The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-13

is secured, it will last for a generation or
more, yielding valuable crops each year.
-New York Wor1.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Look out for bee moths.
Look out for qucenless colonies.
Young guinea fowls, if fat, make nice
table fowl.
Too much linsced meal will make the
hens toofat.
Turkeys will degenerate very rapidly
by imbreeding.
Do not allow the poultry to runw with
the fattening hogs.
You will find farm-yard manure a
good mulch for old apple Trees.
If it pays to work with and run an in
cubator at all it will pay to manage so as
to get all there is in 1t.
In order to have good, healthy,
vigorous chickens it is necessary to have
strong, vigorous breeding fowls.
One of the best crosses for common
hens when it is desired to increase the
size is to use a Brahma or Cochin rooster.
Sorghum seed can be used to good adj
vantage in feeding the incubator chickens
as soon as they are large enough to eat
it.
A faster growth can be secured with
chickens raised in the brooder If they
are fed on cooked food rather than
raw.
When you have decided upon the
garden crop for next season select your
seeds and order early those you have to
buy.
When that fine squash is. used It may
pay you to- ave the seed. If 80 don't
think of it after they are thrown away.
Eggs generally bring good prices from
this time on and care must be taken in
managing so as to secure as large q sup.
ply as possible.
Coarse light hay thrown over spinach
will Usually carry it through the winter
in open ground, provided water does not
stand on the land.
1t is the freezing and thawing in the
months after January LIST that hurts the
strawberry beds-if you have not yet
given them protection do il now.
Trim out the rough and tangled
hedge. Burn the trimmings on land
that is to be ~plowed, or at least where it
will not kill grass inpasture or meadow.
Snyder, Agawam, Stones Hardy and
Western Triumph ore reported as va
fieties of blackberries that prove hard
lest at the Ottawa (Carada) station
farm.
If the ounce tres did not bear the last
season, whose fault was it2 Did it have
plenty of manure9 If not, why not?
Have you given it any for the next
crops
If you have good keeping apples there
is no need of rushing them to market.
There is no doubt but that it will pay
you to hold them till later, if not till
spring.
If an accurate account was kept, we
think it would show that more house
plants are killed in winter from an over
supply of water than q shortage. See
that yours have just the right amount.
The Rural Ne,o Yorker calls attention
to the Palouse apple, a Seeding of great
hardness, a good keeper and fine as re-
CARDS quality. The original tree YVES
raised from seed brought from Illinois
in 1879 by George Ruedy, of Colfax,
Washington.
Pumkins are easily injured by freezing,
and much valuable feed is thus lost every
fall for lack of care. If put in a barn
basement they may be kept until January,
aud so long as they make a cheap,
rich food for mich cows, especially if
the seeds are removed before they ale
fed. The seeds are diuretic and decrease
milk flow.
Some years ago, when grating the
grape was first advocated as a means of
protecting certain varieties against the
p~hylloxera, the editor of the Rural NeU
Yorker tried many experiments. He
now says shut one method proved prac-
ticable, viz, cleft-grafting in early
spring below the surface and heaping
the earth about the stock, after they had
been firmly bound together without the
use of wax"
Peas when grown as a field crop should
be sown about four inches deep, which
can be done with a seed drill, or by
sowing upon the surface and then plow-
ing four inches deep with narrow burrows.
They yield about II tons of seed to the
acre, which, when ground, make n OF
the best grains for stock feeding, and
particularly for mich COWS. Two
pounds of pea meal is supposed to have a
feeding value equal to six pounds of
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