The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-06-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

If the henhouse is crowded look out
for disease.
Let the ducks and geese be full
feathered before killing.
Cream ripened too soon will not
give you all of the butter.
The English and Germans are trying
moss as bedding for animals, and
claim that in every respect it is su-
perior to straw.
Toprevent hog cholera give variety
of food, pure water, warm dry bed,
clean, wholesome surroundings and
vigorous quarantine. !.
A well fed healthy hog takes his
food quietly, goes to sleep when his
appetite is satisfied and converts his
food into fat or meat.
See to it that the sitting hens have
fresh water and plenty of fattening
food, and do not neglect the supply OF
gravel and the dust bath.
While in some cases it may be ad-
visable to help ducks out of the she'll
it will be an exceptional case when
chickens should be helped.
The beauty of the comb produced
and the honey-gathering qualities of
the bee are more important than a
bee which is pleasing to the eye.
When shipping poultry see to it that
the coops are large enough to permit
the fowls to stand up and strong
enough to endure rough handling.
The man who makes mistake this
year will be the one who neglects to
breed his sound, good-sized, courage.
GUS mare to horse fully her equal.
Producers who ship honey, ex-'
tracted or comb, should endeavor to
prevent leakage, which is loss to all
concerned and an injury to the trade.
A COW that calves in September will
give milk all the winter, when butter
is most valuable, and be dry in July
and August, when butter is cheapest.
Saving a horses strength without
reducing service is great art. Trot'
ting through sandy or muddy places
and on rising ground exhausts horse
rapidly. Drive slow through such
pitfalls.
When the bees are building comb
or raising brood they must have water,
which should be placed in shallow
troughs with floats, that they may not
drown. If located near small body
of water, that will be sufficient.
Bees never make an attack while in
quest of honey or on their return un-
til they have entered the hive, says q
writer. 1t is only in the hives and in
the vicinity that We may expect them
to manifest this irascible disposition.
Do not cease planting peas, but as
soon as the first early plants are above,
grow plants for the second crop, and
follow with others. Peas can be had
in abundance through the season with
but little labor compared with their
value on the farmers table.
It is useless to grow onions, no mat
ter how rich the soil may be. if the
rows are not kept perfectly clean.
Weeds and grass will destroy an onion
bed in short order as onions prefer
the land undisturbed by other plants,
hence the ground must be kept close
and fine.
Every time bee matches, it leaves
a very thin lining in the cell. There
will be several of these IN season, as
it only takes twenty-one days for a
young bee to emerge from its cell, and
in few years there will be quite a
number of these thin Innings, so that
the cells gradually get smaller.
When planting corn it should be
the object to secure not only the same
yield per acre as last year, but some
thing more. It will cost no more t.
get an extra ten bushels per acre than
il will the regular crop, if Judgment is
given the cultivation of the land.
Grass and weeds are the agents which
reduce the yield.
1t is said that the sight of the bees
is affected by both a dazzling and a
dim light. A glaring light on the
snow dazzles them, while it is stated
that if they are thrown short dis
lance from their hives in the dusk, the
effect is nearly the same. They will
circle about and fall without being
able to find their homes.