The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-25
Farm and Garden Notes.

Gentleness cannot be kicked into q
COW.
Learn how to make frst-class butter
and you can easily get frst-class prices.
Coal ashes are a helpful mulch for
shrubs, but plants will not readily grow
in ashes.
Be sure to give the wheat firm, solid
seed bed. The wheat likes it; drouth
and chinch bugs hate it.
Trim all broken branches of ornamen-
tai trees, and pruue shrubs too. Thin
them as needed, but avoid formality.
A farmer with quantities of experience
saws: ''Of all the kinds of cattle food I
e.cr grew sweet fodder corn is the
best"
The best authorities claim that cream
should be kept at temperature of about
fifty degrees, or between this and sixty
degrees.
1t is said that a tablespoonful of
burned or powdered bone placed in a
calfs mouth back of the grinders will
cure scours.
The proper time to plant tomatoes,
peppers and cabbage, is about six weeks
before they can be transplanted into the
open ground.
To decompose bones put them in un-
leached ashes in alternate layers, and in
one years time they will become COM
pletely decomposed.
Old trees to have all accumulations of
moss and loose bark scraped off, should
be given wash of soft soap, mixed with
enough water to apply with bush.
For fertilizing purposes there is no
more valuable form of potash than wood
a>hes. The plants have digested it once
and adapted 1t to the use of all other
plants.
The following is recommended for lice
on cattle: Mix one teaspoonful of ground
copperas with the feed of each animal,
once in each week or ten days, until the
pests disappear.
The chief use Of commercial fertilizers,
guano, phosphatcs, bone, potash, salts
and special fertilizers prepared by for
mulae for different crops is to supply
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
Skim-milk of a dairy is worth more to
be fed to calves in winter than in sum-
mer, but it should be fed warm and
sweet, and with little oatmeal. Never
destroy calf's digestion with cold milk.
The nature of rust and smutis not per-
fcctly understood, and careful investi-
cation of these parasitic diseases Of
plants would be most useful work for
some we'll managed experiment station to
engage in.
Butter takes nothing from the soil that
affects its fertilization as do crops of
CEREALS. 1t is almost wholly carbon,
which is derived by the plants from the
ar. Butter, though sometimes high in
price, is really produced fIom the
cheapest elements known.
Sulphide of potash is death to all
sorts of plant mildews. The proper
way 20 apply it is in solution, one ounce
of sulpbide to four gallons Of water, in
the form of spray. One single arpli-
cation on badly mildewed vine has cured
it permanently for the SEASON..
The creamery system is the only one
for managing milk and making butter
that does not make slaves of women. 1t
is the great emancipation of the house
wife, besides makir moro butter and of
higher average quality. As a measure Of
economy no good farmer should be with
out creamery.
The annual report of the commissioner
of agriculture, recently issued, states
that pleuro pneumonia is now restricted
to smaller areas than at any previous
time in many years. There is now every