The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-05
Farm and Garden Notes.

Dark stables are injurious to horses.
The enterprising farmer will warm
the water for his stock.
Now is the time to give fattening
animals all they can eat and digest.
Don't Craze the pastures so closely that
the roots will be liable to freeze out.
Turkeys, ducks and chickens should
be put in proper state by extra good
rations.
Iinseed cake should be reddish in
colo, not too dark, somewhat resembling
whole flaxsecd.
Turnips can stand more freezing than
any other vegetable, but it is not best to
let them freeze.
Handling celery much when wet or
banking it with wet earth Is regarded as
conducive to rust.
Good farming consists more in the
care of little things than in the ability
to manage great ones.
A covering of manure from the stables,
and light ploughing in the spring will
give you splendid soil for a garden.
Late set strawberries will require q
good mulch through the winter in order
to start them successfully in the spring.
Pullets will begin laying earlier in life
where nests and eggs are plen'y and
where other hens are cac&l:ng around
them.
Theory and practice each show that to
develop the best keeping qualities in
apples they should be picked as soon as
full grown.
The longer turnips and cabbages can
remain out without actually freezing,
the better they are for eating purposes
and the better they will keep through
the winter.
Lawns are best made by following
natures suggestions. If she has made a
swale so be it. If she has rolled up a
mound let it alone. We have only to
remove roughness and inequalities.
The average estimate of the intelligence
of swine is altogether too low. They are
seldom made pets CT, but those who have
sought to train them find that they learn
as readily as other domestic animals
Gardens should be dug or plowed,
Leaving the earth during the winter in
ridges, so that the frost can operate on
it, and in the spring it will be found
very light, mellow and well pulverized.
1t will be found profitable to milk the
heller as long as possible the first year
of her dairy life, giving her generous
feeding to make rich blood. This will
lay the foundation for profitable dairy
COW.
Find farmer who leaves his horses
hitched, hour after hour, to post to
shiver in storms while he sauntcrs about
town, aud he may be marked as poor
subject for credit no matter how much
land he has.
Here is a mode of curing gapes in
chickens by the use of Stacked lime.
Put the chickens in box, tie piece of
coarse sackiDg or cheese cloth over the
top, spread some fine air-slacked lime on
the cloth, and then Jar it so that the fine
lime will sift down among the chicks.
The wastes of the garden will be high
ly enjoyed by the porkers. Cabbage
leaves and stalks, with the small pota
toes and other things not valuable for
family use, and that can not be stored
for the PIGS in cold weather, had better
be fed to them now rather than allowed
to decay.
In the selection Of products for exhi-
bition the farmer should remember that
perfection of form should be preferred
to 81 C. Many make mistake in the
selection of fru t by the selection OF the
very largest, though the form may not be
good, or it may be wormy Better Sc
lect fair size, if it be perfect in form,
than a very large size that is imperfect.
A farmer may keep hundred fowls in
his barn, may suffer them to trample
upon and destroy his mows of grain, and
still have fewer eggs than his neighbol
who keeps single dozen, who provide:
secret nests, chalk eggs, pounded brick,
plenty of Indian corn, lime, water and
gravel for them, and who takes care that
bis hens are not disturbed about theil
nests.
English shepherds purchase butter re.
jected by the market inspectors and
rendered unstable by being stirred with