The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Keep the sheep out of the mud.
Make note of amount of seeds sown.
Proftable-clean and thorough cul-
ture.
| Elk, ~foweE-beaass- for the feminine
folks.
Sowing impure seeds brings evil
weeds.
Good feed all the year improves
good blood.
It is strange there are not more pure
bred sires used.
No feed should be left fir ON one feed
ing time to another.
The scrub steer has found its place
at the bottom of the market.
Good pure water should always be
provided summer and winter.
Feed literally, but not in excess Of
what the stock clean up nicely.
Skill in breeding and in feeding is the
stockman's "way out of the mire."
Churning without thermometer is as
difficult as stearing ship without COM
pass.
Among cures advised for cracking of
the pear is regrafting the trees with some
other varieties.
If you want to give your pansies con-
genial home, locate them in moist soil in
some shady corner.
An English court awarded three
guineas for damages done by thistle seed
blown three hundred feet.
Scatter air-slacked lime with liberal
tand over the floors of the hen-houses
and restricted poultry runs.
Don't overwork the brood mare. The
seeder is bad place for her if you have
low wet ground to turn upon.
Successful peach orchards are found
on elevated sites and warm, sandy soils,
or localities near large bodies of water.
A foreign exchange writes of admira-
BILE results obtained by bagging speci-
men tomatoes, plums and pears. What
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Manufacturers estimate that twenty
per cent. of the wear of farm machinery
comes from neglect to keep the bearings
properly oiled.
In feeding all classes of stock the value
of the feed is the same, whether it is
supplied to the scrawniest of scrubs or the
best of full bloods.
Keep the calves in good order with
ample food properly prepared, aud they
will be in prime condition to take on
flesh when put on pasture.
The farmer who grows strawberries
enough for family use deserves we'll of
his country. He has made at least part
of the world happier because of his
thoughtfulness.
A fair crop of asparagus may be ex-
pected the third year from seed, or in
one or two years from the roots, accord
ing to their age when planted, and after
that full crops every year.
Mr.. E. G.. Fowler, of the Orange
County Farmer, urges those who have
given the garden scant attention in the
past to just try having a good one this
year, "and see how it works"
Some fruits will not bear an extension
of their season. Peaches and water
melons that would keep into the winter
would find slow market. Such pro-
ducts are for warm weather mainly.
Nature has things about right.
Those who desire to "bag" grapes
that is, to cover them with paper bags
to prevent grape rot-should remember
to do it us soon as the grapes arc visible.
The mischief, if done at all, is done in
the earliest stages of grape growth.
A Boston florist says that he seldom
fails to root slips of the most tender and
rare kinds. He credits his success to
layer of oats placed under the usual layer
of sand in which the slips arc planted.
When moistened they act as stlmulant
and feeder to the tender roots of the
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