The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-27
Earn, and Garden Notes.

Frequent changes of food for fowls
are indispensable to success.
Potash salts are most valuable if ap-
piled to grass lands which have previous
ly been we'll drained.
In whitewashing your hennery put
some kerosene oil into the mixture for
the benefit of the hen lice.
Many costly fowl houses fail to keep
healthy the inmates principally because
of the absence of thorough ventilation.
In fattening hogs, if they are fed in
open pens or in muddy ground, fully one
fourth of the corn may safely said to be
wasted.
A hen may be calculated to consume
one bushel of corr annually, and to in
the same time laySten dozen, or fifteen
pounds of eggs.
When you have piyen an animal dose
of sulphur be careful to keep it warm
afterward. Sulphur opens the pores and
they take cold easily.
1t is acknowledged by all who breed
poultry that meat IS an essential portion
of their diet, especially if the fowls are
confined in close quarters.
Bones owe their caluc as fertilizing
material to the phosphoric acid which
they contain, and in less degree to the
combined trogencus matter found in
them.
California farmers raise siXty-two bush
els of sunfower seed to the acre, and
after grinding gallon of oil from each
bushel, feed the refuse to chickens and
COWS.
The value of gypsum as a fertilizer is
believed to be partly due to its action in
fixing volatile anc escaping carbonates
of ammonia and conveying them to the
roots of plants.
1t may seem cXtravagant to cut up and
plant the largest. smoothest and incest
potatoes raised, but very few trials,
taking one year with another, will soon
convince the grower that 1t IS the most
profitable thing to do.
Milk is a constantly changing sub.
stance, and from The moment it Is drawn
from the COW, except when temporarily
arrested by unnatural heat or cold, de-
composition is in progress. Cream has
the same tendency, though not in SC
marked degree.
Hens having liberty to go around the
farm-yard, scratch at the manurc-hcaps,
and run over the adjoining lands to pick
up worms before sunrise, ETC., will get
more than half their living, beside being
exceedingly healthy and laying many
more eggs than # confined to the poultry
yard.
1t is said that plums, pigs and poultry
flourish well together. If plums are
planted in grounds occupied by pigs and
chickens good crops nearly always result
The pigs continually disturbing the soil,
and thus preventing the growth of weeds,
hinder the curculios from secretine
themselves at night.
Those who, are cultivating raspberricE
and strawberries, says the Nebraska
Farmer, should net forget that sten
that has borne one crop is of no more
value. and should be disposed of in order
to make room for the new shoots, oi
which not more than two should bt
allowed to remain. These should bs
tied up to sticks or trellises, and wher
blackberrieS are five feet high the tip!
should be pinched off, and raspberries a
three feet high.
Never allow any one to tickle YOU
horse in the stable, says the Farming
World. The animal only feels the tor
ment and does not understand the joke
Vicious habits are thus brought on
Never clean horse in the stables; th'
| dust fouls the CRIB end makes him foath'
his food. Gse the currycomb light
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