The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-06-05
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Make the hens lay when eggs are the
dearest.
Kill or otherwise dispose of all hens
after three years of age.
Plants drink. Hence all fertilizers
must be soluble to be available.
If you want to get the first premiums,
you must be up early and preparing for
it.
The loss by stacking is often greater
than the interest On money to build a
barn.
Remember early.cut hay is best, and
early cutting gives chance for second
crop.
Flavor and taste are not the same.
You taste the favor but do not favor the
taste.
Keep all the pullets. They are worth
50 each as prospective early winter
layers. .,
If weeds are repeatedly cut and not
allowed to seed, they must sooner or later
| die out.
Less acres and more on an acre is one
of the means of solving the agricu ltural
problem.
Live on the farm more in the old
fashioned way of producing your own
supplies.
Empty soapsuds on the garden; it is
full of potash and other fertilizing in
gradients.
What is the matter with the Berkshire,
Poland China, Duroc and Essex breeds
of swinea
Keep a nonsitting breed to lay when
sitters are Matching, and pay expenses Of
the latter.
Don't let the rotato bugs kill tbs
vines, and then put unripe potatoes en-
the market.
Early give the pigs a side pen, acces.
sible only to them, and begin to feed
them lightly.
Breed as many chickens as possible and
as early as possible. They all represent
so much money.
Garden ground infested with cutworms
will be benefited by plowiug it deeply
just before heavy freezing.
A watering trough shoild always be
under cover, so that animals can d:ink
on a cold day without discomfort.
You must not believe what anyone says
about his dog not worrying sheep. Your
dog will do it if he gets The chance.
The main thing in wintering sheep is
to keep them up in the fall, tor if per-
mitted to lose flesh then they will
scarcely recruit during the entire win
ter.
1t is true in breeding as we'll as in
growing crops, the man who weeds the
closest and most intelligently is the one
who grows the largest crop and at tho
least cost.
Salt is the cause of deterioration of
butter oftener than is supposed. 1t is
unnecessary to use poor salt when there
are so many places where pure dairy salt
may be obtained.
A half teaspoonful of turpeutine,
mixed with pail of ashes and applied
every two or three days, is said to keep
the striped beetle away from cucumber
and melon plants.
One of the ways in which you can help
to make your stock keeping profitable
this winter, will be to hold over no more
animals than you can properly and COM
fortably shelter. 1t is sorry business to
feed good hay and grain to shivering
cattle in bleak barnyard.
Mr.. David Allen says: "Of cannas
there is now an endless variety, but we
cannot dispense with all the old ones, on
account of their effective foliage, such as
Nigricans, Lillifora and Indica. All the
new dwarf varieties excel in their brill
liant color and effectiveness on the lawn.
The american Florist claims to have
found an infallible remedy for the cut
worm pest. 1t says use pyrethrum pow
der, making certain that it is fresh. Dis.
tribute it with bellows at evening time,
and in the morning large numbers of the
worms will be found lying on the ground
dead.
the raising of ducks is only in its in
fancy in this country. The time will per-
haps come when that fowl will be raised
as extensively as in China. One of the
best reasons for extending the breeding
CT ducks is the fact that they are less lia-
BILE to disease than any other breed of
fowl.
The sheep business, like dairyiug, is a
business that can not be successful by
| picking it up one year and dropping it
the next. 1t is business that needs
study, and, like dairying, the details of
1t can not be learned in one year. 1t is
the man who goes into it and sticks to it
who wins; and he can not be breeding for
mutton one year and wool the next,
neither can he keep his flock on the feast
or-famine plan during the winter and
raise crop of healthy lambs in tue
spring.