The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-06-09
All Around the Farm.

Russia has So 1000, 600 hens They
average yearly output Of 1905, 900
eggs and beat the French and German
lay about 500 100000.
The German agricultural papers say
that the imports Of American apples
into Germany last year was % times as
large as in any previous season.
Average crops in this country are
poor crops. They don't pay. Pros
perity lies above; on which side Of the
line are you?
Keep the orchard fenced from all
stock, plant to hoed crops for three
years, and then SOW to clover. When
bearing give 1t load Of manure for
every lead Of apples taken away. Do
not expect it to bear without food.
DO not run closer than six inches to
the newiy-planted Strawberries or
raspberries with the cultivator, for the
newly-formed roots will surely be dis
turbed. BE content to do the rest Of
the cultivation with the hoe and let il
be quite superficial.
VIII IN it is possible to drive out Of
the feed lots a car load of hogs less
than year old, which will bring from
$500 TO 800, with corn at less than 20
cents bushel, it can be easily seen
that a liffIa arar.xx, op3 ,,Ytab a 70 bound
to keep the bright side of the picture
away from the wall.
The large, coarse varieties of carrots
most used for stock feeding are not 50
nutritious as is the shorthorn, which
gro vs. most Of its bulk near the surface
or slightly above il. As the shOrthorn
carrot can grow more thiekly in the
row, it is nearly as productive rs the
deeper-setting varieties, and il Is also
more easily harvested. Five to six
hundred bushels of the short horn car
rot may be grown per acre. This is
paying crop at the usual price of this
Oot.
The following cure for hard milk
ing COW il given by G. r. Walker, of
Illinois; Take a chicken feather-from
the wing is best-insert it in the teat,
working it gently round and round
until it has passed upward an inch or
more; then draw it out and proceed
with the milking; this do for week
or more, and the cure will be perma-
nent. Do not trim or cut the feather
in any way, as the sharp edges will
hurt the COW.
Ii is great convenience to young
farmers who have too little capital to
make contract with some scotsman
to grow part Of the crop of seeds or
potatoes that he requires for his Gus
tomers. There are few seedsmen who
have the land &c spare TO grow all the
seeds they require. At the same time
they can not purchase seeds in the open
market that they know will be pure and
without admixture of other yarie-
ties. Hence they are glad TO furnish
seed for planting or sowing to some
one who will keep il free from mixing
with other kinds. And for this troub-
lie they can and do pay more than the
average market prices.
Cultivator.
Keep the manure pile free from the
rubbish of diseased plants. DIR. Smith,
of the Department of Agriculture,
mentions a ease where the refuse from
melon bed in which there had been
some disease (melon wilt, was min
gled with .he compost heap, and when
the infected manure was put on the
melon beds the following season, with
disastrous results ensued.-Rural New
Yorker.
The tent eaterpillars are out in force,
and are playing havoc with fruit trees.
Fortunately they are easily disposed
of. They return to the tent at night,
aud in the early morning, before the
sun warns them up, it is easy to pull
the tent aud its sleeping millions out
Of the crotch of the limb where it is
pitched, and drop them into a can of
kerosene or eternally mash them under
foot. Take care that the last one of
the vermin is dead before leaving the
tree.