The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-09
Farm and Garden Notes.


Dry food is the best for chickens.
Early chicks have the most stamina.
Avoid draughts if you would avoid
roup.
Never use sulphur with grease to
drive away the lice.
Turkeys fed on corn alone are not
apt to lay fertile eggs.
Only save the eggs of the best of
your fowls for Matching.
In nine cases out of ten lice are the
cause of all chicken disease.
1t il not advisable to make any
grain the exclusive food for chickens.
Feed and water the hens regularly
and supply them with grit and dust
bath.
One of the first precautions to take
to avoid rump-all is to purify the hen
house.
In some parts where hogs are scarce
farmers are following corn-fed cattle
with turkeys.
A little salt added to moistened
ground will prove benefit to poultry
at this season.
Never fly pigeon that is ruouiting.
1t is sore ard the best will not fly
home while passing through this
stage.
The horse. fly will cause good milk.
ers to 60 dry on good pasture. Kero-
sene emulsion diluted is good
remedy.
To gain the best results from geese,
feed but little corn and plenty OF
grass. and have water for them to
run in.
With the coming of warm weather
cut down the supply of corn and meal
and give more cooked food and
oats.
A writer reccomends a tablespoon
full of kerosene oil in every gallon Of
water for a flock in which a cold ap.
pears.
Sheep manure represents what the
sheep consume. They can't make il
better by passing it through their
stomachs.
Chemists say that is takes more
than twice as much sugar to sweeten
preserves, sauces, etc., if put in when
they begin to cook as it does to sweeten
them after the fruit is cooked.
Nearly all kinds of pears have their
flavor diminished by being allowed to
hang on the trees until they ripen and
fall. On an average they should be
picked about week before.
The Kansas station reports that Sec
ond-crop potatoes used for seed the
following spring give much better re-
turns than by planting in the early
crop. The second-crop potatoes keep
in sound condition during the Win
ter, when the first crop become shrlv-
eled and sprouted. The result is
greater vitality and the ability to with
stand drought.
1t would be better for any farm
horse if he could be given water at
some time between morning noon and
night. There seems to be variety o.
opinion touching this point. 1t is
1t is almost a universal practice to
water farm horses but three times a
day. All agree that the horse ought
to have what water he needs rather
than what be wants.
Cherry Charlotte.-Take fresh cher
ries. if in season if not one quart Of
canned, and make:very rich.and sweet,
put in a basin on the back of the
range to heat. Butter some slices of
light, stale bread, first trimming off
the crust. Then put layer of butter
ed bread in the bottom of a pudding
dish, and pour over it the hot fruit !;
repeat until dish is full. Let it stand
until thoroughly cold-over night if
possible. Serge with cream.
String Beans.-Prepare the beans in
the usual way, throwing them into
salted boiling water, and boil rapidly
until they are tender. Do not cover
the pot while they boiling. Drain off
the water; add tablespoonful of but
ter to pint of beans, tablespoonful
of chopped green herbs. teaspoonful
of chopped onion, and little salt and
pepper. Heat al! together till hot, and
serve