The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-03
Celery plants will not stand
drought.

drought.
Cut back the young rasterry canes
when they are three feet high aud
they will have stronger branches
than if cut back when full grown.
1t is claimed that strong decoc-
ton of smartweed applied once or
twice day to the cattle will keep
Off flies. The decoction of walnut
leaves is another preventive.
For the squash vine borer there is
no certain remedy, but for the squash
bug use Scotch snuff three parts and in.
sect powder one part, well mixed, and
dust the mixture on and around the
vines.
Here is we'll tried fly remedy {:
Mix three quarts of train oil, one
quart crude PETROLEUM and one ounce
of carbolic acid. Apply to the ami
NAL with sponge. An application
once in five days will give very salts
factory results.
If short of pasturage or fodder or
both, SOW some rye or oats for fall
feed. Ifan open winter good field OF
rye will furnish much feed all winter.
If not desired for grain crop it may
be turned under in the spring and corn
planted.
MANY farmers in the drouth-strick-
en- regions are cutting the ruined corn
with their harvesters. This is expect
ed to make better feed than ordinary
wild hay. The bundles should be
we'll cured in the shock, then stacked
in narrow ricks near the feeding
place.
Summer or winter we should not TRY
to take the cattle through OH a 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 Ill the
flush of summer pasture, does not
give the best results.
When the ground becomes very
dry the roots of beets or turnips are
ant to split with the sudden start they
will make with the first good rain.
The preventive 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 lou
to $50 eggs each year and by good feed
ing can be made to weigh five pounds
wien ten weeks old. A good grass
run il 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 so few Of them are
found on our farms. They are adaE t.
ed for the farm better than for the
small poultry keeper, as they need a
wide range. If this is sufficient, they
will gather almost all their own food I'D
the fields and meadows.
No doubt that one reason corn is so
much used for feeding poultry and
stock is that it is such a handy food,
but a writer suggests that if you would
Law in a good supply of other things,
and put them in ut the start where
thew would be equally handy, you
would soon get in the ha, it of using
them-to advantage and profit.
Boiled Tongue-Have a fresh beef
tongue put in to corn, for thirty,sl?Xi
hours. Cover with cold water, boil
until tender, take out when done,
skin it and return it to the liquor IN
which it was boiled, with half cup
of brown sugar, halfa cup of vinegar,
two dozen cloves, two dozen sliceo
lemons and a Gu p of whole raislns.
Let all boil together for few minutes
and serve with brown gravy made
of some of the liquor strained ana
thickened with brown flour.