The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-11
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.'kicker:' by milking her when her tcats
we're sore.
A good hog has an excellent appetite,
and eating a large quantity of food
means rapid growth.
Some horticultural economist says a
good way to dispose Of old boots is to
bury them at the foot of an apple tree.
The great secret Of successful farming
is to keep the soil increasingin fertility,
by the plentiful application of manure.
While ouths occur in some sections
| of our country, rain is usually abundant
elsewhere, aud so famine is almost i'm
possible.
! The milk. after calving, should not be
! saved until there is no sign OF feverisn-
ness or Inflammation in the udder, and
! the peculiar birth milk shall have passed
away.
A crop of fifty bushels of large mer-
chantable potatoes from single acre IS
of more value than a crop of a hundred
bushels from three acres with few that
are merchantable.
Deposit dry coal ashes in the hen house
and spread them about. The hers will
naturally scratch in them and thus scat
ter them in crcviccs. This is an excel
lent preventive of hen lice.
Provide water for all stock. and have
kcg of water near the apiary with cloth
! over it, upon which the bees may light
and suck the water, which they need,
without danger Of drowning.
: Use every prccaution to avoid fire.
Have convenient peg for each lantern
in use in the barn, and never place q
; light where it may accidentally set fire.
Be careful in leaving hot ashes around.
! Hogs are plagued with two kinds of
"cholera. = one affecting the bowels and
the other the lungs. One is really the
hog cholera, the other is the swine
plague. Sometime, the hog has both
diseases at one time.
As rule, the farmer who carries the
most grass on his farm produces the
mos; stock. And those countries which
pr dice the most stock per acre OF Land
cultivated are generally the richest in
agricultural resources.
4 curious estimate is made of corn,
viz: Enough corn is usually grown each
wear in this country to allow each in.
habitant one bu,hel a week-more than
enough to supply all the food required
for fifty thousand people, but the larger
portion of corn is used by live stock,
and thus converted into meat.
SCOT is a very valuable fertilizer, but
it is much better to apply to moist, cool
land than to that which is dry and warm.
/, absorbs heat, and appropriates mois-
ture from the OIL A small quantity OF
SCOT placed in hills of melons, squashes
and pumpkins will cause them to grow
rapidly. 1t also kills many insects.
Professor Storcr says a ration of thirty
pounds of pumpkin per COW daily will
increase the flow and improve the
quality of milk. More than this quan-
tity should not be fed. Pumpkins are
very cheap food, as coupe Of tons can
readily be grown to the acre with the
corn crop. The seeds of the pumpkin
ought to be removed before feeding.
1t has been claimed that trees grow
ing from the pit, and not transplanted,
live much longer than those which are
removed when young to their permanent
location. Some peach growers are there
fore planting the pits where they wish
the trees to grow, and bedding the
stocks on the ground, where they are to
remain.
An experienced poultry raiser advises
peop'e to reduce the stock of fowls as
soon as the years hatch is well provided
for, but to hold on to old turkeys and old
geese, as they get used to the ways of the
farm and arc worth much more as breed
ers than young ones. Ducks are also
good until three years. A turkey is in
her prime at FIVE, and goose at twenty
years of age.
A lady who claims to have had twenty
years success offers this recipe in the
Ohio Farmer, for keeping eggs: Take
good fresh eggs and rub them over with
melted lard; thus closing the pores in
the shell. Then put a layer of oats or
bran in box and layer of eggs, setting
them on the small end and not allowing
them to touch each other, separating
them by oats or bran. In this way fill
the box and the eggs will keep fresh.
Trees set last spring will be greatly
benefited by mu .ch of straw manure,
applied after the earth has fro zen hard.
Ii prevents that repeated hosting and
depressing Of the soil, caused by alter
nate freezing and thawing, which is SO
in iur ous to the young roots. The ma
terial should not be allowed to lie in con-
tact with the stems of the trees, lest
mice. nndcr its shelter, gnaw the bark
A good plan is to first draw cone of
earth fifteen inches gh around the
stem, then mulch around the base Of the
cone.
Says the Farm AMI Garasn: eve
wish the reader would plant the grare in
every vacant space around the home
place and farm buildings. Allow them
to grow on the slany side of the no ,se or
larn, to run over all neglected trees, or
hide the form of some too familiar rock,
to shade some walk or sunny spot, or
grow and cover an ornamental trcliis. 1t
VIII add beauty to your place, comfort
to your home, icy to your children, and
be source of delight TO every pas or,
as well as Of satisfaction that dollars can
not purchase
Many farmers are very careless about
the managers from which their horses
feed. They should be kept clean by the
removal of dust and all other cxtraneous
matter. Every morning all the refuse,
dust and uneatcn hay, or remains of other