The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-05
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

OcltCt your SaIuen oSSoS ~" @oN
order at once.
Get up the summers supply of wood
before you are rushed with work.
Sheep will pay in instalments two or
more times year for their keeping.
Start few plants in the house If you
have not the means to make b hot-bed.
Work up the wood while other work
has to stand still because OF the spring
mud.
The Black Lima is black, notified
seeded pole bean, for which big claims
are made.
Get things in as compact shape as pos
sible about the barn and outbuildings and
be ready for the soft time Of the season.
Where is your plowa What condition
is it inf Do not wait to find out till
ready to use unless you know just how
it is. &t.s
In no case in experiments conducted.
by Professor Goff has the removal OF the
seed end of potatoes shown advantage in
yield.
Select your fruit plants, bushes and
trees and order them now, to be sent
when safe to transport and the ground Is
ready to receive them. ''77S' :,
Regulations have beea made govern
ing the inspection of Canadian cattle, BY
which the same may be exhibited at the
Columbian Exposition.
Have plows, harrows and all tools
ready for use-a little paint will not
hurt some Of them when you have the
bolts all in and nuts tightened.
The monthly roses belong for the most
mart to that class known as tea roses,
and their free Towering qualities make
them the most popular of all roses.
II you have fodder yet out in the
field. manure still iu tho yard, or wood
still unhauled and the bottom has not
fallen out of the roads do not wait
another day.
Strawberries which have been thor
oughly tested and gained commendation
ara Buhach No. s, Haverland, Charles
Downing, Michers EARLY, May King and
Prince of Berries.
A grape.grower, at recent meeting
IN Nebraska, recommended as the best
five varieties Of grape, for Nebraska the
Worden, Moore's Erly, Concord, Per-
kins and Duchess.
The Iris is hardy perennial plant that
blooms during June and July. There
are many varieties Of this attractive per-
ennial. A paper of mixed varieties will
afford many colors.
Some growers have reported excellent
results from nitrate OF sods on strawberry
beds. About 200 pounds per acre is
used. and ls applied by mixing it with
two or three parts Of soil.
Eastern farmers each year increase
their supply of chemical fertilizers.
Some Of them claim that "grass sod aud
chemicals make a better and cheaper
dressing for their lands than stable
manure"
At the Vermont Station, where the
hot.wster treatment has been tested for
smut in oats, is claimed a second and
important consideration in the possible
gain, aside from the destruction OF smut,
of a decided increase in yield from
treated seed.
Do not plant flower seeds when the
ground is wet. Make the surface a. fine
and smooth as possible, cover each kind
of seed to depth proportiouate to its
size. but never more than threeor four
times the diameter Of the seed. Press
the soil firmly over tine seed.
If there are road culyerts or sluice.
WAYS near you thai need opening to let
off the surplus water of spring rains, do
not wait fer the "pathmaster" till it is
too late. Open them up yourself. This
will be doing yourself good turn as
we'll as helping your neighbor to ''bet'
ter roads"
At the New York Station, where many
new varieties of strawberries have been
tested, the twenty most productive sorts
in the order named are Beder Wood,
Greenville, Burts, Enhance, New Domin-
ion, Sow de Bossuet, Lyons Seeding,
Farnsworth, Middledeld, Way6eld, Hurl.
burt, Hampden, Eureka, Phillip Seed.
ling, Daisy, Haverlaud, Crescent, Cover
nor Hoard, Great Pacific and Viola.