The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-18
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
This is the year for farmers to SOW
barley in place of oats.
Think how much you are dependent
upon your horse aud farm animals now
and use them we'll.
Pastures will be dry in August and
September. Put in lot of corn for the
cows and be ready.
Club.root rarely attacks cabbages
grown on soft land which has not been
set to cabbages for several years.
Many of the ready-mixed paints are
valuable and cheap, and the painting can
be done by one of the boys or hired man
at old times.
Never will a better time be found for
putting mowers and reapers in order
than the days and weeks that precede
demand for use.
1t has been truly said that the intro
duction of clover marked new era in
agriculture and wholly changed the
system of work.
Watering troughs by the roadside at
convenient distances are highly ap-
preciated by travellers and are pretty sure
indications of kind and hospitable farm
ers.
Professor Sanborn thinks that seven
teen pounds of good oat straw and three
pounds of cotton-seed meal are worth as
much as twenty-five pounds of good hay
for feeding steers.
Mr.. A. 7. Root thinks the smoke of
rotten wood preferable for use in hand
ling bees; he believes "the general de-
cision has been that we do not need any
thing 80 powerful as tobacco"
The Western Plowm1n can see no
equity in selling eggs by the dozen, SO
long as hens persist in refusing to lay
eggs of uniform size. They should 60
by weight-same as ''any other kind Of
meat"
A good shepherd dog, when properly
trained, will drive cattle or sheep much
more carefully and with much less worry
to the animals than the ordinary boy;
but when careless boy and worthless
dog are set to chasing them, look out
for trouble.
According to Professor 81. Muller, the
best time to prune vines is while the
grapes are ripening, and the young
shoots should be selected for this pur-
pose, as they require for their develop
mcnt a large quantity of sugar, to the
detriment of the ripening fruit.
If the apple tree borer has already ef-
fected lodgment, he must be dug out
or followed up into his hole with tlexi-
BILE wire and killed. Apple and peach
trees should be examined the latter part
of the summer, even if some offensive
substance has been used to drive away
the enemy.
We have often, says an agricultural
paper, watched the mixers from whose
hands, near the little finger, drops of
colored liquid were necessarily dropping
upon the snowy froth in the pail-every
drop the es ence of cow dung, and
sufficient in itself to destroy the 'rose"
in an ounce of butter.
1t is not mere fashion to cut the ears
of dogs; especially of terriers. It is
done for the purpose of avoiding disease
of these organs, and mostly canker,
which is caused by wet and filth which
gathers in the ears and produces infam-
nation. The ears are cut off square so
as to leave them no more than an inch
long. 1t also prevents the harboring of
feas in the ears.
Superphosphate of lime is a special
fertilizer for turnips of all kinds. 300 to
5Oo pounds per acre is usually applied.
1t is better to use one half to be har.
rowed in before the sowing and the other
half as soon as the plants appear above
the surface. This drives off the small fly
or beetle which eats the first leaves and
checks the plants severely as we'll as
forces the early growth ahead of the
later dry weather.
Catrle are frequently troubled with
sore feet from standing in filthy stables
or muddy yards. To prevent it keep the
stable and yards dry and clean. To cure
the feet wash them with warm water and
carbolie soap. Break all blisters and
scabs and get clean raw surface. Then
apply ear5olated vaseline or cosmoline
mixed with enough acetate of copper
(verdigris) to make the ointment green.
Bandage the feet. passing part of il
through the cleft. Keep the feet dry.
A Professional Pail Bearer.
A professional pail bearer has been dis
covered in Philadelphia. He is an ex
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