The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
All Around the Farm.


FROM the Philadelphia Record.
II epsts less to guard against road
getting out Of repair than it do ; to put
it in good condition after the damage
Milk freely and rapidly, with as
little movement or jerking as possible.
Even avoid loud talking when milking.
Any thing which attracts the attention
from the operation effects the secretion,
and this secretion goes on during the
drawing Of the milk
Kill the orchard insects in their
winter quarters. The leaf roller eggs
may be found on the south side Of the
trees under little patches along the
trunks and limbs, and may readily be
destroyed by the millions 10y rubbing
oil these patches.
The annual report Of the United
States Commissioners of Fish and
fisheries shows that 90, 100000 shad fry
were planted in streams emptying into
the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Of
Mexico. The output of lobster fry was
100000, against 100000 for the
preceding year. The total collection
of salmon eggs was 37,00J00O, three
times the number ever collected before
in one season.
At ten cents bushel potatoes do not
pay the grower, but they will pay the
dairyman who purchases them at that
price to feed his mileh cows. Farmers
who are hauling potatoes out to the
field TO be used fertilizers will find it
will pay better to first put them through
live stock.
Horses are reported dying with a
new disease in some sections of the
west Veterinary surgeons seem to
think it a eerebrospinal meningitis.
The animals are attacked suddenly
become blind and usually die in short
time. The best conditioned animals
are often the ones to suecumb.
Where plants are infested with
troublesome little black flies it is an
indication of the use Of manure that is
not thoroughly decOmpOsed- If it Is too
green or fresh, vermin are sure tO
attend. Serape off the surface soil and
burn it, as this contains the eggs. Then
cover the earth with ashes. This is
beneficial to the plant in other ways
AS the earliest crop to be used for
sOiling there is nothing better than
oats and peas mixed and sown at the
rate Of two and half to three bushels
per acre. They will not yield 50 much
weight as fodder corn, bat that cannot
be grown large enough to cut before
well into August As for peas and oats,
by that time they will have been entire
ly used up. From the earliest cutting,
about the last of May, a second light
crop will sprout, which may be eat a
month later.
Lack of ventilation AMI keeping the
hOtbed too warm is much more often
the cause of plants dying off than is
frost. Except in the very coldest
weather the sash should be raised n
portion of the day to give the plants
air. This will make them hardy and
fit to grow when set in the open air.
BY confining the plants too closely
they are IN Il tall AMI spiaIliny, Us
destroying their value for future growth
and productiveness.
PhilOxera, which has been the pest
OF French vineyards fjr many years,
is about To be externinated by the
efforts of the Government. That
country is striving hard to regain her
place as the first vine-growing country
of the world. Her commissioners report
that over 100000 acres are now in
vineyards, greater number than
ever before.
Professor Shut, of the Canadian De-
partment Of Agriculture, says that very
little is known n 10 the precise man.
ner in which the decomposition Of
carbOnic acid Is effected within tie
plant. Ii is known, indeed, that the
decomposition is in someway intimately
connected with the green chlOrophyl
grain to which the color of the leaves
is due, and it is known that Ii ght is
necessary i'm order that the decom-
position may be brought about
The decreased cost of constructing
and managing greenhouses is leading
To a great multiplication of the number,
and, rs another result Of the uses to
which they are put y Philadelphia
owner of numerous greenhouses, for
which he could not find profitable use,
devoted several to the growing OF
potatoes. OF course, in rich soil and
with abundant warmth aud moisture
the crop was very large. He had home
grown potatoes as early as they could be
brought from the South, and made
fair profit by selling at the same price
per peek as new potates brought per
bushel few weeks later.
1t has long been known that salpher
applied TO any thing was a good germ
eide. TIE experience of practical
farmer, as told by Horace f. Wilcox in
the New York Tribune, shows how
this knowledge saved his potato crop
from destruction, though planted on
land where the year before the potato
seab had entirely destroyed it. He first
cut the potatoes, and while in the pail
with the cut surface fresh he put pint
of sulphur on top Of the heap, allowing
it to sift down, 50 that all got some of the
sulphur. The crop was entirely free
from scab, and many of the cut pieces,
used for seed, were yet yellow with sui
phur in the hills when the crop was
dug.
There was a written examination on
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