The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-23
HOME And FARM NOTEs.

HOME AND FARM NOTES.
Wheat in southern Indiana is magnifi-
cent crop and ready for harvesting.
Everybody is fond of fruit, especially
Strawberries which are considered great
luxury. They are easily raised in album
dance. vet comparatively few people have
half as many as they want in the season.
Strawberries are OF little value canned or
pl eserved, their excellence being in the fresh
state Hence the short strawberry season
ought to be one continuous festival.
There is some truth in this from an ex-
change: The shoemaker has a price for his
work, and the blacksmith and carpenter
also, and the merchant price for his goods,
but when the farmer has produce to sell IL g
price is fixed by those who buy, and this is
what is complained of in these granger days.
But it is not the truth exactly, especially in
large transactions. Sugar, coffee. cotton
goods, and all leading commodities vary in
price as much as grain. When grain passes
into the hands of dealers they do not fix the
price any more than the farmer does and
when thew want to sell they ask what will
you give?" and they are obliged to take
what is offered. The variation in price is
regulated by the supply and demand, not by
any arbitrary rules.
Stock Journal has got hold Of the following
which is not new, butit is sure thing;
"Many ways have been proposed to keep
butter. but we think that of suspendiug it i'm
brine the most certain. Our inquirer i'm that
else would have to select such butter as is
satisfactory TO him in market, and put it
into new packages. Use q good taperirg
oak Tub with a head in each end. Take out
the largest head, having packed your butter
i'm camb brio sack of the shape of your tub,
only two inches smaller, put it in the tub and
rep ce the | eld, so as to be quite brine
tight Now through hole in the head,
pour the strongest brine to i'll plug and on
turning the tub upon the large end, the but
ter will float entirely in the brine and thus
be excluded from the air and preserved for
any length of time. This may also be done
in a common butter pail, by putting a small
block of oak wood on the under side OF the
cover. so as to sink the sack OF butter under
the brine in the pail. The first method of
floating the butter in the tub is an excellent
way of putting up for distant market"
CARE OF TURKEYs.-A woman of expert
ence and skill with young turkeys contrib
utes this: First, find the turkeys nest as
soon as possible and take the eggs out every
night. For nest eggs we always use hens
eggs If the turkey eggs are left ont they
get chilled and they do not hatch good Put
the eggs in box OF bran. Set them where
they will keep warm and turn them over
every other day at least. Ii your tui keys
ray far from the house 10 make mes. s,
when they go to setting bring them up near
the house. If You have no turkey house
make some coops just large enough for one
to set in near the house, and ser them.
Watch them when they come eff to
eat, or they will return to the old
nest. and the rsby the eggs will get chilled.
L do not think il a good plan to make tur-
| keys lay the second time. We have always
set them as soon as possible, so as TO have
early turkeys, believing that we can ins k
more money on fifty good early ones than
we can on one hundred little late ones. At
ter the little turkeys are hatched, put them
out. GIVE them diet of corn bread and had
boiled eggs chopped up fine We feed eggs
and some bread until tney are two weeks
DID, Sour milk curdlsd is also very goodfOr
them- After they are two weeks old feed
them only bread, until they are large enough
to eat corn. Shut them up every night In
coop un til they are large enough to fly up 10
roost. When they are small keep them in
of a morning until the dew gets of. Almost
every time oEr turkeys are left out, the
dogs, or something else kill about half OF
them.
STRIPED BUG REMEDY. T. Van Wyck.
of Dutcbess county, New York, hits the
mark exactly: OF all the various methods
of protecting vines from the ravages of
striped bugs l have found but one success
full, and that is to cover the plants so the
bugs cannot get at them. No powder or
liquid have ever found completely effect
ual. 1 take sheets of cotton wadding. and
cut each into nine equal pieces. Each one
of these pieces split, thus making IS, at a
cost of four cents. place net over each
hill, putting small stone or lump of dirt
on each corner to keep it from blowing
away. This it is better to do imme diately
after planting, as the bugs often attack the
plants before they are fairly out of tie
ground. These nets are elastic, so as the
plants grow they stretch. They also will
protect from a slight frost and act slightly
as a mulch. 1 have often noticed that
plants thus protected grew more vigorously
than those uncovered, even when no bugs
appeared. [ have never seen this remedy
recommended by any one but myself. Hun
dreds will lass over it on account OF its sim
pllcity and purchase the patent mosquito
netting at cost of % cents each.
have sometimes thought that should 1 ad
yer Use this method and charge say 10 cents
each far the nets, hundreds will use them
where only one will now. Any one who
objects to it on account of its cheapness can,