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


It is mistake to stop feeding young
turkeys when grown.
A noted English agriculturist advises
farmers to try ensilaging instead of hay.
making in securing the hay crop.
The best and strongest chicks nre
hatched-some will be raised two months
hence, but they are not considered as good
as the early birds.
1t too late to set out cabbage or celery
where the early vegetables were grown,
clear off the land and 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 in
early blossom is much more productive.
John Gould says in the Western Rural.
that he sold S114 worth of milk from one
acre of ensilage, and $22 worth of bran
and clover. The milk brought 81 so per
cwt.
There is no more dismal sight than a
sparsely painted farm house without the
sheltering shade of 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-eXhibit ut the fair
and then save the seed for next years
planting.
According to Professor e. 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 right
angles.
Where animals-horses and sheep, to
wit-have their teeth sound and COM
plete, it is claimed there is no advantage
to be gained by crushing their grain ra-
tions. 1t is otherwise in the case of old
horses, cattle and pigs.
If you have a 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 can be
fully protected in like manner.
In old garden land which has been,
for years heavily manurcd and cropped
the most troublesome weeds arc apt to be
purslane, barn-yard grass and chickweed,
these are all ANIMALS and if they are
kept from going to seed they may be
soon got rid Of
The habits of the crow form an inter
esting subject for the study of the or
nithologist. The crow has a larger
brain than most birds, and all his encr-
gies 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
Rural Meao Yorker, gives the following
estimates when loaded by loader and
pitched off by hand: When the crop is
light, S1.OS per ton, at 1000 to 1900
pounds per acre; crop three times rs
large, sixty-five cents per ton.
f. II. Root tells in Bee Gleaninqs that
the imported Italian bees arc not only
the gcntlest bees he handles, but Just as
good and a little better honey gatherers.
EIc says there is something in the eli
matte conditions of Italy that produces a,
hardy, gentle and industrious race of
bees. Mr.. Roots impressions of the
Carniolans thus far appear not very favor
able.
A correspondent of Garden and Forest
thinks it a question whether it pays to
stake tomatoes. In the home garden it
is well to stop the growth of the vine by
pinching to encourage early fruit; but for
late fruit he lets them run at will. Thin
ming out the laterals to give free circula-
tion of the air is good practice and helps
to prevent rot, but the fruit often scalds
if exposed to full sunshine.