The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-29
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

PROVIDE plenty OF dry 1uel.
How about that farm dairy2
Milk fast and vex not the COW.
Have you cleaned out the well2
How about your Farmers Club2
Make tramps work or go hungry.
Prepare for the farmers institutes.
Take good care of the corn fodder.
Some prefer tile to "carthing up" for
bleaching celery.
Exercise your breeding animals; they
will do better for it.
Cows and cattle at pasture need more
salt than on dry hay.
A variety of farms or soils call for
variety of farm practice.
The wild grasses generally do not
thrive under cultivation.
No better or cheaper insect destroyer
can be found than the toad.
Good books and periodicals pay large
dividends. Invest in them.
There will be no loss of ammonia il
the manure heap is kept moist.
1t pays abundantly to drain wet soils;
it makes them surer and better.
Don't allow Jack Frost to put a blight.
ing mortgage on any of your crops.
The man who always has strictly fresh
eggs to sell need never suffer for mar
ket.
Corn is good feed; but something
more albuminous fed with it makes it
better.
Be careful not to bruise apples and
other fruit. The bruised spots are where
decay begins.
Old pastures afford richer and more
nutritious feed than new ones, and In
greater variety.
Clear out all the old rubbish where in
sccts can live and breed next year to de.
stroy your fruit.
Don't wait until the beans are half
shclled out on the ground before you
harvest them, and then complain that
there is not "half crop"
The alert fruit grower will endeavor to
make everything he grows bring in some
returns, and will avoid waste of every
sort. Are you on the alertG
If you have any late sown peas dust
them with -four of sulphur to prevent
mildew. The dry pods of Lima beans
should be gathered for winter use as fast
as they ripea.
If you got the turnips in too thick it
may pay to so over the patch and thin
them out; it will not be much work, and
those you pull out will not be lost, as
you can feed them.
Pick grapes after the dew has dried
from them, and without disturbing the
bloom upon them. After standing few
hours pack carefully and closely in bask-
cts, if desired for marketing.
In digging potatoes get no more out of
the ground in a day than you can get
under cover; it may freeze some night,
and this year people who pay for Irish
potatoes don't want sweet ones.
To obtain pansies early next spring the
seeds should be sown early this fall in
a finely prepared soil. Sow in rows, two
inches apart, dust fine soil over it. and
press down with brick or board.
The winter crop OF celery should have
earth enough to keep it erect until the
weather gets cool. In earthing keep tho
plants drawn tightly together so as to
avoid getting the soil into the heart.
A chick that is not kept warm and dry
for the first five or six weeks of its exist
ence will become stuuted and stop grow
ing fast. This is where brooder hatched
birds grow the best and avoid dampness.
1t is very important matter to the breed
er to look after.
Plymouth Rocks, barred or white, will
always have admirers; slowly but surely
have they won the admiration of the
farmer and breeders, and to-day they
rank among the first and best. The
Brahma is also very popular fowl, aud
deserves'its position.