The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
Farm. and Garden Notes.


Farm and Garden Notes.
Bells are an insufficient guard for the
flock.
1t benefits an orchard for poultry to
run in it.
Get the apple tree borers out, even if
by wire and jack-knife.
To smooth the trunks and branches of
orchard trees, wash them with lye.
The use of tar in marking sheep is dis
couraged. 1t dries into hard lump.
An exchange observes that hens are
paying rent on many worn-out farm.
Be careful to have dry and comfortable
places for fowls by the advent of cold
weather.
A dairyman claims that bran, peas and
corn mixed make the best butter-pro-
ducing food for cows.
Dry earth will keep stable free from
bad odols and save the volatile and solu-
BILE portion of the manure.
Professor Law, of Cornell University,
recently found living organisms in the
milk of COWS whichdrank from stagnant
pools.
If one has clover sod from which
few crops have been taken, turn it under
for wheat. Wheat follows no crop bet
ter than clover.
AMaine farmer insists that the easiest
and best way to apply Paris green to
potato vines is in solution and with
whisk- broom.
Blind halters on horses are rapidly
growing Questionable. Blinders in
variably chafe the eyes, and lead to more
scarcs than they avoid.
There is popular prejudice against
the ailantus as shade tree, many per-
sons considering the odor from the
blossoms to be poisonous.
Ifevery landowner who cuts down a
tree will see to it that two good stocks
are planted instead, the forest industry
will soon recuperate in this country.
W. +. Brown gives the result of thor
ough pulverization for wheat as follows:
One dollar of extra work per acre with
good pulverizer, adds from five to ten
bushels per acre.
A contemporary truly. says: One of
the worst misfortunes to q pig is to have
a shiftless owner, one who is so needless
and course that he is not ashamed Of
making his pork in filth.
Spinach seed sown in the fall on rich,
fine soil will provide one of the most
desirable of early spring vegetables.
Good varieties for fall sowing are the
round -leaved and the Savoy.
The condition of tree when winter
sets in has more to do with its survival
intact than most people imagine. In
time inspect all young fruit and orna-
mental trees, and caro- for them before
winter.
Tomatoes trained to stakes give the
sweetest fruit and remain in bearing the
longest; but many cultivators, who grow
for size and quantity only, believe they
have the best results when growing them
on the level ground.
All small apples and others defective
in form or damaged by worms have their
best market on the farm as food for ami
mails. If packed with sound fruit, even
in small proportion, they reduce the
price of all even to the point of loss.
A writer says: LAST year we tied
our tomato vines up to stakes. This
wear we have put three stakes around
the hill and nailed hoop on them. It
keeps the vines out of the dirt. We
have also mulched them with old pea
vines"
Straw may be rendered more valuable
by being cut into short lengths and
mixed with chopped hay and grain. 1t.
will greatly assist in increasing the
the amount of coarse material, if so fed,
and the practice is much more economi-
cal than that of using it for bedding en-
tirely.
The Mirror says: "This is we'll to
know in calculating the size to build
your silo: A cow should be fed from
fifty to sixty pounds OF cnsilage a day if
she receives no other fodder with her
ground food. A cubic foot of ensilage
weighs fifty pounds. From this data
you can readily figure out the size of
silo needed"
A Maryland farmer proposes to grow
wheat year after year on the same land
without blowing. His plan is to sow
200 pounds of bone meal per acre, sell
the straw to the paper mills, and expend
the money obtained for it in bone meal.
After harvest burn the stubble to kill
weeds and get rid Of rubbish. Then
harrow repeatedly, sow the bone meal
and seed, and 50 continue year after
year.
Oil from StumpS and Roots.