ahum'
bug. and it burnt out long before We
we're paid back. We have, however
heard practical men say that they were
well pleased with them.
No. 5. "Will the red oat degenerate
"into the back oat? I find many black
"seeds amongst my rcd oats"
If the red oat is loft in the field in tho
stock and is frequently wet by rain, il
pcts very dark and is almost black, but
never looks like what is known as the
Hack oat, This season the oat crop Is
very much discolored by the wet fort
night in June, but that would not be the
case with the crop grown from those very
seed if harvest time next year should bt
dry. The black oat is q distinct variety
yery hardy, sometimes heavier than tho
red oats, and is seldom affected by rust
We know farmers who to this day SOW
black oats in preference to red, because
they believe them to be a surer crop
Where travelling throshcrs are useo
mixed seeds arc almost inevitable.
No. 6. "Has not the Executive Com
"mlttee of the National Grange had II
"thcir hands for revision and publication
"a digest of the laws, &C., OF the Patrons
"of Husbandry tor some time! Ii so
"why is it not published?'
GET q COPY of the Grange Record, pub
lished ut headquarters i'll Louisville, KY.
issued 1st July, land to which you should
subscribe,) aud in it you will see VIII.
the Digest has not been printed earlier
It is, however, now published, and is IL
tho hands of Secretary Kelley, Louis
Vile, KY, from whom you can get q cop.
by sending him twenty-five cents:
No. 7. "Is thore a Grange store il
"South Carolina? And If SO, who keep
sit, and upon what conditions does b
"trade with PatrOns?" .
We don't exactly understand what |
meant by q Grange store. Oranges have
no business with stores further than t.
invest in and %patronize ~co-operativ
stores, which may be owned by Patrons
but have customers wherever they cal
get them. Such stores trade only TO
cash, and seldom fail. There are n o
two in South Carolina running IN small
capital, which is their peculiar advantage
We hope our friend is not inquiring TO
the kind of Grange store we saw at
!, small country town in Kentucky lately
The sign, at least ten feet long, had on j
in very large letters GRANGE STORE W
stepped in and found it to be q BARRON
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