The Somerset reporter., 1885-07-29
Farm, Cardsn, Homo.
Farm and Lire Stock.

Shade the bee hives.
A dirty pen cannot be healthy.
Give the boys day of occasionally
Hungarian grass may still be sown for
hay.
Filth, and not nature accounts for 'cowy'
smelling milk.
Have the walk between the house and
barn raised little.
Strong swarms Of bees require ample
ventilation during hot weather.
The water from barn 40x50 feet, con-
ducted to cisterns, will answer for twenty
cows.
Don't stop the corn: cultivator when the
horse can reach the leaves, but muzzle the
animal and keep at it several weeks yet
From road making see If you cannot
turn to the barn yard, and by grading 1t
with plow and scrsper, make it dryer.
Young turkeys should, from the first, be
fed daily near the night quarters, that
thew will care to return for food from their
rowing tours.
There is prejudice In the minds of
some against the Essex and other breeds
of black pigs, on account OF their color.
The arguments raised are not even skin
deep, for the blacklist pig will dress as
white asthe whitest. These pigs are, as a
class, rapid growers when young, and can
advantageously be worked into pork In
their first year. Whether raised for mar
ket or for home use there Is Ger ainly more
profit in young than In old pork,
When the pastures begin to fail some
green fodder should be fed. Allowing the
milk flow to run down, however slightly,
It ia difficult to restore 1t again. Much
mil n and CONSIGNMENT
loss of milk often comes from exposing
them to intense heat in pastures where
there are no trees or other provisions for
shade. No animal can yield large de-
gree of profit to its owner II it suffers dis
comfort from any cause. Where there are
no trees, q rude sun shelter may be easily
made, If of nothing more than loose rails
or boards.
One of the cheapest ways of increasing
manure is to lay in plenty OF vegetable
litter during or at the end of the growing
season, to use for absorbing liquid manure.
Where an abundance Of straw is lacking
leaves from the woods and groves will an
swer as well, and cost only the gathering
Straw can often be bought OF unwise FAR
mers cheap, and where there Is chance
for this, let 1t be made the most Of. Where
swamp muck is attainable, nothing can be
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sorbent. Sawdust. refuse bark from tau
neries, and other wastes have some value
for this purpose, If nothing better Is avail
able. Use the absorbents freely about the
stables, hog pens and barn yards. and
vust amount OF ferlilizing matter, that too
often goes to waste. may be retained to The
benefit of the crops.
Foul brood in beehives is believed to be
due to fungoid growth. 1t affects the
immature brood before reaching chrysa-
lis state causing the Larvae to turn dark,
followed with death and putrefcation. Its
presence, where some progress has been
made by the disease, Is manifest from an
unpleasant odor arising from the hive. A
remedy has been found In salicylic acid,
and in soda borax dissolved either In alco-
boil or in water, In the proportion OF one
hundred and twenty eight grains of the
former to sixteen fluid ounces Of the latter.
This fluid 10 thrown in fine spray over
the comb, the brood being previously I'M
capped. This remedy, while 1t Is harm
less to the bees, serves completely to de-
slroy the fungi.