The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
Farm and Garden Notes.

Beets are rellshed by mllch COWS.
Feed oyster shells and ground bones
to fowls.
Fresh lime scattered around the cellar
will help to keep it dry.
Permit no smoking about the barn,
haystacks or strawstacks.
Corn-fodder cut fine, moistened and
sprinkled with cornmcal or bran, is ea6en
up clean.
Hogs fattened on barley are reported
to make superior meat with a large pro-
portion of lean.
A dairyman asserts that, on the same
amount of food, he never saw other
young cattle do as we'll as Holsteins.
1T should e the aim of every feeder"
says Henry Stewart, ''to induce his
stock to eat as much as they can digest"
According to Col. F. D. Curtis the hog
is the smartest animal we have among
US, and the most like man, especially In
the stomach.
In making out orders for nursery stock
one is liable to invest too largely in
novelties. Stick pretty closely to tested
and proven varieties.
Scaly legs in fowls, a complaint of the
season, should be treated by rubbing
twice Il week with mixture of lard and
kerosene, applied warm.
Salt benefits the compost heap by kill
ing weeds and preventing heating. Re-
suit of spreading salt on the heap
manure is all fine the next spring.
Common homemade lye soap, well
mixed with corn meal to stiff dough,
and given every few day, is now recon-
mended as preventive and sure cure OF
chicken cholera.
Sheep here do not pay as great profits
as those in England. Everything de-
pends on the mode of management. Our
farmers compel sheep to forage, while in
England they are treated as carefully as
as are cattle.
It has been found in California that
cold air blast dries fruit in the most per-
feet manner. Samples of fruit dried in
this way-prunes, apricots and apples
two years ago are still in a perfect state
of preservation.
Secretary Woodward would draw and
spread manure from the stable, even If
the snow were foot deep. He believes
that, spread on corn land in the fall, it
does fifty per cent more good than when
spread the following spring.
Professor Robertson, of Canada, claims
that cream raised by the deep cold
process produces butter that is
less highly favored when first made,
and is, in fact, often insipid at that time.
but its flavor increases with age, and j.
at it's best when several weeks old.
A practical authority states that the
best way to make a hog crate, in his
opinion, is to have the height three
ffths of the length Of the hog, and the
width three-fifths the height. This
will make a comfortable crate for
properly trained hog. 1t is certainly
worth trying.
Eecp cream apart from any strong
smelling vegetables, as nothing SO
rapidly alb orbs odors as milk or cream.
Never put it into jar that has had
vinegar, pickles or az, ids in it, until the
Jar is thoroughly cleansed and aired.
The best plan is to have a jar especially
for it, and be very particular that it is
often thoroughly washed and aired.
When cows refuse good hay there is
something wrong. Most probably they
have been ovcrfcd. The remedy is to
cut the hay with fodder cutter, the
cost of which will be repaid by the saw
ing in one year, and wet it and mix bran
with it: about two quarts for each cow,
adding a small handful of salt. Give no
more thin the COW will eat clean, and as
the appetite returns increase the ration.
Formerly it was common in giving
directions for transplanting trees to add
instructions how to stake them, to pre-
vent blowing over or becoming twisted
by the wind, which was really one of the
worst things that could happen to them,
and such stalking was always essential if
the top was larger than the roots. But
a better way is 10 obviate the necessity
of all stalking by taking up sufficient
breadth of roots to hold the tree firmly
in position when properly planted Long
and ample roots will hold the tree better
than any stalking. Purchasers of trees
should therefore make this requirement
of the nursery-man.