The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-07-27

The objection to mi'iet hay Tor horses
is due 10 the fact that it is seldom cut at
the right time and properly cared.
There are only two or three days in the
growth Of millet during which ii is
just at the right stage 20 cut for the
best hay. II should b. cut the very
day the first heads are noticed to conf
mence 10 turn yelIowish from ripening.
This is when about half the heads are
luIl- grown, but before any Of the seed
has matured. Il should then lie in the
swath until fully cured, but no longer.
When dry it should be raked into long
wlndrows with a horserake by going
back and forth at right angles to the
swaths, and at once put on the wagon
with a hay-loader and stacked or put
into the harm as rapidly as possible.
1t will be necessary to use very nice
judgment in applying the principles
which govern tree growth and fruit
production; but in these days Of abun-
danii horticultural literature and excel
lent books on orchard economy, no one
ought to be at loss TO know what to
do for the best under his own condi-
tions. No two cases are exactly alike;
advice for your neighbor would be
wholly inapplicable under your condi-
tions. Every man must work out his
own salvation in temporal as well as
spiritual things, and the palm will go
to the man who applies liberal dress
ing Of brains to his land. Northwest
Horliculturist.
Here is good plan for keeping but
ter cool in summer:
In the middle oi your cellar floor dig
hole or vault 81 feet deep and 81 feet
square. Wall it up with brick laid in
lime mortar and cement and floor it
with soft brick. Lay frame Of good
hard wood in mortar upon the top of
this vault. Hinge 10 the frame a trap
door Of plank two inches thick, making
it fit smoothly over the top. Then after
the cream is separated and cooled put
il down in the vault to ripen. Butter
may be kept there in the agreeable
coolness also. If you have no separa-
tor, put the cream into your vault as
soon as you have skinned it, there to
cool and ripen. Once OF twice week
clear out the vault and wash il thor
oughly 10 prevent its getting mouldy.
Pour cold water upon the soft bricks
of the floor. They will absorb it and
cool the air. This is very successful
way to keep milk, butter and cream
cool in hot weather on farms where
there is no iee.-Valley Farmer.
fermented wine is being made
quite largely in the grape region of
New York. The usual practice is to
heat .ne grape juice TO the steriizing
point, and then TO seal it while hot,
just as we do canned fruit The bottl, 5
should be kept lying on their sides in a
dark place. 1t is asserted that some
inscriptions makers have used salicy-
lie acid instead of sterilization to pre-
vent fermentation, but the pure "uu-
fermented wine" contains no preserva-
tive. The salicylic acid would be re-
garded in the eyes Of the law as an adj
ulterant.-R Rural New Yorker.
1t has long been the belief Of many
farmers that the broad leaf of buck
wheat will so overshadOw the Canada
thistle as TO completely destroy it. But
the instances they cite to prove this be-
liei can be well explained otherwise.
When a thrifty thistle patch is allowed
to grow up until late in June and is
then plowed under in fall bloom 1t may
be killed whether sowed with buck
wheat or not. IL was thus that Canada
thislles were sometimes killed In the
old times, when ground was plowed In
June and summer fallowed for wheat.
The large mass Of top conpeeted with
the root, if the plowing was deep
enough, kept on rotting until most of
the root was rotted away or so weak
ened by lack Of air and light that only
the feeblest kind of sprouts were Pc
dueed. But if the plowing was shall
low, as it generally is for buekwheat,
the stems will be cut Off above the root,
and will leave that with strength
enough to make vigorous struggle for
existence all the rest OF the season. In
most cases we have seen where thistles
were plowed under and the ground
sowed with buckwheat, the thistles
made better growth than the grain.
IL is difficult TO get sod ground or TINT
infested with thistles in good condition
for buekwheat unless it is plowed early
and frequently cultivated
Culiivator.
Mr.. c. b. Bush, president Of the Gi,=
mer county court, tells briefly his ex-
perienee with an epidemic of bloody
fiux in his family. lie writes under
date of October s, 1896, at Auburn w.
Va. During the past summer we
had three eases of bloody flux 10 our
family which We cured in less than one
week with Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Dlarrh@a Rtmefy. In some
instances there were twenty hem.
mortgages day" This remedy never
fails to cure the worst case OF bloody
fiux and all bowel complaints and every
family should keep 1t At hand. For
sale by all druggists.
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