The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-22
HOME AND FARM.


ANY suggestion, fact, or inquiry relating
to farming or industrial matters by practical
people will at all times be acceptable for this
column.
The following is both true and important:
1t is great mistake, in handling potatoes,
to allow them to be exposed to the sun. espe-
cially when tender. In digging, have bask-
cts of convenient size at hand, and, as fast
as you can dig, put in barrels and cover up;
transfer them fresh to market, or to a room
where they may be emptiei upon floor
to dry in the shade.
A great many housewives are sweating
terribly over the fruit cans these days. There
are reasons for doing this work in many in
stances, hard and trying as it is. Better
fruit is often thus secured, what would
otherwise go to waste is saved, an abundant
supply is assured, and great luxury is pro-
vided for the family. But for families in
town Iwhefe the fruit to be canned must
first be bought, it is doubtful policy to un
dertake the task. Better buy the fruit al
ready put up and relieve the wife from a
prOdigious task.
In his recent address before the Claremont,
n. H., agricultural society by Mr.. VIM. NJ.
Evarts, he confessed to an ambition to sue
coed as a gentleman farmer. There is one
fault with gentleman farmers. He sees his
neigbor fan mers prosper, just SIS they devote
their own skill and the ir own care to their
farm, and he thinks the way for him to sue
coed is to throw his own skill and thought
into his farm. There is his fatal mistake.
The first thing for him 10 do is to learn 10
| let his farm alone, and leave it to the care of
practical and sensible farmers. Mr.. Evarts
has "place" in Windsor, VT, where he
plays farmer and pays the bills out of his
professional income.
CUTTING CoRN.-The Agriculturist says
this is the great work of the month. AS
soon as the corn is glazed to the tips of the
ears it is ready to cut. If struck with
frost the fodder is seriously injured.
Topping corn Is excusable only
where fodder is worth nothing.
We have not found that place vet. The
up to the butts for fodder. The practice of
leaving hill uncut to hold up the shock,
is more troublesome in the end than
setting up the shock securely at first.
Spread the butts well, and tie the tops of
the shocks with rye straw bands. There
will be no more shocks blown over, than
ifs hill is left uncut in the center of each.
Our plan is to cut five hills each way, or if
in rows twenty feet of each row for five rows.
This makes a shock that will dry out thor
oughly in two weeks. Corn cut before the
10th should be husked before the
end of the month. Cold fingers and be-
numbed hands make slow husking. "A good
husking machine is made, but strangely no
one seems to want it. There are a great
many farmers who could proftably invest
500 in a good corn husker.
AN OLD HUMBUG.-It was a virtue with
the fathers to rise early. 1t is still one of
the cardinal sins of the rural regions, as will
be seen from clever correspondent of the
Boston Globe, who has been summering
. | " friends Ohm "a
was absolutely nothing to mar my pleasure,
but the senseless habit my country friends
have OF getting up too early in the morning.
} Fancy making visit to friend or relative,
} and, after fstiguing days's ride and excit-
ing meeting and visiting, being called to
take breakfast at $50 O'Clock. One could
bear it if he could sometimes sleep over and
be called early every other morning. The
"falp' never left much worse evidence of
vitiated human nature. There are thousands
: of farmers wives and daughters who are be-
ing slowly killed by loss of sleep. They
rise very early, they works very hard all
? day until bedtime, and before s'tirod ma
lures sweet restorer' has had time to recre-
ate them for the labors of another day. they
must rise for work again; and SO on, year
after year, with rare or no vacations, en-
gagged in the same ceaseless round of house.
keeping. The people of the rural districts
need a rest that can be had only from eight
hours in bed.
MEN SHOULD mILk.-fractlcally, II
, is fact that women are bet
ter mixers than men, but it is not nee
essarily so. A man can milk cow quicker
and easier than woman if he is so disposed.
1t is ''relic of barbarism," quite as much
, so as slavery was, for man to leave the
milking Of cows to the women, especially
when he is loafing idly around, as is often
3 the case. And this suggests general state
ment that on the farm the hardships of rural
> life are heavier on the women than the
men. During the year or two past many
farmers with their families have removed to
the city. With the old farmer the change
3 does not prove to be very satisfactory.
There is no fitting employment for either his
5 hand or his mind, and he is oppressed with
intolerable ennui. Soon he says to the wife,
"Come, let's 90 back to the farm" But she
t is not so ready. The change
Q to her has been an eman-
: cipation. She has escaped cooking for the
: harvest hands, and hundred slavish jobs
Q for which she never got but half credit on
the farm. She don't care to 60 back, leav-
+ ing society that has given her "a new
view of life and degree of ease which they
never knew before. 1t is not easy to remedy
9 the difficulty, but where there is a will to dc
l might be done. To begin with, he could
4 and should milk the cows.
CORN FooD.-A little light is at last com
ing on the use of corn meal for human food
Many have a vast deal to say about it,
healthfulness. A correspondent of the "Per
and Pillow" has got hold of the right string
The truth is, that Will corn is full of nutri
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