The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Farm and Garden Notes.

Top ventilators in poultry houses are
being vigorously criticised.
Nest-egg gourds are best. A single
stale egg may ruin your reputation.
Corn charred on the cob is a good
form of giving charcoal to poultry and
swine.
High grade sulphate of potash is val
ued by tobacco growers who wish
manure rich in potash.
The non-sitting breeds will lay as we'll
in winter as the sittcrs if they are kept
warm and comfortable.
Hot whitewash on the inside of barns,
stables and pig quarters will aid in pre-.
venting vermin and insects.
When cleaning out poultry houses put
the manure where it will keep dry and
not be leached out by rains.
Hens eat great deal of grass in sum-
mer, and something of like nature should
be provided for them in winter.
A flock may be composed of some of
the best layers to be found. yet the aver
age number of eggs secured may be
low.
Will farmers ever learn that we'll
kept flock of poultry, for the money in
vested, is the most profitable OF oil farm
stockl
Ground gypsum or plaster on the
stable floor prevents the escape OF am
monia fsom the manure into the atmo-
sphere.
Wheat bran is excellent to make cows
give large mess of milk, but for the
butter maker it does not furnish the
requisite material
Strip the cows clean, as the strippings
contain from twenty-five to thirty per
cent. cream. If milk is left in the cows
bags to dry away there will be Jumps in
the teats.
Succulcnt roots, such as turnips, par
ships, beets, etc., require for keeping
not only cool temperature but moisture
enough in the atmosphere to prevent
shriveIing.
When there is tendency in potatoes
to rot after storing, free sprinkling with
Stacked lime is the best corrective, par
ticularly when the trouble is what is
called dry rot.
The duck is coming to the front as a
market fowl: they are often up to the
turkey in price, and can bc raised for
one half the cost and trouble; don't be
behind the times.
In all field and garden crops the horse
hoe or cultivstor, or the hand hoe,
should be used often enough to keep the
weeds destroyed as rapidly as they
spring into sight.
Farmers who must have hired men to
help them in their farm work ought not
to forget their overworked wives. There
is as much need Of extra workers il the
kitchen as on the farm.
When q man is frightened or angry
his digestive organs do not work; this
is also true of an animal-hence the
profit of keeping it in peaceful and
fearless state by kind treatment.
It is not necessary, in fact it is not
desirable, to grind grain for sheep. They
masticate their food very finely, eat
slowly, and SO more thoroughly assimi-
late unground grain than ground.
In feeding all kinds of stock-lt mat
tiers not what-it is a good rule to give
them not particle more food than they
will eat up clean; better to have to re-
peat the feeding than to overfeed.
Anyone who knows anything about
steer knows that he prefers whole corn
to corn meal aud ear corn to either. 1t
adds that for the bulk of the feeding
there are no trials to which we can point
that show in favor of meal over whole
corn.
There are questions of general interest
occurring every day on the farm, in the
solution of which most farmers will Sc
cure some aid, if they will attend the
Institutes held in their county or district.
If there are none to be held, agitate the
matter till you get one.
Professor Roberts found that 1t took
sss=s1 pounds of hay and grain to raise
one hundred pounds of water from
thirty.eight degrees to ninety. eight de-
grees by the animal economy, and, on
the other hand, five cents worth of coal
performed this Office Of water warming
for twenty-five head of stock daily, saw
ing 175 pounds of hay.