The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-07
Farm and Garden Notes.

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A hint for cheesc-makers: New York
commission merchants are asking for ten
pound chceses. The consumption OF
cheese. the DGrg Horhi thinks, would
soon be doubled if this demand were
supplied.
| The Italians fatten their turkeys on
walnuts. The process is begun thirty
days before killing, walnut being
stuffed down the fowls throat every day
during that time. BY the twcnty.ninth
day he is well fatted, and ready for the
slaughter.
Many farmers, says recent writer,
have made mistake in trying to raise
mongrel trotte:s, and have generally
failed. They should rather breed for
large, stylish, active coach and driving
horses, or solid, strong, active farm or
draft horses.
The weighing Of milk, testing of the
COWS and knowing to dollar what one
is doing, is great help to the dairy
fa1mer. 1t enables him to get rid Of
Door mixers and replace them with good
ones, and the latter cost no more to
handle than the former.
When COW is choked with an apple,
the best thing to do is to hold block Of
wood on one side of the gullet, and strike
with mallet on the other sharp blow to
crush the apple. This is better than
trying to force it down or to lose the
cow. The throat is not seriously hurt.
A rural Pennsylvania tells his brother
farmers who are about painting out
buildings that the application of coat
of crude petroleum will lessen the amount
of paint required and cause the wood to
last longer. A wash which he has found
very satisfactory for outside work is
made by slaking clean, fresh lime, and
mixing it with water, and adding to each
peck Of lime half pound of salt and q
pound of sulphate of zinc. This wash
may be colorcd to any dc lrable shade.
For cream color he adds yellow ochre;
for gray, lamp-black dissolved in vine.
gar.
An economical feeding trough for hogs
may be made as follows: Take plank
l6 feet long and u inches wide for each
side and one inches wide for the bot
tom. These are closely fitted together
and held by few long bolts passing
through the sides and the bottom. The
ends are closed and bolted in the same
way. The trough is divided into 2 feet
spaces by partitions of / inch board
placed across so that one pig has room to
feed without being pushed away by the
others. To prevent pigs getting into the
trough the partitions are made ~ inches
higher than the sides and a board 6 6inches
wide is nailed all along the top of it.
The artichoke, says the Country Gen.
uemao, is to be planted and cultivated
like potatoes, or in shallow furrows, three
or four feet apart, and about foot in
the row. Two inches in depth will an
swer for covering. They are not to be
rid 5ed, as some ridge potatoes to their
detriment. They constitute good food
for hogs, are nearly as nutritive as pota-
toes, and commonly yield more to the
acre, sometimes several hundred bushels.
Small crops may be obtained from poor
land, but rich soil does best. They are
cultivated to some extent in certain local
tiles, but the fact that they have not OBJ
tained a general introduction indicates
some drawback in their culture.
1t is too much the fanhion, says the
Cult;ra or, to re Lard ensilage pro lucts, if
of the same food, as identical in quantity.
But every one knows that corn fodder,
which is most used for ensilaging, varies
greatly. That grown thickly in rows, as
it generally is for the silo, makes thin,
white and innutritious stalks. There is
no gain to this kind feed by putting it
on the siIo. Unless the lacking nutrition
is supplied, cows will grow thin on it,
just as they will on watery grass as pas
ture in May. The succulence of cnsilage
makes it excellent as basis for increas-
ing the milk yield in winter. Large
cornstalks, that have borne ears, contain
a great deal more nutrition than the same
bulk of ensilage put up as it is commonly