The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-03-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Whitewash is always good for fruit
trees.
Trim trees and vines now, before
the ''sap starts.
If you have some extra plants left
over give them toyour neighbors.
In transplanting trees take up
plenty of roots and trim the tops well.
The cherry crop is profitable one,
and can be turned into ready money.
Tannery ashes when used as fer
tilizer are considered of about half the
value of leached ashes.
Beets are very easily grown in the
greenhouse. A favorite variety for
forcing is Early Round Dark Red.
Get the children interested in the
garden. 1t will be benefit to them
and to the garden if you let them help.
Let there be regular distance be-
tween your trees when planting, and
allow for the spreading qualities ofthe
variety planted.
Cabbage leaves, coarse celery stalks,
bruised lettuce and other waste from
the garden will not be waste if
thrown to the chickens.
Look especially after the small
fruits the coming season, and give
your attention also to the best canning
vegetables. There is profit in both.
With quite a number of plants
mulching is necessary, not only to
hold moisture near the surface, but as
an aid IN retaining moisture in the soil.
It is a question for Western farmers
to solve if it is not beet to soil stock
and not cover the farm with fences.
The fence causes q great outlay of
money.
Potash is valuable for fruits, and
sandy and limestone soils nearly al
ways need it. Clay soils sometimes
contain sufficient potash, and often
they do not.
Careless fruit growers are gradually
being weeded out of the business, for
the reason that the only kind of fruit
they grow is poor and there is no
profit in such.
The great value of grating and bud.
ding is that when choice fruit is OBJ
tanned it may steadily be continued in
all of it's excellence, the same as from
the original tree.
If you have no time to prune the
apple orchard you can at least cut
away sprouts that grow around the
trunk near the ground. As long as
these remain they rob the fruit and
top branches.
People are continually having
trouble from the feeding of millet to
their stock. 1t is quite uncalled for if
the millet were but cut at the proper
stage, when it is just headed, and then
it should never be fed to excess.
There is one advantage in the poul-
try business; it is not likely to be
overdone, for each year Americans
take more kindly to poultry as food.
It would be we'll if more poultry and
less pigs were eaten in our farm
homes.
When bees are unusually cross it is
we'll to put few dry leaves of home
grown tobacco into the smoker along
with the other material. Persons nc.
customed to handling bees can readily
determine when they are in good
humor or otherwise.
Either 100 breeding ducks or 200
early Matched pullets, properly kept,
and the eggs of the former Matched
and raised for market and the latter
kept for eggs in full and winter, would
soon remove the mortgage from the
farm, says q poultryman.
A practical berry grower says that
uuarter-acre garden we'll arranged, set
to best varieties and properly cared for,
should yield at least twenty-five bushels
of berries. In no other way can q
farmer produce so much of value, with
so little labor, as in garden of small
fruits.