The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-11-14
FARM AND GARDEN tNorEs.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Don't your wellmeed.cleauiug2
Choose cool,day for picking aapples.
Keep right on cuitivatingtthe straw
berry patch.
Fight weeds, tbriers ~ etc. ,<until they
cease growing
Now is good timetto make mutton
as well as pork.
Put implements under Gover'as soon as
done using them.
For permanent pasture, ttimothy does
not do well alone.
The best egg maker II ssgood food.
Feed the hen no other.
The same fence should} not enclose
young orchard and cattle.
Get your ground readvsfor ,those trees
you mean to set out this fall.
Save seed from any noveltiesl that have
proved satisfactory with'you.
Harvest the onions rs, s,soon as ripe.
When dry store in coo3, dry place.
Black cap raspberries do'bettcr set out
in the spring. Put others out this fall.
Stop cultivating the grapc,vincs. Tho
wood must be given a.chancerto harden.
Put no "wind falls" in the" barrels of
No. 1 apples. 1t will pay in the long
| run.
| If there is marsh hay ncartyou get some
in readiness for covering the straw
berries.
Currant and gooseberry cuttings will
do better set out now than to wait till
spring. Try it and see.
Begin your intense farming this fall by
burning all the weeds about the place be-
fore they shell their seeds.
If you can put out some grape vines
this fall do not wait till spring, you may
! be crowded with work then.
You need not wait till the frost drops
the leaves from currant and goosebcrry
bushes before making cuttings.
Where are the mower and horserake2
Better have them housed to-day. They
will be of better value next season if they
| are.
While the corn is curing in the shock
is good time to get out the manure that
has been accumulating during the sum-
| mer.
an equal partner in the farm plunss She
mey be the "bctter half Of the firm if
you will.
Every farmer should look over his
! farm often and examine his fences so
that his stock will not destroy his crops
/, iur ife f1und in his neighbours lot.
When man wants an idea, he
scratches his head. When a farmer wants
crop he scratches his land, and the
harder he scratches the better the crop.
Don't let any green tomatoes go to
waste. Apples are scarce and green
tomatoes make excellent pies-are good
fried, are good several ways. Save
them.
Very often the surplus product of a
farm can not be more profitably invested
than by putting into under drains, till
the thorough drainage of the cultivated
land be accomplished.
Where thorough and clean culture has
been practiced one can see how the crops
lay hold of the fertilizers and are CORE
spondingly larger. Itpnys to he energetic
in fighting the weeds.
The size of the tile should be in pro.
portion to the length OF the drain and
the amount of fall in the ditch. But the
flooding of drain tile depends somewhat
on the depth to which 1t is sunk.
A correspondent of the Orange Judd
Farmer complains that on his farm
manure has been detrimcnt rather than
I I ---cfrr'eTD' enat nave rnIs experience IS verj
small.
Flax seed that has been exposed in the
field to the suns rays until it is dry to
brittleness, still holds latent moisture,
which will develop when the seed Is con
fined in mass and result in heat and de.
composition.
farmer should take care to keep cas-,
and safe ways Of ingress and egress !,
his cultivated fields. More wagons ar,
broken down by going through deep fur
rows or over ridges than by twice the
travel on smooth highways.
1t is time that western farmers were
taking warning from the experience OF
their eastern brethren. When they ar,
under the necessity of buying fertilizers
to keep up the fertility of their lands
they will sing more dolcful song thar
they do now.