The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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1t is mistake to stop feeding young
turkeys when grown.
A noted English agriculturist advises
farmers to try cnsilaging instead of hay.
making in securing the hay crop.
The best and strongest chicks are
hatchcd some will be raised two months
hence, but they are not considered as good
rs the early birds.
If too late to set out cabbage or celery
| where the early vegetables were grown,
clear of the land aud SOW rye, it will be
fine to turn under this fall.
Ripe timothy hay is worth very little
more than straw for milk and butter.
while timothy cut when the grass is i'm
early blossom is much more productive.
John Gould says in the Western RurJ.
that he sold $114 worth of milk from one
acre of cnsilagc, and S22 worth of bran
and clover. The milk brought 81 80 per
cwt.
There is no more dismal sight than a
sparscly painted farm house without the
shcltcring shade Of n small tree and with
bare earth where luxurinnt grass should
abound.
Have the fair in mind while at work
about the garden, any fine specimens of
vegetables, Crowd-rNhibt ut the fair
and then save the seed for n"xt years
planting.
According to Professor l.. Morrow it is
better, in draining wide, nearly level
tracts, to have two, three or more lines
parallel by each other than To have one
main drain with short bitches at rirht
anElvs.
Where animals horses and sheep, to
wit-havc their teeth sound and com
plctc, it is claimed there is no advantage
to be gained by crushing their grain r,-
tions. 1t is otherwise in the case of old
horses, cattle and pigs.
If you have few choice cut plants
that are endangered by cut worms You
can save them by winding Il strip of
folded paper round the stem. Cabbage,
sweet potato and tomato plants carrie
fully protected in like manner.
In old garden land which has been,
for years heavily manurcd and cropped
the most Troublesome weeds are apt to he
purSlanr, barn yard grass and chickwcc
th"S" are all ANIMALS and if they are
kept from %ong to seed they may be
soon got rid of.
The habits Of th2 crow form an inter
csting subject for the study Of the or
nithO!oGiSt. The crow has Il larger
brain than most birds, and all his cncr-
%ics are directed toward procuring food.
Crows will destroy the nests of quail in
the absence of the old birds.
The cost of harvesting timothy hay is
less per ton when the crop is heavy than
when it is light. j. N. Muncy, in the
R"rW M"'o Yorker, gives the following
estimates when loaded by loader and
pitched off by hand: When the crop is
light. Sl.OS per ton, at 1000 to 1900
pounds per acre; n crop three times rs
large, sixty-tivc cents per ton.
+. II. Root tells in BIe Gl,tnings that
the imported Italian bees are not only
the TcntleSt bc"s he handles, but lust as
good and a little better honey gathcrcrs.
He says there is something in the eli
matte conditions of Italy that produces II
hardy, gentle and industrious race of
bees. Mr.. Roots impressions of the
Carniolans thus far appear not very favor
able.
\ correspondent Of G0r,Icn nnd Forest
thinks it a question whether it pays To
stake tomatoes. In the home garden it
is we'll to stop the growth Of the vine by
pinching to encourage early fruit; but for
late fruit he let's them run at will. Thin
ming ont the latcrals to give free circula-
ton of the air is good practice and helps
to prevent rot, but the fruit often scalds
if exposed to full sunshine.