The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-08-11
method of getting COW with calf, Fro
vided she is not hopelessly barren.


than the rest allow them to suck week
or two after the strong ones are weaned.
If young pig should happen to die
while the latter is with the sow, remove
promptly and blry, tina. t SOW cannot
get at it, and thus give herself taste
for the live ones. Six weeks is the best
age for weaning pigs. Give them plenty
of grass and skinned milk. AT seven
or eight weeks give them mush OF meal
or ground oats"
A new way to salt butter is to wash
out the butter in the churn after the
most approved style, and after all the
buttermilk has been washed out, throw.
three or four handfuls of salt into the
churn and work it in simply by revolving
the churn. Then lay the butter away for
the salt to set, pat it where it will not
become hard, say a temperature of sew
entv-fve degrees, and after two or three
hours, work the butter over gently to get
all the dissolved salt or brine out that
will cone, and then pack or print.
AS the pastures become dry and
parched the flow of milk diminishes in
part because COWS do not get enough
moisture in their food. Early in spring
fresh grass makes large flow of not very
rich milk The lack of substance in the
grass aud stimulation of milk glands
make it advisable to feed grain or meal
to keep the cow in good heat. Now if
meal is fed it shou' d he so diluted with
water that large proportion will go to
making milk. If this is not done the
COW will soon fatten and be fit only for
the butcher.
To have fine crop of large, rich cur
rants enrich the grlund, make it clean
and mellow AMI thin out the brush. Cut
away the old stunted wood and leave the
vigorous young shoots. Let them occupy
equal distances from each other and give
the bushes in some degree regular form.
No fruit is more neglected than the cur
rant, the bushes being allowed to become
cnvelopcd in weeds and grass, and the
enfecblcd bushes allowed to grow into o
mass of brush. The difference in the
size of the berries rai>ed by the two
modes is about as one to four.
1t is not q good plan, though a very
common one, to get suckers that sprolt
from the roots Of old trees and graft
these for orchard planting. One difficulty
with this plan is that the plague of
suckers is always cursing the man whose
trees. arc thus procured The root of a
sucker is long and horizontal. Wherever
it is cut off or in any way injured, new
suckers will speedily appear. In seedlings
the mass of fine roots near the centre is
evenly distributed on each side, and
with proper cultivation MAY be kept far
enough down not to be disturbed.
No matter how many COWS are in q
dairy, each ones milk should be set by
itself. In this way the difference in size
and form of butter globlles which often
exists in different cows will not effect the
Weld of butter. With three or four COWS
in tn, height of the season it will be
nece ssary to churn every day, and you
might as we'll be churning one cows
cream every three or four days as to put
Ill in together. If this plan were gcner-
ally ado Jted, onc-half the COWS would be
weeded out within year as not worth
keeping, and this greatly to the profit Of
their owners.
1t has generally been supposed that
cooking food for cattle assists greatly in
the extraction of the elements of nutri-
tion through digestion. So far as ami
mails are concerned it has long been
doubted whether cooking food pays its
cost. Late conclusions arrived at from
investigations at the New York Expert
ment Station would sem to show loss
of abuminoid and also an APPARENT loss
of fat in the process of cooking. The
loss as stated is in clover hay 1888 of q
pound, in fresh -gound meal 1.O91 and in
old meal .543 of pound. The cooking
showed not oaly loss of actual albumi-
noid, but depreciation in the digestive
value of the albuminoil remaining.
A We tern correspondent of the B G
Journal has no hcsitancy in saying that
the alsike clover will produce 500 p 'unds
OF the richest and best honey per acre in
u good season. Those bee keepers who
desire something better than dark honey
should plant each spring bushcl or two
of this clover, and then they will be able
to compete with any honey in the country,
and to keep 100 colonies with profit in
the same area that now supports but ten.
Alsike clover does best on clay or wet
land, and is sometimes unsatisfactory on
dry or light SOIL From four to six pounds
are sown per acre. Part Of the piece
can be moved be ore it blossoms and fed
to stock. 1t will then blossom late after
the usual bloom is over.
Farmers, gardeners and fruit-growers
are much worse plagued than formerly
by injurious insects. This is in part due
to the destruction of birds and other
animals that if left alone would have
kept them in check. 1t is unsafe disturb
ing the balances which nature has es-
tablished to keep her economy undis
tLrbed. The English sparrow has in many
places driven away native songsters far
more uscfdl a well as far more musical
than itself. ut one of the farmers and
gardeners aids in in ect destruction
seems to be increasing in numbers. This
is the toad, which, though not good look
ing, is an Invaluable friend. He works
more effectively in destroying many in
sets because he works in the night. The
common snake is one of the chief enemies
of the to ID, and therefore the destruction
of snakes, which are themselves insect
destroyers to some extent, has not been
an unmixed evil.