The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-08-08
FARM, AND GARDEN NOTES,


A big farm uncultivated is like q
big statute-book with the laws but
half enforced.
Orchards may at first be planted
closely, but in few years every other
tree should be removed.
Bowel troubles often result from
colts being allowed to suckle when the
mares are heated from work.
Horses are cheap, but that is no
good reason for keeping yourself poor
in supporting more of them than you
need.
T. D. Curtis, in Western Plowman,
says: Decide on your line of dairying,
if not already decided-butter, cheese
or milk for market.
If you choose cheese making or milk
for market, see that the butter is in
small globules, so that it will not
readily separate from the milk.
Stick to the line of dairying and the
breed of Cow which you begin with,
keeping the blood pure. Mixing
breeds promiscuously works badly.
Be sure to select male that is from
better family in your line of dairy
ing than your herd. This is guaran-
tee of improvement in the offspring.
Mares in foal should be worked with
great judgment. Steady, light work
is an advantage to them, but heavy
work should be done by other horses.
If you choose butter making, see
that your COWS give milk rich in but.
ter fat, and that the fat is in large
globules, so that it will readily sepa-
rate from the milk. q
The cow that must Craze industri-
ously half of the summer to recover
physically what she has lost by indif.
ferent keeping through the winter is
not apt to earn dollar in real profit
for her owner.
A little vaseline to which few
drops of carbolic acid has been added
rubbed under the jaws of horse will
do much towards keeping away those
big buzzing flies that keep him toss
ing his head continually.
Outside Of liniments fer sprains, the
less medicine there is around stable
the better. At heart, intelligent doc
tors have very little faith in the Gu
rative value of any drugs. They rely
on proper food and surroundings, and
careful treatment.
Be careful that the ration fed to
your cows has proper balance ofele-
ments, approximating one part of
heterogeneous food to one part of car
bonaceous. The nitrogenous foods
aae also known as "albuminoids," and
the csrbonaceous as "carbohydrates."
If you have not sufficient number
of sows, or COWS, or mares to pay for
keeping thoroughbred male yourself
get some of your neighbors to join
you in the purchase of one. A joint
ownership of this sort is better than
to be all the time paying out large
service fees.
When the stock is infested with lice
it indicates low condition. Fat,
healthy, well-fed animals are seldom
infested with lice. When lice are found
on the animals there is a probability
also that they may hecome diseased.
Filth, lice and disease are always
found together.
John Boyd thinks it essential in
milking to take hold OF the teat as
near to the point as possible, so as to
excite the nerve that runs from this
point to the milk glands, and he adds
that the more this nerve is excited by
manipulation the greater the success
of the mixer, especially in COWS that
are rich mixers.
If you want your son to like the
farm, says the Practical Farmer, get
him interested in the live stock. There
is no surer way of keeping him home
than this. Give him a good animal
now and then for his own and help him
to care for it in the way that will make
1t of the most value. Such practical
Lessons go further than work. }