The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-01
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Farm and Garden Notes.


An application of lye will restore to
rough trunks and branches of orchal d
trees their original smoothness.
Carefully conducted experiments have
shown that subsoil is often injurious to
the land, especially so in wet seasons.
Coarse, porous soils are never benefited
by subsoiling.
steam -boiler-the more complete the
combustion of the food or fuel it gets the
more salts actory will be the result, be-
cause there is less waste.
Overladen fruit trees mature their fruit
while it is yet small. Pick off one-hnlf
before much growth is made, and the re-
naming half may grow to as many
bushels rs all would if left.
Honey of different grades should be
kept separate. An inferior grade put in
with the best will set lower price on the
whole. At the close of each season of
bloom grade the whole product.
Resources of the soil do not end alb.
ruptly at four O.. five inches in depth, yet
there are hundreds of farms where all
beneath is terra incognita because no ef-
fort has ever been made to explore.
Although fiat turnips are mostly water,
there is nutriment enough to make them
an important addition to fool for cattle
and sheep, and it is therefore desirable
that in a season of scarcity they be raised
to the full extent of opportunity.
The Gardeners Monthly says: The
practice of pcgging down ver-blooming
roses, so that they will cover completely
the surface of the bed, is well known to
produce very pleasing results. It is said
that pegging down dahlias proves quite
as satisfactory.
Do not have too many plants in the
hills. If the late corn is backward and
growth apparently slow thin out the
plants so as to allow of more room and
plant-fooi. 1t is better to have one OF
two good thrifty stalks than three or
folr weakly ones.
4 good animal should be a heavy
feeder 1t has often been considered an
advantage that al animal eat but little,
bat Just the opposite should be desired.
1t takes liberal supply Of food and a
good appetite to derive the greatest
amount of product.
For growing cucumbers, squashcs or
similar plants put old sawdtst OF rotten
wood about them. Those who have never
tried cucumbers on strong, bushy stakes
like pea sticks, will be surprised to note
how they enjoy it. Tomatoes do better
trained to stout stakes than any other
way.
If you have thin, fiat stones at COM
mand, say as thick as roofing slate or
somewhat thicker, try mulching few
strawberry plants with them. Tin an
swers the same purpose. Shingles are
good, but inclined to warp. patented
clay tile is sold in some places, but stones
are cheaper and better.
Lack of water is one reason why cows
shrink in their yield of milk at this sea-
son of the year. Partially dried herbage
is more like hay than grass, and even
plenty of water to drink will not oblite-
rate the difference. If the yield Of milk
is once allowed to fall off no amount of
good feeding will ever quite restore it to
what it should hare been. Worst of all,
the cow poorly watered loses flesh and
will not be so good another season.
Prof. l.. B. Arnold says there are sew
eral things that produce ropy milk and
cream. The most common cause Is the
use of some medicinal weeds, especially
bitter weeds-as ragweed, tansy, worm
wood and some species of yellow daisy.
Poisonous weeds, such as cicuta and
loLelia, which COWS sometimes seem dis
posed to take, have the same effect. I
have, in several instances, known it to
occur from an excessive use of good food.
A too free use of cornmeal and Of sugar
beets has every now and then been the
occasion of ropy milk, but oftencr in hot
weather than in cold. 1t is also often
the result of weakness from any cause,
but especially from securing.
A corresp> ndeat of the Southern Guilt
Gator thinks he has remedy that will
cure what he calls cholera. 1t is his
opinion that hog cholera is mostly worms,
and when these are expelled the hogs
gst we'll. He uses this mixture: Five
pounds of copperas, twelve pounds OF
sulphur, four pounds of bicarbonate of
soda, two pounds of blood root, one
pound of mandrake root; powder and
mix these we'll and then add two bushc, IS
of lime and twenty-five to thirty bushels
of slack coal This should be dumped
down in n dry place where the hogs can
get at it, but not scattered around. The
Smaller the drove of hogs the smaller the
o, tity of ingredients used in making
| this mixture.
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