The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-05-04
FARM AND HOME.


unless she pays him $50 yearly in clean
cash she is kept at loss, he will soon
become interested in improvement OF
stock.
PRor. RILEY thinks that immunity
from the ravages of the HessiAn fly may
be expected for several years, as the
heat and drought of last summer killed
large numbers of them.
BLUEGRASS is somewhat delicate when
very young, but after it gets good
hold it usurps the soil, cleaning out all
other grasses. It should not be pastured
the first season.
IT is commonly stated that the super
phosphates, potash salts and other SINH
lar materials are more effective when
used together than when applied sepa-
rately. Certainly, complete fertilizers
are more efficient than partial fertilizers.
THE SOW should be fed but little corn
during the last two months Of her preg-
nancy. Her diet should avoid that which
is SO heating and fattening. Oats, bran,
middlings and beets are great deal bet
ter than the everlasting corn diet of the
West.
If you begin pruning fruit and orna-
mental trees and shrubbery while young,
you can form just such top as you
want. If your trees need spreading out,
cut the young shoots off just above a
bud on the outside Of shoot; and if
you want to train upward, leave a bud
on the upper side of the limb where you
cut it off.
EXPERIENCE and observation will con-
vince any one that better results will
follow the application Of manure at the
surface. or at least within three inches
of it, than if plowed under to three
times that depth. For immediate re-
suits all well.rotted manure should be
Immediately mixed with the surface soil
by repeated Civilizations or harrowings.
IT is stated, on what is regarded as
good authority, that an acre of grazing
land in Lincolnshire, England-a coun-
try famous for its grass-will carry an
OK and sheep from May to Oct. ], and
during that period the OK will gain 2e0
pounds and the sheep forty pounds in
net weight of meat when slaughtered.
The acre will thus yield 800 pounds of
meat in 153 days grazing.
JOHN TALcorT, of Rome, N. Y, be-
lieves the best roots for stock are long
orange carrot, the white, sweet German
turnip, and potatoes. The carrots he
would feed with meal or shorts and early.
cut hay to dairy COWS. There is some
thing in roots thus fed with meal, he
adds, that seems to give an animal a
better appetite, and consequently =
greater gain, than where dry food alone
is used. The animal thus fed is not as
likely to cloy in its appetite as when
only dry food is used.
THE experiments of famous Swedish
chemist, prolonged over two years, max
ing it definitely certain that separating
cream by the centrifugal secures 10 per
cent. more of it than any other process,
while if the cream is at once churned
what chemists and other experiments pro-
nounce the best-lasting and best-keeping
butter is obtained; the refuse-the
skinned milk and buttermilk-
are sweet-that is, in their most
valuable condition-and the milk
has been in the course of a few
hours turned into money. This appears
to be the ultimate perfection of scientific
butter-making.
| A CERTAIN degree of moisture is nee
essary for the Matching of eggs. The
biddy which hides her nest away in some
secluded spot on the ground usually
comes out with fine brood of chickens,
while the one which had her nest made
high up from the ground in some dry
place very likely failed to hatch the
most of her eggs. Generally the hen
will hatch the most of her eggs when
her nest is placed upon the ground. If
it is not practicable to build the nest
upon the ground, it is advisable, in
order to maintain o certain degree of
| moisture, to place a few shovelfuls of
earth in box and place the nest upon
that. When nests are made of straw
and placed upon the floor the air circu-
lates throughout the nest SO resdily that
the eggs become too dry to hatch well.
OvERsTooKINa PASTURES. over
stocking of land is one of the surest and
quickest ways of running pastures. 1t
is an everyday thing with many far
mers, who cannot be made to believe
that they are getting the full benefit Of
a pasture unless the grass is eaten off q
little faster than it has time to grow |;
consequently all who put this method in
practice always have bare pastures and
poor cattle. The advantages to be de-
rived from allowing the grass to gain on
the cattle during the growing season are
many, among which are the following j:
Cattle which are kept growing all the
time come to maturity at proper age.
Animals kept constantly on bare pas
lures never mature properly those kept
on good pastures do not have to work
day and night to satisfy their appetites,
or use up all their food in building up q
system worn down by partial starvation.
A good covering of grass is a protection
to pasture. It is natures protection
against the effects of bad and dry wealth.
er and the cold rains of winter, 80 that