The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


See that the collar fits the horse.
BY the way, cut and kill bushes.
Sharp tools save time and muscle.
Avoid the damp grass after sun-down.
Poultry hatchcd in hot weather do not
thrive we'll.
Avoid having stale eggs by gathering
them every day.
The way to make horse raising profit
able is to breed and feed for the best.
An animal raised on the farm will not
introduce disease from an outside source.
Do all you can to protect the horses
from flies. At least, provide good fly
nets.
Grub in the head and lack of grub in
the stomach are two deadly enemies OF
the sheep.
Do not feed corn alone during the
summer; it is too heating and fattening
at this time.
First-class roadsters are comparatively
scarce, and likely to be in demand for
some time to come.
There is no danger of giving too great
variety of food, but there is danger in
too small variety.
Goose feathers should be kept separate
from the duck and chicken feathers.
They sell for the highest price.
Do not depend on borrowing the Or
dinary farm tools from your neighbors.
Own them and keep them in good condi-
ton.
When you get out the moving ma
chine put little good axle grease on the
cog-wheels and be sure to keep the knives
sharp.
Glover hay fed to the stock makes a
better manure than timothy, and if hay
is to be sold from the farm, let it be
timothy.
BY cutting the flowers from your
shrubs and plants you prevent the ex-
haustion of their vitality by its use in
maturing seed.
If poultry can be given the run of the
orchard from now on they will be able to
destroy large number of insect pests
that prey upon the trees and fruits.
A liberal supply of coarse sand or
gravel, and liberal feed of burnt bones
pounded fine, and lime and ashes, all
tend to keep hens from eating eggs.
Remember that the season for the de-
velopment of microbes is at hand, and
keep every corner and crevicc scrupulous-
| ly clean. You cannot get your cellar too
clean.
The cheesy taste in butter is said to be
due to the imperfect cleansing of the but
termilk from the milk. It is only an
other degree in the scale of buttermilk
! favor.
"The more tests make and the more
seeds SOW, the more I am convinced OF
the Importance of securing seeds with
good pedigrees," says S. B. Green, OF the
Minnesota Experiment Station.
The Iowa Experiment Station found
that milk showing eight per cent. of
cream gave larger yield of butter than
was obtained from milk giving ten,
eleven, twelve or even thirteen per cent.
cream.
Breed is not guaranty Of quality
the difference between two COWS Of the
same breed being frequently as great as
between the averages for different breeds,
even for those of very unlike average
quality.
A mulch in dry weather prevents the
sun from extracting the moisture the
plants need. To keep an inch of the sur
face stirred is the same as to haul on
leaves, straw or other mulch. The loose
soil is a mulch to that below it.
Did you ever hear the boys definition
OF salt2 1t was: "Something that made
potatoes taste bad if they had none on
them" How do you think that would
suit the cows taste, if you substitute
grass for "potatocs''2 Give them what
salt they want.
If any one doubts the beneficial effects
of buckwheat in your orchards, let him
SOW half of the orchard with this crop
the last of June and plow it in, and
treat the other half in ordinary ways. He
will find in three years difference in
favor of the buckwhcat portion that can
be seen mile distant.
If a cellar has damp smell, and can
not be thoroughly ventilated, few trays
of charcoal set around on the floor,
shelves and ledges will make the air pure
and sweet. If large basketful of char
coal be placed in q damp cellar where
milk is kept, the milk will be in no dan
ger of becoming tainted.