The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-19
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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No one should question the value OF
eggs as paying business.
The few fowls that every farmer
keeps, and on which he spends but lit
tie, pay best of all his farm live stock.
Beef blood is said to be an excellent
food for poultry, as it is rich in nitro
gen, approaching the white of the egg
in composition.
A good crop of hay may be made
more profitable than an equally good
crop of grain nine times out of ten if
it is judiciously fed to stock upon the
farm.
The expense and labor attending the
management of hay farm are so much
less than those of grain farm that it
is constant wonder that men who are
burdened with more land than they
can properly cultivate do not change
their methods.
The true feed for laying fowls is
one-third or one-quarter Indian corn,
ground or otherwise, and oats or
whest, together with milk and what
ever scraps from the house are obtain
able, and as much green vegetable food
as they will eat.
The manure from different kinds of
stock, fed in different ways, will be
widely different in quality. It is
good plan to have a manure pit so ar
ranged that all can be thrown in
together and thoroughly mixed before
being put out to the field.
When attention is paid to fowls, and
they are properly fed and housed, at
ter deducting the cost of keeping, care,
interest, etc., from the amount for
which their eggs sell, there is, in nine
cases out ten, large balance to be
found on the credit side Of the ledger.
An acre of good ensilage corn should
produce fifteen tons. This would feed
five COWS, forty pounds each, for $50
days. From this you %can calculate
how many acres you should plant.
Try the acre and the five cows at least,
and another year you will put in more.
The royal institute for fruit and
vine culture at Geisenheim, Germany,
has experimental successfully in the
use Of copperas as q stimulant for
plants that lack green color in their
leaves. The copperas should be dis
solved in water and applied near the
roots in early spring.
Carrots and cabbages are two items
that should have larger place in our
list of feeding stuffs. The first are
excellent for colts, horses, milch COWS,
and all young stock. The second are
valuable for pretty nearly all kinds of
stock, and there has not yet any been
found that will not eat them greedily.
Here is farmers way to get rid OF
rats. He says he has tried it when
they were bad and got rid of them all.
Take one-half pint of sifted meal and
put into it a thimbleful of calomel,
such as is used in families. Mix we'll
and place in small tins or some shallow
vessel in or near the place where the
rats infest; all to be used dry, and in
short time rats will be very scarce on
the premises.
The handiest and most effective way
to apply paris green to potatoes is in
the form of dry mixture with flour.
1t sticks better than any other SUBJ
stance; very small quantity is suf-
ficient, and with small sitter it may
be applied rapidly and with little
waste. 1t does not involve such hard
work and is really cheaper for that
reason. Carrying water costs more
than the -four.
The best heating material for the
hot bed is fresh horse droppings and
leaves, half and half. Draw to the
site of the hot bed and mix thoroughly,
leaving in close pile to heat. When
tie vapors begin to escape turn the
heap over, mixing thoroughly, and
again leave in a pile to heat. The
next step is to fill the bed with the
compost, packing it evenly and firmly.
Over this put about ten inches of rich
soil