The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-09
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Hitch your horses in the shade.
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Protect your animals from flies.
Start the cultivators in the corn.
Waste apples may be Proftably
changed into vinegar.
Sprinkle hellebore and water on rose
bushes to kill the insects.
Burn all cuttings or plucked leaves
that are infested by insects.
A good lunch about 5 p. NJ. is very re-
freshing these long, hot days.
Do not allow your COWS to be driven
fast before milking, or at any time.
A few tomato plants among melons
and squashes will drive away insects.
The proper preparation of the soil for
the crop is quite as important as proper
cultivation afterward.
Do not keep the cream too long, for
if you do it gets old and too sour, and
the result is poor butter.
All small fruits require q complete
fertilizer, either stable manure or chemi-
cal compound, on old soils.
To keep tree from growing too late
in the fall pinch off the terminal shoots
as far as they can be reached.
Good roads would reduce the cost of
hauling farm products to market at least
one-half for the whole country.
Early potatoes are better if dug as
soon as ripe, and either sold or stored in
a cool, dry, well ventilated cellar.
The most valuable food is the most
valuable as a fertilizer, and when fed
produces the most valuable manure.
Man and tree were made for each
other; where the one does not grow the
other does not abide in his best estate.
Wheat is found rs valuable for stock
food as for human food, but it needs
to be fed in conjunction with bulkier
food.
Do not be afraid to use the harrow
freely. 1t pays to pulverize ani powder
the soil, as we'll as to keep down the
weeds.
Put your slop-water and soapsuds on
the ground among the growing plants of
the garden. 1t will help fertilize the
ground.
Animals ought to have twice the stable
room that is generally given them. There
is nothing gained in crowding animals
or crops.
It is said the best sweet corn grows on
rocky and strong soil; better than in
sandy or light black soil filled with vege-
table fibre.
Professor Davenport of the Michigan
Agricultural College says: ave fail, as
do others, to secure the best ensilage
from the large, watery sorts of corn dcs-
titute of ears"
Ii farmers will pick up all the loose
bones, old boots, etc., around the place
and burn them, putting the ashes after
being pulverized around their small
fruits, it will be greatly to their ad-
vantage.
The best remedy for apple tree pests
this year is as follows: "Soft soap, one
pint; carbolic acid, four teaspoonfuls and
water hot aad cold, to make four
quarts" This IS also good for lice on
cattle. 1t works like charm.
One nun will use two minutes three
times day for six months to prop up
and secure broken gate because he has
''no tine to repair it," while his neigh
Dor will take whole hour for repair at
the start and save at least q day and a
half in year.
Grain and grass is the natural food for
poultry when accorded full liberty, in
confinement if given almost entirely thd
former and deprived of the latter, trouble
will cnsue. We have found it advantage
ous to have every other feeding a dry
food as our birds have done uniformly
better. -. :.