The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-05-02
Farm and Garden Notes.

Bone-meal is said to be perfect fer
tilizer for oats and m;llet.
Many a farmer pays large sums for
fertilizers, while he allows his own barn
yard to run to waste.
Use the smoothing harrow broadcast
on the crop before the weeds appear, and
harrows and cpltivators afterward.
Work done in season always brings
better results than when it is postponed
beyond the proper time, for it is then
apt to become fruitless task.
Irregular feeding will do more to cause
cows to dry off than any other method,
while the practice of it is extravagant,
inducing waste and loss of time.
Raw meat chopped fine and fed once a
day-about one pound of lean meat to
fifteen hens-will produce more eggs
than any other food that can be given.
1t has been we'll said that one of the
great drawbacks to beginners in poul.
try raising is the attempt to keep fifty
fowls IN house or lot none too large
for twenty-five.
The farmer who has a lot of turnips,
carrots, beets, pumpkins, and potatoes
stored away can greatly economic In
food, as we'll as rival those who have a
supply of ens'lage.
The apple moth, Mr.. Andrew S. Fuller
says, is properly called Goblin, not cod
ling. Cooling is a little Goldfish, and
Goblin is little apple, hence the differ
ence in derivation of the two words"
A prominent poultry-raiser says that
three thousand hens, cared for in prop
er manner, will show an annual profit
of $4,000. We would like the secret of
the method, if three thousand hens are
to be kept together.
One way of preserving eggs is to use
wood ashes, Pack the eggs in box,
without allowing them to touch each
other, small end downward, and use
p.enty of ashes. Sawdust or sand, if
perfectly dry, will do as well.
Inflammation is apt to spread from one
eye to another. and if due to any wrong
condition of the stable, as dampness or
cod, it may spread to other horses. Give
a pound of EPSON salts, and blow lit
tie burned alum into the eye through h a
quill.
There is nothing handler than bale
or two of wire netting for making a tenn
porary yard for flock of fowls. Drive
down stout stakes, unroll the netting and
tack it to the stake with inch-c!out nails.
1t is very quickly done by two persons
working together. We have often done
it without assistance.
A fancier says that the Muscovy duck
grows large, and both the Muscovy and
Poland are easy to raise. They require
but little water, and both are excellent
for the table, the Muscovy quite equal to
turkey in size, and superior in quality
of meat. A fancier is of as regards size,
and to our taste quite as much so in edi-
BILE quality of flesh.
Mutton should be as plentiful as pork.
There are hundreds of farms that could
be devoted to sheep, but which are now
Improbable II requires less labor for
sheep than for hogs, while the prices for
choice mutton and lamb are at times
very high, though the markets at such
times may be we'll supplied with in
ferior grades of carcasses.
Good milk can be produced only from
good clean food and clean water. If
these be impure the milk must partake
of their impurities. Cabbage and tur-
pips must be fed with care, else they
make the milk have bad taste. Now,
just as they influence the milk, so does
any Objectionable drink. To save dish
water, it might be fed to pigs or grow.
ing heifers, or to dry cows, but not those
yielding milk. There is manurial value
in dish water, and it is pro6tably ap-
piled to the garden or truck patch, or it
may be thrown on the manure pile.