The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-03-09
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
A perfect apple should be of medium
size. not large.
The principal needs in melon culture
are rich, lig int soil and pure seeds.
Be careful in handling young fruit
trees to see that The roots are not exposed
to either sun or wind. ,... .
The Frederick Clap, of comparatively
recent introduction, is a promising pear
that ripens in October.
The Windsor cherry, one of the best
among the newer varieties, ripens late.
The fruit is large, black and arm.
Raw meat rubbed on the trunk Of
young trees is better than poison, be-
cause it prevents the rabbits first nibble.
In pruning small orchards the thumb
and finger were declared to be the very
best implements that can be used at
the California State Horticultural So
ciety.
Does your plow need new handle,
your hay-rake new tooth9 May be
you need a plank or scanting drag, or
some gates. 'sIn time of peace prepare
for war;"
It will be great saving of labor to
spread manure as it is hauled on the
land where 1t is to be used. Thore will
be no loss in quantity or quality of the
manure.
Many towns are now paying more
money for poor roads than good ones
cost, simply because they don't under
stand how to build right and don't real
ize what tax poor roads are.
Mr.. Powell says that stable manure,
supplemented with wood ashes or some
fertilizer containing good percentage of
phosphoric acid and potash, is the best
fertilizer for apple orchards and most
| fruits.
Some asparagus growers claims that an
improvement of fifty per cent. can be
made in the asparagus bed by selecting
two-year:old plants that bear no seed.
These are males, and the shoots from
them will be earlier and larger.
The Rural New Yorker says: We be-
lieve the grape grower who would put
up eight.pound boxes of grapes of as
sorted varieties, red, white and purple,
would find the experiment pay. Will
some OF our growers try it and reporta
1t has not been found to pay the cost to
cook food for pigs. When mangles are
used, and pulped, the grain should be
ground and mixed with the roots. Or
the roots may be fed whole by them
selves, and the whole grain separately.
Wood ashes are excellent to use in the
orchard, but should not be heaped around
the trunk of the tree, as trees have been
known to be killed in that way; they
should be evenly distributed over the
soil under which lie the roots of the
trees.
A nurseryman says that he prevents
borers by bottling one gallon of soap and
adding to it one teaspoonful Of turpen.
tine. This is mixed with water until
thin. He then takes brush aud paints
the body of the tree with the solution
about March before the foliage begins to
start.
There are no disadvantages to be cited
against obtaining seeds, trees, etc., from
points considerably north OF where the
planting is done. We are not so certain
that the reserve OF this rule, in going to-
wards the equator for planting stocks,
is equally true, says the American
Garden.
Now comes q fruit grower that says
that the apples from trees that were
treated to good supply of wood ashes
in the spring will Keep good throughout
the winter, while from trees where no
ashes were used the fruit rots badly. Inls
is disputed point, and 1t is very doubt
full if the ashes have anythingto do with
the keeping qualities of the fruit.
A calf with three teats only cannot be
as good dairy animal as one fully sup
nl,ed with these indispensable organs.
The udder has four distinct parts, to
each of which the teat is indispensable as
the outlet for the milk. If the udder is
in this normal condition the absence of
the teat would certainly cause mischief
when the calf becomes COW, for the
milk must have an outlet or there will
be trouble. 1t would hardly be desir-