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

Tho best butter in tho world is made
In private dairics.
The largest prices paid in the world
for butter arc for butter made i'm private
| dairics.
Make lattice work if 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 tho wire between each pair of
staples; you will have trouble if you try
to draw it through number.
Cottonsccd meal appears to bc very
desirable thing to feed, along with other
meals, in making giltcd2e butter.
Better weigh grain occasionally before
taking it to mill and the grist on its re-
turn-you may be surprised ut the dis
crepancy.
TO water young chicks safely, punch q
hole near tho open end Of frutCan, fill
with water and invcrt the can in a shal.
low pan.
Let no one in Northern ATTITUDES cx-
pcct anything of the osa9c orange. It
grows in Arkansas, Texas, etc, and de-
clncs to survive the Northern winters.
Farmers have nothing, rs to economy
and health, equal to pure, rich milk (not
to skimmilk), specially for children, in
valids and the aScd-prcparcd every
wny.
An excellent milkingstool is made by
mailing 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.
yyptago has been found in leaving them
'hnm now growth has put forth four to
six inches. When removed only short
distance they arc taken up with ball of
Garth.
Plenty of new varieties of fruit arc sold
iat enormous prices for II year or two, or
three, and then are never heard of again.
But if the truth is told about !hcH, at
first, why do they soon disappear! Let
the nurstryman tell.
i Loss of horses throuYhout the country
--,hcrc one, there anothcr-is very scri-
Gus. Ovcrdriving, irregular and over
feeding, exposure to drafts in stable, to
wet and cold outside, arc fruitful
causes. Ovcrwork, too, dcplctcs the sys-
tenn and invites disease. inflammation, etc.
The question, "WhAt is tho most
economical method Of storing coarse feed
and feeding coarse grain to stock to get
heat rcsult?" was introduced Ivy Amos
Phelps, who said 81 have been trying
for forty wears to solve this problem, and
to. day am ut loss to know whether
have the right solution Of it,
A recent speaker favored premiums
for fast walking horses; if "A farmer hy
increasing his speed can do ten hours
farm work in eight hours, ho has two
hours saved for recreation, rest or read
ing, all or combined. An old gentlemen
claimed that first-cass plou.hing cannot
be done with Il fast walking team.
Old bulls arc the fave rites on which
the Chicago canning factories feed, be-
cause the lean in their carcaSScs is in
m-c!: larger proportion TO inc rat than
in steers, and also because when II 1000
pound fat steer sells for six cents
pound live weight, old bulls equally fat
arc not worth moro than two cents.
A good and durable trcllis for vines
is made by bending stout wire nails into
staples, pounding the heads flat on an
iron, and driving one set INTO the house
near the ground, another row into the
cornice, etc, then stringing them with
"fencc wire,' rs the stout gauge is
called which all farmers keep on hand
nowadays.