The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-06-20

churn work only moderately fast,
When the butter has formed in little
pellets about the size Of dHck shot,
draw OF all the buttermilk. Do not
b. afraid Of the butter coming out
Of the churn. Get q pail of clean
water aud bring il to the temperature
of So. Take the dash ont OF the
churn and pour this water from as
high as you can hold it down on these
pellets Of butter. Stir the butter up
thoroughly with a paddle Draw Of
this water and pour another pailful
on the butter. Stir it up and take
the butter out aud put it on the but
ter worker. An inclined table with
a lever running across il Is good
enough. After this severe bath the
butter will need bnt little working.
Let ell the working be done simply
by pressure. Do not slide q paddle
over t5e butter. Having got the but
termilk all out, press the butter into
s thin sheet and sprinkle one-sixth Of
the salt on it. Repeat this until all
the salt is worked in Butter should
never be sailed stronger than one
half ounce TO the pound.
POTATO BEETLES.
A Wisconsin farmer writes to the
uraZ Neu Yorker as follows -
Having had some ten years expert
ence in fighting botato beetles, 1 viii
tell you how We do it. The first
thing, after they make their appear
ance in the spring, which they do as
soon as the potatoes are out of the
ground, is to hand-pick the seed.
bugs,r as we call them. This hand
picking is done very readily by the
children when the potatoes are small,
and very thoroughly, too, if they are
paid for the work at a fixed price per
hundred-a cen a hundred will do
when the beetles are thick, counting
each nest or cluster of eggs as q
beetle. After they are picked they
are scalded or burned. An old oys-
ter or fruit can is used for holding
them, the beetle hunters carrying the
can ia one hand and picking the pests
with the other, just as you would
pick berries, going oyer the field as
often as there are any beetles to be
picked. If this picking is thorough
ly done, we do not begin to use Paris
green until the potato tops are a
" grown, or until the young beetles
begin to hatch" He applies the Par
is green in water-a tablespoonful to
a pail of water, and puts it on the
vines with a brush, made by tying a
handful Of fine corn husks on the end
of a stick three feet long. Then be
takes the pail in one hand ana the
brush in the other, and gives each hill
a thorough sprinkling, taking two
rows at a time. The water must be
stirred frequently, as the Paris green
settles at the bottom.
MANURE FOR TuRNIPs.
OF all commercial fertilizers super
phosphate is the best for turnips.
hat which is dissolved in oil CT Wit
rol (sulphuric acid) is best. Indeed,
all superphosphate is thus dissolved,
if not, it is merely phosphate of bone
meal. The dissolved article acts
upon vegetation Immediately, while
the crude bone meal will remain 10
the ground several years before It's
virtues are exhausted. heterogeneous
fertilizers, as guano, sulphate If am
monia, and nitrate of soda are not of
much benefit to roo crops.
MONEY IN SWEET CORN.
An Ohio farmer grows over 500
acres of this crop annually. The
drying house employs over so per-
sons. The fresh ears are steamed
five minutes to set the milk" the
grain is then cut of rapidly with cut
tiers having faces; then
spread on perforated zinc tables, and
heat applied four or five hours from
long furnaces, stirring constantly ;
then packed in barrels of three bush
els each for shipment. Great care is
required to have the corn just at the
right age, and to have it dried just
enough to keep well. Four bushels
Of corn on the cob make one bushel
dried--the wholesale price of which
is $50 to s22 per barrel. At so bush
els of corn per acre 500 acres would
yield $4,000 bushels, and give owe
1000 barrels of dried corn, which, al
$40 per barrel, would be worth just
$40. 600.