The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-17

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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES
Stem wood should now be cut back.
Money spent for trees is q good in-
vestment if the trees beproperly cared
for.
Fruit trees will not succeed where
the land is wet. Ground that is too
wet for farm crops is too wet for the
orchard.
If your apples freeze during tha
cold weather the injury to them will
be much lessered if they, are kept
from the air and allowed to thaw very
gradually. q
In planting trees for ornament on Z
the farm, preference should be given
to native growths, as foreign or i'm.
ported ones are more apt to winter
kill, and are, in general, less reliable.
Limbs to be used for grating in the
early spring may be cut at any time
when the ground is not frozen. They
should be carefully kept where they
will neither dry out nor be too moist.
If covered with earth and given good
drainage it is all they need.
The inventors ore at work for the
cheese maker as well as the butter
maker. Recently machine has been
invented, which in connection with q
thermometer, enables the operator to
determine whether he has the desired
humidity for the variety Of cheese he
is making.
Give the growing chicks taste of
boiled potatoes, and notice how they
ego for them" In many places the
potato crop is large and this vegetable
cheap. It is even cheaper than corn,
but if fed in connection with corn and
other articles of diet, it is great help
to raise young stock economically and
successfully. q
1t will pay any one, having fruit to
sell to buy new barrels to ship it in.
A prominent Faneuil Hall dealer said
to us the other day that he could get
better price for No. 2 apples put up
in good shape in new barrels than he
could for No. apples put up in old
vegetable barrels. The above will
apply as we'll to all other kinds Of pro-
duce.-New England Farmer.
A successful cultivator Of gooseber-
ries says that he had row of twenty
five bushes that had clean culture for
number of years; they mildewed
badly. He then quit the clean culture
and the grass grew. and to his surprise,
he had no more mildew. The yield
was at the rate of 5000 quarts to the
acre, the bushes being set five feet
apart each way. The variety was the
Downing.
The flavor of pork can be improved
by giving the hogs balanced ration.
A balance ration is stated amount Of
food which contains elements to make
growth and fat, or in other words to
feed the entire body. When this is
done the pig will be healthy. A healthy
pig will make, when killed wholesome
meat. No one has right to so feed
animals that their meat will not be
wholesome. .,.
Farm Poultry says: If your object
is eggs, solely, the Leghorn male
would be best. If, however, you con-
slider eggs and meat, a Plymouth Rock
or Wyandotte male would give you
birds averaging pound apiece more
at maturity than the Leghorn male,
and the females will also be great
layers. Consider which point you
prefer, and the use the male that will
give you that point. " .-'@
It is reported that o Michigan man
"cleared $100 for two years" from 500
gooseberry bushes set on half an acre
of land. The average price is about
80 bushel. In picking the limbs are
usually stripped and the leaves famed
out, but as the leaves should not be
picked more than is necessary this is
not the best way. They are cultiva-
ted after the blossom falls. The best
soil for them is both clay and sand.
Loss of feathers is almost always
caused either by want OF green food
or having no dust bath. Let these
wants, therefore, be properly supplied,
removing the fowls, if possible, to -
grass run. For local application some
Recommend mercurial ointments, but
we prefer an unguent composed. of
sulphur and creosote. Nothing, how
ever, will restore the feathers before
the next moult, suys the American
Poultry Yard.
A French method Of preserving
grapes in something very close to their
natural condition has some interest at
this season. Shoots of the vine bear
ing, say, two branches of sound grapes
each, are placed in bottles or vases
filed with water containing charcoal
in solution. The bottles are then
hung along the edges of notched
shelves in dry place. 1t is said that
if the water be renewed from time to
time grapes SO treated will keep IN
good condition iltc April