The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-01
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Buckwheat is one of the most valuable
grains for poultry feed.
Change the feeding coops for the
young poultry every few days.
Buckwheat is a good crop to grow in
the orchard to help build up fertility.
It will be an advantage to let poultry
that is kept confined run out every even.
ing.
A little work now in providing good
drainage will help in getting the seed in
early.
Millions of dollars worth of manure is
annually lost on the roadways of this
country.
Steamed clover hay makes a capital
feed for hogs. They will eat it even in
dry state.
Mix the radish seed, using an early,
medium and late variety in order to keep
up succession.
Sow or plant everything in straight
rows and sufficiently fai apart to use the
garden cultivator.
Onions, lettuce, peas, beets, radish
and spinach can be sown as soon as the
soil can be worked.
A good deal of our trouble with swine
comes from too close in-breeding. The
remedy suggests itself.
Pigs should have plenty of exercise
and nice warm nest to sleep in if you
want them to be healthy.
BY using the garden seed drill seed is
distributed more evenly in the row and
is covered more uniformly.
It is important in the garden and Or
chard to get the work all done in season;
planning ahead will aid in this.
Mix a few radish seeds with the aspara-
gus, rhubarb and parsnips, so that the
weeds will not hide the plants.
If the poultry house were kept white
washed, clean and we'll ventilated we
would have less trouble from lice.
Burn over every spot that contains
dead grass or dried weeds. Millions Of
seeds are found under such refuge.
Wh,n the potted plants are we'll grown
and become heavily rooted remove them
to larger pot or they will not thrive.
The duckling will eat twice as much
food as the chick, but will also weigh
more than twice as much in two months.
Hens, when sitting on the nest, should
be kept quiet and have plenty to eat and
drink, in order to obtain good hatch.
Vaseline rubbed on the comb and
wattlcs of fowls will brighten the color
and guard to a certain extent against
frost.
Eight pounds OF milk make about one
gallon, but as milk varies in quality and
weight every gallon Of milk will not
weigh eight pounds.
Spinach may be sown carly in the
spring. Sow in drills twelve inches
apart, and thin out the young plants
where they may be too thick.
When oats are scalded at night and
left until morning they make an excel
lent mess for pigs. This is easier and
cheaper than grinding them.
If every farmer would aim to increase
the yield of every acre, instead of increas-
ing the number of acres, the expenses
would be less and the receipts greater.
Water in the cellar means disease in
the family. 1t is better to fill the cellar
and do without one than to have foot
or more of water covering the floor every
spring.
What one wants to do now is to keep
the lambs growing rapidly, and when
they obtain u marketable size, then let
let them 60, and the trouble and respon-
sibility ends.
]. J. Thomas, the great horticulturist,
SAYS the roots of tree extend twice as
far outward as the limbs do. The enter
prising farmer will think of this when
spreading manure.
It looks as if spraying paid when A.
w. Peason, of New Jersey, in his annual
report to the Department of Agriculture,
states that he dug from hill of potatoes
(trcated) thirteen large potatoes aud
four small ones, and from another (un-
treate1 four small onea