The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-07-25

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drink all you give them ! tried this
plan three years ago with per
feet success. I had only o cow,
and she was Of the common scrub
stock of the country, and after she
began to drink the water, prepared
as above, she furnished me twice a
day two ordinary water buckets full
of mix, and BY feeding a little corn
boiled with cotton seed and mix
yielded butter enough to supply my
table bountifully, and leave me q
few pounds to sell every week.
gave her three gallons Of water twice
a day. fa
PRESERVING FENCE POSTS.
The @American Chemists says:
Wood can be made to last longer
than iron in the ground. Posts can
be prepared for less than two cents
apiece. This is the recipe: Take
boiled linseed oil and stir il in pull
verified charcoal TO the consistency
Of paint. Put a coat of this over
the timber, and there is not a man
who will live TO see it rot" Like
many other sayings and recipes, this
statement is made by a man who ev-
identity has never had proofs of what
be says; yet | am sure that two or
three coats Of this mixture. on the
parts ofposts that 60 into the ground,
win prove a good preserver for them;
but a single coat will not suffice. The
charcoal should be finely ground or
pulverized, and the first coat should
not contain much charcoal, as the oil
should be free 10 Gil up the outer
pores Of the wood, when the char
coal may be freely applied. But let
10 one expect TO thus preserve parts
made of wood that soon decays nat
urally, but use oak, chestnut. or ce-
dar, and apply three coats of this
and your children, probably,
win see them in a state of decay
not you, unless you live to be very
old.
SHIPPING CHEESE TO ENGLAND.
If any reader of these Topics
is ambitious to become an exporter
of cheese to Liverpool, it may inter-
est him to know what the usual char
ges are to forward bis cheese, sell it,
and remit the net proceeds. First is
the freight to New York, which is
easily ascertained. Then there is
carriage of i've cents per 100 lbs. gross.
cooperage and clearance amounting
to a triAe over three cents per box.
The freight will be about 80 cts. per
100 lbs. Next comes the landing
charges, entry. tow and dock dues,
carriage, cooperage, %porterage, insur-
ance, opening and showing, interest
on charges paid brokerage, commits
sion, guarantee, loss in weight, and
often other charges not here emu
merated, as commission men are sure
to make the full list of charges, wheth-
er right or wrong. For instanc e you
will have to pay ''cooperage" in
New York, and also in Liverpool,
whether the cheese required it or
not. Then you will have to stand
about five per cent floss in weight"
even if the cheese actually over-run
in weight; and although the nominal
commission is only FIVE per cent. in
Liverpool for selling cheese, when
you get the met proceeds" you will
End that it has cost you from twenty
to twenty-five per cent. on sales in
that city to get your cash returns.
When cheese sells there at l6 cts.
you cannot he sure of receiving over
twelve cents per pound after all ex-
penses from your farm till sold are
deducted. The commission men Of
Liverpool are as honest as in any
other city; but they all make every
charge custom allows, and shippers
must silently submit to paying them
KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS.
At a late meeting of the New York
Farmers Club, a Kentucky farmer
said be had had a great experience
in growing blue grass-that it is
one and the same with common spear
grass, varying in size and appear
ance according to soil and latitude in
which it grows. The plant is a
light green color, and the spikelets
are frequently variegated with blush
purple. 1t flowers in June, but
once q year, which recommends it
for lawns. The produce is ordinari-
ly small compared with other grasses,
bat the heritage is fine. 1t grows in
a variety Of soils from the dryest
to q wet meadow, but does
not stand severe drought as well as
the orchard grass. 1t endures the
of winter, however, better than
all other grasses, and continues lux
through mild winters. Blue
grass requires two or three years to
become well set, and does not arrive
at perfection as q pasture grass till
the sward is older than three years,
therefore it is not suited to alternate
husbandry, or where the land is to
in grass only a few years.
Blue grass should be cut as the seeds
to open, spread well and pro-
from rains and dews; on the
second day stock, shelter and salt.
now TO LAY DRAIN TILE. 1861
An Ohio farmer laid 60 rods of
tile, beginning at the lower end
while the men were digging out the
hitch above him, and the result was
hat the whole 60 rods had to be
aiken up, after the ditch was filed in
With earth, in consequence of the tile
becoming filed with mud, as any
armer ought to have known would be
be result. In laying tile always be-
yin at the upper end, and when there
ire lateral drains lay them before
Tou lay the main conductors. The
nan to whom | refer above says in
to bis work, after be had cor
ected his mistake: II now CON-
uenced with my six-inch tile, at the
upper end, took in each branch as /
'assed by, putting in q six inch
ever pipe with a four-inch branch,
i'll al was finished. / now found
nv iile al clean, the water running
tut lear. and all working in 6rst-rate
,-d,r. Results: The land, almost
IS soon as the bitches were 10, be-
anne dry enough TO plow-when a
lorse could aot have walked across