The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

G1V6 Gne COWS Salt uOIu 1HequeuVly
and regularly.
Green ducks should be sent to mar.
ket without delay.
Docking horses has been forbidden
in the British army.
Never milk a cow while from any
reason she is excited. Let her become
calm.
If butter won't come try heating the
fresh milk to 130 degrees, and see if
that doesn't cure the trouble.
Give colts and calves plenty of bulky
foods. It expands the stomach, and
capacious stomach is valuable.
Hay cured in the shock retains it's
nutritive value and is of far better
quality and appearance than that en-
tirely sun-dried.
Three pounds of skim milk to one of
corn meal, or six of milk to one each
of meal and shorts, is Professor Henry's
choice pig ration.
The cow naturally likes to be MIXED,
for the emptying of the udder is
pleasant. If she resists therefore she
IS probably being hurt.
1t never does hog any good to tie
its feet and throw it into wagon to
be carried somewhere. Garry it loose
in crate or deep wagon box.
It has been noticed that, somehow,
the kicking COW always falls into the
hands of the man who caresses his
COWS with the milking stool at short
intervals.
Flowers will keep better in damp
sand than in water, and centerpiece
of flowers for the table may be more
gracefully and firmly arranged in jar
of wet sand than in q foundation of
moss.
Land plaster (sulphate of lime) is
not considered of special value on
sandy soils or a fertilizer for fruit
trees, but is one of the best substances
for use on clover or for assisting to
ssfix" ammonia in manure heaps.
Securing in calves is due to in
digestion, which may be caused by
overfeeding, by cold milk, and by
using vessels that are not clean. The
pals or pans from which the calves
drink their milk should be scalded
daily and thoroughly cleaned.
A simple way to pick out queen
less colony is to observe the hives
when the bees are packing in pollen.
If you come to one where the bees
bring in no pollen that hive is queen
less. They need none and do not bring
it in because they have no brood.
Worn-out land requires at least two
or three years for restoration, and it
will cost something to bring it back to
fertility. When land has been cropped
for years until it is no longer capable
of producing crop the plant food can
not be replaced in single season.
1t requires closer care to keep COWS
that are in the stable in good condi-
tion than when they are running at
pasture. Vermin have good chance
to get hold, and as soon as they do
the COWS will begin to lose flesh. Pay
attention to this in time, for preven-
tion is vastly better than cure.
The sooner the farmer realizes that
it doesn't pay to raise scrubs the
quicker will he increase his income.
It is waste of time and money to
raise the common breeds of fowls, for
the reason that it costs no more to
feed q frst-class bird than it does
dunghill, and it is much easier to dis
pose of blooded bird than it is of an
ordinary fowl.
Bees should be obtained about forty
or forty-fve days before the begin
ming of the honey flow, 50 the second
brood will be ready for the harvest.
After the egg is laid it takes three
days for it to hatch into larva, and
after this is fed six days it is grown so
as to fill the cell. The cell is then
capped, and in twelve more days the
perfect bee emerges.
Cream becomes thick in proportion
to the greater percentage of fat in it,
and later as the Tactic acid in it de-
velops. If cream is taken from a
shallow pan set thirty-six hours, it
will be much thicker than from a
deep pail set twenty -four hours. II
it is then kept at sixty degrees for
twelve hours it will thicken, but will
have slight acidity.