The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-07-04
CABBAGE.

CABBAGE.
Cabbage plants require q rich
moist soil and the application o
manure in large quantities pays well
The Flat Dutch variety is the mos
generally grown Cor winter use, the
plants to be set from the Goth of Juns
TO the middle of July, according t
the climate. Market gardeners usu
ally grow cabbage as q second CROP
where they have grown peas the
same season. Set in rows three feet
apart, and two feet six inches apart
in the rows. Two feet and a bal
apart each way may do very well
but it is not easy to run a cultivation
between them, at that distance, when
the cabbages are half or more grown
Farmers who reside within ten miles
of q large town can make the grow.
ing of cabbages profitable, as 10000
heads car be grown On an acre Of
land, worth usually $500. There are
some drawbacks to success, as not
heading well, worms and the club
foot. Lime applied to the soil around
the plants is beneficial in preventing
the club-foot, and worms may be de-
stroyed by examining the plants
every morning, and if gnawed leaves
are seen, the worms to the plants
may be found just below the surface
of the soil pear the stems Of the
plants. Cabbages are also profitable
to grow to feed COWS in the fall till
cold weather sets in at least such as
are loose and not well headed. The
Agricultural Chemist says: "The
cabbage is a potash plant of this
element a ton of heads would remove
IL lbs, and Of pbospboric acid but 4
lbs. As the average crop in England
is assumed at 22 tons, aud as this
would not be an excessively large
crop in America. we may calculate
that such a crop would remove 264
lbs. of potash and So lbs. of phos-
phoric acid, which would be supplied
In about 52S lbs. of muriate Of pot
ash of high grade, and about loo lbs.
CT an average superpbosphate."
PROFITS OF SHEEP RAISING.
The following from a P~ennsylva-
MIA farmer shows that sh~eep-raising
ia profitable: Il learn by the Agri-
cultural Report of 1870 that there
were nearly seven acres of improved
land in Pennsylvania to each sheep,
and that each sheep produced a little
more than 81 lbs. Of wool. This, at
40 cents per H., amounts to $780,
600. Ny object in giving these fig
ures is to show the profits of this
branch of such agriculture. / am
now keeping, on 40 average farm,
one sheep to every two acres, i'm
proved land. The wool of each
sheep averages 4 lbs, but these sheep
do not consume one. half the hay and
grain raised, and do not receive any
roots. Last year L raised my first
crop of sugar beets, and find that 80
or 40 tons may be raised per acre. l
think these will enable me to keep at
least q sheep to every improved
acre, and still have one-half the hay,
grain and roots left to feed the team
and necessary cattle. If these con-
illusions be correct, and one-half of
my sheep raise twin lambs, making a
of one and one half lambs to
each sheep, worth 81 each, We have a
total of SO for lambs and 81 60 for
wool per acre, or SIS, 500, 900 for
and S69,000,0 900 for wool in
Pennsylvania. / cannot give the
value Of lambs for 1870, and cannot
compare the difference. The wool
product was $500, 900 lbs, but at my
estimate there would be 10000, 900
Ibs., making q difference of SIG, 000,-
BOO, at 40 cents per Id. This result
of curse not attainable in one or
.wo years; it must be brought about
by degrees. 1 find sheep are liable
o disease if kept in large focks, I'm.
ess the very best breeding ewes are
selected and the rams changed each
rear.
HAY CAPS.
Hay caps are used to great advan-
age sometimes, and often pay for
themselves in O single storm. The
'ditor of the Country Gentleman
gives the following correct informa-
ion in regard to them: "The value
md expediency Of using hay-caps will
on several conditions. Near
where hay brings q high price,
hey would be worth more than in
'emote localities, where it is much
In regions liable to sud.
len storms they would be more nee
'ssary than where the weather is
ess changeable ; and on large farms,
furnished with all the machinery for
housing hay. such as tedders,
,~ay-rakes. hay-losders, pitchers, &C.,
hey would be less essential than on
mall farms, where much of the work
s done by hand. The best ones are
made of stout waterproof cotton
10th, two yards wide, SO as to cut
INTO caps six feet square. Hem the
'ough edges with q sewing machine
urn up two or three inches of each
corner and sew it strongly, and
through this q Irvine loop is to be se-
.ured. Some times tbey are only
made . yard and 9 half square. but
he larger ones are best. There are
wo ways to hasten them to the hay
'ock-to pin them by the corners to
takes or pins pushed into the ground,
which is most secure, or to thrust the
'ins into the side of the hay-cock
lear the bottom. For the former,
inns made Of small iron rod are best
or the latter they are usually wood,
bout hall an inch in diameter and
foot and q half long. These caps
re sold for about seveuty-ive cents
ents each, and il one should serve
be purpose Of protecting and saving
haycock from spelling through Q