The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-01-31
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Plenty oil stable bedding makes man
urC.
Tho wise man harvests his fuel and
ice crops early.
Keep everything in the henhousc dry,
but the drinking vessels.
Unless flowcr-pots have good drainage
the plants may be ruined.
Three or four varieties of grapes are
better than large number.
While the swamps are frozen haul off
the muck you dug in the fall.
No ''tit for tat" with a kicking COW.
''Bc gentle with the erriug."
7 Improved farmers introduce improved
stock and improved farming.
Add everything to the compost heap
that can be made INTO manure.
Keep the best lambs and yearlincs on
the farm to increase the flock.
Gull the focks and herds, and sell or
slaughter non paying animals.
II you are engaged in winter dairying
try to sell direct to consumers.
Chickens are as apt to catch colds in
windy weather as en- rainy days.
Heavy feeding of fowls just before
killing is detrimental to quality.
Don't fodder stock on the ground
when 1t is so easy to provide racks.
Nearly all kinds Of fruit plants will be
seriously injured if the water be allowed
to stand around the roots during the
winter.
Look out for snow banks among the
berry bushes and young trees. Tread
down the snow quickly or it will crush
tho branches as tho banks sottic.
Count up the number of sick trees in
your orchard, and order substitutes, TO
bc planted next April. Have the orchard
solid with healthy, vigorous trees.
DO You. know that the sunry sides of
the house and out buildings arc the best
places for grape vines: You will get
bear none.
Ono advantage with curlants is that if
they are kept properly pruncd, the old
wood cut out, the weeds kept dcwn,ald
ihc soil rich by the application of ferti-
lizcrs, the plants will gov and bear
fruit for. twenty-five years without re-
plcnishinS. 49,.
TO prunc the grapevine, cut the oldest
cane close to the ground each season,
letting one new, strong, vigorous cano
succeed the new one. The new canes
bear the fruit wood, and two or three
new sprouts should be allowed to each
cane, cutting back to two or thrco
buds each.
The cow that attends to the busi
ness of chewing cud, digesting food and
secreting milk, regardless of usual sur
roundings, is the COW that will come in
ahead at cattle show trials. The nervous.
cXcitablc COW that forgcts her work
under excitement is the one that is more
likely to "gct left"
Those VINO have used green wood
understand how waSteful its moisture is
of the heat obtained. Wet coal is lust
as obl"ciiona Die, cXccps for the fact that
the heat IL gives in burning is so much
t"Gn the waste is not noticed. The
wood shed or coal bin should, therefore.
he not only covered, but protected so
that IT may not he wet by snow driftcd
upon it.
Coppcras, or snlphatc of iron, as it is
called, is recommended as a remedy for !
parasites IN tho lungs and intcstincs of /
lambs. 1t is fed with fine salt. The
coppcras should be finely pulvcrizcd and |
mixed in the proportion of one part of
c"ppcras to ton or twelve of salt. This !
mixture should he kept in trouehs or
boxes in the pasture, where the flock can
have access to it at all times. Two parts |
oi flour of sulphur added to the mixture
will improve it. aS the sulphur will have
"A tendency to free the flock from ticks.