The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-19
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Do not allow the early lambs to stop
growing, you cannot afford it.
Poultry is king, comparing the cost of
production with its marketable value.
For scaly legs nothing is SO certain a
cure rs kerosene, but it should be used
very carefully and sparingly, as it
bleaches the skin and destroys the
natural color.
One of the largest horse breeders in
the country is now using cnsilage, and
some farmers report that they have
wintered their pigs on it with very little
grain in addition.
Joseph Huston advises that at the birth
of pigs the mother should be given meat
of some kind, such rs cracklings or
bacon-this as preventive against her
devouring her pigs.
If the hen lays one egg a week she will
pay all expenses of keep. Every egg
over is profit The greater the number
of eggs secured the lower the cost of
each egg proportionately.
Farmers who have never trained them
selves to be methodical, exact and intel
Iigcnt in their ways of doing farm work,
might as well give up the dairy business
first rs last, or adopt method.
Last year when the price of potatoes
was very low Dundee farmer put lot
of them among chaff at the bottom of a
silo. When it was opened the other day
they were as fresh as when they were
| dug.
Prices for choice mutton, especially for
well fatted spring lambs, have been
quite good during the past year, and
the prospect of an increased consumptive
demand augurs well for the future of the
skilfully managed flock.
What is the best breed, is a question
that cannot be settled. 1t is a question
of soil, habits, tastes, markets and other
circumstances, the question to be settled
by each individual for himself, and not
for his neighbor or the public.
Corn is still king. Tests of number
of new forage plants last season at the
Michigan Agricultural College, led Pro-
fessor Johnson to the belief that, COM
pared with Indian corn they are of little
value, and he advises farmers to stick to
that cheap and inexpensive though lux
''Let any dairyman who finds it neces-
sary to keep several skimmings of cream,
to collect enough for q churning, sub
merge it until sufficient quantity is OBJ
taincd, then ripcn it all at once, and my
word for it he will find safe, practical
and profitable solution of the oxidation,
mration, stirring bug bear" says John
Boyd, in Country Gentleman.
Among insects that are the farmers
friends and do great good in killing in
sect pests, Professor A. j. Cook mentions
the yellow jackets, the large white faced
wasps and the solitary mud -wasps (usu-
ally black, or black and brown, or blue
black or bluc); the ground beetles,
which are usually black, with long legs,
and destroy hosts of cut-worms, white
grubs, etc, and the little yellow, rounded
ladybird beetles, which feed upon plant
lice and other incects.
TO remove moss or scale lice from
| apple trees nothing else is better than
strong lye of wood ashes or lime wash
made of fresh lime. To keep off mice
and rabbits the following preparation
has been found effective, viz: Lime
| wash, cowdung, clay, and enough car
bolic acid to give it strong odor Zone
ounce to a pailful of the mixture is
enough) are made into thick wash that
can be put on with brush. One appli-
| cation will last through the winter.