The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-07
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Draining land is often better than ma
nuring it.
Peas are generally covered too shallow
when sown.
Put lump of lime in the poultry
drinking vessel.
Ten or twelve hers can be kept on
every farm with profit.
Boiled peas or beans make good
poultry food during the winter.
Chicks do not need to be fed before
they are twenty-four hours old.
Plant and cultivate your silage corn
the same as you do your field corn.
Cows aud colts may be educated for
their work without their knowing it.
The harrow is considered the best
tool for doing the FIRST cultivation OF
corn.
Mr.. s. D. Willard declares there is
money in cherries, especially in sour
ones.
Where variety of poultry is kept on
the farms care must be taken not to win
ter too many.
With turkeys the best breeding stock
is two years old. When young fowls
are used the earliest hatched should be
selected.
A Ventura (Cal.) horticulturist states
that he considers fifteen -year-old Eng
lish walnut tree, in good health, worth
about S400.
Turkeys are 80 restless when confined
that in fattening the time should be made
as short as possible; ten days or two
weeks is ample.
The only way to pick fowls dry and
clean without tearing them is to do the
work as soon as they are killed, while
the body is warm.
Linseed meal brightens the plumsge
of the fowls; it also regulates the bowels
aud promotes digestion. Care should be
taken not to feed too much.
The acting horticulturist of the &C.
neva IN. ~ Experiment Station places
Moore's Diamond at the head of the list
of white grapes for quality and value.
Geese can be fattened rapidly and
cheaply, as they will eat almost anything.
Care must be taken not to get them too
fat, as excess of fat Injuries the quality.
Lack of variety in their food will some
times cause the hens to lose appetite, so
that whenever they refuse their food il
will be found good time to change the
diet.
During the winter hard grain alone is
better than soft feed alone; but the best
results can be secured by giving soft feed
as the morning ration and whole grain at
noon and night.
If any defects are in the bird they will
nearly always show when the new feathers
come out after moulting. Some breeds,
however, moult lighter every year, and
this is not defect.
It has been estimated that fully 1000
persons are engaged IN celery growing
in Kalamazoo, Mich, and vicinity, and
they manage to make enough from it to
live very comfortably.
There is good market now for the
quills of all kinds of fowls, especially for
the tail feathers of the turkeys. They
should be gathered up, carefully sorted
and tied into bundles.
The larger the fall growth of straw
berry plants the larger the crop of fruit
next season. This implies plenty of ma
nure and cultivation now. A dressing of
raw bone dust and ashes will do good.
Stormy weather is disastrous to hens
that are not in full feather, and it is best
to see that they are we'll protected by
providing them with good shelter.
Late moulting hens need good care if they
are to be kept over.
The President of the Indiana Horti-
cultural Society said a. recent meeting:
'sIn regard to extreme cultivation OF
strawberries l think that there is a
medium. Too high cultivation might
not pay, but man should spend from
S25 to $50 on an acre if he expects
success.
Cultivation to produce the best fruit is
as essential to fruit-growing as to grain
growing. Who would think of growing
crop of corn without cultivationa Yet
it is almost universally the case that the
orchard takes care of itself. Fowls and
pigs running in an orchard at proper
times is beneficial to the orchard.
The free application of lime and ashes
to the entire ground and the use of salt
around the trees will assist greatly in
heading of insects and worms that
greatly injure the orchard. Feed the
orchard-kecp the soil mellow and 1t will
reward the effort with an abundant
supply of perfect and healthful fruit.
One dollar a minute is the charge for
using the new telephone line between
London and Pa.is-distance about 2S0