The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-28
Farm aud Garden Notes.

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Never allow your domestic animals to
be teased or ill-treated.
Really good butteris sometimes spoiled
by the use of inferior salt.
Milk scalded with the cornmeal is a
good egg. producing food.
Cob-meal ground fine is claimed to be
of value in fattening sheep.
Liberal feeding of ashes, salt and char
coal to swine, at all seasons, is very gen.
orally believed in.
One farmer claims that he can manure
his farm with clover at less cost than to
haul manure.
Waste of fodder is pitiful after all the
labor and care expended in gathering
and saving it for time of need.
If the cow is a good mixer cotton
seed meal may be fed to her after she is
put on grass as long as she will eat it.
Blooming plants in the greenhouse and
window must be screened from the
brightest sun in order to retain the
bloom.
Horbeds should be sheltered from
winds as much as possible. Do not neg
let to screen them, by some means, on
the windy side.
Pick over the beans and select good
ones to plant. Better sell the poorer
ones at low price than plant them.
Plant the best of everything.
If we breed what the market demands,
the purchaser will come to us; but if we
do not breed what the market calls for,
we must search for customers.
To enrich land that is poor we must
have manure or its equivalent in vegeta-
BILE matter, or apply plant food in some
shape to induce the growth of vegeta-
ton.
The breed of cattle that was supposed
forty years ago to do we'll enough on
straw as winter fodder has become ex-
tinct, because there is now better class
of farmers.
Sow in hotbed seeds of asters, balsam,
Chinese pink, Chinese primrose, cine
raria, petunia, phlox drummondii, por-
tulaca, ten weeks stock, sweet william,
verbena, etc.
Grapevines in the garden and vine
yard should be pruned. The necessary
pruning of all kinds of fruit and hardy
ornamental trees can be we'll performed
at this time.
An English poultry keeper reports that
five Aylesbury ducks, which had water
to drink ouly, and painful for q wash
sometimes, laid from Feb. Is to Jan. 10,
47S eggs, eighty per cent. of which pro-
duced live birds.
The cheapest way of getting rid of lice
in hen house is to dissolve pound of
soap in d wash boiler of water. Let it
come up to boil, add one quart of kero.
sene, and sprinkle, while hot, over every
part of the hen-house.
Horticulture is taught in the common
schools in Germany. The pupils are re-
quired to bud, graft, transplant, plant
seeds, etc., and they are given instruc-
tions on the subject of plant growth,
adaptation of varieties to soil, climate,
etc.
The discussion of honey plants re-
vealed the fact that Alsike clover is the
favorite, being both excellent as honey
producer and forage plant. One mem
Der said that it was good feed for milch
COWS, and thus was able to make "the
land flow with milk and honey"
Many newly struck bedding plants
will now be potted of, and old, woody
or half woody plants that have been kept
dormant, such as fuchias, pelargoniums,
Grape myrtles, lantanas, hydrangeas,
oleanders, pomegranates, roses, etc., can
be re-potted and started into growth.
President Smith, of the Wisconsin
State Agricultural Society, thinks that
artificial watering, as ordinarily done, is
of very little benefit, and has estimated
that to water properly an acre of cab
bages or strawberries in dry time re-
quires at least thirty thousand gallons Of
water.
For disinfectants about poultry houses
and sheds, smoke from a wood fire Is
one of the best; also sulphur. In using
the latter, close every opening and chink
where air can escape, place o pound or
two of birthstone, in small pieces, in an
iron pan, and let it gently burn, leaving
the house shut up for the day if possible.
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