The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

| FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never skim milk for cheese.
Keep the dead wood cut out.
Scatter your s!ops over the soil.
The real dairy farmer grows Lis OWL
feed.
Sell as direct to the customer as pos.
sible.
Pigs properly kept bring quick re-
turns.
If you want lettuce for winter, SOW in
cold frames.
Do not gather the grapes until they
ore fully matured.
Mr.. Hale told before the Nursery.
mems Association that there is no peach
that can compare with the Eiberta in
hardness.
Push the growth of the pullets now
by liberal feeding so as to have them as
we'll matured as possible before cold
weather sets in.
One reason why corn should be fed to
the fowls at night during the winter is
that it is one OF the very best materials
for making animal heat.
Some hens are natural fighters, and one
such among lot of hens will mouopolize
food and roosting quarters to the detri.
ment of all of the others.
Any kind Of grease is certain death to
poultry lice, while the odor of certain
oils, like cedar, kerosene or spirits OF
turpentine will drive them away.
The size of the incubator should be
determined by the number of hens kept.
1t is surely good plan to depend upon
purchasing eggs for Matching during the
winter.
To secure the best prices for holiday
poultry it must be of the best quality,
we'll fattened, carefully dressed, so that
when placed on market the fowls will
present neat appearance.
While chickens may be Matched and
raised at all seasons of the year, the sys-
TEN of management should be changed
according to the season. No one plan
will answer the entire season.
Winter layers depend upon early pull
lets, early pullets depend upon early set
tiers and early settlers depend upon win
ter layers. A failure of one means, more
or less, failure of the others.
The cultivated petunias of to-day en-
brace three well-defned forms, viz, the
ordinary small-fowered, the graniaora
or large fowered and the double. The
latter are usually grown from cuttings
taken later during September.
With the earlier Matched turkeys,
whenever good price can be realized,
it will be good plan to sell now. The
cost of keeping will increase as the
weather gets cooler, and in many cases it
will be better to sell than to keep.
While the guinea is a good table fowl
it is not a good market fowl, and it is
only in exceptional cases that they can
be marketed to good advantage.
Their meat is the nearest approach to
wild fowls in flavor of any known.
Some of the much -puffed "washes''
for peach trees by which the borer is to
be circumvented would no doubt be
effective on the Larvae if applied at just
the right time, and to be sure of the
right time apply every day from June tc
September. But an examination of the
tree and search for the boarer with g
hoe and knife in April and October Of
each year costs less and is much more
effective.
Water the horses early and often thi:
hot weather, and especially before feed,
ing, as the French breeders do. In
France some worthless horses were killed
for dissection on purpose to determine
the effect of giving water immediately
after eating, and some of the grain was
found undigested In the intestines
twenty feet beyond the stomach, and il
had caused Inflammation of the mucous
membrane.
Manure may be spoiled by either o,
two extreues-by being keep too wet o'
too dry. By the former it will burn, OF
fire-fang, thus losing large portion OF
its nitrogen, and by keeping too wet ii
will leach out, losing all elements Of
plant food. 1t is best (when not applied
directly to the land) to keep it JUS
moist enough to keep down the heat
One or two buckets of water thrown up
on the pile each morning will accomplish
this.
Take the seeds of apples, pears ant
cherries, and others desired to grow
plant them and give good culture, re.
moving the first year and setting them
the8econd year into the orchard where
the roots will never be disturbed. Wher
the first fruit comes top-grafting can b
employed on those trees which do MOI
have good fruit, and in this way hardy,
permanent orchard can he had. Many
of the trees will bear good fruit without
grating.