The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-10-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Throw plenty of dry dirt into the pig
pen and on to the floor of the stalls.
Don't handle NOW of smoking hay if
you have some poor, dry FODDER to throw
on it to take up the moisture.
Farm horses kept in we'll ventilated
stables when not at work will fare better
usually than at pasture fighting flies.
There are now about five million own
crs of farms in the Unxsd States A About
one million Of the farlhs fftet been ac-
uuircd since 1880.
A sealed package all the way from
Krainburg, Austria, in which was queen
bee, arrived lately at Mechanic Falls,
Maine. The bee was alive and we'll
Clover sown among corn at the last
cultivation and plowed down for the next
crop is u cheap and practical way of cap
turing the fugitive nitrogen SO much
needed,
No gases arise from frozen dropriugs,
but the poultry house should be cleanscd
daily, if possible, and dry earth should
be sprinkled on the floor, which permits
of sweeping the latter with a broom.
Cleanliness prevent disease.
81 would recommend to every farmer"
says a Co"nfry EeatLon,an correspondent,
"who wishes 10 know which is best
spring or fall plowing-to try both ways
~, .... IL l,4rttf ttf--r--a-ir%+f, ts1,J
OF reading the arguments of writers who
live hundred or thousand miles
away"
Color goes for great deal in horse,
especially if il is desirable to make a
matched team. 1t is worth while to
study this in breeding. To mate Il
breeding mare to horse whose only
point is his own excellence only insurcs
disappointment. If the male is pure
bred it will probably mark the colt, both
in action, size and color.
The Great Bear River Canal is to be
one of the grandest irrigation projects in
America. Two million dollars have been
provided for its construction. This canal
will rrigate 100000 acres in Salt Lake
valley and 5000, 900 OF Bear River, in
creaing the value OF the land to $50 per
acre, while fencing, building and tllage
will double this valuation in few years
\ Western man, sixty five years old,
went to Louisiana year ago, says the
Sngar BoSoI, and on thirty five acres of
land, with the help of only nine YEAR
old boy, raised nine bales of cotton and
300 barrels Of corn; also, aided by II
large garden, supporting family of five
az II cost of fifty-cight dollars. Next
season he will work fifty acres and aim
for fifteen bales.
n good average dairy COW ought to
give ut least four thousand pounds of
milk i'll year, which should return the
farmer, whether sold or made into butter
and cheese, at least II cent a pound, SO
that such COWS ought To bring in at least
forty dollars year per head. This is
the calculation Of Hon. Josiah Shull,
Secretary of the New York State Dairy
mems Association.
\ close fence around berry match
should be avoided where much snow pre-
walls a heavy bank of snow snothcrs
Strawberries and breaks down the canes
Of raspbcrries andLbiackbcrrics. The lat
ter will usually hold enough snow over
the surface to keep the ground from frccz-
! ing very deeply, and with this protection
they may prove hardy, while an equal
! cold without the snow would show the
canes dead in the spring
No matter how small the village, there
are probably some men in it who keep
horses or COWS, and do not have ali. use
! Tor manure. 1t can often he bought b.
| nearby farmers at cheaper rates than
! they can make manure in their own barn
! yards. Manure in large cities is mostly
| gobblcd UP by market gardeners, who
often pay much more than farmers can
n!i"rd; but the country village supplies
can he fairly claimed by farmers who
live in thc ncighborhood.
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