The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23

Arrange to farm better next year.
Lay your plans for next years work.
Sec that each fowl gets its share oil
feed.
Carefully save all the meat scraps for
your fowls. 4
Now crowd the feed if you are fatten.
ing beef, pigs or poultry.
Never allow your horses to stand in
the wind or cold unblanketed.
Remember that sand ,-fss~~oa-und like
substances are essential to fowls. ----
Watch prices and prospects, and
market your produce opportunely.
Wise stock raisers now try to grow
meat rather than to accumulate fat.
Land plaster, carbolic acid and kero-
sene are all good for the chicken house.
Do not forget that hens learn to eat
eggs by having the broken ones left in
the nest.
Do not neglect to place clear, pure
water every day in accessible places for
for your fowls.
Starving or freezing an animal is one
way to render farming both improbable
aud unpopular.
Make the most profitable use possible
Of all by products, for in these often lie
the profits of farming.
Organization and CO operation are
potent factors for farmers; give them
your encouragement and support.
Alternately starving and gorging pig
docs not make ia streak of fat and a
streak Of lean" Feed regularly.
Twenty five or thirty pounds of granu-
lated sugar syrup is sufficient winter and
spring food for one colony of bees.
In no place will it pay better to feed
out refuse, cabbage herds and other
green stuff than in the poultry yard.
While generally it is not advisable to
make speciality of hogs, yet, neverthe-
less, they can be kept Oh every farm with
profit.
Even in winter it will be found best
| TO change the materials in the nests oc-
casionally. in order to keep them from
/ becoming foul.
II pigs are to be sold before they are
matured care should be taken to have
them in good growing condition In
order to realize fine prices.
On hardly one farm in ten is any pro-
vision made for saving liquid manure,
The principal reason why fall pigs are
not more profitable is because sufficient
care 10 not taken to receive healthy,
thrifty growth during the winter.
Hogs never should be allowed to sleep
on the manure piles, it induces mango as
well as an unhealthy condition in the sys-
tenn, that it will be found best to avoid.
Let fowls now have full sway among
the grass, shrubs and orchards. They
will enjoy the exercise and make havoc
among the grubs, slugs, worms and other
insects that are injurious to vegetable life.
Moreover the diet is cheap and healthy.
Covering strawberries, spinach, kale,
pansies, ETC., should now be attended to
at once if it has not been done already.
Bear in mind that the covering should be
light, evergreen boughs are the best; !;
salt sedge or thatch next, and coarse,
strawy horse manure next.
-~,Ivw uuIgnreu most farmers would be
to own cow that would give pound
of butter every day for yeari But
srch cows are not difficult to find il
properly fed and cared for. And still
we can't induce one farmer in twenty,
perhaps not one in a hundred, to find
out what either his best or his poorest
COW is worth to him.
Black currants are not so much used
in this country as in England where their
merits are better appreciated; they are
very hardy and prolific and make jellies,
tarts and preserves that are esteemed a
great delicacy by the English. The lik-
ing for the raw fruit must be acquired
by practice; few people relish them the
first time they eat them, but become very
fond of them after while.
The native hemlock Is, to our eve,
most beautiful of evergreens. For hedge
it has no equsl-making beautiful and
compact one-standing shearing per-
fectly into any desired shape. It is
easily transplanted, and when ito ao,-
sRdulsfisiSy' 66tssssadtifdf. f'AYe &c makes hand.
some trees in isolated positions and is
among the best of windbreaks.
Between tho North and South.
The Mason and Dixon limo rvpa olon,.