The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-11
Farm and Garden Hints.

Be regular IN feedlnS, watering anu
milking, if you would have good COWS.
Take good care of your stock and there
will be no cause to inquire what is the
best medicine for them.
Pastures cannot he continually cropped
without something being returned to pre-
vent the loss Of fertility.
There is no doubt that much of the
mortality among swine is caused by the
filthiness of their quarters.
According to Professor Riley, the best
of al remedies for the apple.root louse
is to drench the roots with boiling
water.
Top ventilation often causes the anil
mails to have colds when the wind forces
draughts of air in andit passes over their
bodies.
Be liberal but not a wastcful feeder.
Let every kind of food be fed in that
manner which will give the largest and
best returns.
When butter is gathered in the churn
in granular form it is never overturned.
Pounding it after it is in a lump or large
mass is what overchurns it.
The cost of milk depends upon the
cost of the food, hence the more milk
received from a COW in proportion to
food given the cheaper the cost.
The Southern Planter, of Richmond,
Va, does not think that honey bees in
lure grapes. The Florida Farmer iscon-
vinced that a yellow wasp is the pest
that Injuries grapes.
At the Ontario Agricultural College
recent experiment with peas showed that
it took thirty-five pounds more of cooked
than of uncooked peas to make 100
pounds of pork, live weight.
The dairy must stand back of good
agriculture. The fertility of the soil can
not be maintained without the dairy;
hence agriculture without the dairy soon
commits suicide by feeding on itself.
Doctor Voclcker's test of whether a
substance is butter or butte inc is to
throw small portion into frying pan
made nearly redhot. If butterine, the
smell of burnt animal fat will at once
reveal ltS nature.
The improved mutton breeds of sheep
cannot be kept in the manner usual with
common sheep. They demand good pas
ture, liberal feeding and attention, but
they pay we'll for the care bestowed.
There is great demand for superior
mutton.
The President of a State Agricultural
Society thinks that artificial watering,
as ordinarily done, is of very little
benefit, and estimates that to water prop
erly an acre of cabbage or strawberries
in a dry time it would require at least
80, 900 gallons of water.
Not only will coal ashes furnish fine
place for hens to roll in, but if allowed
free access to them they will eat the
small partly-burned bits of coal that
cone through the sieve. 1t is one way
the hens have of getting solid material
in their gizzards with which to grind
their food.
At recent contention of bee-keepers,
one speaker said: 81 was in rakota last
season at a place where there were no
bees. Pumpkin and squash vines were
growing luxur.antly, but there were no
pumpkins or sluashes. I transferred
some of the pollen, and in this way
pumpkins and squashes were secured. "
Kerosene is of a great help in the
proper care of poultry. Their nest
boxes should be boiled with it as pre-
vcntive of vermin. A few drops occa-
sionally in the drinking water will
hinder colds or roup, and when applied
to scaly legs it effects a cure, while it is
highly recommended as cure for
cholera.
Horses and cows change their clothing
regularly, and need some extra care while
this necessary process is going on 1t
is fastened by good feeding, and this is
especially important for horses soon to
be put to work. The making of q new
coat takes much the same elements of
nutrition that furnish bone and muscle.
Hence while the new coat is growing,
horses are somewhat weaker than after
this work is finished. For hurryiDg up
the new coat, oil meal, either cotton seed or
linsccd, is excellent. But it must be
fed with discretion. Liuseed meal makes
horse look nice, but if he is put at hard
work suddenly the coat will become
rough and staring.
in fall rnrnio