The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Roll the lawn early anu o1Ien.
Make all tramps work or move on.
Remedy for worry-Earnest work.
Be gentle with the colts and calves.
Carefully guard against forest fires.
Kerosene in the poultry house will keep
down vermin.
You will now be watching your broods
that are coming out. Your attention to
them will repay later on.
Indian corn should be fed sparingly at
this season of the year, as it has ten
dency to fatten to an excess.
A soil may be overfed and troubled
with indigestion as we'll as the animal
system, but it is oftener starved.
The best and most natural flooring for
hen houses, all things considered, is
clean, dry earth upon an earth floor.
If you grow japanese buckwheat, do
not grow it by the side of the common
varieties, if you want it to keep pure.
Good onion seed will sink in water,
while that which floats either does not
grow at all or produces only sculions.
Straw scattered on a bare knoll in a
meadow will operate as mulch and soon
cause a good crop of grass to grow on 1t.
A fertilizer applied this year may be in
more available condition next, and bet
ter suited to the second crop than to the
first.
The farmer who grows his own food is
not likely to starve to death. He can
pinch on almost anything else better than
food.
In transplanting trees more loss is oc-
casioned by exposure of the roots than
by their mutilation. Both should be
avoided.
Millet seed makes a good feed for
poultry and especially when young.
Care must be taken, however, not to feed
too much.
Popular Gardening is authority for the
statement that no material has been
found so satisfactory as earth for blanch-
ing celery.
Clover should be cut when in full
bloom. 1t increases but little in weight
after that, but grows more fbrous and
indigestible.
Chickens can be hatched up to the first
week in June and thrive well. Care
should be taken not to hatch after hot
weather sets in.
All nitrogen comes from the atmos-
phere, so does water. But plants have
to draw both principally, if not wholly,
through the soil.
Professor Wiley declares sorg hum
seeds second in value only to wheat.
Flour made from it is declared superior
to buckwheat for pancakes.
Feed your poultry on raw onions,
chopped fine, mixed with other food,
about twice week. 1t is better than o
dozen cures for chicken cholera.
Vegetable gardens will now be ready
for manuring. The droppings from the
poultry house can be used to good ad-
vantage. Have you any laid away for
use?
Waldo F. Brown, of Ohio, says:
"Good hay is not produced by thin seed
ing, for the grasses will grow coarse and
rank, whereas heavy seeding will give
fine, soft hay"
Pasture the rye, if it is growing, due
to the warm weather. The rye will not
be injured thereby unless the ground is
wet. Rye provides green food when it
can be had from no othe, source.
For home use a hog should never
weigh more than 200 pounds net-1SO
pounds is better. Spring pigs of any i'm
proved breed can be brought to that size
by the middle Of December and at little
cost.
The shipping of eggs for Matching has
assumed enormous proportions and thou
sands of dollars change hands every
month of the hatching season. There is
money in catering to this demand with
good stock.
Any kind of good tarred roofing paper
is suitable for poultry houses. Such a
roof not only takes the place of shingles,
but the coal tar with which it is filled
gives it the additional advantage of re-
peling vermin.
The presence of two or three inferior
COWS in herd affects the average profit
of the whole. If laifying is to be con-
Quoted as paying business the most i'm
portant requisite is good cow in place
of an inferior one.
Mr.. Willard said before a meeting of
the Western New York horticultural
Society that, after an experience of five
or six years with the Early Rivers peach,
he believed it had hardy fruit bud and
would stand more cold than any other
varieties.
The farmer, wife does all the work
about the poultry yards. She makes
them earn enough to keep the house in
groceries; yes, and the clothes besides.
He cannot find fault with that; he knows
she has her work to do, and he is the
gamer jointly in the end. She needs
your encouragement.
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