The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-06
Farm and Garden Notes.

Early feeding is the most desirable fer
fowls.
The morning meal is important and is
always best relished.
Lambs like cottonseed meal, but it
should be fed sparingly.
The sheep never dies in debt; the
fleece will always pay for the keeping.
A small hen will lay as large eggs as
will heavy hen, and requires less room.
Never worry generous, honest horse
by putting rogue or sluggard In the
harness with him.
Old stone walls may be made effective
as sheep fences with single barbed wire
stretched along the top.
Never use stale eggs for nest eggs.
Nest egg gourds are best. A single
stale egg may ruin your reputation.
The farmer of to-day must study the
principles of breeding and feeding stock,
as much as the best methods of grain
raising.
The greenhouse takes a prominent
place in gardening, and no large or even
small place is complete without its COM
plement of grass.
White fowls when dressed for market
do not show pinfeather marks rs do the
black breeds. This is a point in their
favor which is worth considering.
When egg production alone is your
object you need no males. The hens
will lay as we'll without them sometimes
better, and the eggs will keep three
times as long.
The agricultural press of the present
must discuss stock and stock raising, as
well as grain raising, for the successful
farmer must raise more grass and stock,
and less grain.
A double row of Scotch or white pine
is good variety for narrow wind
break. They make close, compact
growth, and in few years will make o
very etfectual screen.
Fresh bullock's blood put in woolen
bag and boiled, then mixed with the
soft food and fed to fowls is the best egg
producing food known, as it is exceed
ingly rich in albumen.
If hen lays one egg 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 proportionatcly.
Always assort your eggs. Do not have
several colors and sizes together. Put
the dark eggs in one basket and the
light ones in another, and pick out the
small ones to he sold separately.
A system of farming which does not
provide in an economical way for re-
turn, in an available form, of the soil
constituents carried of by the crop
raised, can not otherwise but prove ul-
timately financial failure.
The healthiest pork cannot be OBJ
tanned from clear feed of dry corn.
The digestive organs of the animals so
fed are sure to get out of order upon 50
heating food, and then the whole sys-
tenn becomes tainted and impure.
AS carriage enhances cost greatly of
all heavy and bulky material, it is wise
policy to encourage the growth of useful
trees on every vacant corner of ground,
apart from regard for their adornment of
the view and their protection to the
earth which perishes of nudity.
Washing butter in the churn while it
is in the granular state separates from
it, in a manner that can be accomplished
by no other process, the curd, and other
foreign substances that chemistry and
science teach are injurious, and that fer.
ment and spoil the butter if allowed to
remain.
1t does not pay the dairymau to raise
q calf from poor cow, unless convinc-
ing reasons exist tor the belief that
through the influence of superior quail
ties inherited from the sire the calf will
grow into better COW than the dam.
This very often happens, and the breeder
wants to 90 slow when he begins to
weed out the poor" ones.
1t is surprising what growth grape
vines will make over an evergreen if
given a chance to run. With only
moderately rich soil the vine will entirely
cover the tree, killing it after few
years. Its tcndrils cling to the slender
stems of the evergreen foliage, and will
not relax their hold. The higher tho
vine runs the finer the grapes and tht
harder they are to get. 1t is not good
way to give grape vines their will over
any kind of trees. A low, neat trellis
will cost but little, and be very way
more satisfactory