The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-10-06

lands OF the South, and Will prove OF
great benefit 10 its fcl cltility-
Do not feed breeding sows very large
ly on grain. They may be kept in good
condition, but it should be done by more
bulky or partially green food.
1t has been proven over and over again
that a little land well titled is more
profitable than an extended area neg 'ect-
ed and improperly cared for.
An onion planter says he got rid of
the preying magsot by once sprinkling
them with mixture made Of one gallon
of tar in focty gallons of water.
Do not allow the water to stand in the
fields or in any sink b ole about the build
ing or yards. In fact, do not have any
sink holes on the premises to hold water.
Lime or strong ashes given to horses
and COWS once a month in salt is good to
free them from bots and worms. Some
burn cobs for them. The ash of the cob
is very strongi in potash.
Fences cost on most farms each year
more than taxes, and they are becoming
more and more costly as material gets
scarce. The true policy is to take up in
terror fences so far as practicable.
Sheep will eGectually clean up field
filled with weeds, briers, bushes and
other rubbish, thereby saving m:ch labor
with the bush scythc, and by their drop
pings prepare the field for the plow.
Most farmers have learned that cut
hay or even straw wet and sprinklcd with
meal is better feed for working horses
than whole grain or hay. In this shape
the nutrimcnt in the feed is easily eaten
and easily digested.
4 calf will thivc en- milk after the
cream has been taken OF. 1t is better
fed to them sweet and warm. The cold
milk taken from the creamery is not
good. 1t chills the stomach and draws
from the vitality of the animal to warm
it.
No kind of stubble except Of clover,
of which the root forms the principal
part, is worth anything as manure. OF
gra crops, especially, neither the tub
bic above ground nor the root below it is
worth regarding as fertilizer. If the
straw of grain stubble can be burned it
is no waste to make this disposal of it.
An excellent practical farmer remarked
year or two ago that he considered a
good clover seeding worth from $40 to
SIS an acre. This is more than the profit
of any grain crop, and it can be had
when grain is sown by the outlay of 81. 55
to $40 for clover seed Here is a profit
of / 200 per cent. in SIX months, without
interfering with other crops.
In laying down eggs for winter use see
to it that the shell IS entirely clean. The
shell is porous, and if any filth is at
tachcd to it, no matter how carefully 1t
is handled otherwise. the egg will spoil.
Any means that will exclude the air is
sufficient. Packing in salt does not leave
the egg 50 good for winter as keeping in
lime water or coating with varnish, but
is q good way, because so easy, when
eggs are to be kept only short time.
It is possible by putting potatoes IN
cool place to keep few over until the
second year, bat it will not pay nor be
practicable on large scale. Even if po-
tatoes arc kept from sprouting there is
consid, rablc loss of weight from drying
out, and the second spring, if left so
long, they are scarcely fit for either
planting or eating. We are practically
dependent each year for our seed pota-
toes on the crop grown the previous
season.
1t is too common practice in many
farmers families to burn the feathers OF
fowls killed for the table, under the idea
that they are not worth saving. Chicken
feathers are quite valuable. They do not
make so soft Il bed as those o; the goose
or duck, but are superior for pillows
where too much elasticity is not health
full nor comfortable. They have, beside,
too much manurial value to be wasted,
being very rich in ammonia. the coarser
fca hers should be thrown into the man
ura heap, where their decomposition will
add largely to its value"
The rule that young animals gain more
rapidly in proportion to the food con-
sumed has an apparent exception IN
young pigs. AS soon as cd enough to
be fed they are given diet so plentiful
and rich that Their weak digestive or
cans are heavily overtasked. This is
especially true where corn is the staple
feed, as it is in large sections of the
country. Corn, as main feed, should
be taboocd until they a:e year old. BY
this time their digestive organs will ac-
ouirc power to digest even the richest
food. If fed while young with oats or
barley meal in summer and little corn
meal as cold weather approaches, the
pigs health will be unim Faired and his
largest Ga made while young.