The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-10

Every dairyman should be prepared to
feed green grass or green corn fodder in
the stable night and morning as soon as
the pasture begins to fail.
To kill moles an Illinois farmer puts
strychnine in pieces of liver the size of
hickory nut, placing the pieces at differ
ent points in their runs.
A COW calying in the fall, if properly
fed and cared for, will bring more profit
in year than if she calves in May, If
milk or butter is to be sold.
Give the sheep mess of ground oats
every evening from now until the lamb
ing period. As soon as the grass fails
give them all the hay they can eat.
Let the pigs run in clover, and they
will eat enough to distend the stomach
properly and enable the animal to better
digest grain than if it were fed on moth
ing else.
One of the best supplementary feeds
with corn fodder is wheat bran. It can
be bought cheaply usually at this sea-
son, and is even better in the winter as q
supplementary feed for COWS. ::
Sheep in the field seek the highest
knolls for sleeping places. These are
generally poor, but sheep will soon
enrich them. The grass is sweeter there
and the sheep are most healthy in such
localities. III
Rules for easy subjugstion of Canada
thistles are plentiful, but not practical.
Every attempt to eradicate this weed
must be continued through the entire
season of growth or it will fail almost
surely, and all its costs will be wasted.
There is no reason for having q barren
yard or lawn in winter. Some kind Of
choice evergreens, ornamental trees or
shrubs should be planted. A hedge along
the front and on the borders of the walks
will give an attractive appearance at all
seasons.
Tobacco dust is an excellent insecti-
eide, as it will prevent lice in nests of
hens if freely busted therein, as well as
being an excellent protection against
those insects that damage gooseberries,
squashes and currants, when used for that
purpose.
The idea that the apple needs but little
care is now one of the chief obstacles to
the successful culture of the fruit. One
authority says after the blossoms have
fallen the trees should be sprayed with
paris green to destroy the codling worm
in the young fruit.
No matter how dear it is, wheat is
always the most economical food for
fowls, either laying hens or young chick.
ems. If we buy bran or mill-feed at re-
tail, the price per pound is nearly as
great rs whole wheat, and the latter is
much better for feeding.
DR.. Fisher finds that animal manure
makes strong grape vines, but not much
fruit, and tends to induce rot and mil
dew. On the other hand, he finds potash
and superphosphate to have quite the
opposite effect, producing alarge amount
of fruit of superior quality.
No thrifty farmer will permit coarse
weeds, thistles, briars or bushes of any
kind to grow by the roadside adjoining
his fields. One or two days work each
year for two or three years with stout
bush scythe, will cause these Improbable
varieties of vegetation to give place to
valuable grasses.
A New York farmer claims that an
acre of Hubbard squashes will fatten
several more hogs than an acre of coin.
This may be true, bat many farmers
who can raise corn successfully might
not succeed with squashes, which, ow-
ing to insects and bugs, area much more
uncertain crop than the former.
No other thing on the farm so thor
oughly marks the progress Of agriculture
as the rapidly increasing use OF red
clover. The two-fold benefits of clover
are so obviously manifest to every farmer
that the increase of its use is not sur
prisiug. Its wonderful yield as forage
crop makes it one of the most desirable
to raise, whether to be fed green or
cured in the shape of rowen.
Farmers in some sections of Pennsyl-
vania maintain the fertility of their soils
by applying 100 bushels of slaked lime
to the acre once in five years. 1t is said
that fields which have been subjected to
this treatment for the past 100 years are
as productive now as when the expert
ment was first tried. This application :
depends for its value much upon the
ori ginal character Of the soil.
Early sowing of wheat is not cons!d-
cred 80 important now as it was few
years ago. The tancied advantage of
getting grain in the ground few days
earlier has been the origin OF more fall-
urcs than any other cause. Wheat has
been hurried into the ground when
week longer time in fitting the seed bed
would have given stronger, better
growth in the fall, and one that would
endure the winter better.
If peach growers will go through their
orchards every fall and examine each
tree closely, they will find upon many OF
them gum oozing from the trunk near
the ground. BY brushing away the gun
a small white grub with black head
will be found drilling his way through
the bark. Kill all of these pests and the
trees will not suffer from borcrs. Inc
early part of October is the best season
for doing this work.
Foremost among all fertilizers is COM
mon barn-yard manure. That which
gives it its peculiar value is that it con-
tains all the plant elements, and IS there
fore tittel to nourish any crop; hence
we call it a general and not a specific
manure. To be sure, there are certain
concentrated manures which, if the soil
require, the particular plant clements OF
which they are composed, will yield
larger returns, pound for pound, than
will barn-yard manure. Yet for general
use upon the farm there is nothing that
will tuks the place of this most common
manure.