The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-15
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trade, and can be prosecuted better by bred
merchants, as farmers can not. hold the plow
and measure ribbons.
II a farmer wishes to improve bis winters,
let him plant an acre of Osier willows, ana
he can have plenty of work in making vii
low baskets, a trade which can be learned in
a week. He will produce annually about
FIVE tons of sprouts.
The number of neat cattle has rapidly in
creased in this country. By the census of
1910, there were in the United States 4,971,-
$50; in 1850. there were 1s.37s,9 COZ. while in
1870 it had increased TO %, $50, 608. The total
value of live stock is 81 ,525. 276, 457.
4 writer in a New England agricultural
paper says that, as strange as it may appear.
he knows of some farmers who have barns
without cellars, and the manure was thrown
out of the barn windows, where it lay ex-
posed to rains, and he favors statuary pro-
vision to put a stop to such willful waste.
Let those who think that if all plant corn
instead Of wheat, the pork and cattle bust
ness will be overdone, look carefully to the
tables of slaughtered animals in this coun-
try. In 1860 the value of slaughtered ami
mails was 500, 600, 900. and in 1870, $500. OOO,-
coo. If it reaches double that in 1850 there
will be a demand for all.
How TO EcoNoMIzE HEATH TOR any
reason sufficient bed'clothing isgnot to be
had for the'cold of the approaching winter,
the heat generated in the bed can be easily
saved to the comfort and health of the
s~leepers. For this purpose paste the leaves
of four newspapers together and place them
between the covering, the paper being non
porous, holds the animal heat when COM
bined with quilts and blankets better than
the latter alone.
A frost proof wall under a house is very
easily made, thus: In laying up the main
wall of stone, at a point below where the
frost~can reach, ajog outwsrds OF four inches
is made; upon the inner edge of this Jog,
brick is laid up edgewise in mortar, reach
ing tothe floor. securing a dead air space of
two inches in the we'll; thus making it proof
against frost entering through it. By this
simple and not expensive way of building
cellar walls or the walls under our houses.
the annual expense of banking and clearing
away, and the nuisance of litter necessarily
attending the doing of it, are avoided.
SALT o HoGs.-The unrestrained appe-
tite of swine will often lead them to consume
things that are highly injurious to them.
Cases of poisoning by partaking of excessive
quantities of salt often occur among hogs at
this season when beef and pork barrels are
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case in which several hogs were lost in Eng
land was recently noted. Hogs require a
certain amount of salt, as do other animals.
bat it should be given to them with caution,
aud either evenly mixed or scattered very
thinly about their troughs, so that one more
greedy than another can not take more than
its proper share.
COLD RAINs.-Don't permit your stock to
stand out in them. Many never think of
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ally sets in. The cold autumn rains are in
fnitely worse than snow. The animal
becomes chilled to the bone, and permanent
injury is the result. TIL rains in most local
tiles have held OF too well, pastures have
been cut short, and stock has been per
mitted to Craze them too close already. Draw
them off and feed literally. Give milch
cows Stops and succulentf food, and avoid the
bad results of a sudden transition from
green to dry food.
CATTLE FEEDING.-"Little and often" is
the motto of the careful and skillful cattle
feeder. AS an example we give the practice
of the most successful of English feeders.
At $3.50 in the morning, meal mixed with
pulped roots and cut chaff, just enough of
the roots to n oisten the chaff; at 8 O'Clock.
20 pounds of sliced roots; at 10 o'clock, meal
and chaff, as before; at noon, oil cake
and chat; at 2 O'Clock, meal and chaff. as be-
fore; at 4:30 P. NJ, meal and chsff; at 6 P. NJ,
hay, from four to five pounds. Water is
kept where it can be taken at all times. and
the animals are kept in boxes, loose. Three
or four pounds of meal and cake is eonsid-
cred enough to begin with per day, and it is
increased as the cattle need it.
FEEDING CoRN.-Milch COWS especially
can not be kept on a too generous diet. 1t
is probably true that fifty per cent. of the
profit which might be realized from the
dairy stock of this country is annually lost
to their owners from want of necessary
quantity and the quality of food which
should be given them. L. T. Allen gives
experiments by DIR. Rhode Eden, of the
Royal Academy of Agriculture. in
Prussia. of the comparative yield of
stable feeding or soiling, through seven
years of each system. The average per COW
for the whole seven years in p~asturing was.
1,5SS quarts, while the average per COW for
the seven years of ssabling or soiling was
3,442 quarts. From this result it is seen that
the cow Is capable OF producing 100 per cent.
more then she usually does, provided she
is kept in the most comfortable manner. and
fed with The greatest milk producing sub
stances. She may produce but half of the
above quantities if not properly housed in
the winter, and scantily fed during the
whole year.
PACKING APPLEs.-The Practical Farmer
gives the following instructions in preparing
apples for sale by the barrel:
l. The barrel must be sweet, clean and
free from nails on the inside.
2. The apples must be picked from the tree
by hand, when perfectly dry, and placed
carefully in the barrels.
3. Not a single imperfect a~pple-either
wormy, Ill shaped, decayed or bruised-is to
be placed in the barrel which is to be sold as
No. 1.
4. No leaves or stems are to be put in.
8. The barrels are TO be filled full after
they are shaken down. The head will crowd
a few OF them but the mass v i'll 90 down
without bruising, while, if they are not
crowded by the head, they will roll around
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