The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-05-26
All Around the Farm

Hogs do not take kindly TO some
kinds Of coarse vegetables, especially
roots, unless they are first cooked
enough to soften them before being fed
rhey are very likely to ferment IL put
ia the swill barrel, a. i the practice OF
throw the potat peeiings away than to
mix them with sour swiil, which soon
fern snts into a compound that Is often
reilly poisonous, as there Is more or
lie - poison In the potato, which we are
savsd fr Im by cooking the tubers and
by not eating their skins In contact
with sOured milk, the potato peeling
makes a compound that no decent ami
nal should be expected to eat
There are many farm operations
W lere three horses can be profitably
uSed. While the work Of plOwing, es-
pscially in spring is comparatively
light, il grass land on stubble has TO be
plowed In the fall for wheat, three hors-
e. will do enough more work to make
ID advt able to use them. If horse
lab " Is cheaper than hand labor, as it
surely is, the Use Of three horses instead
Of two increases the advantage. But
the WORK of dragging, especially with
the spring-tOOth harroWs, which tear
up the soil, is better done with three
horses than with two.
Gravity creaming in the private
dairy loses more fat than most farmers
dream of. If ice is used at once after
milking TO reduce the water round the
cans to about 40 degrees F. the fat will
rise, leaving not more than one-fifth Of
per cent; and il the water is at go de-
grees or above, ] per cent, OF more will
be left in the skim milk. This l or
m)re per cent. is a third or a half Of all
ths fat in the milk. This suggests the
putting up Of ice by the private dairy
man. The climate of Kansas provides
for this and is a greater boon than
many imagine.-ProfessOr James VIII
son.
If one gets his fodder corn in the
ground at the right time he should not
SOW quick maturing variety. Better
results will be got from one ofthe slow,
big Varieties variety that makes a
large growth of stalk and foliage. 1t
must be borne in mind that the prOba-
bility Of ears being caught by frosts
cuts practically no figure in growing
fodder corn to reinforce pastures. We
want green feed, not only in late July,
but also in late September. But one
should not put of sowing the fodder
corn until all other seeding is done.
Good results are not obtaining from feed
ing the corn when quite young and
lushy.
Thousands Of dollars are every year
wasted by neglect of proper care for
trees that have been transplanted.
The most common cause of this is in
the idea that plenty of water applied TO
the roots can be made substitute for
frequent cultivation. Newly-trans-
planted trees really need little water on
the soil. The roots of newly planted
trees cannot at once begin 70 supply
plant food from the soil. Tney need
time and contact with moist soil, but
not too wet, before new rootlets can
put forth. To keep the soil sOdden
with water while the roots are in this
condition is to rot them.
Less water with thorough surface eul-
tivatiOn, to keep the surface soil loose
and prevent rapid evaporation, is what
is needed. If water is applied it should
Oe in moderate am )unts, and often by
spraying 50 as to keep the buds from
until the roots can supply
them with mOister.-Amcrican Guilt
water.
Experiments with eottOnseed meal
have proved that it is rich in abuni-
noids, and in the nitrogeniOus and
nutrients, thereby
meeting all the requirements in help
ing to produce the component parts Ca
milk and butter, and at the same time
il resupplies the waste Of the body
in greater degree than any other food.
The feeding of meal should be with
especially in feeding to
cattle, as cottonseed meal
is too rich to feed alone; it should be
mixed with bran, eOrnmeal or other
grain. IL is very important that all
coarse and fine feed should be well
mixed before feeding; then the animal
chews both the coarse and fine to-
gether and properly mixes the food
and saliva, and it passes into the stou-
aeh in a porous aud easily-digested
form. When cows are on grass two
pints of meal per diem are sufficient,
and when pasture becomes poor double
the quantity.
1t is one of the inIlienable rights of
every farmers wife to have a good
and small fruit garden.
il it is impossible to make the
farm table as attractive as it should be,
and every hOuse-keeper who takes
pride in her home, loves to set liber-
and attractive table. In
fact, homes where the table is not at
traetive are seldom attractive or home
like in other ways. With good gar
den, skillful housewife can set a
good table with very small outlay for
such articles as cost the farmer cash
on earth can live so well, so
and with less exp diture
Of cash than the farmer who has a
good garden and good wife.
Many old orchards are not only dis
figured, but their productiveness is al
most destroyed by sap sprouts. These
when they appear on the trunk are US
ually the result of injuries t. the trunk
by teams or implements used in eulti-
waiting. Wherever the bark is cut or
bruised on the tree the injury obstruets.
the free passage of sap, and buds start
ut such points, which having a much
greater supply Of sap than they require
grow sappy and do not mature as they
should. Sometimes the injury is be-
low the surface in the root. Sprouts
that start here grow so rank that if the
winter following is very cold they will
be killed. If the first winter is mild
the sap sprouts live and soon grow into
trees. Sap sprouts are formed in the