The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-10-04
Firm md Garden Notes.

There is no gain in blowing up o
land in the fall. The most approved
practice in the culture of Indian corn,
which requires Il greater degree OF
heat than other crops, is to pillow in
the spring. turning the sod under of
sufficient depth to allow just enough
soil for properly covering the seed.
There is no surer way to destroy the
borers than to dig for them with Il
pointed knife and kill them when
found. If they are high up they may
be crushed with a wire pushed up into
the holes. Coal ashes spread around
the trees are beneficial. The wounded
parts may be covered with 4 mixture OF
fresh cow dung and clay.
Buying wheat bran and cotton-sced
meal for feeding mich COWS, in con-
nection with fodder grown ON the
farm, is one method of buying fertil-
izers for the soil. When large Quanti-
ties of either of these grains are pur-
| chased, fed iudiciously and the anur
saved, a farm should not grow poorer,
even though the milk be soldfor cheese
making.
Breeders have noticed that a remark
| able development of the tendency to
lay on fat is usually accompanied hy Il
delicacy of constitution, a diminished
secretion of milk and Il loss of fecun-
dity. Very fat animals are not likely
to he good breeders; in fact, the eX-
cessive production Of fat is incompat-
lille with a high development of the
reproductive powers.
Cut-worms can be cheated out of de-
| stroving cabbage and other plants by
surrounding each plant with in oak,
hickory or some other strong leaf set
deep enough to prevent blowing away.
Another remedy, said to be effectual, is
to pour sawdust about the roots and
saturate with gas tar water. The saw
dust will retain the scent of thetar and
drive away cut-worms and other in
SectS.
The daily food of Queen of Barnett,
a Jersey COW that has a record Of 746
pounds of butter in 1881, consists of
four quarts of bran, four quarts of corn
meal, eight quarts Of carrots and all
the good hay she can eat daily. Would
there not be more famous COWS if they
had the same treatment? There is Il
good deal of truth in the adage that
1.-The breed is in the mouth" We shall
never know the capacity of common
cows till we give them uncommon ad-
vantages.
DR.. Nichols gives the following exact
figures of the quantities used in reduc-
ing bones with ashes: Break 1O0pounds
of bones into small fragments, and pack
them in Il tight cask or box with 100
pounds of good wood ashes, which have
been previously mixed with twenty-five
pounds of dry water slaked lime and
twelve pounds of powdered sal soda.
Twenty gallons of water will saturate
the mass, and more may be added as
required. In two or three weeks the
bones will he soft enough to turn out
on the barn floor and mixed with two
bushels of good soil.
a correspondent of the Husband
man tells how to raise sixty bushels of
oats per acre, as follows: PlOw the
ground in November; be particular to
turn it all over; then in winter give a
light coat of manure; spread evenly,
from five to ten loads per acre, accord
ing to fertility of land. Early in spring,
as soon as the ground is dry enough,
SOW the oats and work them in with Il
cultivator-going over, and then across;
level the ground by going over once
with a harrow, and roll if desired, thus
getting them in early. y late snow
storm will not hurt them. If not put
in the ground early the ground gets
hard.
a lady, writing to an exchange, says:
Never give up a choice but decaying
rosebush till you have tried watering
it two or three times with SCOT tea.
Take SCOT from a chimney or stove
with which wood is burned and make
a tea of it. When cold water the rose
bush with it. When all is used pour
boiling water a second time on the
SCOT. The shrub will quickly send out
thrifty shoots, the leaves will become
large and thick and the blossoms will
be larger and more richly tinted than
before. TO keep the plants clear of in
sects syringe them with quaSsia tea.
Quassia chips can he obtained from the
apothecaries.