The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-10
Farm and Garden Notes.
Never feed cornstalks uncut. Even TO
manure making cutting is far better.

| Never feed cornstalks uncut Even 1ol
| manure making cutting is far better.
Bran, sprinkled with pepper and mixed
with milk. is excellent food occasionally
for laying hens.
Let no animal be placed where it will be
helplessly threatened by a stronger one
with no chance Of escape.
An elm transplanted is said to make no
more wood in twelve or fifteen years than
one in mother soil will in ten years.
A lamb will begin to eat when 1t is
ten days to two weeks old. There IS
nothing better for them than whole oats.
Ifa horse coughs, dampen his hay, wet
his mixed feed, keep him out of draft,
after exercise blanket him, and give him
little ginger in his feed.
You want a dozen or two of early pull
lets, so as to have them commence laying
next fall. Early pullets will pay you we'll
for all the trouble of raising them.
When COWS gnaw boards give them
charcoal mixed in the meal and ground
bone. They should also have roots and
sprinkling Of wood ashes on them.
If, from improper care or feeding, or
from some unavoidable cause, your horse
is out of condition, you should dose him
with little medicine and much common
sense.
Cattle have four stomachs; the barn
ward fowl two, the crop and gizzard.
Gravel acts in the place of teeth in fowls:
This serves to help grind down the food
in the gizzard Keep them supplied. The
sharper the gravel the better.
The man who drugs his horse to make
his hair sleek and 'shiny" shows little
sense. The best means to keep the coat
glossy is careful and daily grooming.
This. with plenty of oats and water and
an occasional bran mash, is all the horse
needs when in health. The arsenic
groom should be discharged.
To save eggs for Matching put them
in box of oats, small end downward.
and in a place of even temperature, and
they must not freeze nor be kept too
warm. Padded carefully they will keep
we'll for quite length of time, and will
hatch when two weeks old, but the
fresher they are when placed under the
hens the better.
It is best to set cut the most vigorous
strawberry plants, as dry season will in,
lure them. Old plants are not good, and
NAV be known by the dark colored roots
that adhere to them. II it becomes nee
essary to use old plants break off the
black roots with the stem to which they
NAV be attached. Young plants have
white, fresh-looking roots.
Cows give bloody milk on account OF
Inflammation of the udder. The infam-
nation may be caused by cold, bruises,
over-heating or over-feeding. The treat
ment of the COW should be according to
the circumstances. Bathing the udder
frequently with hot wuter, or better yet,
hot vinegar, is always good. If the udder
has been over. stimulated, feed less.
In cleaning ivies, oleanders and like
plants that are subject to scale insects,
the means employed for destroying the
same are frequently insufficient to destroy
the young Lroods, so small as to escape
detection. TO prevent such vexatious
happenings, use water in washing plants
of nearly 120 degrees of heat, and by the
addition of tobacco juice to give it a
color like weak tea, or else whale oil
soap or common soap to create suds freely:
Such liquid starts up the young and
old insects alike. The washing thoroughly
done, then wait little, after which
drench off the strong liquid with clean
water.