The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-09-16
Earm md Garden Notes.


Much barnyard manure in this country
is wasted.
What we want is more vegetables and
fewer weeds.
Cut out the thin shoots from currants
and the fruit will come larger.
Sow some white clover seed and ashes
on the bare spots in the pasture. 1t will
pay.
Examine the mouth of young stock to
sec if they have loose teeth in the way of
feeding.
Rich Jersey milk should be thoroughly
cooled before being carried any distance
in cans.
Look out for caterpillars, not only on
fruit trees, but destroy them on all the
wild shrubs.
A ton of hay is said to contain 200
pounds of mineral matter, which is taken
from the soil.
The soil is the farmers bank, manure
draws the checks, and the stock grower
has the manure.
The best means of obtaining q profit
from any class of stock is to keep the
best and keep it we'll.
Try plaster on all kinds of soil you
have, and learn where it does best and if
it will pay anywhere.
A great improvement in dairy stock is
made by selecting thoroughbred bull
of good milking family.
Watch your fields and see where the
water stands and where the soil remains
wet longest, so you will know where to
put in drains next fall.
There is way to enrich our lands
that is by plowing often and raising
clover, and all Of lis can keep more stock
and make more manure if we will only
try. We can increase our forage crops
each year by little calculation before.
hand.
A Colorado paper says that "thc COW
may be queen, the horse king and the
sheep away up in royal honors; but it is
an indisputablc fact that the hog, under
the impetus of alfalfa and pea food, is
approaching dangerously near the
throne"
Peas are cheaper food for pigs than
corn. They fatten them very rapidly. al.
though they do not make rs solid pork
as corn. They have this advantage over
corn: They mature carly and can be fed
as soon as large enough for green peas,
the pigs consuming vines and all.
A small plot of ground, thickly sown
with barley so soon as the ground is dry
enough, will he eaten bare by sows. 1t
is better to let them have n little piece
for themselves than to allow them to run
over winter and spring grain in the fields,
or than to shut them up to keep them
from trespassing.
Oats when newly threshcd are full of
moi ture and not so profitable to feed as
old, unless there IS much more than
the usual difference in price. New oats
will give some horses the collie and are
therefore not to be given to such on any
condition. The loss of weight by keep.
ing oats till the following summer is
generally pretty we'll up to the amount
gained by increase in price. If new oats
have to be given it should be at first in
rather small rations. which may be in
creased if no bad effects are noticed.
Lovers of flowers should know that
one blossom allowed to mature or Ego
to seed,' Injuries the plant more than a
dozen new buds Cut your flowers, all
of them, before they fade. Adorn your
room with them, put them on your ta-
bles, send bouquets to your friends who
have no flowers, or exchange favors with
those who have. All roses, after they
have ceased blooming should be cut
back, that the strength of the root may
90 to forming new roots for next year,
and on these bushes not a seed should be
allowed to mature.
We can state in what situation lime
has been found useful. From its power
to decomposc it has been found useful on
poor granite soils. From its caustic ma
turc it corrects injurious matter, such as
sulphatc of iron in soil. Lime breaks
up and pulverizcs still clays, improving
their texture. 1t dccomposcs inert veg
etable matter, peat, roots, &c. Ithastcns
the decay of stable manure and dead
carcasses, putrcsccnt matter, NC, but IN
all such cases if the manural qualities
.,rc to be made useful they must be Gov
cred with earth during the action of tho
lime to absorb the ammonia. .-Io'cn Reg
! iStr.