The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-01
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Have you killed the briers and bushes2
It saves cold fingers to dig potatoes
early.
Pure well or spring water for the
swine.
Paint over or wax over all considerable
wounds on your trees.
Grow the apple on bush-formod tree
or on one we'll trimmed up.
Let the poultry occupy the orchard
during all the insect breeding season.
Apple trees and all fruit-bearing trees
and plants require good deal of potash.
It is better to grow fruit than to grow
briers and thorns. The latter usually cost
the most.
strainins will not clean dirty milk.
Virtue in this case consists in keeping
out the dirt.
Herbs for winter use should be care
fully dried in the shade and kept in
cool, dry place.
Pull yourself together and concentrate
your efforts, and do not try to spread
over all creation.
Attend the fairs. Exhibit your stock,
compare it with other stock and see
wherein yours is inferior.
Feed the high-priced corn to low
priced cattle, and that will make both
corn and cattle worth more.
Fattening steers, if fed one good ration
of grain, can dispense with one-third of
the pasturagc required without grain.
One of the very finest fertilizers for
melons is old bones, gathered up and re-
duced by placing them in alternate layers
with ashes the year previous to using
them.
When apples fall on the ground and
rot the grass is sometimes injured, dueto
decomposition and acidity of the fallen
fruit. A dressing of lime or ashes is the
proper remedy.
With all the new varieties of straw
berries thai have been introduced it is
doubtful if anything has been gained in
the flavor, though the size and appear
ance have been greatly improved.
Although experiments have failed to
reveal difference in the feeding value of
the several varieties of field corn, it has
been we'll demonstrated that all corn
silagc does not possess equal value as
food.
Achestnut orchard would be a good
thing on many a farm. The tree grows
rapidly, and usually assumes handsome
shape when not crowded. Plant wide
apart, and cultivate and pruue when
young.
The first cost of working land to
proper depth is considerable, but when
once done and the impediments-that is,
rocks, stones or stumps-disposed of,
there is an annual saving of time and of
tools in tho work.
An acre of clover should provide suf-
ficient hay for COW one year. Where
the COWS have pasture and the hay is only
used in winter there should be sufh-
cheney for two COWS. It is not every
farmer who can make an acre support q
COW one year, however.
Corfshusks possess value in market
much greater than their value for breed
ing. They are used in the manufacture
OF beds, but if saved for that purpose
they must be harvested before wet
weather and be clean, dry and in bright
condition. They arc shipped baled.
The old method of training pet lamb
at the house and then turning it into the
flock is still practised by some aocknas-
ters. 1t is we'll known that sheep will
follow leader, and if the pettcd lamb
has been taught to come at O call or Pc
culiar sound the whole flock will be gov
erned by following the particular one that
has been trained.
Small potatoes make excellent chicken
feed if properly fed. Boil, and while
hot, mash with cornmeal and bran and
feed warm. Give only what they will
eat up clean and not oftener than every
other day. The trouble which follows
from feeding potatoes is due to over feed
ing when the birds are hungry and with
cut mixing the potatoes with meal and
bran.
You cannot keep the chicken coops too
clean, and even after they leave the hens
and cluster nightly by themselves sec
that their shelter is dry and clean and
avoid crowding. Divide the flock in lots
of one dozen; they will be healthier and
grow faster for this attention. Every day
we clean up the droppings and scatter
sand about the floor, consequently the air
is pure at night.
In a paper read before the illinois
State Horticultural Society occurred this
statement: If you once let the earth dry
on the roots of evergreens nothing will
save them. The outside moisture on the
roots must not be allowed to dry if you
] want trees to live. There is reslnous
| substance on the outside of the roots, and
i the roots once becomes dry water can
never penetrate that resinous covering,
AMI the plant canrSt but die.
Just after the wheat harvest hens take
to lsying, and the eggs produced at this
time sre apt to make strong, vigorous
chicks. The scattering wheat is picked
up in the field after harvest, or around
barns where this grain IS being slowed
away. The same qualities which make
whole wheat the best grain for human
food give it superiority in the produc-
ton Of eggs, which contain in concen-
trated form the nourishment required for
tealthtul actionboth of body and brain.