The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-21
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Variety of food is best for fowls.
Sunfower seeds are good for fowls.
"Cabbages need lime" says an ex-
perienced farmer.
Strive to use only good seed and test
all that is doubtful.
Buckwheat is recommended for soil in
tested with wire worms.
Buckwheat, wheat and oats rank first
among egg. producing foods.
If intending to graft cherry trees get
ready to do the work in March.
The best way to co,or butter with car
rots is to feed them to the COWS.
If lambs are expected early, dry
sheltered place must be provided for
them.
Grow plenty of fruit for family use
this season if you have not done it here
tOfore.
A good walking gait is an important
point to consider when buying a horse
for farm work.
Dehorning is meeting with much favor,
but careless use of the saw by unskilled
hands is to be avoided.
Bran, oats and oilmcal is the food for
growing pigs up TO the time pumpkins
areripe, says Rnral Home.
E. w. Wood advises not to stir straw
berry beds with the hoe. Pull out weeds
by hand and leave the little feeding
roots undisturbed.
The best results from plaster on
meadow or pasture land are claimed to
come from applying it in winter or early
spring, while the ground is yet covered
with snow.
New onion seed has somewhat moist,
tender skin, and moist. oily kernel.
Test by pressing the seed on a piece of
writing paper. If it leaves no moisture
it has lost its vitality.
C. NJ. Clay states in Rural World that
the SUuthdown and the Merino are the
two leading sheep in the United States;
the first especially a mutton sheep, the
latter wool-bearing sheep.
Prof. Riley is reported as not in favor
of whitewashing trees, claiming that
only one of the four insects that infest
shade trees can be affected by the wash
ing, and that is the tussock moth.
There is just as much in knowing how
to feed hens as there is in knowing how
to feed any other farm stock. This is
the next important item to look after as
soon as good houses shall have been pro-
vided.
According to J. H. Hale, we'll known
horticulturist, peach trees heavily and
annually banked with wood ashes to
keep out the borers proved more free
from yellows than others not thus pro-
tected.
At a late convention of Farmers at
Hartford, Conn. Professor Alvord re-
marked that the influence of the breed
on the constitution of butter was OF the
highest order, and that food was of COM
paratively small effect.
To sum up profitable stock farming in
few words: Breed good stock, horses,
cattle, sheep and swine; feed, water and
shelter them properly and hygienically.
crgy upon one kind of stock.
Of two colts similar in disposition and
sense, one may develop into steady and
valuable family horse, while the other
may be everything that is vicious, treach-
erous and unsafe--a'l | because of the diff
ference in the men handling them.
. Fowls cannot possibly thrive and do
well if they be compelled to stand around
in the mud and filth ali day long. They
must have a place to scratch and exer-
cise The horse stable is most excel
lent place for them to range in if allow
able.
Mr.. Rawson considers hardwood ashes
cheap and good fertilizer for market
gardeners, applied at the rate of ton an
acre. He has used them with profit on
beans, peas and the like. He likes to
apply water after using any fertilizer, if
the weather is dry.
Mr.. F. P. Root, one of the most sue
cessful farmers Of Western New York,
prefers a compact soil for the small
grains, as wheat, oats and barley-a con-
dtion favored by fall ploughing-but
corn and vegetable crops do best in the
loose sccd-bed which spring ploughing
provides.
What the colt wants is plenty of exer-
else, clean place to sleep, shelter from
bitter storms, plenty Of good grass OF
different varieties, good, clean hay with
out dust and good, sound oats. Colts
raised in this way will not look so vel,
nor. win as many premiums, nor sell for
as much money, but they will last.
There is no standard percentage of
butter as to milk. Milk varies in the
amount of butter it contains during the
season. In the autumn, when COWS give
less milk, the percentage of butter is
twice rs much as it is when the t'ow is
the greatest. Cows differ, as it takes
all the way from five pounds to twenty
four pounds of milk to make one of but
ter.
Jnypnile PrOdipieS.