The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-19

destruction, for experience has proved
that no former has yet been q first class
practitioner on the farm who did not
keep closo watch on tho method OF
breeding his animals and keeping them
up to perfection.
l THINK the value of flax straw for
feeding stock depends generally on how
much seed there is in it. I have stack
ed upon my place seventy. five or one
hundred tons Of flax straw. Ihave also
quantity OF. prairie hay, which l dc
not value very highly for the wlntering
OF stock, and L WAS obliged to fence it
i'll to keep 1t from being eaten up, while
my flax straw went untouched, I would
not give 80 cents ton for flax straw
Tor feeding stock, as there is not auy
substance i'll it.
10 PROTECT ten roses they may be
pottcd and placed away in light, warm
cellar. Hardy varieties should be COY.
cred with coarse litter from tho stable
but this should not bo done until the
ground begins to freeze, and the pro.
lection should not he removed until the
ground is completely thawed.
WHEN tue ground becomes frozen, or
no other work oilers, preparations for
canal ways may be mndo for advancing
prospective work when it arrives. Bean
poles may be made; and if the ends are
oharred and then clipped in coal tar the
commonest material will be rendered
nearly equal to the best cedar
WHITE worms, which infest occnsion-
ally all soils where plants arc kept in
pots, may bo removed as follows: Limo
water may be sprinkled over the soil, or
little slaked lime may be sprinkled
also on the earth and III tho saucer of
the pot. Limo water may easily be
made by shaking large piece Of limo in
a pail of cold water, letting 1t settle and
then 5ottling for use. Give each pot
tablespoonful twice a week.
EXPERIEnCED 1, builders and 9TH
ers who use woou in the rough for ties,
posts. etc., unite III tho opinion that
timber out in summer, while tho bark
will yet peel freely, is much moro dur
ablo than that feled in tho wintor.
There is less of soluble sap in the trunk
and limbs to absorb moisture, torment,
and induce decay.
ACCORDING to tho best informal, on
there are 4 100000 sheep in Texas. This
will, in all probability, be increased
during the coming lambing season 20
per cent. bringing tho number mp to
$500, 900. Valuing thcm Mt So. 50
would make the total valuation of sheep
i'll the State Of Texas, $40, 5000
WEED out your stock and get rid OF
your poor mich and butter COWS. The
profit in u dairy comes wholly from tho
good COWS, while the poor ones not only
do not pay fol their keep but they re-
duco tho profit made by the others.
GOOD butter COW ought not to ent
less than from six to eight quarts of
meal per day, but not clear corn meal,
Bran is not worth much to mako but
tor, but mixed with COM meal gives
health and thrift.
EXPERIMENTS by careful breeders give
some valuable facts for estimating the
cost OF producing pork. 1t is conceded
that one bushel of corn should produce
ten pounds of pork, but verything do
ponds on the management. With good
weather, n good breel, sound corn and
regular feeding this average may be
reached, but not otherwise.
THE proper time to manure strawbor-
ries and other small fruits is In the fall,
which allows time for the soluble Dor
tlols to be leached out and downwartls
into the soil for plant food in spring.
Tho manure also affords protection
against frost.
The Pekin duck is nearly rs large as
a'goose, is entirely white, and can be
kept i'll small Enclosures with only q
trough to bathe In. They grow rapidly
furnish fine fe0ihers, and are excellent
for the table, They arc also good layers
good sitters and careful mothers.
AN excellent mixture for DESTROYING
{ he green fly, thrip and mealy bug is
Q omposed one Gill Kerosene, two ponnds
whale oil soap. pound tobacco Scraps
and eighty gallons water. This is strong
enough for insects, and sufficiently di-
luted to prevent injury to plants.
A KENTUCKY farmer cures fowl cho-
lera by boiling bushel of smnrtweed
in ten gallons of water down to three
gallons, and mixing the decoction with
their food twice day for three days,
t hen every other day for week
A SOUTHERN planter, writing from
Southwestern Georgia, in speaking Of
the amount of farm products that are
necessarily allowed to 60 to waste, says
{ hat "an, economical Yankee would live
on the profits Of our wastage."
MR.. w. w. WOODRUFF, of Vineyard,
Ga., has 100 acres in choice fruit. "Thir.
ty thousand vines, the Atlanta Consti-
ta4tkoa, says, "are in sight from the rail.
road station, and 10000 pounds of
grapes were shipped this season."