The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Keep eggs in a cool dry place till
marketed.
Red raspberries and blackberries may
be allowed to grow from two to two and
half feet tall; should then be nipped
back.
Let your horse stand loose, if possible,
without being tied up to the manger.
Pain and WEAKNESS from a confined posi-
ton induce bad habits.
Half of the wear to tools on some farms
comes from unnecessary exposure to the
sun, and wind, and rain. A convenient
shelter is far cheaper and looks less shift
less.
Pick the tomatoes as fast as they ripen
this will hasten the maturity and ripen-
ing of the crop. Pick off all imperfect
and spotted specimens as you come across
them.
Winter calves are just as good and as
easily raised as spring calves; and your
fall and winter calving COWS will average
more milk per year than those calving in
the spring.
- Do not allow the weeds to 60 to seed
if you can help it. Of some plants, the
seed from a single stalk Of this years
growth will be sufficient to produce hum
dreds of plants another season.
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
q fowl it will make. The very best is
none too good to keep for breeding.
When cow runs in a good pasture,
free from weeds, and has ration of grain
or is fed on hay, ground oats and bran,
in a clean stable, what is there in her
milk that can be an odor, unclean, un-
healthy or ofensive2
s. B. Parsons, who is authority on the
rose, writes to the american Agricultur-
ist that for hardy varieties he likes
best General Jaqueminot, La France,
Caroline de Sausal, Baronne Provost,
Charles Defebre and Harrison Yellow.
Lice multiply quickly, and constant
care is required to keep poultry clear Of
them during warm weather. Good
pyrethrum or buhach powder thoroughly
busted into their feathers is a preven-
tive for the several sorts of lice on
chickens.
According to the american Cstltivator
many instances have occurred where cat
tie which have eaten largely of wilted
wild cherry leaves have exhibited symp-
toms of poisoning and died in short time
while if the leaves are eaten green they
seldom produce injurious effects.
Undrained lands suffer from hot and
dry weather, ,,the reason for it being, ac-
cording to authority on drainage, that,
although there may be water within a
few inches of the surface, the ground
becomes so compact and baked that it is
not suficila.ly porous to draw up moist
ure.
Mr.. G. T. Powell, an extensive fruit
grower, is reported in Country Gentleman
as practising thinning out" with great
determination and perseverance, and no
where are its good effects better shown
than in the vineyard. Mr.. Powell be-
ieves that with some varieties he has
gained three weeks time by thinning and
this may often be question of crop or
no crop.
The idea is general that water teaches
down so rapidly through sandy soil that
it takes all the elements of fertility out
of the reach of farm crops. Mirror and
Farmer thinks there is strong evidence
on the other side of the case and asserts
it as fact that men who have the cour-
age to plow manure into sandy soil get
better crops than when they leave it on
the surface to be washed down."