The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-03-25

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A little salt helps the poultry mash.
Overlooking is a fruitful source OF
bowel trouble.
Overfat fowls are apt to succumb to
excessive heat.
March Matched chicks should be
ready for the broiler market.
Good butter can never be made
from cream that Ia not good.
Slow speed in the separator issthe
cause Of much poor skimming.
Fewer turkeys are injured by I'M
%derfeeding than by overlooking.
Carrying fowls by their wings is as
cruel as carrying them by the legs.
When cream stands too long 1t is
apt to acquire a bitter or ~disagreeable
flavor.
A swivel. in the lettering rope will
keep the rope from getting twisted
and kinky.
Keep the dust and stuff out Of your
milk. You cannot strain It out Re-
member that.
Alfalfa is one Of the greatest crops
known to modern agriculture for en-
riching the land.
It's a good thing for the bull to ex.
ercise on a tread power and accom-
plish some work.
Use only a.butter-bred sire from a
line Of dairy inheritance for next
years crop Of calves.
Breeding with intelligence will pro-
tuce a less and less number OF COWS
that eat their heads or"
Green food Of some kind Is neces
sary to make the hens do their best
in the line Of egg production
Stir the cream twice q day, using q
long-handled spoon which VIII reach
to the bottom Of the cream jar.
Some day we are going TO- find that
as good q way as any to use the sur
plus Jour milk Is to give It to the
hens.
Have your fowls 30 tame that you
can go among them without causing
fright You will 81 better egg pro-
ducdon.
II there .is no silo on your farm, do
not let another winter catch you I'M
prepared, Make.yow plans right DOW
for one.
The pure-bred sire and a dam OF
the same type Of as good blood as 1t
Is possible to get Will usually bring
a desirable colt.
The idea that alfalfa hay is not suit
able for driving horses is proven er-
roneous by thousands Of farmers, and
many use no other.
Don't compel the women folks to
open and close two or three big gates
through the cattle yards every time
they go out to look up eggs.
When hens lay soft-shelled eggs, 1t
Is often a sign they are too fat. Cut
down the amount Of grain and feed
more vegetables and green food.
In pruning the apple trees, plan to
form shapely heads that will permit
the sunlight to get into the center OF
the tree. It wild give better fruit
One Of the remedies for pip used
by Portuguese poultry raisers Is raw
onions cut up fine and forced down
the throat, TO lowed by a little water.
For late vegetables plant snap
beans. They require a rich, moist
soil, 30 that the growth will be rapid
AS a rule, the dwarf bush types are
best.
Dehorn the calves before they are
two weeks old. Cut away the hair
around the "button" and mo1sten'
Then rub well with a stick Of caus'
tic potash.
Watch the heifers carefully abou,
calving time. A little care at the
proper time often will be the means
Of averting the loss OF a fine calf, 1T
mother, OF both.
It requires feed to make q lamb o.
any kind, but a sheep or lamb Will
come the nearest to making some
thing out Of nothing Of any kind o
q domestic an dmal.
II the butte r Is slow In coming 1t IL
due to one of two causes: Either the
cream Is too cold, or else the churn Is
oyorloodod O nd the contents do mo-