The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-09
Farm and Garden Notes.
ct young trees always.

Set young trees always.
Starving hens make lean egg-basket.
Underdrained moist soil is best for an
orchard.
Proper ventilation of the hotbed should
be carefully attended to as the weather
becomes warmer.
Numbered with the first hardy vege-
tables to be sown are spinach, satisfy,
beets, carrots, parsnips and onions.
It is a common mistake to think that
undertaking makes soils dryer in time
of drought. 1t does exactly the reverse.
Butttermilk may be safely fed to sows
with pigs, but it is best to begin feeding
a small quantity and gradually increase
the amount.
A grindstone is not, DR.. .Hoskins
thinks, the best instrument for sharpen
ing hoes and similar tools, ''Fasten in
a wise, and use large fat file"
An experienced breeder of swine says
that often when hogs are sluggish and in
different about eating, nothing in the
world ails them but the toothache.
Good results are claimed for common
unbleached muslin as covering for hot
beds instead of glass. 1t proves con-
venience for the home gardener or anna.
teur.
An experienced grape-grower. of the
Oneida community, in New York, is re-
ported as saying that we're he confined to
one kind he would take the Worden, for
two only would add Agawam as a long
keeper.
The temperature of cream should be
kept low so as to retard fermentation and
secure an even condition OF cream. Then,
when two or three or more skimmings
have been combined, they can be evenly
ripened in one batch.
Save all the SCOT carefully from stove
and pipes, and on calm damp morning
scatter it thinly over grassplots and beds
of early-sown vegetables. 1t is excellent
as manure, and, besides, is offensive if
not destructive to slugs and other ver
min that 20 abroad in the dark, eating
the Seeding plants as they come up. 1t
checks the growth Of moss among grass.
A good scratching and rolling of the
lawn in spring is another great benefit
to it.
The idea that any method of feeding
turnips to COWS, either just before or Just
after milking, will save the next mess
from being favored, is'a popular mis-
take. Heating the milk will cause the
favor of the turnip to evaporate so that
! it will not affect the butter made from
it. But there are objections to this.
The butter from milk thus treated will
! be soft, and the milk, if used as food,
will have constipating effect which it
did not before possess.
The narrowing and repeated reharrow-
ings which Mr.. Root, an experimental
farmer. gives his heavy corn ground
after turning down the sod and stable
manure is no doubt a prime clement in
his very profitable culture. He declines
! to use the roller as he harrows after the
plough lengthwise of the furrows. But
a roller taken across the burrows packs
them down and closes up all air cham
bers much better and faster than the
horses feet can do it. and the need of
this packing is one main reason why so
much narrowing is requisite.
It is generally conceded by fruitgrow-
ers that stiff clay is the best soil for
the pear. 1t is not because sandy soil is
lacking in appropriate plant food that it
fails to grow this fruit. Adding stable
manure only makes the matter worse. 1t
! is difficult to add mineral fertilizers IN
amounts sufficient to harden the soil.
This seems to be what is needed to ex-
clude air and thus preserve an equablo
temperature, with moisture enough to
! to keep the roots reasonably cool. The
sudden changes in temperature in light,
| dry soil are always predisposing causes
Of blight.