The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-04
Farm and Garden Notes.

| If the old ruts have proved profitable,
stick to them. If not, get out.
Pigs in the orchard are best for both
the pigs and the orchard, provided there
is fair pasturage.
Burn out the caterpillar's nests on
fruit aAd shade trees and escape this
disagresable plague.
Regularity in feeding, watering and
milking are important matters In the
dairy. Practice it.
If currant or gooseberry bushes show
little holes in the leaves, apply powdered
| white hellebore, the best remedy for the
currant worm. .... -
In scraping moss and loose bark of
fruit trees use mason's trowel and take
care not to injure the lower bark, ad.
vises one authority. -. 49,.
Sheep for breeding next season will
do we'll on pasture alone, but mess of
oats at night will compensate for any
lack of pasturage where the flock is
large.
Major Alvord states, in american Cul-
t;oator, that he never saw better ensilage
than that made from Hungarian grass or
millet, cut when just beginning to show
heads. ..E....
In using eggs for Matching tie largest
and strongest chicks will come from
eggs layed by the hens or fully matured
pnllets Eggs that are small or double
yelked are not suitable for Matching.
On most farms the manure is too un-
equally distributed to give the best
profit. Some parts are manured heavily
annually. The garden is one such spot,
and as it requires more labor than any
other equal area, it is fairly entitled to
q greater portion of manure.
Washing the trunks of trees with
offensive substances to keep out borers
appears to A. W.. theever ''like
going long way round to get there, "ai
it will be much less work to dig ou,
what few there are in an orchard vel
cared for than to wash all the trees.
The pig that brings the farmer the
most money is not tn. one that yields
him the greatest profit. Fall pigs win.
tered over and fattened the next fall
are almost invariably expensive animals.
Where corn is fed to cattle whole, few
pigs may be kept to follow them with
out much outlay, but only a few.
Referring to plea for artificial color.
ing of butter (made by one of the official
agricultur;sts) correspondent of the
NeD England Farmer pertinently inquiries
if it wouldn't be equally admissible to
use the same means to give the desired
creamy tint to blush milk, in Difference
to tue preference of city consumers.
Professor Roberts, of Cornell Uni
versity, says: "a cow that makes six
pounds of butter week on cold water
will make seven pounds if the water IS
warmed" He further says that ''cows
will drink third more when the
water is warmed to 80 degrees than they
will at 80 degrees, aud that the milk
will increase one-ffth without deteriora-
tion."
Many kinds of pears grow in clusters
like cherries. Usually if these were re-
duced one-half or more, the crop would
be more valuable. It seems pity to cut
out the young fruit just as it is formed,
but it will pay. Nature does some ol
this work, but not enough. If half the
blossoms drop without setting fruit. thu
orchardist will do well to cut off half OF
those that remain.
! A Michigan farmer is still using a har-
| ness which after seventeen years wear is
as good as one purchased new by a
neighbor only two seasons ago. The
secret is declared to lie in his practice OF
oiline, VIII ch, instead of being the
'big chore" that most people make of it.,
consists in simply unbuckling the parts
and, without washing, treating them
to good coat of kerosene. 1t is woD.
derful how clean and pliable the leather
| becomes.