The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-19
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
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What did you learn at the fair9
Profit in early fattened poultry.
Trust stock to trusty help only.
Protect or house all tender plants.
Stable your stock these cool nights.
Preserved fruits will be in demand.
Dairy schools arc good institutions.
Separate sick animals from we'll ones.
What farmers want is fair trade-not
oleo for butter.
When prices are low, growing doesn't
raise them cent.
If you feed rye to hogs, grind it. The
whole grain is not properly mastlcated.
Use caution in beginning to feed green
corn to stock. If fed to working teams,
give plenty of salt with it.
One reason for failure in farming is
that the farmer fails to stick to one thing
long enough to make it pay.
The big hay crop and all the corn fod-
der will be valuable to supplement the
short grain crops. Save the fodder.
This is a good time to open up the
bitches or to put in the tile from that
sink-hole that makes ugly jogs in all
your work.
1t is good plan to pot early all plants
designed for house adornment this win
ter. 1t gives them good time to get
we'll rooted.
The fall of the year is a trying time
for stock. See that it is we'll fed and
not unnecessarily exposed to stormy and
cold weather.
It is not necessary to weigh your silo,
if it is otherwise right. A foot or so of
straw or whale grass makes good cover
ing. A few loose boards may be laid on
this.
Don't let the stock run out too late in
the fall on the pasture. See that the
stables are put in warm condition before
the cold storms and SHOWS of winter
come.
Notwithstanding hay is plenty and
good, do not waste your corn fodder. 1t
is valuable feed with more nitrogenous
material, and an early fall and late spring
may render it needful.
It seems that if cotton seed is boiled,
that COWS can be fed at least double the
pounds of it per day, without damaging
the butter, that it is safe to feed them of
dry cotton-seed meal.
It is now time to select your plan for
a poultry-house, and build it. Next
month will bring US into cold, rainy, un-
pleasant weather, when comfortable
hen-house will be good thing to have.
The man who stayed in the sheep busi.
ness when others went out, is the one who
hit the nail on the head. That business
is all right. Bear this in mind, that the
cream of the sheep industry is in raising
early lambs for the spring market.
One thing to be avoided in going into
the sheep industry is over-stocking.
Many have made a wreck of the business
on that rock. Pastures get bare and
barns empty very quickly in such cases.
A flock of 500 sheep will terrify man
at the amount of stuff they put inside
their fesces during cold winter.
Now is the time to purchase your stock,
as breeders who have few early hatched
birds will be disposing of them through
this and next month. 1t pays to get
them, even if they do cost more, because
they are always harder and mature bet
ter, and are superior birds for either ex-
hibiting in the pit or in the breeding
yard.
Coal ashes mixed with manure would
have no effect further than to add what
ever little fertilizing material they may
possess. This is quite small, as they
have little potash, lime and phosphoric
acid only. Mechanically, the ashes will
be useful on light soils, to consolidate
them, and on clay soils to loosen them.
But they would do the same if used
alone.
Any desired color may be given to
lime washes by the addition of earthly
coloring matter. Yellow ochre with a
little burnt umber gives rich cream
color; an excess of the umber makes
browns of various shades, and Venetian
red will give a pinkish tinge, which is
very pleasant for inside work. The light
stone color is preferable to any other
shade.
1t is not the COW whose milk gives the
most butter that is necessarily "the best
butter cow" but rather the cow whose
butter costs the least in proportion to the
yield. If you get certain yield of but
ter you must feed two or three times as
much in one case as in the other, the cost
becomes an important matter. In COM
pairing Jerseys and Holsteins this matter
is sometimes overlooked.
Salmon in the Hudson River.