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


Near the close of a journey let the
horse walk.
Use land in which some cultivated crop
grew last year.
Bran will pay the milk seller, but oats
the bu, u,ter-maker.
Never wash a horse with cold water
when he is heated.
A fruitful cause of disease among
poultry is impure water.
1t is better to pay $50 for registered
bull calf than to have grade bull given
you.
Dorkiugs are par excellence as table
fowls, anu prolific layers of good sized
white eggs.
If the hog pasture gets short this
month, roots and pumpkins can be used
to supplement it.
Do not use coal oil or grease of any
kind on sitti. & hen; it will prevent the
eggs from hatching.
1t is better to think twice before you
strike COW, than to think twice to find
out why you struck her.
Ducks may be profitably raised on
farms where there are no streams or
pounds Of water for them.
The evening milk has been proven by
recent English dairy tests to contain
more solids than the morning milk.
To cure cat of catching chickens,
cut off her tail just back OF her ears, and
then top dress her with two feet of
earth.
Mushrooms can be grown in any dark
room or cellar where the temperature
can be maintained at from fifty degrees
to sixty degrees.
1t is better to keep COW that knows
how to attend to one branch of business
thoroughly, than to have one ambitious
to excel in everything.
Happy is the man whose COWS "come
in" ut the right time tor winter dairy
ing. If he caunot make dairying pay he
has some important things TO learn.
1t is better to fill up the water trough
before it is quite empty, than to let the
cows get very thirsty and drink SO much
they won't care 10 eat for two hours.
No animal is more sensitive to cold
LUdu SOW3 duo ~ 10 fSlJ AL pNtt-
ant to observe great regularity in time of
feeding and milking. Cows keep accu-
rate time in these matters.
The poor quality of the native wild
grasses in the West is one difficulty of
the dairyman in that section. Prairie
hay, though nominaly cheap, is poor
feed, and really often not so cheap as
corn in the great corn producing States.
Potatoes, beets, turn!ps, parsnips and
other roots can be kept in the cellar all
winter without wiling by storing them
in alright re eptacles. They keep
equally we'll if placed on the cellar floor
and covered two or three inches thick
with damp leaves.
When farm implements are housed
for winter they should be painted with
crude petroleum, mixed with enough
coloring matter to give it a substance
that will hold it on. If this is done their
durability will be greatly increased. aud
one of the most serious farm expenses
be cogrespondngly lessened.
The Common squirrel is an arrant
thief in the corn crib. The bulk cf
wheat he eats may be small, but he de-
stroys great deal more, eating out the
germ or chit. and being especially par.
tial to that which the fa' mer has re.erved
for seed. If squirrel can find his way
to the loft where the seed co!n is hung
up to dry, he will be sure to do SO in
preference to takiug that from the crib.
Husking corn out of doors, in dry
weather, the stalks arc so brittle that it
is very difficult to bind with them. Some
use rye straw for that purpose, and when
they have none are at the trouble to
1ansack the neighborhod till they find it.
1t never occurs to them that stalks are
not brittle when damp and that enough
to furnish man with bands all day can
be sufficiently dampcned with one pail
/ of water.