The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-20

Chloride of lime in the runaway of
rats will both drive tliem away aud serve
as an excellent disinfectant.
Sorghum makes an excellent fodder,
either when used green or cut and cured
like common grass and then fed out as
wanted.
Watch the potatoes. If they arc
spouting rub off the spouts and reduce
the temperature of the cellar as much rs
you safely can.
He is rated the best farmer who cuts
the greatest number oftons of hay and
can keep a corresponding number of cat
tie to the hundred acres throughout the
year without the aid OF foreign supplies.
A hill of raspberry plants, after being
trimmed in the spring, should only have
three or four canes, about three and a
half feet high and nearly one inch in
diameter at the base, each cane having q
few side spurs about ten inches long.
1t will not do to run a plough through
an orchard, as the roots of the trees
may be cut and hacked to pieces so
greatly as to do injury. A light c~ultiva-
tor may be of service, however, as by its
use weeds and rank grass may be kept
down.
Sickly looking plants may be taken out
of their old pots, the roots washed, and
weaker branches trimmed and placed
into as small pots us the roots can be
placed into. Let such a plant remain
there until by good growth it shows its
healthy roots, then it may have more
earth in a little larger pot.
There is a great difference in the value
of barnyard manure, and much of it, if
analizcd, would show that the quantities
usually applied per acre contain really
less plant food than the common dress
ings of commercial fertilizers. But the
rotting of manure in the soil helps to de-
compose the latter and is thus q double
help.
A successful grower of carnations has
found lime to bea good fertilizer for
them. They will be much finer grown
in soil containing lime than in any other.
1t also prevents the attack of worms.
The red spider and green fly may be
overcome by the application of tobacco
water, although many tourists prefer
fumigation with tobacco smoke.
In planting a new bed of asparagus
the first and most requisite thing is the
selection of suitable soil, which should
be a light, sandy loan or clear sand,
without stones or gravel. Seed should
be carefully selected from the largest and
most productive roots, and planted rs
early in the spring as possible, in heavily
MANFRED, clean land, in drills about one
foot apart and eight or ten seeds to the
foot.
The natural course of any stream
of water is crooked and interfcrcs
with profitable cultivation even of
grass, rs in these days all the moving
has to be done by horse power and ma
chine. 1t is n great advantage to open
a straight open ditch through a meadow
where the brook runs. The fall will be
better in n straight line, and if tile or
stone drains are run into this open ditch
from all the low places the land thus re-
covered will almost certainly be the most
productive on the farm.
The Feelings and refuse cut away from
potatoes in preparing for cooking are
usually thrown in the swill barrel and
fed to the pigs. This is not the best use
that can be made of them, especially
when green food is scarce. If the small
amount thrown u every day is saved
for the horse or the mich cow, it will in
crease the appetite and help keep the
animal in better health. Fed to a COW
it will increase the milk supply, and thus
feed the pig nearly or quite as well as
raw potato parings would do.
Household Hints.
Fir ware washed in soda wotor will