The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-15
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Plant tree.
Plant hundred trees.
Mulching improves almost any soil.
Sod turned under is good manure.
A cheap horse is generally poor one.
Hay fed in the open air seldom escapes
waste.
Keep the hennery we'll supplied with
coal ashes.
Get the berry crates in good shape for
next season.
Scatter manure under the fruit trees as
far out as limbs reach.
Onion tops cut fine make good green
food for poultry at this time.
If you grow crops among your fruit
trees apply manure enough for both.
Set the hens now as soon as they are
ready, providing them warm place.
Woven wire makes one of the cheapest
and best fences for the poultry yards.
Ground sunfower seed makes good
feed for fowls and all kinds of stock.
Stables get filthy very easily. 1t re-
quircs care and labor to keep them clean.
In many cases it will be found that it
is overfat hens that lay the soft-shelled
eggs.
If the poultry must he confined SOW a
good bed of lettuce to supply them with
green food.
There is little use OF manuring in the
hill if the soil around 1t is too poor to
grow crop.
In almost every neighborhood an arti1
fetal pond can be formed for making
homemade ice.
Lime sprinkled over the onion bed
will prevent earthworms from disturbing
the young plants.
The secret of raising good strawber-
ries is to give them good soil and keep
the weeds down.
Throw a handful of coarse salt close
around the body of each peach tree, to
keep grubs away.
Yellow droppings do not always in
dicate cholera; in many cases 1t only oe-
notes indigestion.
AS a general rule it will not be found
best to attempt to keep more than fifty
hens in one house.
A hen that is scared off her nest every
time any one approaches should not be
used for Matching.
There are chestnut trees in Wisconsin
foot through that were planted by the
men who now own them.
When you find q bull to head your
herd that suits you, you buy him. Don't
ouibble over few dollars.
At thi> season hot ashes from the coal
stove VII. aid to maintain health if
sprinkled aader the roosts.
Hens are often obliged to leave their
nests on account Of lice; it is important
to keep lookout for them.
Try mulching the bare spots on the
knolls and high points in your meadows
and pastures with fine straw.
Many garden seeds are better not
planted until the soil is warm enough to
sprout them and send them right along.
See that the sows about to farrow are
not left out some cold night, and lot
of dead Or dying pigs found in the morn
ing.
To have few early strawberries, dig
up sods of plants from old beds and put
in greenhouse or hotbed. Old plants
yield better forced than new.
Don't stint the young sows you intend
to breed soon. Oats, wheat middlings
and little oilcake will be much better
for them than heavy corn feeding.
Good draft horses, roadsters or work
horses are always in demand at good
prices, and, with care in the selection OF
the breed stock, may be raised as cheap
ly as common plugs.
To make success of farming the peo-
ple must read. Failure is more often
due to ignorance than to unfavorable
seasons or the weather. No man can
succeed who is not familiar with the i'm
proved methods practised by the most
entcrprising and experienced of his
class.
Keep the rough and small eggs for
your own table; the nicer ones set aside
for your customers. 1t is best to give
them little nicer than store eggs. Dress
your poultry better than the butcher:
and charge accordingly. You will have
70 trouble making poultry-kceping sue
cess if near a town or city and pursue
this course.
The toad is more clean than the poodle