The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-03-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

russets perfect for year.
The planning of the farm can be done
in winter as we'll as in winter
Profit is made by reducing cost as we'll
as by selling for higher price.
If your neighbor succeeds better than
you do, find out how he does it.
Never break off limb on valuable
tree; always make smooth cut.
A bushei OF potatoes often commands
as high price as bushel of wheat.
There is more profit in the long run
in cultivating one acre than in skimming
ten.
A day lost in transportation does
not help farm work along; repair the
roads.
The man who makes good cheese for
home consumption will find a market for
it near home.
Nitrates form rapidly in the coil in
summer when decomposition of organic
matter is going on rapidly.
Tons of nitrates are annually washed
into the sea; but millions of tons of nj
trogen still remain in the atmosphere.
BOOSTERS eat fully as much if not more
than hens, and lay no eggs. Keep only
such as are actually needed for breed
ing.
According some of the late au-
thorities every other living thing needs
fresh air and exercise except the milch
cowl
Begin keeping an account with your
poultry so as to find out whether they
are profitable under your system of man
agement.
There are men who consider it cheape,
to raise the barn every few years than to
draw out manure. They raise less crops
each year.
Bees serve as active agents in the fer
tilization of plants, and it is generally
conceded that they are not destructive
, to the same.
An experienced herder says that when
ever sheep goes off by itself its owner
may he sure there is something radically
wrong with it.
A nice, fat peafowl makes m extra
good table fowl. The meat is tender,
juicy and we'll favored, although not
very generally used.
If you do not care to bother with
poultry, turn them over to your wife and
children and let them have what they
can make out Of them.
On the farm, if we'll managed, poultry
ought to be bred, fed and made ready
for market at as low cost as hogs, and
will generally sell for more.
The New York Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals has determined to
enforce the law against docking of horses
tails, a "fashion" which seems to be
growing.
If you can arrange to have your
poultry ready for market little earlier
than the great majority of your neigh
bors, you can generally realize much
better prices.
The easiest, quickest and best way to
get start of some good breed of fowls
is to secure good trio of fowls before
spring. With those o good start can be
secured in one season.
There is much complaint on account
of the dying of evergreens. The Scotch
and Austrian zines have suffered most.
1t is quite likely that this is the result of
the protracted drought.
Raising poultry with m incubator
cannot be made profitable unless you
are willing to give good care and atten-
ton both during incubation and until
the fowls get well started to feathering.
The large grubs in the cows backs are
the Larvae of the cattle BOTTLES, which
sting the cattle and deposit eggs in the
skin late in the summer. The grubs do
no particular harm to the COWS, but they
may be squeezed out of the holes in the
skin and crushed. Of course this re-
duces the stock, as far as it goes, for
the next season.
1t is claimed by some farmers that
sheep need no water. This is sad mis-
take; sheep will drink good deal Of
water ii they have access to running
brook or spring. 1t is true, however,
that they can do without water longer
than any other live stock. They are
nice about the quality aud will not take
water that is foul.
At present prices milk used for max
ing cheese sells for little more than its
value for butter, unless the milk is ex-
ceptionally rich in fat. Cows that yield
five per cent. and over in fat will give
about 81 per one hundred pounds for the
milk for buttermaklng, which is equal
to a little more than ten cents per pound
for the cheese, and the skinmed milk is
left.
If you have blackberry and raspberry
bushes which have not yet been trimmed
or cut back, now is the time to do it..
But before you do this, cut out aud re-
move all the dead wood of last years
growth. Any rubbish or leaves, straw
and dead plants may be put between the
rows for mulch. This has tendency to
keep the soil moist and to prevent weeds
from growing, desirable condition for
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