The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-03

that amount on FIVE or six.
If your hogs begin to cough look out
for malignant lung trouble. If they
NOPE and lie about their beds intestinal
difficulties may be suspected. Plenty OF
pure air. pure water, and varied food
will scare away malignant diseases.
Save the corn fodder before it is in
jurcd by tho frost. When cut before
frost it is green and nutritious, full OF
starch and sugar. Frost tends to change
these to woody fiber. This portion Of
the corn crop is often equal to the grain.
Irregularity in the amount of food
given the COW will cause her sometimes
to gradually dry up. So will worrying,
fast driving, or excitement of any kind.
An animal giving milk is very sensitive
to bad treatment or surrounding inau-
ences.
Butter takes nothing from the soil
that affects its fertilization as does crops
of cereals. 1t is almost wholly carbon,
which is derived by the plants from the
air. Butter. though sometimes high in
price, is really produced from the cheap
est element known.
1t will surprise old poultry growers to
learn that the common hawk is regarded
as valuable bird. He destroys 100 field
mice for every chicken, and il there be
a fair amount of shrubbery around the
henyard very few chickens will be lost
from his depredat:ons.
When a tree is to be trausplanted never
leave more branches than are wanted for
mains, four or five at most never grow
q mass of unnecessary limbs to be crowd
ing, which must be cut out afterward,
much to the injury of the tree; remove
them from the head at first.
1t pays to burn the garden over after
the grass, weeds, etc., are fully dried.
BY SO doing many seeds will be destroyed
and clean appearance will be given.
Fire will perform great service against
the weeds if freely used in the fall, and
will save labor in the spring.
Farmers who have kept a strict ac-
count with their stock say that pound
of poultry can be made for less than
pound of pork, yet the laborIng man
who has to buy both feels that he can
not afford to buy poultry very often, as
it costs more than other meats.
Corn stalks have much less sweetness
in them before they blossom or tassel, as
it is usually called. Analysis shows this,
and cow given her choice of the two
confirms the verdict of medical science.
The stalks improve until the ears arc
fully formed and begin to harden.
No particular variety of fruit will suit
all sections. Choice is local question,
varying on each side of creek, between
two seasons. or two different and equally
correct methods of treatment. Hence
choice can only be made of those varie-
ties that have been tried and tested.
Good tillage is the strongest weapon
with which the farmer can fight hard
times and gain success. Imperfect Gull
ture, on the other hand, will scarcely en-
able him to gain living from the rich.
est soil, and the soil will deteriorate rap.
idly in quality from such treatment
besides. ..
When wheat is sown on very dry soil
the condition may be greatly improved
by thoroughly narrowing the field, which
will bring the seed in close contact with
earth reduced to the finest tilth, fitted to
receive and condense atmospheric vapor
until the requisite moisture for germina-
tion is obtained;
1t has been repeatedly shown that the
amount of butter that can be obtained
from milk. by any of the ordinary pro-
cesscs is no guide to the amount Of fat
that may be in the milk. Hence to as
sumo that poor butter cow may not be
q good cheese cow, or that she neces-
sarily gives poor milk, is gross error.
The best time to apply ashes to grass
land is early in spring. The quantity
should vary with the needs of the sol,
and this can be determined only by ex-
pcricnce, some soils requiring much less
than others according to their compost
tion; but the usual amount is twenty to
fifty bushels per acre. Occasionally
much larger applications have been found
useful. 1t is best to try different guam
titles in different parts of the same field,
and measure the result on the crops.
Manurc.water is easily made A
sunken hogshoad in the barnyard, COW
cred with lot of white oak saplings,
four or five inches through, will fill up
with the first rain and be strong enough
to make crops laugh over an acre or
more of land if mixed with plenty of
water The application should not be
stronger than one-fourth manure-water
to three parts water. Nitrate of soda
may be very effectively applied in this
way, say on, pound to ten gallons of
water, or three pounds to the barrel.
The days Of the cabbage worm are
numbered, it would seem. They have,
according to Professor Forbes, of the
Illinois Department of Agriculture, been
clearly les; abundant iu many sections
during the past season than previously.
This difference is due apparently to a
destructive disease of the worm, which
was first reported on in 1882. Hopes are
by some of our wide-awake
that the disease may be
propagated and extended artiGcially, and
efforts are being directed toward such
desirable end. 1t is, to say the least, en-
to the gardener sometimes to
find disease and blight that work in his
favor.
From DObolink to Rice Bird.