The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-07-22
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Often it is better to set broody hen
| than to break her.
It is good economy to feed poultry
we'll from the start.
Very many of the losses with young
turkeys are due to lice.
It is not a good plan now to keep
chickens in a tox or small yard.
If necessary to confire young chickens
in a coop with board floor, cover we'll
with soil.
If the ducks and geese are picked reg
ularly during the summer and fall they
will not moult.
Scalded milk in q good remedy for di-
arrhea in summer; give the fowls all
they will drink.
Brahmas and Cochins feather very
slowly, and it is not safe to condemn
them until they are four months old.
When young chickens are shedding
their second feathers they should have q
small quantity of carbolic acid in their
drinking water.
After young turkeys have passed the
period of "shooting the red" which oe-
ours when they are about ten weeks old,
they can be gwen free range.
Either fall or spring planting may be
adopted, but for the strawberry spring
setting is surest and safest. Do not let
q strawberry bed run over two years.
New varieties of strawberries are year
ly introduced, but they should be tried
only to limited extent, as the varieties
suitable to somo sections are worthless in
others.
Catarrh in sheep is caused by exposure
to dampness and cold fall rains. A reme-
dy for it is: inject into the nostrils so.
luton of one part carbolic acid to fifty
parts warm water.
In setting strawberries put them three
and half by one foot apart. Black
raspberries six by three. Blackberries
eight by three. Plant only old and tried
varieties and let novelties &C.
Put large shovelful of manure around
each young raspberry plant, and you
will derive the benefits therefrom next
season. Any attention given young
raspbcrries is always rewarded the follow
ing year.
If you wish to haul out your coarse
manure, put it on field intended for
green manurial crop, so as to plow the
crop under and thereby more intimately
mix the manure with the soil as we'll as
to destroy weeds.
The best butter makers are the great
est readers of dairy literature and thus
keep posted about the methods of Others,
and do not depend too much upon the
knowledge they have inherited from
their granduothers.
Dwarf Lima beans may be planted in
rows in the same manner as string beans,
and they will need no poles or supports
of any kind. Though the beans ore small
ler than the pole Lima, yet they are pro-
life and easily harvested.
It is we'll to test your cows-know
exactly which are paying, both in quail
ity and quantity. Keep record of
your profits and expenses, and you will
thus be enabled to know just what your
standing is at the end of the season.
Spraying the trees is something OF re-
cent introduction. When the work of
spraying begins there should be no ces-
sation until the fruit is safe. Much de-
pends not only on how the work of
spraying the trees is accomplished, but
also upon performing the work at the
proper times.
The oils of the different kinds of
grain fed to dairy COWS have very much
to do with the quality of the butter.
Cotton seed, while giving an increased
flow of milk, rich in butter fat, makes
the butter greasy and sticky. Oats and
bran give good oils for butter, but the
best is the oil of corn. To the general
use of corn in feeding dairy COWS in the
West is due to great extent the fine
flavor Of western butter.