The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Prepare for the rural fairs.
Keep tools sharp and clean.
Buttermilk is good summer beverage,
ll-planned summer work is half
done.
Drive the work or it will drive you,
and with drag, year in and year out,
no one is satisfied or happy.
You must either work with the men
YOU employ, or visit the field and see
that they earn their money.
During the day the soiling can, if pre-
ferred, all be done in the stable, but the
COWS are much more comfortable during
hot weather to be out at night.
While we do not recommend putting all
ones eggs in one basket, we do suggest
the growing of but few crops and master
ing all the details connected with them.
The big mixer needs a strong consti-
tuition or she will fall by the way when
parturition invites the perils of milk fever
and the other ills that attend upon moth
erhood.
Men lacking energy, don't usually
"get there" in time to save things at
their best stage of growth; it takes them
so long to start that the job generally is
left unfinished.
Late seeding often lacks moisture,
starts slow, becomes a prey to insects, so
is improbable. Late cultivation In
worked crops prevents the securing of
the hay before it becomes too ripe.
When the society for the prevention
of cruelty to horses tails gets barbarities
on these appendages stopped it will be
we'll for it to turn attention to cows horns
doomed to be sawed off as useless.
When a farmers club numbers its
membership by thousands or hundreds
that means that it has on the roll book
names of many who do not attend its
meetings and who give no other support.
Too many farmers work in the field
until it is too late, or they are too tired
to work any longer; then, when they
ought to rest, they plan their work. A
man should be at his best to plan the
wisest.
It is not necessary to SOW evergreen
seed in boxes in the house if they are
placed in the ground where vermin will
not destroy them. A light soil and one
containing considerable vegetable mold is
preferable.
We always pity man who is paying
interest on a farm or farm-stock and
tools. 1t takes good farmer to be able
to do that. 1t is better to have four per
cent. coming in than four going out every
six months.
Too many unsuccessful farmers are un-
skilled in their business; they do no bet
ter than the average; think too little and
are not ambitious nor hopeful. They are
without faith in their business; they do
not believe there is any money in it.
The gooseberry is one of the first fruits
the farmer may enjoy, and good house
wives have ways of serving it in pies, e,c.,
that make it very fine eating. Prune the
old bushes and give them some manure,
or plant if you have none growing.
A good horseman never gals the necks
of his horses, because he cares for them,
keeps them clean as we'll as the collars,
and if there are long pulls, as in plowiug,
he stops now and then to lift the collars
forward that air may aid in cleansing.
There should always be piece of corn
growing for green feed for the COWS. 1t
is better that it be drilled in, and a suf-
fcient amount should be planted to fill
out any lack in the pasture. If there is
too much for that, the surplus will make
the best kind of fodder.
We should hardly call it system of ro-
tation of crops where the same one was
raised upon the same land for more than
two successive years. Would prefer a
different crop each year. Hay might be
Is possible exception to this rule; with q
good dressing of fine manure each year,
land might remain to grass more than
two years.
To have good paasies fresh seed should
b. sown every spring. Start them in
q hotbed, or in box in the house, in O
supply of rich, moist porous soil. When
an inch high transplant them into the
garden; trey do best in partially shaded
position, as at the side of q building.
Give them plenty Of water and they will
soon begin blossoning.