The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Stir the earth between rows of corn
and you will see growth stimulated
amazingly.
One of the greatest drawbacks in dairy
work is the difficulty in obtaining honest,
faithful help.
Crude petroleum is better preserva-
tive of wood than inseed oil, and costs
only one-ffth as much.
Celery is not only very healthful for
man, but for beast also. So don't waste
the leaves and root trimmings.
Let your horse stand loose, ifpossible,
without being tied up in the manger.
Pain and WEAKNESS from confined posi-
ton induces bad habits.
The only pure, native Irish cow is the
Kerry. A small, handsome cow, yield
ing large quantity of nice milk, even
under adverse circumstances.
tits said that the life of rose plants
greatly varies. Some of the hardest
kind will bloom for thirty years, while
others die off after several seasons.
The black aphis, or black fly, is often
quite troublesome to chryansthemums,
but can be conquered by persistent appli-
cation of Dalmatian powder with the
bellows.
Half of the wear to tools, on some
farms, comes from unnecessary exposure
to sun, and wind, and rain. A con-
venient shelter is far cheaper, and looks
less shiftless. -..
Almost anybody can milk cow, but
there are few who can do it properly. 1t
is an art, and the man who can practice
it is worth more to the dairyman than
any other help.
If you notice young bird in any
brood that is especially nice, do not kill
it; keep it while longer to see what kind
of fowl it will make. The very best IS
none to good to keep for breeding.
Frozen milk, it is said, may be kept in
fresh state indefinitely, and many steam
ers are now provided with steam refriger-
ators in which milk and other foods are
preserved for any desired length of time.
A poor, old moving machine had
better be sold as old iron rather than to
Worry along with loss of time trying to
get good work out of it-throw it aside
and get one capable of doing full days
work.
Scarcely any two COWS are exactly
alike in disposition and in the character
and nature of their teats and udder, and
the good mixer will study to know his
COW in order that he may know how to
treat her.
No matter how full the hay crop all
should be saved, for there is reason to
believe that quality will be below the
average, and that in consequence more
will be required to carry animals through
the winter.
A farmer who can lie off day or two
in good hay weather because his stomach
is not exactly right has not the courage
his business requires and is likely to find
his stomach costly excuse when results
are counted.
A weak solution of carboic acid and
water, says an exchange. appliedto COWS
with brush will protect them from the
attacks of flies. It is the odor which re-
pels, and little carbclic acid for odor
goes great way.
What good thing it would be if
every highway in every farming district
we're covered foot or more with stones,
broken at the top enough to allow heavy
laden wagons to pass and finish the
crushing to q smooth surface!
When a COW becomes troublesome,
tries to kick over the pail, won't give
down her milk, and so on, there is a
cause for it, and the cause will very often
be found outside the cow-she has not
been properly treated and she resents it.
The Country Gentleman says the prac-
tice of chilling" potatoes during cultiva-
ton and growth is almost universal, and
in most instances is positively detrimen-
tai to productiveness, yet it is nearly i'm
possible to convince the farmers of this
fact.
Many a farmer will wonder when he
digs his potatoes why his crop is not
larger, and will attribute the loss to con-
tinued rains in the season of early
growth, whereas it will be entirely his
own-lack of cultivation in the odd