The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-21
timely cultivation comes in most effec-

some, but where they are not numerous
they add enough to the beauty of the
landscape to compensate.
Direct separation of the butter from
milk by means of electricity-a French
invention-is said to be one of the latest
patent French processes in dairying.
A soil but five inches deep cannot be
worth as much as another that gives free
scope to the roots of plants to whatever
depth they may penetrate in search of
nutriment.
Asecond brood of currant worms usu-
ally makes its appearance just as the
fruit begins to ripens, and it is quite as
injurious to the crop as the first if not
promptly destroyed.
Roots of plants that 90 by choice ten
or twelve inches in the soil, fail to bring
up full support when they are restricted
to four o, five inches, by reason of impen.
etrable earth beneath.
1t is said that calves begin to form
cuds and ruminate as soon as they ere al
lowed on the pasture, and three months
is soon enough to allow them to do so,
or the result will be scours.
Public water troughs, it is claimed,
are places at which infectious diseases
are spread; hence the water should al
ways be flowing in them, instead of
turning it on only when wanted.
1t is said that the best mode of using
sulphur about plants, in order to destroy
insects, is to sprinkle it on the ground
during warm day, when it will prove
beneficial without injuring the plants.
Any farmer who can command an even
temperature below go deg, with cleanli-
ness, can make "gilt-edged" butter. If
the temperature reaches 70 deg. during
transportation the gilt-edge becomes
guilt-edge.
A cold, damp soil, with hard imper-
vious subsoil, is not suitable for a gar
den, and before it can be properly util-
lied should be we'll drained. For gar
den purposes, if the tile drain has been
laid, the trenching system is best for
such soils. Any method that permits it
to rid itself of surplus moisture, and
allows the air and heat to enter, will be
beneficial.
The same care in the selection for seed
should be made as with the other plants.
Productiveness, maturity and form are
fully as important as size. All plants in
tended to produce seed for another sea-
sons crop should not only be selected
but planted away from other varieties.
Sweet corn growing in the neighborhood
of field corn will be ruined for seed the
succeeding year.
Moss on trees is sign of low vitality
and poor culture. It is most common
on old trees. Where thick it may be
scraped off and the bark washed with
weak lye. Then thorough manuring will
cause new bark to grow and no more
moss will appear. Rough bark on old
trees, if not overgrown with moss, should
not be scraped off. 1t serves a valuable
purpose in some varieties for protection.
A smart team turning good furow
in spring, either stubble or sod, should
be able to turn over one and half to
two acres. When larger days work than
this are reported it is usually at the ex-
pense of the team, or perhaps of the
blowing. 60 much depends on the char
acter of the work in fitting the land that
a poor plowman should not be tolerated,
however large days work he may claim
to be able to no.
Wheat should be fully five weeks from
the time the ears first appear before being
ready to cut. Oats will fully ripen in
four weeks after caring, and barley in
three. If these periods are much
shortened it indicates that the grain is
hurried into ripening by hot, dry weather,
and it will likely be not very heavy.
But excessive moisture at caring time,
such as is common in England, is even
more injurious than drought.
It is difficult to 60 on corn field with
teams and wagons without injuring the
crop more than any manure applied after
it is planted will benefit it, A dressing
ofashes and plaster when plants are small
is all the after-manuring possible. With
corn, however, more than with any other
crop, tillage is manure. Thorough cult
vation will develop plant food in any
soil fit to grow corn, and will be all the
more effective if the field has been
manured before planting.
Battle the horses shoulder with cold
water or brine as quick as the collar comes
off, before the sweat begins to dry, and
rub off the collars and saddle pieces with
a moist cloth. This will prevent sore
shoulders. All changes OF food should
be gradual, but in proportion to the
work. Heavily taxed muscles make
demands on the stomach, hence, increase
the food after work begins, never in an
ticipation. A horse fed up before he is
called to work gets soft and fat.
In growing hay for market it always
pays the best to grow a good quality. 1t
should not only be free from weeds and
small bushes, but also from all meadow
grasses. A few pounds of meadow grass
in load of hay will often make a differ
ence in price of several dollars ton. It
is also very important that hay should be
well cured, so that it will come out
bright and sweet; hay cured so that it
will come out smoky is hard to sell at
greatly reduced price, especially if to be
fed to horses.
Some weeds are a sign of poor
farming, and some of rich soil. The
white or ox-eye daisy is, however gener-
ally found on land that has been run
down so that clover and grasses will not
grow thickly enough to occupy the sur
face. Making the soil rich is the rem
edy. Of course the seeds, if in the land,
will germinate in rich soil, but more
valuable herbage will crowd it out. After