The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-08-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Do not let any weeds 60 to seed
around your house or barn.
The shorthorn improves for beef every
animal on which it is crossed.
Hoe your currant bushes as you do the
rest of the plants in the garden.
Beth breeding and feeding are neces.
sary to the perfecrlon of tho animal.
Do not imagine that exercise is the
best thing to be found in pasture.
Do the best you can in the way Of
shade and water for pastured stock.
The strawberry contains 90.52 per
cent. water and 9.4S per cent. dry mat
ter.
The best stock raisers are now trying
to grow meat instead Of to accumulate
fat.
Happy is he who possesses thrifty
vegetable garden within driving distance
of summer resort.
Potatoes and strawberries manured
with ashes stand drought better than
when fertilized with any other fertilizer.
All fruit tree growers should know
when thumb and finger pruning is prop
erly performed there is but little other
pruning needed.
One essential qualification in the boy
who works on a farm is that he shall
have love for animal life, and be able
to tell intuitively when an animal is sick.
Do not dose yourself or your stock
with medicine for every little i'll. Diet
and rest. Sleep, and a moderately
empty stomach, are the best medicines
in the world.
Keep the farmhouse in good repair if
only sod house or board shanty. This
is necessary to comfort and convenience,
which may be secured even in the hum
blest dwelling.
Professor W. ". Cooke says a table.
spoonful of saltpetre dissolved in pail
of water, and pint of water applied to
each hill of cucumbers or squashes will
destroy the bugs.
Grass should be cut for hay at the
proper time, and that is just as it is done
growing. 1t has then acquired all its
natural strength and aroma, and will not
become harsh and brittle from cverripe-
ness.
1t does not pay to put the best fruit or
vegetables on top and have the purchaser
find something not so good when he
reaches the bottom, as it makes him sus-
picious. the consequence being that the
sale of good fruit is injured.
When beets, carrots or parsnips do
not appear to grow, though given every
opportunity by manure and cultivation,
the slow growth mag be due to the
plants being too close in the rows. Thin
ming out the plants just after rain will
be Of advantage.
The peach borer cannot damage the
tree where the bark is tough, and conse-
queutly the eggs arc deposited below the
surface, where the bark is tender. Their
attacks may be prevented to q certain
extent by banking the earth around the
tree from April 70 October.
A fruit farmer in Wisconsin is using
for picking strawberries tin box just
large enough to hold the baske; box,
which is put into it, when the tin box
cover is shut, and the berries reach the
basket through tunnel in the cover,
leaving both hands free to pick, while
the tin box is fastened to the picker by
strap.
The gladiolus, after the leaves turn
yellow in autumn, can be taken up be-
fore frost comes. The bulbs should be
laid in dry, shady place for week or
more, and then they can be placed on a
shelf or in a drawer where there is no
danger of frost, and there be allowed to
remain until it is time to plant them out
in the spring.
Vacancies among raspberries and
blackberries may still be filled in with
young sucker plants, taken up when the
ground is wet, with the soil adhering tc
their roots. Pinch back the new green
shoots of raspberries and blackberries:
and so provide stout, stocky canes fcl
bearing next year. This prevsnts the
formation of useless wood, which only
cut away next spring. -