The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-16
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

| lrhNM AMI SAkDEN NOTES.
J The best butter in the world is made
in private diaries.
The largest prices paid in the world
for butter arc for butter made in private
dairies.
Make lattice work il you like, but
vines will hold perfectly on smooth verti-
cal wire.
Making the feed of young chicks one
third sand is said to be sure preventive
of gapcs.
A large flock of fowls running with
sheep keep them free from ticks :. they
gobble them up.
Cut the wire between each pair of
staples; you will have trouble if you try
to draw it through number.
Cottonseed meal appears to be very
desirable thing to feed, along with other
meals, in making gilt-edge butter.
Better weigh grain occasionally before
taking it to mill and the grist on its re-
turn-you may be surprised at the dis
crepancy.
To water young chicks safely, punch a
hole near the open end of fruitcan, fill
with water and invert the can in a shall
low pan.
Let no one in Northern latitudes ex-
pect anything of the Usage orange. It
grows in Arkansas, Texas, etc., and de-
clines to survive the Northern winters.
Farmers have nothing, as to economy
and health, equal to pure, rich milk mot
] to skimmilk), specially for children, in
valids and the agcd-prepared every
way.
An excellent milkingstool is made by
naiiing board eight inches square firm
iy on the end of another thick piece six
or eight inches long. This is firm enough,
and you can tilt it about to suit convcn-
;ience.
In planting raspberry tips, great ad.
tgegtIage has been found in leaving them
fneh new growth has put forth four to
six inches. When removed only a short
distance they arc taken up with ball of
earth.
Plenty of new varieties of fruit are sold
lat ,enormous prices for year or two, or
three, and then are never heard of again.
But if the truth is told about them at
first, why do they soon disappear2 Let
the nurseryman tell.
u Loss of horses throughout the country
-+here one, there another-is very seri-
Gus. Overdriving, irregular and over
feeding, exposure to drafts in stable, to
wet and cold outside, are fruitful
causes. Overwork, too, dcplctcs the sys-
tenn and invites disease. Inflammation, etc.
The question, "What is the most
economical method of storing coarse feed
and feeding coarse grain to stock to get
best result?" was introduced by Amos
Phelps, who said: 81 have been trying
for forty years to solve this problem, and
to-day am at a loss to know whether I
have the right solution of it,"
A recent speaker favored premiums
for fast-walking horses; if a farmer by
increasing his speed can do ten hours
farm work In eight hours, he has two
hours saved for recreation, rest or read
ing, all or combined. An old gentlemen
claimed that first-class ploughing cannot
be done with fast-walking team.
Old bulls are the fave rites on which
the Chicago canning factories feed, be-
cause the lean in their carcasses is in
much larger proportion to the fat than
in steers, and also because when a 1000
pound fat steer sells for six cents a
pound live weight, old bulls equally fat
are not worth more than two cents.
A good and durable trellis for vines
is made by bending stout wire nails into
staples, pounding the heads fiat on an
iron, and driving one set INTO the house
near the ground, another row into the
cornice, etc., then stringing them with
Silence wire," as the stout gauge is
called which all farmers keep on hand
nowadays.