The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-13
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Keep the wagon axles we'll creased.
No ''let up" on the weed nuisance.
Rainy day work-Repairing tools, etc.
Buy nothing you can produce as cheap
ly.
Change of diet keeps up a good appe'
| tite.
Work early and late, but rest at mid
| day.
A successful breeder must be good
feeder.
Skinned milk and buttermilk are good
for horses.
Don't expect all the good qualities in
one animal.
Shallow culture of hocd crops is now
the order of the day.
A nice flock of good poultry is essen
tial to every country and suburban home.
The best stock raisers are now trying
to grow meat instead of to accumulate
fat.
The perquisites or free things of the
farm are equal to good wages for one
man.
Failures as we'll as successes teach
lessons. He is wise who learns from
both.
Remember that one of the most impor-
tant cares of the farm is the care of
health.
Whoever depends upon the public for
market must consult the wants of the
public.
There is no benefit in applying to your
soil any ingredient which it already has
in abundance.
Don't let the rays of the sun fall d.
rectly on your beehives. Proviie some
sort of shade.
Good butter contains ten or twelve per
cent. of water, but it should show no
trace of buttermilk.
Keep vigorous growth of vegetation
in all moist and malarial places. 1t will
absorb the malarial gases.
Farm work is hard work, but who can
take leisure day aud feel it less in his
business than the fErmer2
As soon as an animal is matured it
ceases to be profitable to keep, unless it
is work animal and possibly sheep.
Butter should be kept cool during the
working, and also during the few hours
it may be left for the salt to dissolve.
Do not expect any farm animal to "pick
up' its living. If you doit need not sur
prise you if the crows should pick its
bones.
Have you feather eaters among your
stock9-a bad fault. Give them sulphur
twice a week in their soft food, and give
less heating food.
Chickens assisted out of the shell are
generally assisted into another world. If
they are unable to hatch themselves they
seldom do any good.
To make a fine quality of butter,
either dairy or creamery, requires healthy
COWS, good feed and judicious handling
of COWS, feed and milk.
To kill the future of creameries have
poor COWS, poor milk, poor machinery,
poor buildings, poor maker, poor butter,
poor consumption, poor price.
As soon as the salt is dissolved, butter
may be worked the second time in order
to correct any streakiness which the first
mixing of salt may have caused.
Three. quarters of an ounce of salt to
the pound will be the right quantity for
most markets for immediate consumption,
and one ounce to the pound for packed
butter.
Cheerful, active labor is blessing.
An old philosopher says: "The FREELY
only shines when on the wing; 80 it is
with the mind; when once We rest, we
darken."
Loss of feathers is generally caused by
want of green food, or want of a dust
bath; supply both. Local application.
mercurial ointment. The feathers will
not return before next mou'ting season.
Milk cans should be washed in cold or
tepid water first, and then rinsed in
boiling water before they are exposed to
be aired. The addition of little soda
and borax to the hot water will increase
its cleansing properties.