The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-02
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Hens like seclusion.
tbs best to darken the place for
hens nest.
A hcn.nest made of soft cut hay or
chaff is as good as any.
In majority of cases the failure is
due to the eggs and not the incubator.
Professor Cook says that orchards
"should never be sprayed till the blossoms
fall"
II the young chickens are confined in
coops at night they should be let out
early in the morning.
Plant row or two of sunfowers along
the side of the corn. The seed make a
gooo winter poultry feed.
Linseed oil is said to be remedy for
black knot on the plum if applied to the
knot upon its first appearance.
Guineas will begin laying almost any
time now, and close watch need be
kept if their eggs are secured.
Yellow manure of poultry is an indi-
cation of liver trouble, and good
cathartic can be given with benefit.
Plenty of gravel, good supply Of
burnt bones pounded fine with lime and
ashes, all tend to keep the fowls in
health.
In fattening in confinement better
results will be secured by having the
places just light enough for the fowls to
see how to eat well.
The drinking water in the poultry
yerd should be changed two or three
times every day regularly. Pure water
is essential to good health.
Never try to save work. One.half Of
the failures occur from parties desiring
the incubator to work without attention.
Too much faith in the regulator is dan.
gerous. You must always be ''on deck"
If rightly managed, an incubator will
pay irr itself the first hatch, but there is
more in -. -: --::""1 than in the incubator.
Brains make an important factor. Learn
all you can by observation.
Disease germs are said to be rapidly
killed by sunlight, few minutes suffic-
ing for those fully exposed, and few
hours where in mass. Tubercle bacilli
died in six to seven days in the light of
a window and in compact masses. There
is o lesson in this.
Special experiments as to peach -yellows
show that no fertilizer to the soil or
application to the tree will arrest it, and
that prompt eradication of every infected
tree, as soon as the disease shows, is the
only resource. It's extension in Delaware
and Maryland is threatening in the ex-
treme.
In Matching ducks eggs under hens
the incubation differs from hens eggs
only in the fact that ducks eggs pip at
twenty-five to twenty-six days, instead
of nineteen, as with chicks, and also
that they generally pip from thirty-six to
forty eight hours before emerging from
the shell.
In cold stable much more feed is
required than in warm one. 1t is
cheaper to warm the COWS with tight
stable than with extra feed; and a COM
Portable stable will be comfortable for
the mixer. He will take more pains to
get all the milk, and will not be cross
to the COWS.
For nearly twenty years, says Hoard's
Dairyman, we have counselled the dairy
farmers against letting their cows run
out when cold rain storms or snow
storms occur. It is one of the most
wasteful things in the world to do. The
farmer keeps these COWS for the milk they
give, yet he will expose them to beat
ing rain storm, when he knows that such
practice will shrink their milk greatly.
Long drying does not kill the con-
sumption germ. 1t is not found in the
air breathed out from the lungs of the
patient, but in the matter coughed up.
1t is criminal to deposit this matter
carelessiy around, where in time it may
be changed to dust. Effectaal ways of
destroying this poisonous matter are
to burn or to bury it in the ground,
covering each deposit with fresh wood
ashes or limedust.
While whitewash on the walls of the
hen-house inside gives light and renders
the house cheerful, it is cheap enough to
use on the outside as we'll. To those
who do not care to use paint we will
state that if they will use whitewash on
the outside they will be surprised at the
neat appearance it will impart to the
hen-house and fences. 1t may be washed
OF some by the rains, but that should
be no obstacle to its use, as it is easily
and quickly applied.
Bitter butter is not the fault of the
COW, but of the farmer, being due to
keeping cream too long before it is
churned, which happens with those who
have but one or two cows, and who
keep the cream until enough accumu-
lates for a churning. Good butter can
not be made from old and new cream
mixed. Cream should be churned while
it is in the best condition, as any mis-.
takes made with the handling of the milk