The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-11

unQ6r as green InduuTo loI eono hooU
crop, secures both the immediate prof
it and the permanent benefit to
the soil which every good farmer
seeks. Cultivator.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Feed the chickens early in the morn.
ing.
No stock gives larger profits than
hogs.
Alfalfa when we'll seeded lasts for
years.
supaower seed lisa good egg-prodt,c-
ing food.
Young chickens delight in parched,
cracked corn.
Chickens are as fond of ripe fruit as
human beings.
Ducks generally lay at night or very
early in the morning.
At seven or eight years COWS are at
their most profitable age.
A sick fowl is nuisance, but many
sick fowls are calamity.
The chickens from stolen nests are
generally strong and lively.
Cows should be MIXED daily at the
same time and by the same person.
Dust fowls we'll with insect powder,
to be had at any drug store, to kill
lice.
A little carbolic acid added to the
whitewash will kill the lice in the hen
house.
To harvest barley successfully begin
early, while the grain is comparatively
green.
It is said that when COWS are fed on
bran the cream rises slowly and is hard
to churn.
It is the pampering which pure-bred
fowls get that causes lack of eggs and
infertility.
Exercise, sunshine and abundant
fresh air and water are good for pigs
of all ages.
Keep up with all improvements and
do not become SO attached to old
methods that you cannot abandon them
for new ones
Not only our butter makers but
cheese makers are beginning to realize
that salable article cannot be pro-
duced from milk from cows that drink
stagnant water or are kept In foul
barns. Cleanliness and @ration are
becoming more and more popular.
Persian insect powder is harmless to
poultry and may be applied freely to
the plumage.
Many farmers are feeding their
wheat to their stock instead of selling
it at present prices.
Eggs will spoil if left in the nest dur
ing hot weather. Collect them daily
and put in cool place.
The mortality among young turkeys
is chiefly due to dampness and to- the
large lice on their heads.
If you have large flock of fowls
confined to small yard, green food OF
some sort must be provided daily.
If you wish to fatten your fowls feed
Indian corn and other grains which
contain fattening elements. If gen.
eral health is desired, feed plenty OF
oats.
1t is claimed that the slug of pear
trees and grape leaves may be exter'
minated with hellebore in weak kero-
sene emulsion, sprayed on with fine
| rose.
Stony land that is unfit for anything
else will often raise the best fruit. Do
not let such land lie idle, but plant
something that will at least keep the
weed from growing.
The appearance Of vegetables, ETC.,
from the farm has much to do with the
price which they bring in the market.
It pays to have them look neat when
they are offered for sale.
After the potatoes are dug, throw
the old vines in heaps and burn as
soon as dry enough. Inthis way spores
of fungus may be destroyed, which
would do much damage another year.
Windmills and hydraulic rams will
often supply the place of hired men in
the care of stock when the farm man
aser is wise and thoughtful. But one
of the worst uses to which a good
stream near the barn can be put is to
make sewer of it for the waste of the
barnyard manure.
When fruit is being planted for the
market it is best to have all the trees
of the best known varieties. AS a
general thing it is best never to plant
over two or three kinds. Large firms
prefer to handle fruit in large guam
titles of the same sort, and the cost OF
disposing of the crop is less when they
are of the same kind.
Fruit trees that are near an apiarF
often bear large crops, while those
that are not frequented by bees have
very little or no fruit at all. 1t seems
very clear to us that the bee is the
friend rather than the enemy of the
fruit grower. and think that both the