The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-12-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

After the holidays are we'll over the
market for incubator chickens begins.
Fatten hogs early before the severe
weather makes them eat a third more.
The yolk is absorbed by the chick
before coming from the shell, so that
warmth and sleep are just what are
needed most for the first twenty-four
hours.
Clean wheat or rye. straw is a good
material in which to pack dressed poul.
try. 1t is important with dressed poul-
try to have all of the animal heat cooled
out before packing to ship.
In case of a tennnt farmer who pur-
chased fodder and grain and fed it on
the farm, it was held that the n
made in consequence belonged to the
tenant, who was at liberty to remove it
from the farm.
A horse whose legs are too long is weak
and apt to have strains and spavins. A
horse whose legs are too short is a slow
animal and liable to disease of the lungs.
See to it that your horse has legs that are
the right length. Breed for that.
Ducks are growing in popularity
among our farmers, some keeping fewer
chickens and increasing the number of
ducks. Rightly managed the duck is a
wonderful fowl, one that makes for the
farmer a good deal more than he feeds
it.
There is a great deal of courage as we'll
as good judgement needed to prune and
chin out trees at the proper time so that
they will have room to grow systemat-
$cally and not interfere with the light and
cir where needed, and may not intercept
same beautiful view.
gThe milk tester is the best detective on
earth for picking out the poor cows; four
per cent. of butter fat should be the min
imum, and the COW whose milk does not
reach this point has missed her calling
and is unworthy Of a place in the ad-
vanced dalryman's herd.
Some crops-all grains for instance,
and hay also-yield an income only at
certain seasons; but a good dairy cow in
milk turns cash into the farmers treasury
every day, and indeed twice a day until
she goes dry. And with proper care
she. need not 60 dry very long.
Careful, intelligent and judicious treat.
ment of all the dairy animals in the
country for one decade would 60 far
towards l~iquidating the national debt.
If one doubts it let him increase the
value of all such animals in the United
States by only three dollars each, and
see what it would come tol
It isn't new varieties of stock on the
farm that are needed half as much as a
new variety of attention to stock wants.
in order to get a profit from them. Cat
tie are kept primarily for profit. One
can make them pets and playthings In a
measure, but profit must be the ultimate
purpose with the man who needs profits.
A.. I. Root, in a private talk, once
raised the question of using excluder
zinc between the top bars. Now that
CQlCk IOp paTS seCm w oo eonAaS VAN
place of honey boards, and yet queen ex-
cluders are used for extracting honey,
might it not he q good plan to com
bine in some way top bars and exclud.
ers.
Roots and clover hay are a combination
that give excellent results as food for
COWS, and contain many elements, especi.
ally mineral matter, that are in but small
proportion in grains, though roots
abound more largely in starch. Clover
is rich in nitrogen and mineral matter,
while the s~ucculent roots promote diges-
ton.
Feed your straw Systematically in con-
nection with linseed meal or cotton seed
meal to balance the ration, and you Will
be surprised to see what O saving of hay
will be effected, and how much the ex-
pense of winter feeding will be reduced.
The oat straw, especially, is of sufficient
value to warrant putting It under cover
and feeding it in the managers instead OF
turning tho cattle onto the stack.