The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
Farm and Garden Notes.

Mulch your orchards.
Peas should not be sown until warm
weather.
Big carrots are good for cattle, but not
for the house.
Early hatchei pullets make the best
layers, but not good breeders.
Hens supplied with plenty of green
bone will lay more eggs than those with
out.
To the question "Do we set hen or
sit her3" we answer, you set the hen; she
does all the sitting.
Save and store full supply of fruit
and vegetables; none are so cheap as
those grown on the farm.
A hen should be set in a dark, quiet
place with access to plenty of water and
corn, and good dust bath.
A few drops of carbolic acid in the
drinking water is said to be good for
fowls affected with the cholera.
Do not be afraid to feed bran, for every
ton of $15 bran you feed MAKES the
manure into which it goes so richer in
plant food.
Feed heavy, do not feed poor cow
two years so as to sell her for beef; sell
her the first chance. and buy or put a
home raised heifer in her place.
A crack in the wall, or hole as large
as the head of nail, will cause more
damage than if the whole front of the
hen-house is open, provided the rear and
sides are tight.
Dip your fowls feet and legs in kero-
sene to cure them of lime leg or scurvy
leg. Three such applications will cure
the worst cases. Usually two applica-
tions are enough.
Hens do not need antidotes to make
them lay. Provide comfortable and
sunny quarters and feed and water regu-
larly and they will produce plenty of
eggs without coaxing.
When a man is frightened or angry
his digestive organs do no work; this is
also true of an animal-hence the profit
of keeping it in peaceful and fearless
state by kind treatment.
| An ardent pig-fancier contends that
the raising OF pork, if properly con-
Quoted upon the farm, will lift the
mortgage or raise the bank account
more rapidly than any other farm
stock.
A fine queen Cor breeding purposes
should not be allowed to expend her
force by too much egg laying, but
should be kept in nucleus and only
be allowed to keep that up moderately
strong.
A correspondent of the Frmers' Re-
pie'o has his theory as to different hog
diseases" These were not known, he
says, till rings and shouting machines
were applied. Obvious moral: "Let
their noses alone"
The poultry business is not a little
business when properly managed and
all there is in management is having
good quarters and watering and feeding
with the regularity with which your
farm team is cared for.
No system of dairying is complete that
loses any of the fertility at the barn.
Save all, LIQUID and solid, and do not be
afraid of manure drawn to the fields in
the winter losing value, as compared with
the usual leak from washing manure
piles and stable floors with cracks.
If the brush, weeds and stubble have
not been cleaned out of the fence cor
hers it should be done early. The fence
corners, especially if the worm rail
fence is used, will harbor all classes of
weeds and become fruitful sources
whence weeds are scattered over the
farm.
The fact that "variety in food is es-
sential for cows in milk" does not seem
to be generally acted upon. "a mixture
Of corn and oats ground and bran in
equal quantities makes one of the very
best grain rations for the cows that can
be used. Corn by itself should never be