The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
Farm and Garden Notes.


Corn meal produces more milk than
sorghum meal does.
1t is said that fresh, clean hogs lard
rubbed on warts of horses or cattle three
or four times, will remove those excres-
cences.
Do not forget to supply your fowls,
especially those that are confined, with
fresh bones that are well cracked.
Beans that are weevil eaten can be
used for seed by pouring boiling water
over them, which will destroy the insect
without injuring the germ.
= DR.. Sturtevant advises that plum trees
be grown in the poultry-yard. His ex-
perience is that poultry about the trees
prevent the work of the curculio.
If pumpkins are fed to mich COWS,
the seed should not be allowed to be
eaten. They reduce the flow of milk
through their action on the kidneys.
A correspondent asks, ''Can the
ounce be grated successfully on the
pear9" Most fruit growers, responds the
New York Herald, agree that it cannot.
It is not safe to feed potatoes, tur
nips or other small roots to COWS without
slicing. Cattle chew food very little before
it goes into the stomach, and small hard
roots are just the shape to readily choke
them.
A top-dressing OF well-decomposed
manure may be spread with benefit on
lawns that were not overthrifty during
the summer. Give dressing also to trees
and shrubs that failed to make satisfac
tory growth.
Few farmers try to save liquid man
ure in liquid form. 1t is too much labor
to spread evenly on the land. Neverthe-
less those farmers make great mistake
who do not save it by obsorbents, so
that it will 60 on the land and help the
crops.
A few shovelfuls of earth thrown
among beets, whether stored in the eel
lar or in pits, will greatly improve their
keeping qualities. In cellars this is
especially necessary, and covering of
sods over the top of the heap is a further
advantage.
Apples may be kept as follows: Fill
nearly to the top, barrels with the apples,
and then pour in fine, dry sand, and
shake down gently till all the corners
are filed with sand. It is claimed that
the apples cared for in this way will keep
indefinitely.
If cross timbers are placed in cribs
among the corn they will prevent the
latter from moulding by keeping the ears
from settling as the moisture dries out.
A lot of dry cobs of last years crop are
also helpful, as they absorb much moist
ure from the drying ears.
It is mistake to leave low land un-
drained with the idea that it will make
as good pasture as any. If drained it
would be the best soil on the farm for
cropping, and its superior fertility will
help restore other portions of the farm
that have become partially exhausted.
New corn is worth more to feed to
COWS than for any othes stock. They
will eat cob as we'll as grain, which is
not the case with other stock. Ears Of
soft corn are fed with very little waste,
as there is more nutriment in green cobs
than in those that have become hard and
woody.
Road dust or other dry earth is valua
BILE in the stables, not only as en- absorb
cnt for the liquid manure, but as pre-
ventive or cure for barn mango, Or scab.
1t is better than any ointment for that
purpose if it is scattered over the head,
shoulders and back of the animal, but If
used daily on the floor they will gather
enough of it without further trouble.
Anv one who will watch cattle that
have been turned out to pasture Will
wonder how quickly they will learn to
pick out and eat the sweetest herbage.
That on the richest soil not made rich by
recent manuring is best. The grass over
an underdrain is also better than that on
undrained soil. Undoubtedly there is
the same difference in crops cut and fed
to stock, but it is not so easily noticed rs
where cattle make their own selection.
AS a general thing the summer season
through, horses can do more work
than oxen for this reason, If no other
they can stand the heat better. Both arc
important on considerable farm, and if
the oxen is found to be worth the most
ahen age suspends labor, the horse will
have made up the difference by the ce-
lerity of his movements, and the more
diversified uses for which his labor has
been made available. Both are good in
their places, and no extensive farmer is
properly equipped for business who is
destitute of either.--Lesciston Journal.
A farmer, who has made small for