The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-30
HOME AND FARM NOTES.

10 O'Clock A. NJ, and to rest full hour at
noon.
Cut grass for hay while it is in bloom.
What is lost in weight. if anything, is made
up in quality.
Some farmers would do well to make a
record of the time spent in town. They say
that loafng in town ruined farmer ScrOggins.
= One advantage of cultivating flowers and
small fruits, is that it leads TO a habit of
more thorough tillage which is not bad
thing for regular farm crops.
Thoroughbred bulls are sold at very low
figures. 1t is the last extreme of stupidity
for farmers to use any other. The negligence
which permits that will be sure to keep any
man poor.
The greatest obstacle 10 dairying in this
latitude is the hot summer. The prime
object here is to fortify against heat and a
certain nsstiness in the atmosphere that is
ruination to milk. 1ra
In building dwelling. devote study, ex-
pense, everything to the kitchen and its
related convenieDces, take good care with
the lodging rooms, but let the care about
parlors come last and least into the account.
POTATO BUGs.-The Martin county Herald
mas this: A friend of ours tells us that
whenever there is peafowls on a farm the
potato bug does not affect the potatoes. He
says that he has noticed this particularly for
a nunte r of years, and that IN all cases
where peafowls were kept on the farm the
WELD of potatoes was abundant, while the
bugs were eating up the potatoes in the
same neighborhOod. But the question will
recur: Is not the remedy worse than the
disease?
APPLE TREE BoRER.-An Iowa man writes
to the Inter-Ocean: 1 will give you the best
method of destroying this terrible pest of
the orchard that was ever discovered, and 1
claim the honor of the discovery, in this
part of the world, at least. The old way of
cutting the borer out was a slow one, and
often the tree would be completely girdled
before the litGle rascal was captured. My
method is to take a common syringe, fill the
cylinder with turpentine or kerosene oil;
place the nozzle of the syringe to the place
where the borer entered the tree. and with
quick movement force the oil or turpentine
into the little villains hiding-place, and, my
word for it, he won't need another dose.
FISH AND BRAINs.-PrOE s. w. Johnson
makes light OF the notion that eating FISH is
specially beneficial to the :brain. And he
throws out in the Tribune this bold banter:
With your permission will challenge those
who know how to feed brains to disprove
the following propositions, one or ali:
|. There is no evidence sufficient to DEM
onstrate that fish is better brain food than
flesh, fowl, or grains.
q There is no evidence that fish contains
more PHOSPHORUS than flesh, fowl, or grains.
g. There is no proof that If fish did
contain more PHOSPHORUS than other foods
il would sustain brain labor or restore
brain waste any better on that account.
A. There is no food that contains SD much
as one-half per cent. of phosphorus except
bones and rat paste.
BREAD enthusiastically says this
is an excellent way to do it.: ''Take about
eight slices of stale light bread, put it in a
pan, and pour over it sufficient cold water
to cover it when quite soft, pour the water
off and squeeze the bread quite dry, first re-
moving the brown crust; then take one
quart of sweet milk and add gradually to
the bread, stirring it well, that no Jumps
remain: add one teaspoonful of salt; then
take six eggs, beat them up light, and stir
them in the mixture last; pour them into a
well buttered pan, and bake three-quarters
of an hour in a hot oven. Make rich
sauce OF butter, sugar, and cream, favored
with nutmeg"
SARCAsTIcAL-The Tribune says: Apro-
pos of the interest felt in the cultivation OF
the peanut, Mr.. Fuller suggests, with mild
sarcasm, that "our commissioner of agri-
culture might be persuaded to purchase a
few thousand bushels for distribution as
choice seed among the people of the North
ern states where peanuts do not thrive. If
a supply was furnished 1t would not be in
cumbent uLon the receiver to plant them
for they are very palatable when well
roasted When the first lot has been dis
posed of, write for more, because the bust
ness of the department is to supply the
500 lie araA ne ms re mo
seeds, why not add them TO the list?" sure
enough.
FILTH FEvER-Sir William Gull, in lee
ture on typhoid fever, recently delivered at
Guys hospital, argues that the disease is as
preventable as ague, and that the time will
come when death from it will be as rare.
He says it is caused by virus of nature,
which may getinto the healty body, increase
IN il and destroy it. 1t is an accidental con-
dition and not one of the ordinary processes
of nature The origin ofthe disease is some
how or other connected with drainage; it
has therefore been called the hlth fever, and
to get rid of the filth is TO get rid of the te-
yer. DR.. Guy asserts that no one can APP
proach case OF typhoid fever without pay
ing some attention to hygiene. This, ne
claimed, was of the greatest importance,
and with it he would prefer to carry any
one through the disease by wines and soups
and fresh air, rather than by the use OF
drugs.
PRIZE BUTTER EssAY.-"A Working Farm
or" IN Moore's Rural sweeps the board tor
all the prizes. His essay is short and COM
prehensive: Take the milk from nice. healthy
COWS, which have grazed on some young
living green grass, growing on some very
old sod put in very sweet and clean buckets
and strain into any clean pans; size no OBJ