The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

| FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
No man is too old to plant tree.
Make a fruit orchard of your poultry
yard.
A warm barn saves lot of feed each
winter.
Kill the bug and you destroy its
progeny.
Wheat screenings make good winter
food for hens.
If you want to keep your help furnish
house for it.
Weeds are mortgage that may fore
close on the best land.
Cooked wheat bran furnishes bone ma
terial for young chicks.
Portable fences are becoming more
and more desideratum.
Castor beans and all oily plants are
easily spoiled by wetting.
A sagging gate and a door that sticks
cost more to use than they do to fix.
There is as much in the proper curing
and handling of hay as there is in the
kind.
Economy is no relative of stinginess,
though some people seem to think them
brothers.
A good pasture is a valuable ally to the
hay stack. All that are fenced are not
pastures, however.
When pigeons are kept in small yards
care must be taken to keep an even num-
ber. An odd male will cause continual
trouble.
Young geese that have not yet COM
pleted their growth should be fed nber-
ally from now on until they are ready to
market.
Cabbage makes a good green poultry
feed for winter. All the small unmar-
ketable heads should be gathered up and
stored away.
Giving the turkeys anG ducks good
feed of corn regularly when they come
home at night will be strong induce
ment to keep them coming.
Egg-bouno' hens or persistent cases OF
Group rarely pay for the trouble required
to cure. The Ratchet in majority of
cases is the cheapest remedy.
If Western farm can afford to build
an irriga:ing ditch five or six miles long,
can an Eastern farmer afford not to
ditch his rich, boggy Meadow
1t is not good plan to keep pullets
and old hens, fat and lean hens all to-
gether. They do not require the same
food and will do better separate.
Speculation is as dangerous to the far
mer as it is to the city man. Getting
into debt to buy more land or more i'm
plements is generally speculation.
It is variety of food rather than large
quantity that fowls require. More care
is necessary in this respect when they are
confined than when given a good range.
If any farmers have gathered a short
hay crop, there is yet time to supplement
the pasture by little "soiling" corn or
millet. Be vigilaut, however, or it may
be too late.
The best shade for COW in fy time is
the shade of nice clean stable. Give q
COW the chance to 60 into stable when
she pleases and she will soon show her
ideas as to comfort and flies.
Before the winter sets in it would be
we'll for the farmers to consider the an
nual loss from leaving the corn fodder
in the fields. 1t is an odd custom, but
it entails a heavy waste and loss.
A horse that is subject to lameness in
one neigbborhooa may escape that diff
Guilty in another section. Tender feet
may impair the usefulness of an animal
on herd stony ground, but on sandy loca-
tions the feet may not be so easily in
jured. Street car horses when taken to
the farms often proven valuable and en-
tirely recover from lameness.
The best fruit tree to grow on the
lawn is probably the cherry. When
we'll established it does we'll in grass,
though it is best to NOV the grass as
often as once week. A closely shaven
lawn does not drain the soil of moisture
as when grass is allowed to mature. An
abundance of we'll decomposed manure
is Importation the highest success.
One objection to the matted row sys-
tenn OF growing Strawberries is the drain
on the soil for moisture in dry season.
The matted row system will never pro-
duce strawberries equal to- those grown,
in hills. On the hill system several
crops can be grown, in the other only