The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-19
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farfn ana UdFuch NotSo'
Do not waste wood ashes.
Wheat does best in a clayey loan.
1t is an important item to keep the
colts growing.
The best way to market oats is in the
shape Of grade draft horses.
Of all stock raised on farm, poor
horses are the most Improbable.
The pulse of healthy horse is from
thirty-two to forty beats per minute.
Buttermilk poured over the backs OF
scurvy swine is sad to be sure cure.
1t is better to give the cows plenty OF
bedding than to abuse them because they
lie in the manure.
Give o small quantity of bicarbonate
of soda in swill to young pigs which are
afflicted with scoucs.
Never give horse full feed immedi-
ately before nor soon after subjectlng
him to Sc ere excrtion.
Give pigs which have the "thumps"
one teaspoonful of vase;ine. Repeat
every twenty-four hours.
Don't let your work get ahead of you.
Don't permit any delays at this season,
they are especially dangerous.
1t is better to make box stalls for your
COWS than to dehorn them so that you
can pack them closer in a shed.
Club root in cabbages is prevented by
making the seed bed on new ground or
ground not used for cabbage for several
years.
All breeding and young growing stock
should be fed very sparingly on corn; q
mixed variety of feed for them is much
the best.
Major Alvord condemns dehorning in
toto. He says that it is cruel, and argues
that it does not render the cattle less
pugnacious.
Cows at pasture after the first severe
frost want something more than damaged
grass. Grain will come in play as we'll
as in midwinter.
In fattening hogs, have dry-foored
pen and plenty of clean bedding. Dis
pense with that half of the pen generally
allowed for roofing in the ground.
A poor COW in the dairy is like dull
tool in carpenters eyes. 1t requires the
expenditure of large percentage OF
energy to obtain small percentage of
result.
Professor Magncr says successful
! horse-trainer ''nust have the delicacy of
| touch and feeling of q woman, the eye of
an eagle, the courage of q lion and the
bang-cn pluck of u bulldog"
One of the corner stones of success in
sheep raising is to draft out heavily but
! iudiciously at least once each year; there
! is no time in which sheep can be so
accurately sized up as when sheared.
Do not stint your horses in the use of
salt, especially in the spring time. A
horse ought to have a pound a week of
it, if he wants it. Throw it in the end
of his box; then he can help himself as
he wishes.
Your colts are as fond Of petting as
kittens are, and little fondlng every day
will do them good. by being handled
kindly often they soon become gentle
and doci'e, and are much more easily
handled wnen they become horses.
The basket worm. which kills the
evergreen hedges, should have been de-
stroyed last fall by picking off the
baskets and consigning them to the
flames. TIE hedges should be carefully
examined now and not basket left.
They will soon destroy hedge if given
an opportunity.
Grain crops should never he raised in
an orchard, or serious and permanent in
Jury to the trees will be the certain re-
suit. After the orchard has come into
bearing there is only one crop that can
be grown on the land without detriment
to the fruit and trees, and that is some
kind of grass, clover, orchard grass,
etc.
1t will cost but little to keep the sur
face of the ground around your trees
we'll sprinkled with fine lime. Many in
sects will avoid the lime, and on some
soils the lime will prove beneficial. An
excellent mixture for such purposes is
two parts wood ashes, cne part lime and
one part coarse salt. Only small quan.
tity need be used at each application.