The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-07-20
FOR THE FARM AND o
Bleaching Colerv.

Bleaching Celery.
1t takes but from eight to ten days to
blanch celery in warm weather, and
shout four or five weeks in cold weather.
Anew plan of b~lanchingin warm weather
b now adopted by some of our best
growers, and found to work admirably,
as it saves much labor and there is less
danger of rust and rot. They half hill,
Is it is termed, with a hoe or with a
small one horse pillow, if q horse can be
used, throwing up a small ridge of the
soil on each side of the row, just sp to
the plants, but not against them much;
then take inch boards ten inches wide,
lay along on each side of the row,
erowding the lower edge close up to the
bottom of the plants, then take hold of
the outer edges of the boards and bring
them up together, placing over them
clamps made of No. 9 wire-so made that
the boards will be about two inches
apart, or a little more, if the celery is
large. For the late crop the soil is found
the best for %blanch1ng. In this it Is
necessary to use judgment about killing
up. 1t will not do to m it while
the weather is too hot and wet as there
Is danger of its rotting. It should never
be banked while the stocks are at all wet.
Young Colts.
When the young colts arrive some
pains should be taken to rear them in
the best manner. There is considerable
mortality among young colts which may
be avoided. This mostly occurs among
farmers whose mares are at work in the
Held. The rearing of colts Upon farms
Is just now a very profitable business.
and is to be encouraged by good advice
and wise management. The best way is
to have the colts run with the mares and
to give the mares an occasional rest for
the colts to suck. When the colts are
shut up and turned to the mare at noon
and night only the milk is heated by
the hard work of the mare, and the I'D
der is distendcd, often painfully, and
both mare and colt suffer. The milk is
also less in quantity, for when a colt
sucks six or eight times in a day the sup
ply of milk will easily be double the
quantity given when the colt is turned
TO the mare only twice a day. Besides,
when the colt accompanies the mare it
becomes used to its surroundings in the
field and on the road, and takes its first
lessons for its. future training.-Neu
York Times.
Compactfng Land for Corn.
On e question of the rationale of
.corn-growing, q correspondent of
the National SCOTSMAN has the fol-
lowing.
"Corn wants dry land aver more than
wheat or other small grains. This is in
part because only as the soil is dry can it
be got tooa high temperature early in the
season. One of the important advan-
tages from planting corn on sod, or over
. mass of coarse manure, is that those
under the furrow keep the soil porous,
and thus admit the warmer air to the
roots. On any heavy soil the blowing
Tor corn should be shallow, and after
blowing it should not be rolled or other
wise packed, except as is necessary in
cultivatlng to make a mellow seed bed.
! have often seen the line where a stone
Boot was drawn across a field for corn
after blowing distinctly visible by the
plants where the soil was too
much compressed. This was when rains
had already sufficiently compacted the
soil; but this is the condition of most
lands containing some clay. In
. very dry time, after planting corn, this
might be reversed, but even then
Dhe Improvement would be more due to
better filth than to compacting of the
I think much of the roller for !
other crops, but it is not adapted I
corn on land as heavy as most of ,
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Tho sheop Gad-Fly. ,
The sheep gad-1y appears during the {
summer months. It is not unlike the !;
mail horse fly in appearance, the color {
being light ash, dotted and lined with