The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-18
Farm and Garden Notes.

Old turkeys produce inc pest ahu
hardest chicks.
Clean stables will help to bring your
horse through the winter with clean
bill of health.
Mouldy slage is unwholesome, OF
course, but silage properly stored can
not become mouldy.
Don't let fowls eat snow. 1t causes
loosencss in the bowels and prevents hens
from laying. Give good, pare water.
| A writer in the american CuhicGtor
favors sowing beans broadcast, as you
would any grain, always putting them
on greensward.
When you have raised a forage crop do
| not sell it. Feed it to live stock, and thus
have manure and have crops, and always
sell your crops throug n your stock.
An exchange suggests: "Whenever a
farmer gets a labor-saving implement for
himself, let him think if something to
save his wife from kitchen labor cannot
also be secu: ed"
The Farm, Stock and Tome says: "a
COW is in her prime when she is from
four to six years old, and the best paying
time to buy is Just after the birth of her
second or third calf"
Carrots, beets, mangolds, or English
turnips, when gathe Ell, should bc topped
with care, should be put in tight barrels,
or piled directly upon the bottom of a
cool and damp cellar.
Sheep like variety, and if this is fur
nishcd, a very small amount of grain can
be made to answer. II corn is fed it
always is preferable to at least have it
shelled, # not chopped.
Every farmer should maintain good
garden. Vegetables fresh from the gar
den are always healthful and more paat-
able than those purchased in the market.
Peas show marked contrast.
Many farmers are studying the science
of m liking lean pork. There is good
deal in il, but the old way is probably
the better one. Make your swine weigh
as much as possible by the science OF
good feeding.
The pear is thought by some to be the
most useful of small fruits to one who
has a garden. 1t takes but little room,
bears early, and in succession from July
until November, and it is fruit that
most persons like.
An open shed with a yard attached
will rot answer for the pigs in the
winter season. They should be we'll pro-
tected, having a house with door that
can be closed at night, and provided
with plenty of dry litter.
A thick coating of whi.ewash on the
walls of the cellar will be as productive
of benefit now rs during the warm season.
1t will also make the cellar light and
cheerful, and greatly assist in preserving
the purity of the atmosphere
As far as the experiments have been
conducted it has been demonstrated that
when wheat is sixty cents per bushel it is
the cheapest grain that can be used as
foCd for stock, being more nutritious than
corn and better adapted for growing
stock.
The S1eep Breeder says sheep require
to be fed oftener than any other stock,
and it is really more essential to feed a
small quantity often than large quanti-
ty all at once, and wait until they have
eaten this up clean before feeding again.
Like hogs, it is necessary to feed them
regularly.
When manuring fruit trees, remember
that the feeding roots are not at or near
the trunk of lhc tree, but at the eytremi-
ty of the larger roots, therefore nearly
under the extremity of the branches and
often beyond them. In an old orchard
the entire surface of the ground should
be covered with manure.
Dry sleeping places are indispensable
t, sheep. If compelled to remain on
damp locations the wool will dry very
slowly, and the animals will often con-
tract lung troubles. Sheep are liable to
more di>eases shan any other class of
faIm stock, and for that reason should
be more carefully protected.
Whether it be best to spread the ma.
nure on land intended for corn in winter
or spring depends on the land. If too
rolling, much of the soluble matter of
the manure will be washed ont and car
ricd off by the rains, unless the land has
been plowed and left in the rough
condition (unharrowed), so that the
rains may more easily carry the matter
downward. 1t is best to haul the ma
nurc now. if it can be done, so as to
avoid such labor in the spring, which is
usually the busy season.
The Guernsey Brecdcr says soft-wood
charcoal, especially willow, ought always
to be kept IN the cow stable. If a COW
does not look bright give teacupful in
her bran and other feed and wet up. If
her breath is bad her horns hot and her
nose dry, she is dyspeptic and feverish.
Give her charcoal. If she has hollow horn,
give charcoal, half tcaspoonful at each
meal for three or four days. Treat wolf
in the tail in the slme way. The wolf
can't stand charcoal. 1t is an exec client
thing to give charcoal all around once
week.
The cost of milk depends upon the
cost of the food, hence the more milk
received from COW in proportion to
food gil en- the cheaper the cost. But
unless warm quarters be given q large
quantity of food must be diverted to
creating warmth for the body. and it
won!i therefore be economical 10 keep
the cows comfortable in order to chca en-
the cost bv lcsseniug the amount OF food
required for bod ly warmth. In o her
words, shelter IS food, as it protects the
animals against cold.
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