The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-06-27
Farm and Garden Notes.

Cut the asparagus bed only very lightly
the second year.
Begin to weed the garden crops as soon
as the rows are well started.
The practice of sowing peas and oats
together finds favor with many farmers.
For manuring very poor soil Amera,
czn Aqriculturist recommends buckwheat
as the best crop, turning under two crops
a year.
The american Cultic1tor advises care
in feeding wheat screenings to laying
hens, claiming that the weed seeds they
thus get do more injury that the wheat
gives benefit.
In Summer succulent food Is the best,
because the COW needs more water during
warm weather. But if fed entirely on
green food in Winter, the cow may be
obliged to take too much water In her
food.
A. W. Cheever claims that grass can
be grown much more economically IN
rotation with other crops than if the
attempt is made to grow it continuously
on the same land for long term OF
years.
Endive is kind of lettuce grown for
fall use, and when nicely bleached,
makes a pleasant salad. Spinach is
crop that can be had all summer, by fire.
ouent sowing, but is more in season In
spring and fall.
The director of the Massachusetts, Ex-
pertinent Station favors spreading out
barnyard manure on the surface of the
soil as soon as possible. 1t does not gain
in value by being kept, and it is un-
healthy for stock to have it stored under
them.
It is said a pound of butter can be
made at the same cost as one and half
pounds of beef. But the butter is to be
credited with the fact that in selling it
off the farm, no fertilizing value goes
with it; but every pound of beef sold
takes away some fertility.
Professor J. P. Stelle, referring to the
practice of breaking up a sitting hen by
attaching a red ragto her tail, quotes
poultry expert as authority for the state.
mcnt that it cruelty shocks the system of
any bird of fine feminine instinct to have
to wear q sash that doesn't match her
complexion.
The same care given to growing crops
should be bestowed upon newly planted
trees. The ground must be stirred and
kept from baking to a brick-like mass
of hard clay. In many instances this
can be done by mulching, but good cul-
ture of the soil is far preferable if for no
other reason than to prevent the harbor-
ing of pernicious insects and other YER
min that are ever on the outlook for the
seclusion afforded them by the mulch 80
good naturedly placed around young
trees.
A vast deal of trouble can be saved q
the battle with the insects is waged it
the outset. The little silvery network
that spreads itself at the junction of two
bare limbs looks harmless enough now,
but when the skeleton hands of leaves
stripped of all their greenness extend
themselves in pleading to be rid of the
hungry worms that cling to them in an
attempt to draw the last drop of life, it
is serious state of things. Then it Is
too late to arouse to the conception of
the work to be done.
That there is such disease of the
peach tree as yellows is unfortunately
too we'll attested. Still, much that
passes for yellows is due to other causes
poverty of soil and Winter killing OF
the previous years growth. In any
kind of tree the whitening or dying out
Of dead branches will in time affect its
vitality. The apple is great deal
harder and stronger tree than the peach,
but even on this dead limb is, if not
speedily removed, soon followed by
others, until the tree dies. In many
cases other causes of peach trees dying
are ascribed to yellows; not infrequently
the cause will be found near the root in
an attack from the borer.