The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-10-11
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Don't forget to fix that hinge to tn,
pasture gate.
1t takes man, in the strongest sense
OF the word, to be II farmer.
1t you use steam thresher, have few
pals of water handy; in case of fire they
may prevent serious loss.
Where oats or other small grains are
raised for hay, the best time to cut is just
as they arc in full bloom.
1t is making use of little savings that
makes the garden pay. Utilize every
thing when it is at its best
Remember that an extra girl i'm the
kitchen for few days. often prevents
the doctor from calling for several days.
The great secret of success in gurdcn-
ing is manure and thorough cultivation.
Do not hesitate to spend money for good
fertilizers.
1t costs no more to feed good stock
than poor, and it is no more expense to
handle good manure than poor, hence
care should be taken to have the best.
Hardly anything gives farm Il more
slovenly appearance than fringe of
bushes around every field, and clumps of
brush growing in the middle of them.
If you have a lawn mower lay it away
early in the fall. The lawn will be all
the better next year and last longer if al
lowed to make a strong growth of grass
this fall.
How much more delightful rural life
would appear, and how much the drudy-
cry of farming would he lightcncd, if
only the outward surroundings of the
home were made attractive.
Peter Henderson said in Il recent pub
lie address that no one should engage in
market gardening after passing middle
life, nor one who has II feeble constitu
tion, for to he prosecuted successfully
the owner must put his own shoulder to
the wheel.
This demon of waste is the ticnd that
is eating out the profits of our farmers
Keeping Improbable cows, feeding
wcathcr-bcaten fodder, and doing every
thing in the most expensive manner, and
then WASTING tirriir breath, calling them
selves practical.
Early hatchcd pullets will soon be lay
ing, and will be laying steadily all win
ter with proper attention. AS they are
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lowed to run together the old. stock will
become too fat or the pullcts too lean.
The cream from bran fed milk rises
slowly and is hard to churn. When the
butter is made it will he pale rather than
the golden yellow from the cream of
COWS fed on corn meal. Bran should be
fed to young, growing stock rather than
to cows. 1t is rich IN phosphate and
makes IN excellent manure.
\ barnyard 10 feet by 100 feet, says
Professor Roberts, contains almost exact
ly II quarter of an acre. In the State of
New York there arc thirty two inches of
rainfall. An inch of rain means one hun
drcl tons of water per acre. a quarter
of an acre means twenty y-tivc tons.
Eight hundred tons of rain fall on that
barnyard yearly.
1t is probably true that deep pIowing
is better for wheat than for almost any
other crop that the farmer can grow. 1t
is all the better for the wheat cron if
some sui,soil free from vcgctaDic iii"y'''
rTrrrrryy--rrI, rrIC SuTI;cc. 1t may bc
rich seed bed, but cultivation will pull
vcrzc il, and the subsoil is apt on good
wheat land to be richer in phosphate and
mineral plant food than soil nearer tho
surface. 1t is to get phosphate from the
suhSoil that some wheat growing farmers
have plowcd more deeply than they 9TH
crwisc would do.