The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-07-07
Farm and Garden Notes.

Mother earth wants her back
scratched after showers.
The successful farmer not only
knows how to do his work well, but
does it as we'll as he knows how.
Dig out and haul off, or bury, the
rock that dulls your pillow OF sickle, or
you may have a break to repair next
time.
Our rule has been to begin turning
the horses on pastures nights as soon
as the crops are in and the pasture
good. We consider it a good plan.
Tomatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips,
etc., may we'll follow extra early pota-
toes, sweet corn, lettuce and radishes,
thus securing two crops from the same
rich ground.
Many a behind-hand farmer might
succeed in raising a profit by lowering
the cost, through q more intelligent and
Industrious use of better teams, tools
and methods.
The journals of grass and grain
cutting machinery must be kept well
oiled, the knives sharp and the pitman
of such length that the sections will
exactly centre in the guards.
On farms where much feed is ground
for stock a good feed mill will often be
found to pay; the saving in toll will
soon amount to the price of and
then the grain will not have to be
hauled over bad roads.
In narrowing sod ground first time
over it is best to go same way the
plow went, for the harrow will then be
inclined to push the imperfectly
turned sods over to their places in
stead of tearing them up.
Much American butter goes abroad,
but whether consumed at home or
abroad, competition is sharp and
quality must be just right or down we
60. Questions of competition usually
turn upon the matter of quality.
Water the horse before feeding; the
before-dinner drink is the more
copious and hearty, as it should be-,
though in warm weather we always
water after dinner as we'll. Water is
cheap; give the animals plenty Of it.
Dairymen we'll know that beets and
mangolds are excellent for cows, ton
ing up the system and increasing the
flow of milk; and now an experienced
Nebraska man claims the feeding of
sugar beets to hogs is an almost GER
tain preventive of cholera.
A smile should now play around the
corners of the improved stock breed
er's mouth-at least the one who is
stocked up with good animals. Our
stock industries have been running
down hill long enough, and now the
upgrade seems to have been reached.
Hardwood ashes are q commercial
article, and are shipped into this
country in large quantities for fer
tilizing purposes, yet how many
farmers forget to save up and utilize
q nice bunch of homemade ashes
which may be secured without money
and without price.
We can hardly afford to be satisfied
with only n litter a year when the
outlook is as promising as now. The
heavy losses by cholera have, in many
sections, been followed by unfavorable
weather conditions and q high death
rate in the early spring pig crop
Agricultural Epitomist
Of homemade hay caps the Massa-
chusetts station has found cotton i'm
pregnated with tannin more durable
than oiled cotton. Caps of some sort
have been found Extremely useful,
especially with such crops as clover,
millets, oats and peas and other slow
curing crops, especially those much
injured BY excessive haDdllnss