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

Turnip seed may be sown where early
peas have been taken of.
Corn-fodder can profitably be fed as
soon as the feed gets into the pastures.
Peach trees that show signs of the
'yellows" should be Immediately dug
up and destroyed.
The one successful principle of stock
feeding is to feed literally from birth
until the animal is disposed Of
Some breeders contend that green
clover tends to produce barrenuess in
all varieties of farm animals pastured
upon it.
AS fall feed for COWS, pumpkins are
not sufficiently appreciated, and they
are perhaps more cheaply grown than
vegetables.
Grapevines will need attention every ten
days or two weeks. Pinch in the new
growth, so that the strength of the vine
may 60 into the fruit and the wood that
is already formed may rireh.
A French agriculturist recommends as
a preventive against the bites of gnats,
horsenies and the like a decoction OF
walnut tree leaves in vinegar. Animals
may also be rubbed with fresh walnut
leaves.
Nicompte Chczclles, the French noble
man who gave evidence lefore the Eng
g.ish cnsiage commission, is accustomed
to place large quantities of nettles in his
si!o. and states that the stock eat it
readily.
One who has given it q thorough trial
reports that hen lice will not trouble
fowls where sassafras poles are used for
pcrches. Of course the droppings should
be removed frequently, especially during
warm weather. Leaves and b6ughs OF
sassafras scattered around the henhousc
will help destroy or at least scatter vcr-
min.
If there is any odd time when the
ground is too wet to work. manure may
be drawn ard spread on land intended
for cropping next season. 1t will be
worked through the soil more perfectly
the earlier it is applied, and on the sur
face of either plowed or grass land ma
nure, even in hot weather, loses little
from evaporation.
Many horses have the habit of sleeping
standing up. 1t is very injurious habit,
and the horse should be broken of it il
POSSIBLE. The narrow stalls in which
horses are often placed makes Il recum.
bent position very difficult 1t is cruelty
to the animal to place him in such a
stall after doing 4 hard days work.
AS soon as the presence of the onion
maggot is detected all the plants at
tachcd, which are easily known by the
leaves fading and turning yellow, should
be at once pulled up, burned and lime
water poured into the holes. Strcwing
SCOT or powdered charcoal around the
plants, or saturating the beds with
strong soapsuds, has been found useful.
Making hay while the sun shines was
the old fashioned rule, and good one
under methods formerly adopted. But
it has been superseded by the changes in
hay making machinery. Hay as cut now
with the mower is spread very thinly,
dries rapidly, and, excepting the first
few hours after cutting, most of its cur.
ing is in the cock, where it is protected
from rains to which it would be exposed
if made in the sun.
A Massachusetts horticulturalist re-
commends the following method for de,
stroying tent catcrpillars: Make II strong
solution of soft soap and water, and with
Il sponge attached to a pole pass tho
sponge through the tent, saturating il
thoroughly. The work should be done
morning, noon and night, and the pest:
will be destroyed easily, while no injury
will be done the trees.
So much has been said of the advan,
! tages from pasturing hogs that many
have probably concluded that pasture
alone was sufficient. The truth is that
pig running in pasture with no Other
food will gain less on it than almost
anv other kind of stock. Generally 8
little milk or swill is added, but some
corn or oat meal fed now to pigs in pas
turc will give twice or thrice as much
profit as that which is fed to pigs put ur
in the fall for feeding on grain cxclu'
sively.
The COW pea, says the Cuhirator, is
the important rcnovatiug crop in the
! South, mainly from mistaken idea thai
! clover will not succeed in so hot eli
mate. Really there is no climatic dilli
Guilty in growing clover in mcst portion:
of the South. Where failure has oc'
CURED it is from poor preparation of the
: soil, or more frequently, from lack o1