The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-07-04
All Around the Farm.

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bash is the abstraction Of more potash
from the soil than Of any other import
ant mineral Add this mineral TO the
fruit garden.
The g:sr,len l. the index of the far
mer's power to care for the details of
his business. \ neglected gar,len gives
away the habits OF order in his busi-
ness.
When the sheep are seen running
with their head close to the ground and
stamping, the fly which produees the
grub in the head is near. Put some
pine tar on the sleeps noses.
Many people fail with poultry be
cause of neglect. Fowls respond to
good treatment as readily a. the dairy
COW or other animals.
The 20,OO0-pound Canadian cheese,
which was on exhibition at the Worlds
Fair, Is now stoned at railway depot
in London. The owners have not yet
] heen able to make sale Of il.
Make up a list Of the bolts, nuts,
screws and small tools that you are in
constant need Of, and buy them in one
| lot, aud put each in well arranged
series Of pigeon holes and keep them
there. The saving will pay a greater
interest than the savings bank account.
\ Canada fruit grower says that he
found remedy for the curculiO in
merely hanging cedar branches in his
plum and cherry trees at hlossOming
time.
Trees. whether planted for ornament
or usefulness, are the hetter for the 80
ciety Of other trees near by, because of
/ their afforling one another mutual
protection from winds and from ex-
tremes of heat and cold.
The Massachusetts Experiment sta
ton made an experiment in feeding
skim milk TO calves and pigs. The IT
suit showed that it was equivalent To
selling milk at 35 cents hundred.
\ farmer said before an Iowa insti-
tute: Il has been proven that clover
sod is as good 10 produce corn a. the
virgin soil. Farmers are just awaken
ing to the importance of sowing all
small grain fields to clover. IL is the
only wholesale fertilizer we have dis
covered
Stirring the soil in warm weather
makes il warmer 10y admitting more
outside air. II also stimulates decom-
position Of any vegetable matter that
the soil contains, and thus directly
adds to the available supply of fertili-
| ty The more manure that the far
mer applies the more thorough should
be the cultivation of the crop. Only
thus can its full value bc secured. Be
sides, unless the eultivatOr Is kept
busy the manure makes the weeds
grow "a well as the crop.
Kerosene emulsion can most easily
be applied to stock to destroy lice and
prevent the attacks of the horn fly by
using the sprlyer, which is designed
originally for applying spraying MKT
ures 10 fruit trees. \ hand sPrayer il
most convenient, and with fine noz-
zle "a very small quantity will be sufii-
cient whereas by hand and sponge ap-
plication the work will require much
more liquid and take much more time.
The following from poultry writer
is good advice: Get barrel Of lime
and let il air-slack; scatter occasionally
about the fowl house and runs II is
great absorbent Of danpness, removes
bad odors, keeps Off vermin, tends 10
keep everything sweet and clean, and
is very hcalthful for the fowls.
When your cream foanls and swells
in the churn don't pour hot water into
it, but warm il up to 20 degrees, if need
be, by warm water on the outside, and
mature it more before you attempt
to churn. Maturity and warmth with
in certain safe limits will generally
knock the o,stinacy all out of winter
cream that does not want 10 yield up
its butter.
Many mistakes are made in setting
out shade trees. Evergreens ought
never to be set near the house. They
are useful as windbreaks at the north
and west, at some distance from the
house, where.they may be set in clumps
or hedges, but never ON lawn. Grass
does not do 50 we'll under them as un-
der deciduOus trees, and 80 many OF
them drop cones almost the entire year
that they are unsightiy and interfere
/ with the mower.
The clover hay harvest should begin
as soon "a the field i well in bloom,
and every care possible exercised in
/ curing and harvesting the crop, and
while all undertakings are uncertain in
which the weather takes such an inn
pOrtant part, much may be done to Off
set the uncertainties by extreme watch
/ fulness and care and no dairyman can
afford to withhold them in such a case.