The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-24
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Hints for Farmers.

Hints for Farmers.
An old poultry raiser, who believes in
milk for fowls, says: 1T is meat and
drink both. Some of the finest chickens
I ever saw were raised upon the free use
of milk with their food. Hens lay as
well, or better, when furnished with
this than upon any known article offered
them"
Never try to get heavy days work
out of team. Moderate and steady
going are what count in a long race, and
The farmers race is a long one. It takes
but few hours, or even p few minutes,
to so tax horse that he is out OF fix for
months.
The petunia plant is said to be pre-
ventive of potato bugs. In vicinities
where the wild petunia grows tie po.
tato planLs are said to be free from the
dreaded pestilence. 1t does not at
present appear in what way the bugs
are affected.
A run at pasture at night will be use
full for q team, but either the pasture
should be good or the horses should re-
ceive a feed of grain before being turned
out; pasture alone will not be sufficient
for a tired horse that is kept at work
every day.
A farmer of some experience says that
he has raised turnips with corn many
years, and has never had reason to sup:
pose the corn crop was at all lessened
by the turnips. for really they are not an
interference. They make nearly all their
growth after the corn is ripe.
The cultivation of turnips and ruta-
bagas consists of keeping free from
weeds, and thinning out to proper dis
tance. One good root at every nine
inches is far better than two or three
poor ones in that space. To have good
sound roots of any kind, sufficient room
must be given,-American AgricultursSt.
French poultrymen sometimes feed
their poultry for the market with boiled
and steamed carrots. The fattening
qualities ofthe root are quite wonderful, ,
and it is said that peculiar flavor is
impaired to the flesh that suits the taste
of the French epicure. The large, yel-
low carrots are considered the best for
this purpose. =.
The lovers of flowers should watch
the cuttings and layers they have been
propagating. As soon as they begin to
make root they should be potted into
small pots, the smaller the better so they
are kept moist, and given a sunny place.
AS soon as the pots are well filled with
roots, repot them into larger pots, and
they will make nice plants for winter
CultivGtor.
Families OF farmers in drying fruits are
reminded that the solar heat is not suffi-
ciently intense to destroy insect eggs that
may have been deposited in the fruit
when green or during the process ofdry-
ing. If put in moderately warm oven
for ten minutes, all parasites and their
eggs would be destroyed. In countries
where fruits are extensively dried this
treatment is practiced generally.
If wet weather occurs when beans are
ready TO pull, it is necessary to protect
them from the rain. This may be done
by driving stakes in the ground, and
stacking the beans around them, and
then covering the top with straw. In
pulling beans by hand, three or four rows
may be thrown together, and left loosely,
so that they will cure. Then, in case OF
threatened rain, they may be quickly
gathered into stacks.-AQrsGalI1'sst; .ia 1;;.,,a
Farmer tried four different fertilizers for
melons-poultry droppings. well-rotted
COW manure, barnyard manure and old
bones GATHERED upon the farm and re-
duced by placing them in alternate layers
with ashes the previous year,, mixing
all literally in the different hills, which
were eight feet apart each way, and he
says: "Such a crop of melons as came
from the hills that had bone-dustl never
saw before"
The hoe, rake, or other wedding i'm
plements must be frequently run along
the rows Of growing vegetables. The
weeds must be killed. We hope that the
time will come when every farmer will
know the comfort that a we!l-planted
and well-kept kitchen garden may bring
him. Too many are yet content with
salt pork and old beans, when they might
have abundance Of spinach, green peas,
r4dishes. lettuce, onions, tomatoes, etc:
As the early crops come off they should
be replaced by others, so that the garden
may show no fallow or unoccupied
ground. Provide for successive crops of
peas, radishes. sweet corn, etc.-f"rn'
anil Field.
Health Hints.
Refined chalk made into a thick plas-
ter with one-third as much glycerine as
water, and spread on the parts, will cool
inflammation and reduce redness of the
nose or face.
To stop bleeding take the fine dust of
tea and bind on the wou1d. This is at
all times accessible and easy to obtain.
After the blood has ceased to flow, q
few drops of laudanum will help close up
the wound.
Oranges are very beneficial if eaten
early in the morning. In cases Of dys-
pepsia an orange eaten every, morning
before breakfast will greatly alleviate, if
not entirely cure the malady.
Here is another recipe for the removal
of warts: Dissolve as much common
washing soda rs the water will take up;
wash the warts with this for a minute
or two, and let them dry without wip-
ing. Another way is to get little bull
locks gall, and keep it in a bottle: rub
little on the warts two or three times
day, and in a short time they will dis
appear.
A sick person can be sustained by this
when nothing else can be taken: Make
q strong cup OF coffee. adding boiling
milk as usual, only sweetening rather
more; take an egg, beat yolk and white
thoroughly together; boil the coffee,
milk and sugar together, and pour 1t
over the beaten egg in the cup you are
going to serve it in. This is often used
in hospital service.
Tea is recommended for the following
cases: After full meal, when he sys::
tenn is oppressed; for the corpulent and
the old; for hot climates. and especially
for those who, living there, eat freely, Or
drink milk or alcohol; in cases OF sus-
pended animation; for soldiers and
others marching in hot climates; by pro-
noting evaporation and cooling the
body, it prevents in degree the effects
of too much food as of too great heat.
Fattenine Melons.
Lhlr Home Journal says that melons
NAV be fattened in the following mali
ner. namely: Before the melon has at
tanned It's full size and while in 4 grow
ing condition, insert the end Of strip
of fine cotton cloth, about half an inch
wide and three or four inches long, into
the stem of the watermelon, by splitting
the steam with sharp penknife anG
place the other end of the st.ip in the
neck of wine bottle filled with water,
inclining the bottle so that the water
may be absorbed by the string, which
acts as syphon, and making the end on
the outside of the bottle little lower
than hat which is within the bottle.
Within twenty-four hours the bottle