The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

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Farm and Garden Notes.
Glover makes the very best hay.
Do work we'll, and make each motion
count.
Milk needs especial care and protection
from all filth.
A small flock of sheep is profitable for
almost any farmer.
! Thin out early vegetables while the
plants are very young.
In California sulphur is effectively
used to prevent mildew.
The first half hour after the milk leaves
the cow is what decides its excellence.
Fruit and vegetables in order to sell
: we'll must be marketed in an attractive
state.
| Cleanliness on the farm does more for
its excellence than the expenditure of
money.
Pastures cannot be continually cropped
without something being returned to
prevent loss of fertility.
Animals are constantly growing fatter
or poorer, and it is for the farmers inter-
est to note which way the growth goes.
| Before manures can produce their full
and profitable effect upon the soil, the
land must he made dry by drainage or
other means.
The extensive use of ensilage upon any
farm is chiefly question of convenience
and economy, which local conditions
must decide.
The silo system is best adapted to
high priced lands and so-called high
farming, aud to farms not suited to
profitable grass growing.
Every new fact discovered about the
diseases of farm animals, emphasizes
that these diseases are owing to impare
drink from ponds and sluggish creeks
more than all other causes combined.
In hog pastures where a movable
fence is used, so as to change the hogs
and thus prevent waste of the clover
from tramplng down, in fair season an
acre of clover will furnish forage for ten
shoats.
The cost of preserving a given crop as
ensilage does not materially differ from
curing the same crop by drying in suit
able season, but crops can be sliced and
preserved in seasons when they would be
lost if drying was attempted.
Here is simple remedy: When COW
is choked with an apple or potato, hold
a block of wood on one side of the gull
let, and strike with o mallet on the
other, and crush the apple. This is bet
ter than trying to force it down or to
lose the cow.
1t pays to produce the best. An in
ferior article is always sold at loss,
while the man who has the best COWS, the
best butter, the best beef, the choicest
poultry, we'll dressed; or the best but
ter, put up in neat packages, always
sells his goods at profit.
AS food for cattle, as we'll as other
! kinds of farm stock, ensilage forms a
good and very cheap substitute for roots,
and its condimental effects arc especially
apparent. But the usual ensilage crops
i fail to fill the place of the root crop in a
judicious farm rotation.
| A silo or two, we'll built, but not too
large or too expensive, will be con-
venent and economical on most farms,
to convert waste products into edible
forage, and to save crops which at other
times might be lost, if not to preserve
some crop specially grown for enslage.
In feeding, the best results follow a
moderate ration of ensilage, rather than
its entire substitution for dry, coarse
fodder. Except in the case of animals
fed to maintain their weight, ensilage
cannot be recommended as a substitute
for more than half the long forage con-
sumed.
Several reports of death from hand
ling animals diseased with glanders or
blackleg are reported. If the virus of
these contagious diseases enters the
blood through scratch or wound,
blood poisoning, and frightful death
follow. This fact is not generally
known, and it ought to be Carefully
bourne in mind, and neigbors ignorant
of the nature of these diseases eau
toned.
An old Kentucky bree ler places salt
as first in importance as preventive of
cholera amoug swine. He also claims
that salt, of all substances, is the best
promoter of digestion as we'll as an an
tidote against worms. He has adopted
the plan of sailing all his animals in
water tight troughs. keeping supply Of
salt on hlnd continually. Some char
coal is fed with salt to swine that are
closely penned, and he gives ashes occa.
sionally under all conditions.
Maiden Aunt Visiting family
"Gussie, you shouldn't cry so when it
thunders. The thunder can't hurt you.
Don't yon see it doesn't scare me anyf'
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