The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-31
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Now is a good time to top dress the
orchard.
A feeble young tree rarely amounts
TO anything, especially if crowded.
The main force in the dairy is the
man or woman who superintends it.
Whenever the weather will permit
all house plants should be well aired.
It is said that tree is not properly
set unless SO solid you cannot pull it
up.
Give the eve Aocks the best pastur-
age, particularly late in the fall and
early winter.
The churn should not be filed nearly
full of cream. If it is butter will not
come quickly.
Scions for grating may be cut at
any time now when the temperature is
above freezing.
In purchasing breeding stock, buy
of reliable parties upon whose word
you can depend.
The currant needs deep, rich soil,
rather moist, in order to make large
crops of choice fruit.
By tramping down the snow around
the stems of the trees girdling by mice
may usually be prevented.
Make your hens thoroughly COM
Portable and they will make you some
money and make you happy.
A good coat of whitewssh with 3 few
handfuls of wood ashes stirred in it is
a good remedy for bark lice.
The team kept in working trim
through the winter is the hardest one
for the heavy summers work.
Pumpkins are now known to be
good feed for dairy COWS, as they form
good milk-producing fodder.
Did you raise patch of sunhowers
for your fowls? Sunfower seed is the
incest feed you can give them.
Irregularity in feeding and milking
is as bad for the pocket of the owrer
as it is for the comfort of the cow.
Not all registered stock is good.
The registration is simply proof that
they ought to be, not that they are.
Butter COWS should not give as
much milk as milk COWS; we want
concentrated milk in the butter dairy.
Grape vines should always be pruned
in mild weather during the winter in
order to avoid bleeding in the spring.
A white duck always looks cleaner
when plucked, and is consequently
more salable than darker hued one.
The floors of corn cribs should be
raised far enough from the barn floor
to prevent rats harboring under them.
Pumpkins are an excellent feed for
hogs and cattle of every kind. They
are particularly good for mich COWS.
Corn meal and barley meal mixed
form good pig feed. Barley is the
great pig-fattening food of England.
The man who begrudges ripe
cherry to a robin or catbird ought to
be at the mercy of the insect tribe for
awhile.
Any man can successfully wage
warfare against oleo by making good
brand of clean butter and letting the
people know it.
Plants do not receive all their food
through the roots, but take a consid-
erable portion of it from the air
through the leaves.
When the ground is frozen hard is
the best time to move a tree of any
size, taking it up with the earth and
moving all together.
Picking the potatoes over and re
moving the rotten ones about once q
month during the winter will lessen
the loss from that course.
For their fruit and other attractions
one or more mulberry trees should find
place on every Farm. They thrive
best on deep, rich, well-drair ed land.
The colder the weather the more
attention should be given to the
stock. Keep them warm and in close
quarters when the thermometer drops
below zero.
The kind of food which may be suf-
fcient to keep grown animals in good
condition is not sufficient for young
ones. An extra allowance must be
made for increase of bone and muscle.
| Frostbitten hay and poor marsh hay
| should not be fed to the COWS in large
quantities, as it will affect the quality
of the butter. A little marsh or salt
hay is good, and makes a fine relish
for them.
In arranging an orchard it is good
plan to plant the apple and cherry
trees on the outside of the fruit gar
den, especially toward the prevailing
winds US protection to the more deli
cate kinds.
It is not what is eaten, but what is
digested, that benefits and fattens the
animal. With balanced ration and
some bulky food it will eat more and
retain its appetite than when fed only
on fattening food.
Horses should always be fed a
limited amount of hay. Beyond about
twenty pounds q day hay is injurious.
This amount, in connection with q
liberal allowance of grain, is sufficient
for the ordinary work animal.
Freezing milk or cream changes its
nature, SO that different handling is
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