The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-26
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Celery plants will not stand drought.
Wax bears may be planted even as
late as this month, and will give asup-
ply, if frost does not appear too early
in the fall.
Cut back the young raspberry canes
when they are three feet high and they
will have stronger branches than II
cut back when full grown.
It is claimed that a strong decoction
of smartweed applied once or twice a
day to the cattle will keep off flies.
The decoction of walnut leaves is an
other preventive. .
For the squash vine borer there is
no certain remedy, but for the squash
bug use Scotch snuff three parts and
insect powder one part, well mixed.
and dust the mixture on and around
the vines. .. -
The advice of practical dairyman
is to milk COW with her first and
second calves until, at least. within
two months of when she is expected to
calve; this is the surest and best way
of making persistent mixer.
Here is a we'll tried fly remedy {:
Mix three quarts of train oil, one
quart crude petroleum and one ounce
carbolic acid. Apply to the animal
with sponge. An application once
in five days will give very satisfactory
results. ..
One dairyman has reached the con-
clusion that no self-respecting cow
will pay more for her feed and care
than it is worth. Her milk is her
capital, and if you get it you must pay
for it, and you get what you pay for
and no more.
If short of pasturage or fodder or
both, SOW some rye or oats for fall
feed. If an open winter a good field
of rye will furnish much feed all win
ter. If not desired for grain crop it
may be turned under in the spring
and corn planted.
Many farmers in the drouth.stricken
regions are cutting the ruined corn
with their harvesters. This is ex-
pected to make better feed than Or
dinary wild hay. The bundles should
be we'll cured in the shock, then
stacked in narrow ricks near the feed
ing place.
Summer or winter we should not
try to carry cattle through on single
ration; the addition of meal or oil
cake will not only soon pay for itself,
but will cause the regular food to show
better results. Grass only, even in
the flesh of summer pasture, does not
give the best results.
When the ground becomes very
dry the roots of beets and turnips are
apt to split with the sudden start they
will make with the first good rain.
The preventative is cultivation to
keep the soil crumbly and as mulch,
thus preventing evaporation of the
moisture that may remain in the soil.
A duck raiser says that Pekin ducks
are profitable, both as market fowls
and egg producers. They lay from
100 to $50 eggs each year, and by
good feeding can be made to weigh
five pounds when ten weeks old. A
good grass run is one of the things
needful in order to grow them with
profit.
Knowing, as We do the slight cost
of raising guineas, we are constantly
surprised that 30 few of them are
found on our farms. They are adapted
for the farm better than for the small
poultry keeper, as they need wide
range. If this is sufficient, they will
gather almost all their own food in
the fields and meadows.
No doubt that one reason corn is
so much used for feeding poultry and
stock is that it is such handy food,
but writer suggests that if you would
lay in good supply of other things,
and put them at the start where they
would be equally handy, you would
soon get in the habit of using them
to advantage and profit.
Irregularity in feeding interferes
with the secretion of milk in dairy
COWS; with fattening stock it inter-
feres with digestion, and consequently
with the laying on of fat; it makes
horses become adtempered and wear
out themselves and their stable doors.
Does the master never get restless
when dinner is not just on time?
The skim milk from ope COW is
estimated to be worth $40 year. So
far as its actual proportion of nu-
tritious matter is concerned it is more
valuable than cream, because it con-
tains the protein and mineral matter.
Its value on the farm depends on the
use to which it is applied. 1t should
furnish sustenance for two pigs in
wear if used in connection with clover
and grain.