The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-14


wheat on the same land two years in
succession. Farmer.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Repair the old poultry house.
Shelter from the hot sun all rare and
costly plants.
Good pastures are the good farmers
main dependence.
Good cultivation with some hoed crop,
is of the utmost importance.
To repel mice. stand three or four
pieces of lath around the tree and tie the
top.
The onlv secret in storing apples is to
have cellar that is sufficiently dry and
cool.
It is a mistake to mix chilled milk
with fresh, as the latter will be injured
by the former.
White oat frkins are recommended as
best in which to make cucumber pickles,
and next to that stoneware.
A New York farmer recommends
mixture of orchard and meadow oat
grass for soiling purposes or early hay.
All things considered, the profitable
line of production with hogs is to main
tain health and secure an early maturity.
Asters are desirable because they come
into bloom after the greater portion of
garden flowers have passed their prime.
Unslacked lime dust used on asparagus
when the leaves are moist with dew is
favorlte remedy for the asparagus beetle.
Use mason's trowel to scrape the
moss or loose bark from the trunks of
fruit trees, taking good care not to in
jure the inner bark.
Blight is often destructive to the pear.
All that can he done is to remove the
blighted portion, whether small branch
or the whole tree, and burn it.
If seeded down to clover or good
grass, keeping the pigs in the orchard
from now until fall will be an advan-
taye to the trees, the fruit and the hogs.
Sow "patch" of rye; it will furnish
green food for the fowls this fall. next
winter when the snow happens to be of,
and in the sprlur before the grass starts.
Culture, pruning and manuring are
most important during the first few years
of young orchard, and the lack of them
can never be atoned for by subsequent
cae.
One of the best places for dumping
coal ashes is around the base of fruit
trees. Tut a small mound of it around
each tree. Borers will not be apt to
trouble them.
There is no good reason why the bet
varieties and species of huckleberry
should not be found growing in every
garden where blackberries and raspber-
ries are cultivated.
One of the reasons why so many be-
e nners in poultry raising fail to make
poultry pay, is because they crowd one
hundred fowls into the space which half
that number require.
The value of sheep to the farmer
ought to be estimated from the stand
point of meat, fertility, and general
advantages to the farm, regardless OF
the market price of wool.
It is said that if three-quarterinch
hole is bored in apple trees affected with
"bitter-rot," and the same filled with
saleratus and then plugged up, it will
effectually remedy the EVIL.
1t is claimed that wool washed after
it has been clipped, and left for some
time in its natural grease, combs better
and makes more perfect cloth than if
washed while on the sleeps body.
Wherever sheep feed, new sweet
grasses flourish and weeds are destroyed,
says writer. If farmers fully appre-
ciated how great a benefit sheep are to
land they would raise more of them.
An experienced poultry man maintains
that fowls live, thrive and pay about as
we'll in confinement (when properly man
agcd and cared for) as when running at
large. But they will never bear crowd.
ing.
Drainage marks the line between
swamp aud grain fields; between swale
and grassy meadows; between mosquito
plantations and pleasant orchards and
groves; between Improbable and profit
able agriculture.
AS rule, half peck of nice selected
apples will sell for as much as a peck if
the other half is made up of small,
crooked wormy apples mixed in among
them. Save the expense of marketing
the inferior fruit.
The kicking of horses in the stable in
dlcates n nervous, restless disposit On.
/ We recommend the use of large,
roomy stall, which will often change the
current of the animals thought, and
cause him to drop the obnoxious prac-
| tice
Spices must be used with moderation.
Fowls insides are not made of India
rubber or sheet iron. but are quite like
those of human beings. Red pepper
particularly should be used with care,
and the season when the eggs are used
for Matching it should be supplanted by
ginger.
! Calico was first introduced into Eng
land, by the East Indian Company in
1854.
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