The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-12-09
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND aARDEN NOTES.
Road dust is life to hens and death to
lice.
Burn the bones and feed them to the
fowls.
Unusually large eggs denote on over
fat condition.
Supply what the hens can pick up for
themselves when outside.
It is not a good plan to have the
poultry house near the barn.
Send layers to roost with their crops
full to carry them over night.
Do not give layers soft feed enough to
gorge them or make them lazy.
One advantage with the incubator
chicken is that lice are more easily kept
down.
Buy breeding fowls in the fall; they
will be in a better condition to use in the
spring.
It is considered that young fowls
mated bring males and older fowls
females.
Wheat, oats and bran are good egg
producing poultry feed to give at this
season.
All varieties of plants that do not
stand a test are simply weeds in the way
of others.
Destroy oil weeds and keep the ground
clean around your house and outside
buildings.
Give meat to the fowls in regular sup.
ply, warm mess in morning and regular
supply of grit, gravel, etc.
It is hard to improve on storing apples
in barrels or spread or shelves in a room
under or above ground that is dry, sweet
and kept just above freezing.
Improvement is being made at all
times, and with all kinds of fruit, but
when the farmer is brought into contact
with so many varieties, each claimed as the
ssbest," he will be unable to select from
them.
All seed corn should be thoroughly
dried before storing it away for next
years planting. When the seed is dry it
is less liable to being injured by severe
cold, and the more thorough the drying
of the corn the better it will keep.
The prize for the best 100-acre farm
or less in England was won by q farmer
who farms eighty-one acres of grass land,
forty-one acres being in pasture. he
keeps ffty-two COWS, and spent $4,000
for extra food for his stock each year.
1t does not pay to feed good food to
Door stock. An experienced dairyman
makes use of the remark that he cannot
afford to feed $40 worth of grain to q
calf worth only fifty cents, and the ex.
preston applies in other directions on the
farm.
Farmers should rigidly guard their
hogs against disease by procuring any
new stock required only after inspecting
the herds from which they desire to Sc
lect. Never buy from a neighborhood
in which disease is known to exist or re-
Gently existed.
An extremely rich soil is not suitable
for the large fruits. The growth of wood
is toe rapid and tender. Fortunately
there is no great amount of such soil in
this country, and when found it is better
adapted to wheat, corn or onions than to
pears or apples.
A steer that produces the most choice
beef is one that is not only fat but we'll
supplied with lean also. Tallow often
secures the prize at fat stock shows in
preference to meat that is intimately in
terspersed with lean and fat. Weight
does not always indicate quality OF
flesh.
A clean soil in the fall and the weeds
destroyed before they seed will save one
half of the labor in the spring. Seeds
of weeds start off in growth very early,
and the farmer cannot keep them out of
the way. The time to destroy weeds is
when they are just coming up through
the ground.
AS a speaker at one of the New York
dairy schools said: A COW with an udder
full of milk is always standing still or
lying down, chewing the cud. No one
ever saw a dairy cow dancing around IN
pursuit of exercise, unless she was doing
it at the end of the boss cows horns IN
barnyard or pasture. =.