The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-07-20
In and About the Farm.


three-fourths inches aud the grains per
head from 81 to 12S. Both fruitfulness
and vitality can be increased by the
same process of selection. If farmer
will set apart a plat upon which 10
grow his seed wheat he can very ma
terialIy increase both fruitfulness and
vitality in the following manner: Go
through the field and cut off all the
weakly-looking and short heads
as soon as they show themselves
above the top blade, leaving only
large, typical heads to ripen. IL this
process be kept up for series Of years
Mr.. Ha.letrs results prove that much
can be done TO improve the type.
Now know, by actual experience,
says writer in Hoard's Dairyman,
that calf can be raised on skim milk,
If he has enough. We have one now,
on this place, that, at four weeks, gets
p pounds of skim milk day, and, be-
sides, all the bright hay it wants, which
is good dead. Aud with this liberal
feeding II is beauty; and as for growth
as the hired man expressed it, beats
any calf ever did see." The trouble
with not only calves bur most young
stock is that they do not get enough.
A growing boy will eat more than
grown man, and the growing calf
wants enough or it will not be grow
ing calf.
Many farms are estimated below
their true value because of sloyenly APP
pearance. Weeds higher than the
fences, trees blown down and left to rot
in the same place, fences out of repair,
gates and barn doors off of hinges or
swinging on one hinge, unsightly litter
in door yard and at the barn-these
and many such evidences of careless-
ness depreciate the value of any farm.
The soil may be excellent, the water
facilities all that could be asked for and
all natural advantages requisite to make
a good high-priced farm may exist and
yet that farm scarcely makes its owner
living. 1t can almost pass for a
truism that the farmer makes the farm-
Many reason that there is no money
i'm keeping the farm neat, no cash in
the earefulIy-kept barnyard and
there is no time for these matters
Such reckon at random. Pleasant sur
roundings do very materially aid US to
do better work; man suecumbs to such
influences unconsciously.-The Rural
World.
Mrs. q. 5. Waite, of Salina, Kansas,
gives the following advice in the kill
ing of lice. $50 TO a gas house and
ask for refuse tar; the amount that you
will have TO get will depend on how
much or und you will have to go over.
If you cannot get it, get tar of any
kind, only the refuse is cheaper and
Just as good. Sprinkle it on the roots
inside of the house, in the nests, ON the
ground; in fact, everywhere. One gal
lon may do, and you will not be both
cred with lice or mites either, as it kills
both.r
How is wax obtained by the bee for
its normal use in and about the hive?
II we examine the abdomen of the
worker bee we shall find four rings or
folds on the under side of the abdomen
which are called "wax pockets In
the process of comb making, little
flakes of white wax appear, exuding
from the folds, which are seized by the
bee when fully developed. and by the
legs conveyed to the mandibles, by
which il is worked into the nice white
combs which we see when the comb is
newly built, the same being used either
for the reception Of honey or brood.
At any time when bees are building
comb these little flakes can be found on
the bottom board to the hive, as some
are always wasted, especially with
newly hived swarm.-London Bee
Hive.
At the annual meeting of the Hol-
stein Friesian Association a report was
made on a series of food tests on Hol-
stein -Friesians, prizes being offered for
the cheapest food cost in producing
butter and milk. Sixteen cows were in
the test, and the cost of producing
pound of butter ranged all the way
from l3.5 cents down to 40 cents.
Without making an accurate mathe-
matical average, the largest number
were in the neiehbOrhood of 633 cents.
On the cost of food for 100 poun Is Of
milk-5.5 cans-the cost ranged from
GA cents to 259 cents. The greatest
number were in the thirties, between
81 and 81 cents.
There is no way of exterminating
the common daisy except by plOwing
or destroying the individual plants.
Probably plowing In the spring, and
constant and frequent cultivating with
some tool like the cutaway or disk har-
row during the summer, would destroy
most of them.-Rural New Yorker.
A Canadian experimental farm sends
out a formula for sieriliziDg grape juice
so that ii may be kept without ferment- !
ing, retaining its natural flavor. Heat
it gradually to l70 degrees Fahrenheit,
and keep it at that temperature for 10
minutes. Have the bottles in kettle
of boiling water, take them out, fill
and cork tightly Immediately. Being
perfectly sweet and thoroughly ster-
ilized, it will keep for an indefinite
period. Probably cider could also be
kept in the same way and other fruit
juices
Mr.. C. B. Bush, president of the Gill
mer county court, tells briefly his ex-
perienee with an epidemic Of bloody
fiux in his family He writes under
date Of October 8, 1896, at Auburn w.
Va During the past summer we
had three cases Of bloody fiux in our
family which We cured in less than one
week with Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhea Rtmefy. In some
instances there were twenty hem
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