The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09
Farm Notes.

Holland dairymen have to pay
s36 annual rent for land in which tc
keep cows, and make money at that
There a good cow is valued at one
hundred and fifty dollars
Occasionally bees gather honey
from corn, especially the sweet va.
~rieties. In early morning bees may
be seen slipping the juice from the
stalk at the axis of the leaves.
A stick iattened at the end will
be found a help in planting flower
seeds. Make a shallow hole with
the fiat end of the stick and scatter
the seeds in if, covering lightly.
Ventilation is absolutely necessary
and essential to health. Unles. a
poultry house be well and properly
ventilated fowl cannot be kept heal
thy any length of time.
The trees can be protected from
field mice by banking the tree up
for a foot or SO with soil, and borers
and rabbit. can be kept away by
wrapping the trunk for a foot above
this with tarred paper.
If you want eggs from your Brah-
mas don't feed them too strongly.
They take on fat readily, and when
fat do not lay. Plymouth Rocks and
Wyandottes need liberal feed when
they are laying.
Ashes spread over strawberries at
the rate of 100 bushels per acre will
increase the quantity, improve the
quality and intensity the color. They
may be sown broadcast at any time,
but the earlier the better.
In the care of eggs while waiting
for Matching, n place is preferred that
is neither hot nor cold, damp nor
dry. If the eggs are to be kept up
a while turning every day will an
swer, a box or basket being suffi-
cient.
While planting the trees do not
try to rattle the-dirt among the roots
by shaking the tree up and down,
for this draws the fine, hair-like roots
out Of place, but does not push them
back; it folds them up and gets
them all out of shape.
The cherry is about the only fruit
tree which can be recommended for
shade in pastures along roadsides,
as the hardy varieties of cherries
are not affected BY the tramping of
stock or the passing of vehicles,
which would prove injurious to most
other fruit trees.
A ipring of water is better than a
well for farm use, because il is al
ways accessible, and water from it
may be conveyed readily to other
points. Then, if drainage suitably
regulated will support constant flow.
it establishes provision better than a
well for watering farm animals.
When the tree is planted the
branches should be cut back to form
a regular shaped head. and if
pinched back so as to keep the tree
symmetrical and only such branches
are allowed to grow as are needed,
there viii be no necessity OF murder
ing the tree in after years with q
saw.
In planting corn, peas and beans
it is well to put in an extra row to
be grown for seed only. if it can be
done in such a way that the various
kinds will not mix and hybradize.
These rows should not be put in un-
til the latter part of the month, so
that they may grow rapidly when
they do start.
Apple trees should not be trimmed
TO a crotch with two or more limbs.
is all right while the trees are
young, but when apple trees begin
to bear the crotch splits and the tree
is ruined. Train one leader up
straight, and the branches from this
will be less likely to break off when