The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-02-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Give animals pure water daily.
Feed well, but waste no forage.
Arc you ready for the ice crop2
BE punctual in caring for stock.
Avoid foddering on the ground.
Money we'll invested in fertilizers pays
-bcttcr than in bank.
| Forest leaves for bedding cost OILY tho
expense of gathering.
| II you have al abundance of straw, do
not he afraid to use it literally rs bedding
for your stock.
One who has tried it finds mix turc of
copperas aud glue the best for keeping
rabbits and mice from trees.
Dairy salt stored in the vicinity of cod
fish or Kerosene, or turpcntinc, is apt to
contract tlavors that in jurc the butter in
which it is isci.
The man who starts out to break a
colt with Il whip IN his hand makes "A
mistake. Tic also makes a mistake if nc
plays with the colt or leases it,
Every lost, broken or worn out screw
or bolt should be replaced with new
"ac before spring, 50 that each implement
will be really for work when spring
comes.
When paths are constantly troddcn
they are kept clean, but when abandoned
ths cEokSc kMclfhhs lhss mlnd Slh2di in teSe aDscie OF e:
ployment.
Every barn roof should have a gutter
so as:to send the rain water out of the
barn ard In addition, the old fashioned
barn5ard, Itself can sometimes hc abel
, ishcd with profit 10 the owner.
One of the best cult:vators of fruit in
Michigan never permits his orchard to
bear any other crop than the fruit, after
the third year, previous to which nc raises
hood crops only among the trees.
The good COW is wonderful machine
almost II creator; for, feed her $40
worth of appropriate foods per a1num,
and she will furnish family with more
food than they can buy in other rs pala-
table forms for 800.
| An orchard was suffering from wet
! suhsoil. The growth was stnntcd, and
there was little fruit. The orchard was
tile drained three or four feet deep be-
tween the rows. The trees started at
we'll.
Cmcxens arc as pervdrse az people, and
| Just as man will often drink vile liquors
When he can get pure sweet water, so
fowls will often abandon their drinking
vessels and sakc their thirst at some dirty
puddle. With them prohibition is tie
only safeguard.
Dry lime is too caustic to be given
alone. Keep vessel Of lime water con-
vcnient. and mix II small QUANTITY with
soft food and also with their drinking
water. Lime water is a corrective Of
bowel diseases, and it is also remedy
FOR soft Shcllcd eggs.
70 keep apples in winter, spread
huckwhcat chaif on the barn floor, and
ON this place the apples, and then cover
them with chafT two feet thick. Fill tho
intnrst;ccs with chatf. Other fine chaif
will answer The chan will exclude cid
currents, and abso71 incipicns decay.
a crane grower in Central New YORK
, set his vines twelve feet apart in the row,
; and aftcrward grated every alternate
one with another sort. The CRAFTS a.
, died, thus Having thc vines twcnty -fOul
r feet apart. The ample room thus af.
iordcl gave heavier crop, and Of better
, grapes, than before.
Two nciGhbors set out strawberry bcd'
at the same time. One had fourteen rods
did not enrich his bed, and had three
bushels of fruit, or n: the rate of thirty
four bushels per acre. The other planted
> Only foIr rods, and heavily nulchcd the
: bed with maaarc in aItuma anl in spring
; He In scvca bu5hcl of berries, or a
; tl" rate Of $50 bushels an acre.
VI Ike ircsl dust baths and sprirkl,
thcm with car1olic acid. Provide {
p.catitrl supply OF grit or sharp grave!
k"co feeding troughs and drinking yes
sells clean and wholesome. And towarC
The c.osc of the moutinS season make ,
nurlJcr of nice new nes{s, for hens thu
Il ars<lsSfaE-x<ill tseSlsle4lhH
kct is at its best a.