The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1899-03-15
All Around ths Farm.


For roses select spot where they
will always get the sun keep them
away from shade trees and climbers
always do better upon the sammy side
OF the house. The soil does not matter
so much, II the place be not low and
wet Chip dirt and barnyard scrap
ings are good fertilizers, and should be
we'll worked into the earth
II broody hens are properly treated
nine out Of ten will begin 10 lay again
within two weeks after being removed
FROM the nest. But II they are half
drowned, starved week, or bruised
and abused it Is more than likely they
will get even with their owners by de-
clining to lay a single egg until they
have fully recovered from their ils-
treatment and acquired their customs
AIRY tranquility.
The farmer who keeps flock Of Leg
horn chickens where they can run
among the sheep. viii be saved the
trouble Of either using insect powder or
dipping, as far as ticks are concerned,
and If the sheep are full Of ticks when
shearing, il he will give the leghorns
good chance they will rid them Of ticks
equal to any sheep dip, and with much
less trouble and expense, and they viii
also do the work well.
Wash your hands Ia bOrax water in
stead OF using soap. The milk pals
are better aud cleaner for having been
rinsed in borax water. Use warm WA
ter tn rinse with. Many dairymen who
deliver milk to their city customers in
the large tin cans, rinse them once
day with solution Of borax water;
small handful of borax to a large dish
painful Of water to wash the cans in.
They use a brush TO get them thor
oughly clean inside. BOrAx kills the
germs which cause milk to sour, and it
costs so little, every one will be able to
keep it.
Vegetable life is influenced much
more by certain kinds Of light rays than
by others, and Flammarion, the French
astronomer, has been enabled to esti-
mate the relative values OF the different
rays. -Four hOthouses, Of red, green,
blue and ordinary glass, were built, and
vegetables Of the same species were eul-
tivated in all. The experiment showed
that plants in the red house attained a
much greater size than those in the
blue house. The light through blue
glass stunted the plants, which thrive
better under green light, still better un-
der the chemical influence Of red rays,
and best of all in white light
Experiments at the Ohio station have
demonstrated clearly that the apple
scab is the chief factor in the destrue-
ton of the apple crop, and that this
fungus can be kept under control by
spraying. Four splendid successive
crops were produced on the sprayed
trees at the station, while the fruit oa
the unsprayed trees in the same and
neighbOring orchards was worthless.
I The director, Professor TbOrne, calls
attention to the fact that exhaustion OF
soil fertility, want Of water aud insect
ravages may all cooperate with sexb or
other fungous growth in shortening
the crop, aud says: EFF our orchards
are again to produce the great crops Of
earlier days, we must, in so far as pos
sible, restore the soil conditions Of those
days; We must avoid the waste Of wa
ter in those sections where rainfall is
scanty by preventing the growth under
the trees Of weeds or grass, and by
keeping the surface in such condition
as to prevent rapid evaporation"