The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-16

crs having trees of productive sweet
apples need not destroy them. Proba.
bly, in no other way can as much good
food be produced from a small area as
from an apple tree TINT will bear every
year, as some kinds of natural sweet
apples will.
a New York farmer who grew his
potatoes this season upon a rich piece
of inverted clover sod, q part of which
was treated to a liberal coating of barn
yard manure and the remainder not fer
tilted, states that there was no increase
of yield on the MANFRED portions, while
the loss from rotting was nearly three
times as great as upon that part OF the
field where no was used.
1t is one advantage of turnips that
they arc a crop not damaged but rather
benefited by slight freezing of the
ground. Of course they should not be
handled when frozen, bat in a day or
two after they will have a finer flavor
than before. Some of the harsh, coarse
taste is removed after light frost has
touched the roots. And it will take a
pretty hard frost to spoil turnips, pro.
vidcd they are left in the ground until
thawed.
Before putting new pork in the barrel
it should be thoroughly scalded, to re-
move impurities and to destroy any
germs that would surely affect the pork
if not removed. A barrel that has once
been used to pack beef should never
after be used as a pork barrel. 1t will
he found next to impossible to keep
pork sweet in it. But this is a rule that
does not work both ways. An old pork
barrel is n of the very best for keep
ing beef.
From comparative experiments, Pro-
lessor Z. Wollny: the German lnvestl-
gator, has shown the effect of weeds
upon the productive power of plants.
Both quantity and quality of the crops
were seriously affected by allowing the
weeds to grow, the injury being the
greater the more slowly the plants were
developed. Peas and summer rape suf'
fered least; beans, maize and potatoes
were injured to the extent of forty-tive
to sixty-six per cent. and beets showed
a loss of ninety-scveu per cent.
An authority on diseases of sheep says
the external symptoms of luke in sheep
are: A wasting condition, skin loose and
fabby, sometimes spotted yellow or
black, with a peculiar cracking sound
when handled. After death insects
called fukcs will be found in the liver.
When it has fairly set in rot is incurable.
In the early stages the sheep may be fat
tened. Feeding vegetable charcoal is
said to be a cure. One-half drachm sui
phate of iron and II drachms common
salt should be given daily, mixed in the
food.
Thoroughly fattened turkeys and
chickens should be picked dry, hung up
until the animal heat has escaped, and
then packed in clean straw, each fowl
being separately wrapped in clean, porus
paper. Some persons pack in clean
leaves, using no paper, but only bright,
clean. long straw. Ducks and geese
should always be scalded and steamed
by covering up with a blanket for a
short time before picking. In other re.
spccts handle them as turkeys and
chickens; but no poultry should be
packed until perfectly cool and dry.
AS far as possible beans should be
thrown on scaffolds, or, if put in bags,
spread thinly and not trampled. II
beans heat in the NOW they become
musty and worthless. BY leaving until
cold, dry weather in winter surplus
moisture is got rid of, and the beans
thresh more easily and perfectly than in
the fall. Probably the cheapest way to
thresh beans is by the tramping of horses
after the beans are spread on a barn
floor. The horses shoes should be re-
moved to avoid cracking the beans by
the iron points which bear the weight Of
so large an animal.