The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

Money spent in pant for farm build
ings and implements is no loss.
Let the horse have some exercise daily
if you would keep him in health.
A piece of liver rubbed over tree
or shrub will protect it from rabbits.
Each farmer knows some things; all
farmers know more. Teach one an
other
Manure finely diffused through the soil
lessons dryness in dry time; if left in
Jumps when ploughed under it increases
it.
Finely pulverized and we'll intermixed
through soil, manure is worth more than
double if left in Jumps, even in wet
season.
Galvanized barb-wire will last many
years without rust or harm: if only
painted it requires frequent repainting,
or it will rust.
To keep fruit without decaying, let
the fruit room in winter be steadily near
the freezing point, regulated with two
cheap thermometers.
The most successful dehorning of
cattle is when they are three weeks
calves, and when only little button,
easily removed, is the horn.
Fruit rooms or fruit houses, to be kept
cool, should be entered from above, to
prevent the cold air from flowing out if
the entrance is on the same level.
Every farmer should have workshop,
with distinct place for every tool, and
boxes with compartments for nails,
screws, bolts, etc., of different sizes.
The kitchen in every country house
should be on a level with the principal
floor, and should have ample windows for
light andventilation on opposite sides.
Two crops may be profitably taken in
year from farm landslide first, corn
fodder for ensilage, followed by thick
rye to be ploughed in late next spring.
To find the contents of crib, multiply
the length, breadth and height for the
cubic feet; multiply the same by four
and strike off the right hand figure, and
the result will be the shelled bushels.
Professor Arnold says the running ex-
pense in labor and fuel for evaporating
apples is ten and twelve cents bushel;
for raspberries, half cent quart; for
peaches, twenty-five to thirty-ive cents
bushel.
Paris green is the most efficient in
secticidc, and succeeds with potato
beetles, canker worms, codling moths,
and all other insects which devour
leaves, but fails with plant lice, which
live by sucking juices.
There is not much advantage in feed
ing potatoes to cows, if butter, rather
than milk, is the object. Potatoes in
crease the flow of milk, but they make
poor, salvy kind of butter unless other
and richer feed is given with them.
There is starch in the potato, but it
lacks the fat found in corn meal which
makes it 30 valuable a feed for the
butter maker.
If the Rural NeW Yorker's poultry in
vestigations have determined one thing
more valuable than others it is the use Of
kerosene and spraying bellows for ex-
terminating lice in the easiest and cheap
est way. A poultry house ten feet square
can be thoroughly kerosened in minute,
the fine spray penetrating every crack
and crcvice. There is no need whatever
of whitewash or the use of any other
material for this purpose. The kerosene
vapor is effectual.
An experienced horticulturist, says
Popular Gardening, uses many hundred
Yards of muslin for winter protection to
tender plants. Around tender trees and
shrubs he drives stakes to which he tacks
muslin, which completely protects the
plants from wind. In the case of rather
tender sorts, he throws few armfuls of
dry oak leaves inside the muslin inclosure:
then tacks another piece of muslin over
the top to keep all snug and dry.
The Guernsey Breeder says soft-wood
charcoal, especially willow, ought always
to be kept in the cow stable. If COW
does not look bright give teacupful in
her bran or other feed and wet up. If
her breath is bad, her horns hot and her
nose dry, she is dyspeptic and feverish.
Give her charcoal. II she has hollow
horn, give charcoal, half teaspoonful
at each meal, for three or four days.
Treat wolf-in-the- in the same way
The wolf can't stand charcoal. 1t is an
excellent thing to gie charcoal all
around once week.
1t depends upon the kind of COW
whether it is well to milk her close up to
the time of calving or not. Generally it
is advisable to take the milk until it be-
gins to change on the approach of the
new lactation. Then there is large
increase in the secretion of the salts in
the milk, and change in the character
of the fats. This occurs about thirty or
forty days before calving, and at this time
it is usual for the milking to be gradu-
ally stopped. The largest proportion
of cows naturally stop milking before
this time. With the rest it is advisable
to dry the cows.
When horse is lame after travelling
and is constantly shifting the foot and
rests it on the toe, it indicates sprain of
the back tcndons or disease of the navic-
ular bone. The latter is distinguished
by striking the frog with small hammer,
and if the horse winccs the navicular
! bone is affected; if there is no tender
ness found there the disease is in the
! tendon which plays over the cartilage
of the pas.ern joint. The remedy for
the former is to blister behind the heels
and to wear bar shoe or thick leather
sole under the shoe, and to stuff the
space under the soc with tow. For the
indamed tendon apply landages soaked
with cold water with little saltpctrc
dissolved in it, and after the lamcncss
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