The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-22

YOU want to notice that some animals
are more dainty as to their choice than
| Others. Their likes should be respected.
If one takes o little pains and time he
| can readily raise nearly all the trees and
shrubs he needs by transplanting to a
nursery patch from the forest when
small or by buying from the nurseries,
where they are grown from seed very
cheaply.
Do not feed SOW that has sucking
pigs on too much dry food. She should
ha :e plenty of sop, but it should be rich
| and nutritious. A mixture of corn.
meal. ground oats and middlings reduced
to thin consistency with skin. milk is a
good mess.
Farmers who have sown gypsum on
strawberry plants to promote their vigor
have met some disapp iuting results.
The gypsum produced SO large growth
of clover that it became almost lmposs:-
bic to keep the rows clean, and in some
instances the bed had to be abandoned.
Plans should be laid to prepare the
ground to be planted with raspberries
or bla:kberries next spring this fall. If
the ground is plowed at any time after
this and thoroughly cultivated about the
close of October, the raspberries can be
planted as soon as frost is out without
replowing.
A Tennessee farmer made an applica-
ton of one handful of gronnd sulphur
and the same of salt to about peck OF
ashes, mixed together thoroughly, then
applied it to the collars of the apple
trees that were badly affected with the
borer. He slys the remedy killed the
worms and saved the trees.
The good start that calf has on milk
in the first few weeks must be kept at
least through the first year if the animal
is to have full development. The first
winter IS the trying time, but it requires
only liberal feed and comfortable quar-
ters to maintain steady growth. Any
thing short is sure to be loss.
Catnip is one of the most valuable
plants for bees. The flowers are rich
in honey, and for several months, COM
mencing with June of each year, yield
it freely at all hours and in every kind
of weather. A patch may easily be
raised from the seed, sown the latter
part of summer or carly in the spring.
In painting cabbage, ETC., with the
bibb:r, be sure the soil is pressed firmly
around and in close contact with every
fiber of their roots. A too common
practice is to merely close in the soil
round the neck of the plant by surface
application of the point of the dibber.
The plant is thereby left hanging, as it
were, in the hole.
D. A. Jones, of Beeton, Canada, uses
clloroform in introducing queens. He
is very successful, seldom losing aqucen
when introduced in that way. He ruts
few drops of chlorolorm on rag or
sponge in the smoker, and giving few
pufIs in at the entrance, stupefes them,
and by the time the bees recover from
their supor they know nothing of what
has happened.
The circulation of sap, says the New
Hampshire Mir r, is like the circula-
ton of the blood in the human body
when the blood is started from the stom-
ach, where it is made. If this blood is
stopped before it reaches the lungs the
blood becomes poisoned and produces
disease. So with the potato vine, in
which, if the sap be stopped, produces a
disease called rust.
No thrifty farmer will permit coarse
weeds, thistlcs, briers 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 a stout
bush scythe will cause these Improbable
varieties of vegetation to give place to
valuable grasses. Start the bush scythe
at once where the weeds and bushes are
found and cut every one of them close
to the ground.
Mr.. H. B. Gurlcr the eminent dairy
man, says the Pruirie Farmer, is an ad
vocate of winter dairying. lie Gains
that by changing from summer to winter
dairying he has raised the average net
profit on forty COWS from $15 to $40 per
head. His winter ration is early cut
clover and tirothv, with equal parts by
measure of wheat bran and corn meal.
One winter his milk suddenly shrank
from s5I to 720 pounds, and on ascer-
tanning the cause he found that late had
been substituted for early cut hay.