The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-25

one was supplied with cold water, and
the other heated to 113 degrees fahren-
heit. The latter yielded one-third more
milk.
An old gardener says that a sure sign
to find Quits plants in pots need wettlng
is to rap on the side of the pot, near the
middle, with the finger knuckle: If 1t
give forth a hollow ring, the plant needs
water. but if there is q dull sound there
is still moisture enough to sustain the
plant.
A few hours can be proftably spent in
nearly every cherry and plum orchard
after the leaves fall, cutting out the
limbs affected with black knot that have
escaped observation during the summer:
Every limb should be carefully Inspected
and all unnatural en~largements cut OF
and burned.
The New York State Entomologlst,
Professor Lintner, recommends as a
remedy for the dreaded carpet beetle,
s%aturating cotton with kerosene oil and
pressing it into cracks and crevices IN the
floors and under the basement, or
wherever the insect is likely to hide It.
self. He says that this will kill not only
the insects, but their eggs.
An English dairy supply company has
devised a package for conveying butter
by rail, to contain sixty half-pound pots.
The package consists of a double case,
the inner one of tin, for the butter, and
the outer one of wood, the intervening
space being filed with moss, so that the
butter may be kept cool and unaffected
by the temperature to which it may be
exposed while carried.
A CORRESPONDENT in Home and Farm,
saws: Equal parts of powdered borax,
Persian insect powder aud powdered
c%olocyntn, we'll mixed together and
thrown about such spots as are infested
with troublesome insects, will prove an
etfectual means of getting rid OF this
scourge. This powder, in all cases where
it's use has been persistent, has by long
experience been found infallible.
Farmers who have been in the habit OF
drawing potato vines to their barnyard
to be worked up into manure had better
omit the practice this year, especially IN
places where the potato rot has been
prevalent. The rot is undoubtedly pro-
duced by a fungus growth which origi-
mates in the leaf, and carrying this to
the manure heap is the most certain
mode of spreading it over the farm.
Producing a crop is a necessity where
fertility exists. If not a valuable crop
it will be one of weeds, whose seeds are
always present and ready to terminate
when opportunity offers. If left IN
plowcd the land should be 80 heavily
seeded with clover as to prevent weed
growth as much as possible. When most
farmers talk of giving their land a rest
thew mean q rest themselves from the
labor of tilling it.
Some wide-awake apiarist has discov-
cred that. old queen bees, like old hens,
are not profitable, and for the same rea-
son, viz: that they do not lay so many
eggs. There was perhaps sound n in
the old fashioned plan of destroying the
old colonies after two or three years and
keeping only the new swarms. But per-
haps we can now .rejuvenate old swarms
by introducing young queens. If so, it
will be an important point gained in bee
culture.
There is probably no kind of fruit bet
ter adapted to a hen yard than the plum.
And the difficulty of growing this fruit,
because of curculio attacks, is so far OBJ
waited by a flock of hens that combining
the two is an advantage to both. A
farmer who had a plum orchard from
which the fruit regularly fell before
ripe, never succeeded in getting a crop
until he transferred his hens to this plot
and kept them there until the plums
were ripe. The fowls needed less food
than when kept in close quarters and
gave better returns.