The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
A good garden is paying invest
ment.
Agriculture makes the true riches o!
a nation.
The question is not how large a farm
do you own, but how good one it is.
Lack of shade in hot weather, tot
much exposure to the sun, is also prolific
cause of disease.
The general aspect of the dairy anima
is thinner, sharper and more angular
than the feeding animal.
When butter is gathered in the churr
in granular form it is never over-churned
Pounding it after it is in lump or large
mass is what verchurns it.
When the milk foams and froths ir
the churn, the probability is that the
temperature is not correct; hence use
thermometer when churning.
A close, unventilated, or imperfectly
ventilated house is emphatically foul
house. Better cod than foul air. Better
the danger of frozen combs than the
multiplication of germs of disease.
Selfish interest should induce tax.
PAYERS in farming districts to make theil
highways good, but they go on botchine
them, year after year-anything to get
the dues assessed marked off the roll
At recent meeting of the American
Bee Keepers Association, several mem,
bers of experience gave the cost Of
producing honey. The general average
of the estimates was about ten cents pei
pound.
The beet grain for young colts
is crushed old oats. Barley crushed,
not ground, but coarsely cracked is next
best. For spring colts begin with q
pint at feed and gradually increase as
the colt grows.
Potatoes are dried, as fruits are,
for use on ships and in mining
camps, where the fresh vegetables can,
not be easily procured. The potatoe:
are sliced and dried in common
evaporator, just as apples are, and when
used are soaked in water twelve hours
to soften and freshen them.
A New York farmer states that be
used only coal-gas tar to prevent the
ravages of the potato beetle. He puts
q gallon of tar in tub, over which be
pours boiling water, which is allowed
to settle and cool. This is sprinkled
over the vines with an ordinary sprinkler.
A gallon of tar costing seventy-fve
cents suffices for several acres of po-
tatoes.
A practical test will convince the
dairyman who has not tried it, that his
cows are capable of consuming and di-
gesting a much larger amount of food
than the usual allowance. Experiments
OF this kind will soon denote which of
the COWS pays best, by noting whether
the excess of food is converted into in
creased quality of milk or converted
into flesh.
The Home and Farm gives the follow.
ing novel method of making cabbage
head. 1t says that "when the plants
are about eight inches high and have
formed woody stalks, make in:isions in
the stalks with the small blade of a pen
knife, insert small pieces of wood Of the
size of match, and break them off.
This checks the growth, and hard heads
will he formed"
The growth of a splint may be
arrested by blistering the part with bin
lodi e of mercury once week for two
or three times, which will lead to the
absorption of the abnormal growth.
When the splint does not cause lameness
it would he best to leave it alone. When
lameness is caused it would be we'll to
try the blistering and give the horse a
rest during the treatment.
A horn that has been broken
off by accident leaving the core
remaining should be treated as follows
Take a strip of cloth, smear it with
common pine tar and wrap it around the
core, fastening the end securely in the
best way practicable. Leave it thus un.
til the bandage comes off, when the core
will have hard covering and give no
more tronble. But the horn will not
grow again.
In harvesting wheat almost every one
has noticed little heaps of straw uni
formly a few inches in length and won
dered what could have been the cause of
it. 1t was the work of field-mice. The
little rodents did it to get the grain.
They gnaw off the stalk as high as they
can reach, and it drops down endways,
the surrounding stalks prevent it from
falling over, and they continue the
process until the head is reached. Rab-
bits do the same. Their work may be
known by the pieces of straw being
longer and they cease operations before
the grain is fully ripe.
A fruit-raiser in Indiana finds cop
peras-sulphate of iron-the cheapest
and least dangerous substance that can
be employed for killing currant worms.
He gives the following direction for its
use: ITO one gallon of rain water add a
teacupful of copperas, dissolving the
copperas in the water, and, with an
ordinary sprinkler, sprinkle we'll the
bushes about the time the worms first
make their appearance. If this applica-
tion is made at the time the first signs OF
these pests are noticed once is enough,
but should they hatch and become
numerous then two or three more
sprinklinss are required"
Wasps puncture grapes, but with bees