The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-11
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AMI GANDEN NOIhSs
A garden must have good drainage.
Fruit bruised in handling soon rots.
It never Injuries an orchard to manure
it.
Shade trees are an injury in the gar
den.
Make garden of your farm as far as
possible.
Hens, hogs and sheep are all beneficial
to an orchard.
Clean out the currant bushes and other
small fruit plants.
If you cut weeds now, burn them to
destroy their seeds.
A family without a garden deserves
public commiseration.
If your cabbage is heading too rapidly
loosen the roots trife.
One fowl with scurvy legs is apt to
impart the disease to others.
Ducks aud geese are the the best fowls
to raise on wet, low-lying lands.
When the hens lay soft.shelled eggs
they either need lime or they are too
fat.
Destroy all weeds and keep the ground
clean around your house and outbuild-
ings.
A sudden change from one kind OF
grain to another will often stop hens
from laying.
One advantage with ducks is that they
are less liable to disease than almost any
other kind of poultry.
Poultry manure is the richest that can
be secured on the farm and it should be
carefully stored away.
Clean hay or straw makes good COW
erinp for the floor in winter, ,an will add
materially to the comfort of the fowls.
Take care of your poultry as though
you expected some eggs through the fall
and winter, and you are sure to get
them.
Give the henuery good cleaning up
and whitewashing to begin with, and
then keep it up through the fall and
| winter.
Experiments recently made in growing
plants and vegetables in greenhouses by
electric light show splendid results in
favor of the system.
One of the things to be done for the
benefit of hens at later date is to scoop
into a large box big lot of road dust.
1t will be esteemed luxury in the win
ter.
A barrel of sand, gravel, or grit is a
splendid resource for the laying hens. If
it is not furnished for winter use by the
thoughtful farmer then his flock of hens
fail of one necessity.
The time to fattcn fowls is when they
are wanted for the table, not when their
eggs are wanted. The regularly laying
hen IS the brightest looking and most
active one of the flock.
The best medicine for cholera and
Group in the flock is in the form of
preventive. 1t consists in a reasonable
degree of cleaning IS, and that is reached
by few minutes work each day.
There is always time in the winter,
when the ground is frozen hard and
there is no snow, when all stubs that
have grown since the after cut
ting, and anything that was left over,
may be attended to. Use heavy hoe,
and whatever you strike will break like
pipe-stems. Keep the farm clean and it
will be bad place for berry-pickers to
make living, and there will be nc cause
for trespass suit.
Horse blankets are now in order.
Hunt up those which you laid away last
spring and use the poorest Of them for
cold, rainy days. Don't be afraid to
spend few dollars if your supply is
short, and don't overlook the fact that
in buying horse blankets, like in buy
ing anything else, the best is the cheap
est. You might just as we'll &c through
the winter without an overcoat as with
out good blankets for your horses.
Eight or tea quarts of seed are about
the right amount to use when sowing
timothy with wheat in the fall. II sown
in the spring it may be sown with spring
grain or alone. In the latter case not
less than fifteen or twenty quarts of seed
should be used to the acre. Timothy IS
a good hay grass to grow for market, as
it is always in demand, but it is one OF
the poorest pasture grasses, as it is easily
injured by being pastured in the au-
tumn. Orchard grass is much to be
preferred in this respect, and we are glad
to see that farmers are beginning to ap'
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