The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-30
Farm and Garden Notes.

Good seed and good culture pay.
Tame hens are the most profitable.
Do not plow heavy soils when they
are very moist.
Though fat pork eats more than lean,
it is not so good.
Prune grape vines to two or three
buds of last years growth.
Young chicks need nothing to eat the
first twenty-four hours after leaving the
nest.
Of all homemade fertilizers for the
potato crop none is superior to unleached
wood ashes.
The very best time to begin liberal
feeding to develop the dairy cow is when
the first calf begins to eat.
Manure should never be placed in con-
tact with the roots when setting out q
tree, but used for mulch or top-dress-
ing.
THE Rural Mew Yorker after some
years of experience advises all whose
potatoes are usually scabby, to sift sui
phur four over the seed pieces.
Bronze turkeys are now made to attain
the weight of fifty pounds when two
years DID,. which is large increase com
pared with the average weight of the
past ten years.
Professor Sanborn thinks that seven.
teen pounds of good oat straw and three
pounds of cottonseed meal are worth as
much as twenty-five pounds of good hay
for feeding steers.
Milk should be fed to young animals
warm and never in any other condition.
Overlooking the stomach of hungry
calf is followed by worse consequences
often than by little stinginess.
To have good orchard it should be
cultivated and manured every year, and
no crop raised in it unless it be clover,
and like bank account it will not honor
your drafts without the precious deposits.
Keep the calves growing Justify.
Teach them to eat oats at an early age.
A calf will never get fully over the bad
effects of having been stunted and starved
through even comparatively short
period of its life.
"A breeder of poultry says: "Every
spring l procure quantity of cedar
boughs and scatter them p'entifully in
and around the hen house. The odor of
cedar keeps away vermin. The remedy
is simple and effective"
The Rural New Yorker says: One
thing seems to have been quite we'll
demonstrated, that larger quantity of
potatoes, as we'll as potatoes of better
qua lty, can be IA sed with chemical fer
filters than with manure.
AS insects breathe through minute
openings in the sides of their bodies, any
greasy substance spreading over the r
bodies and filling up the air holes kills
them. This is why greasy or oily SUBJ
stances are always used for the purpose.
Last season several fruit-growers re-
ported that by burning off the old straw
berry beds new plants came up the fol-
lowing season. The experiment may be
tried while the leaves are dried and
partially decayed, but only a row should
be-thus treated, in order to compare the
result with other plants.
Good dairymen are we'll aware Of the
importance of pure air N the manufac-
ture of butter and of the fact that slight
impurities are readily absorbed and di.
minish the excellence of the product.
The habit of smoking by the dairymen
has been shown to make decided diff
ference in the flavor of tie butter.
If the clearing up has not been done,
lose no time in raking up and removing
rubbish of all kinds. If manure is used
on the lawn, let it be SO thoroughly de-
composed that the seeds of weeds cannot
survive. Such fertilizers as ashes and
bonedust can be used without risk.
Nitrate of soda, three hundred pounds
to the acre, is an excellent manure for
grass, especially if it can be applied just
before rain.