The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-04-27

Farm Raxrtn1s.

TEE brown or rusty orange is sweeter
and can be kept longer than the bright
fruit.
SORGHUM seed is readily eaten by
poultry, and is better for small chick
ems than corn.
BUcKwHEAr given to hens makes the
yelk Of their eggs very light yellow.
More corn will increase the color.
Two COWS well sheltered in winter will
produce more milk and butter than will
three who have no shelter, though no
more than half the feed required for the
three should be given the two.
In some parts Of Southern Illinois
vegetables are raised in advance of the
season in open ground by conducting
heated air or steam in pipes running at
some distance under the surface OF the
earth.
THERE is large demand for good
road and carriage horses. Farmers who
have sound, well-bred, stylish animals,
from fifteen and half TO sixteen hands
high, are receiving good prices for
them.
NorwrrHsrINDING the stringent meas
ures adopted by Great Britain to extir-
pate pleuro-pneumonia and foot and
month disease, outbreaks Of both Of
these contagious diseases are not in
frequent.
HENRY QurrpY, of the Western New
York Farmers Club, thinks that 100
acre farm will produce more with one
fifth of it judiciously planted to timber
than il the whole surface were kept
under the plow.
New JERSEY farmer reports that a
dressing Of eight bushels per acre Of
salt to land badly infested with white
grubs enabled him to raise good crops
for three years past, which was impos-
sible previous to this application.
By all means, says the american Bee
Journal, kee-keepers should provide for
the future by planting honey-producing
trees. One OF the best is the Eastwood.
Do not let spring pass without doing
something in the line Of providing for
the future in this way. t
"H. g." sends the Cultivdtor and
Country Gentleman cure for kicking
cows, as follows: Stake rope or strap
long enough to 60 around her body, put
it around Just behind her forelegs tie
or bnckle it, then take q stick one or
two feet long, put it through under the
strap and twist it tight. 1t is q sure
cure"
J. N. NIXON, of Warsaw, ILL.,, cleared
his orchard of canker-worms by
spraying the trees once with q solution
made MS follows. according to the Far
mers' Review, and applied with force
pump: "He boiled six pounds Of arsenic
in sixty gallons Of water to dissolve it,
and then reduced it to one pound in 15C
gallons"
THE New England Homestead puts
forth the following potato notes: "The
Burbank Seeding potato is 'soggy' al
though great yielder. 1t will have to
step down and out I planted some
Magnum Bonum potatoes last spring
and they yielded twice as much as the
Early Rose. The quality is as good
and they are perfectly free from rot. +"
THE Ctiltiuator and Country Gentle
man says of seeding with oats ''Seed.
ing with oats is quite uncertain, and
often fails unless the quantity Of oats
sown is small. By using one bushel ol
less of oats to the acre, the success il
fair, but not SO good as sowing the GLOW
er seed with rather thin crop Of spring
wheat. Winter rye il the best crop with
which TO SOW grass seed"
MARSHAL p. WILDER, the veteran
horticulturist, thinks the statement tina
tho Franconia raspberry is unproductiv'
is mistake, and says that many Of til,
so-called Franconias are not the tru
sort. He adds that it is not judiciou
to plant a new variety where previou
bed Of rnspberries has stood, for tn
roots Of the old kind sometimes remail
in the ground and come up again.
THE London Live Stock Journal give
two methods of starting balky horse
First, tire your steed out by remain
ing perfectly quiet until he starts of hi
own accord. Second, when horse re
fuses to draw at all, put him in car
in a shed and keep him there until h
walks out. In one instance the obstl
nate one was thirty hours in the shaft
before he gave in"
QUNBY, the well-known writer on be
culture, says OF catnip for bees: 81
there is any article that would cult
vate especially for honey, it would b
catnip. find nothing to surpass it.
This is high authority, and ought to en-
title this common but httle-utilized pre-
duct Of nature to place among the va
uable things of the farm. It is but an
other instance that goes to show this
our people fail to utilize the native rt
sources Of their farms as they should
They have not learned the value of I'll
things they tread upon and often ruth
lessly destroy.
ALTHOUGH garden seeds, original
good and carefully preserved, will ofte
germinate and grow at q much-greate
age than that given in the followin
table, their vitality is likely to be MOI
or less impaired, as proved by practici
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