The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-23
Farm and Garden Notes.

The chubby SOW is always poor
breeder.
Prune any time the weather is fit and
keep the knife sharp.
There is now a market for quills
plucked from the turkey.
Low wagons with wide tires make
easier work in hauling out manure.
The only way to learn farming or any
other trade is to serve an apprenticeship
to it.
For fertilizing purposes there is no
more valuable form of potash than wood
ashes.
A farmer says that you can feed hog
so long on corn that you will starve it to
death.
Now give the best of care to the
sheep if you expect to sell the lambs at
a profit.
An. acre of corn-fodder well manured
will furnish ensilage enough to keep two
COWS year.
Sprigs of cedar distributed throughout
the nests of fowls will effectually clear
them of vermin.
Be sure and plant good seed potatoes
even If the seed be costly. But do not
plant TOO many acres. -
Good roads are the most obvious marks
of advanced civilization, and are essential
to general prosperity.
An hour or to of contact with parch-
ing air will kill young trees left lying
exposed to it by careless planters.
The farmer who gets the most eggs:
The one who gets up earliest and secures
to his flock good warm breakfast by
daylight.
Gather the droppings around unde,
the roosts every two or three days II you
would have your poultry free from the
scourge of scaly legs.
In very hot summers, ounce bushes,
grapevines, and many other plants given
to root very specifically are destoyed or
greatly weakened by having their shallow
feediug-roots parched up in the surface
earth.
. Tomatoes trained to stakes give the
sweetest fruit aud remain in bearing
longest, though many cultivators, who
grow for size and quantity, believe they
have the best results when growing them
on the level ground.
A recent trial proved that ferret kept
in cage in a barn or other building will
drive rats away. The scent from the
ferret is what does it. 1t is claimed that
rats are so fearful of it that they will even
abandon their nests of young.
Vegetables and fruits, as much as the
grain crops, require deep working of the
soil. A moderately heavy soil that has
been underdrained and subsoiled, and
then carefully worked, is capable of
producing the heaviest crops.
Whatever is done in the small fruit
line, it is a safe aud wise rule to put out
no more plants than can be properly
cared for. 1t does not pay to prepare
land. buy plants, set them, and leave
tn m to be choked with weeds.
For growing cucumbers, squashes or
other similar plants, put old sawdust or
rotten wood about them. Those who
have never tied cucumbers on strong,
bushy stakes, like pea sticks, will be
surprised to note how they enjoy it.
Many people can safely drink sour
milk, while their stomachs are too weak.
to digest that which is still sweet. This
is true of animals. The calf put upon
diet of slightly soured milk may scour,
but it is usually not from the sourness of
the milk, but from its lower tempera-
ture. A pailful or half full of cold, sou,
milk ch;l!s the digestive organs, and
diarrhna is the only way in which the
stomach can dispose of it's incubus.
Many farmers claim that if large po
tato with all the eyes cut out but one be
planted larger per cent. of early mark
etable potatoes will be produced than if
the seed were cut or small potatoes
planted whole. A study of this subject
was made at the Wisconsin agricultural
experiment station last season with four
varieties, the result in each case being in
favor of the large prepared seed. Ex-
periments at this station also showed
that results are best when fresh cut seed
is used.