The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-29
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Give animals pure water daily.
Feed we'll. but waste no forage.

Are you ready for the Ice crops
Be punctual in caring for stock.
Avoid foddering on the ground.
Money we'll invested in fertilizers pays
better than in bank.
Forest leaves for bedding cost only the
expense of gathering.
If YOU have an abundance of straw, do
not be afraid to use it literally as bedding
for your stock.
One who has tried it finds mix ture Of
copperas and glue the best for keeping
rabbits and mice from trees.
Dairy salt stored ih the vicinity of cod.
fish or kerosene, or turpentinc, is apt to
contract favors that injure the butter in
which it is used.
The man who starts out to break
colt with whip in his hand makes
mistake. He also makes mistake if he
plays with the colt or leases it.
Every lost, broken or worn-out screw
or bolt should be replaced with new
one before spring, so that each implement
will be ready for work when spring
comes.
When paths are constantly trodden
they arc kept clean, but when abandoned
the weeds choke them up; so weeds
choke the mind in the absence of en-
ployment.
Every barn roof should have q gutter
so as to send the rain water out of the
barnyard. In addition, the old fashioned
barnyard itself can sometimes be abol-
ished with profit to the owner.
One of the best cultivators of fruit in
Michigan never permits his orchard to
bear any other crop than the fruit, after
the third year, previous to which he raises
hoed crops only among the trees.
The good COW is wonderful machine
almost a creator; for, feed her $40
worth of appropriate foods per aunum,
and she will furnish family with more
food than they can buy in other as pala-
table forms for 500.
An orchard was suffering from a wet
subsoil. The growth was stunted, and
there was little fruit. The orchard was
tile drained three or four feet deep be-
tween the rows. The trees started at
once into vigorous growth, and bore
we'll.
Chickens are as perverse as people, and
just as man will often drink vile liquors
when he can get pure sweet water, SC
fowls will often abandon their drinking
vessels and slake their thirst at some dirty
puddle. With them prohibition is the
only safeguard.
Dry lime is too caustic to be given
alone. Keep a vessel of lime water con-
venient, and mix small quantity with
soft food and also with their drinking
water. Lime water is a corrective oil
bowel diseases, and it is also a remedy
for soft-shelled eggs.
To keep apples in winter, spread
buckwheat chaff on the barn floor, and
on this place the apples, and then cover
them with chatf two feet thick. Fill the
interstices with chaff Other fine chafl
will answer The chaff will exclude cold
currents, and absorb incipient decay.
A ape-grower in Central New York
set his vines twelve feet apart in the row,
and afterward grated every alternate
one with another sort. The gratis all
died, thus leaving the vines twenty-foul
feet apart. The ample room thus af.
forded gave heavier crop, and of better
grapes, than before.
Two neighbors set out strawberry beds
at the same time. One had fourteen rods,
did not enrich his bed, and had three
bushels of fruit, or at the rate of thirty.
!; four bushels per acre. The other planted
only four rods, and heavily mulched tho
: bed with manure in autumn and in spring.
!. He had seven bushel of berries, or al
J the rate of 2S0 bushels an acre.
Make fresh dust baths and sprinkle
them with carbolic acid. Provide a
plentiful supply of grit or sharp gravel
Keep feeding and drinkin g.,
sells clean and wholesome. And ',.a -omaio =
the close of the moulting seq hana 'tH t,,,,.
number of nice new nests sSba ~ trn,h1o @ w hr
cared for will pay ffets wben tho may
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