The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-10-13


experienced in getting it to eat after
ward.
Most of the apples that fall before they
are fully ripe contain worms, and unless
these are destroyed they emerge from the
fruit in short time and enter the earth
or find hiding place under the bark OF
the tree.
Use the scales on the farm in order to
more accurately keep an account OF all
sales and purchases, as we'll as the
amount of food allowed. Every meal
should be weighed, and the gain or loss
of flesh carefully observed.
In buying pigs for breeding stock the
best is the cheapest, though it costs
little more money. The reason why
breeders justify themselves in saving
runts, is because some men are thoug ht-
less enough to buy them at low price.
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 often to the point of loss
Bees do not work as we'll in hive ex-
posed to the sun. In midday, when very
hot, all work on the inside, such as comb
building and storing honey, has to be
suspended. Sometimes combs melt down,
and the brood dies in the heat of the
sun.
The varnish on carriagesis often ruined
by being housed where ammonia arises
from horse manure therein. This may
be avoided by sprinkling plaster freely.
It also makes the stables healthier Tor
horses. But carriages should be kept IN
separate building.
When wood nuts, especially those of
the beech, are plentiful, much reliance IS
placed on them for early feeding of hogs.
These nuts are very oily and. the pork
they make is not of the first quality. 1t
is soft and fries away badly unless the
pigs are afterward fed with corn. Prob
ably feeding of oats or peas daily while
running in the woods might make the
pork much better.
It is a question with some good wheat
growers whether the manure should
be applied before the first plow-
ing or afterward, but the prevailing ten.
dency is toward blowing first, then to
draw and spread the manure on the sur.
face and afterward work it into the soil
in subsequent cultivation. The manure
is thus kept nearer the surface, where 1t
is believed to do the most good.
Sweet apples are generally considered
much more valuable for feeding than
sour, but there is less difference than
many suppose. If we'll ripened, even
sour apples contain good deal OF sweet,
which is to the taste overcome by slight
disproportion of acid. Those who have
fed sour ripe apples find them nearly or
quite as nutritive as sweet ones. They
should not, however. be given to hogs
which have corn in the ear, as this Will
make the pigs teeth sore.
If left to themselves sheep will retire
at nieht to the most elevated part of the
field. This is relic of the time when
they were wild and such precaution was
necessary that they might guard again t
approaching danger from wild animals
But the fact has its advantages. The
knolls that sheep select for their sleeping
places are generally originally poor, but
sheep will soon enrich them. The grass
also is sweeter than on low land and
sheep are less liable TO disease.
A strong nest of bumblebees in the big
clover field is worth $50 to the owner,
for these insects are the chief agents in
fertili, ing the blossoms. thereby insur-
ing q heavy crop of seed. In Australia
there are no bumblcbees of our kind,
and they could not raise clover seed there
until they imported some bumblebees.
In this connection Professor Shelton, OF
Kansas, remarks that in Kansas humble
bees are almost unknown, yet nowhere
are such crops of clover seed grown as IN
Kansas.
Where the object of fall plowing is to
expose the soil to thorough pulverization
by frost, getting it done early is not i'm
portant. In fact there is sometimes a
gain in leaving it until the surface is
Slightly frozen. This turned to the bot
tom of the furrow holds it up, and less
freezing is required to pulverize the
whole mass. But if heavy sod is to be
fall plowcd, have the work done early
enough so that the sod may partly rot
this fall. If not, it will be bad piece
to put hoed crops in next season.
The respective advantages of thick and
thin seeding depend upon circumstances,
some of which cannot be known at time
of seeding. So far as the weather is con-
cerncd sowing a crop will always be
something like taking ticket in a lot
terry. AS rule. the richer and better
fitted the ground, the less seed will BE-
required of small grain. But with corn
the reverse is true. On very poor soil in
the South it is common practice to make
hills of corn three and half and some
times four feet apart, and allow only two
stalks to the hill.
The ground meat that is used by poul.
trymen and purchased as fine powder
is first pressed with powerful machinery
in order to extract all the oil and then
ground. In order to derive all the oil
the meat must be thoroughly heated,
and steam is used for that purpose, the
pressure being applied while the steam
is passing through the meat, which thor.
oughly cooks it. The bones are allowed
to remain with the meat, as the marrow
is also extracted, and that which the
poultrymen procurcs is really just what
he desires-the nitrogenous matter. The
meat is the refuse of hotels, the otfal OF
slaughter houses, and even the pickings
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