The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-06-27

Cuu lin IN kL1aa r.
ceptibIe moisture, having had no rain
for four, six, or eight weeks, they are
~excasable If they feel "blue" or have
the horrors but during half q cer-
turv | have fever heard of more
than q failure OF about half of any
crop in any part of the country from
drouth, aud 10 most cases, though
drcuths may be very severe, yet at
lass we got an average crop oil most
things. So let no farmer despair, as
we are promised seed time and har-
yestn to the end, and well has this
promise been fulfilled up to the pres.
ent a When droutbs come,
work the harder, and when the rain
comes-as it surely will come-let 1t
find your cultivated crops free from
weeds. and then look at them, and
see them grew as if by magic. You
NAV say, as you look on a field OF
corn twenty-four hours after a soak
ing rain, "Can it be possible that this
is the same parched up corn that ]
beheld here yesterday" The motto
that old farmers should have posted
Up in their kitchens is, Never de-
spairw Half the battle of life Is
won by cherishing a determination
to take the world as it comes, and
never to give up in view of adver-
sity.
THE ECONOMY OF FARMERS.
Probably no class of people are
compelled to be more economical
than farmers /; but in the end they
enjoy life quite as well as any other
class of citizens. A merchant may
dress better than a farmer; but could
we read the anxieties of his mind
how he is TO support his family 10
style-how be is to pay his notes at
the bank-how he is to collect doubt
ful debts, and many other things, we
should decide that the farmer, with
his new suit of clothes once in three
years, and his plain style of living
takes more real enjoyment of life
than the merchant or professional
man does. But farmers should live
within their incomes however small
they NAV lie. 1t is not SO much in
saving as in taking car Of what you
have that most affects your incomes.
just think of the reckless folly Of
leaving a farm wagon out exposed to
the sun and rain, winter and sum-
mer. as some farmers do! L. does
seem that such farmers are partially
demented. Not only wagons. but all
kinds of farm implements are left
out by many farmers to be ruined by
sun and rain. 1t is the most import
ant branch of economy TO keep i'm
plements well painted, AID under
cover when not in use. 4 rich far
mer may be able TO afford to be care
less in this respect, but not the far
lner of moderate means. Nor can
farmers afford to use the old style,
cumbrous farm tools that do poor
work, and require much more time to
do their work than the improved i'm
Elements do; aud here also is econo-
my in buying the best implements
that exist, because time is money
to say nothing of the superior man
ner in which the best implements do
their work, by which crops are in
creased. But in all of your efforts
to economic, don't neglect to give
your children a good common educa-
ton, at least; as it costs but a trihe
to send them to the district schools
now everywhere established and
see that they attend regularly, and
that they learn their lessons. No
farmer living can afford to rear a fam
lily of children without a fair school
education. But one Of the best aids
in giving children a general knowl-
edge of what exists ia the world,
and what is transporting therein are
the newspapers, and magazines oi
the day aud you will find it econo-
my that pays well to subscribe for
them literally, as no farmer exists
who has ever repented of laying be.
fore his children a generous supply Of
the best current news and literature
of the times.
WATERING PLANTS, TREES, sc.
There are times when trees lately
set, and some kinds Of garden vege.
tation, must be watered to keep them
from parching up in a drouth but
when water is applied to them let il
be copious, as a little sprinkling to 90
into the ground, not over an inch or
two, soon dries out 10 the rays of a
hot sun, and by being drawn by at
traction into the adjoining dry soil
therefore, whatever is watered in a
drouth do it thoroughly once or twice
(once q week will suffice generally a
week: and in this way you can keep
your trees alive, and secure any kind
of plant against any serious injury
by drouth. When but few things
are to be watered, do it at the close
of the day but when the watering
cannot be done in an hour or two,
commence at any time in the after
noon. Every owner of o garden
should have a couple large water
pots made to order, to bald as much
water as q man q carry; and the
roses (discharges) should be perfo-
rated to let the water out rapidly, as
few men can afford TO wait for water
to be discharged in a fine spray, as
water pots usually let it out. For
many years | have applied cold wat.
er TO plants, with as good results as
would have been the Ease If the wat
CT had been warmed in the sun, be-
cause the earth being heated the
cold water becomes warmed as soon
as it runs into the ground but when
water al be exposed to the sun and
air a few hours before it is used, it
would be well to have it so exposed.
1t pays to water strawberry plants in
a dronth while fruiting, perhaps the
bes; If ANYTHING in a garden /; and
in ex ehsive gardens it is a good plan
to carry water in q barrel on a wheel
barrow. with n pail and water pot
also and ia this way a copious wat
ering If piauts al be done in a short
time.
THINNING FRUIT.
IL isa common practice TO allow all
the fruit on trees and grape vines