The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-20
HOME AND FARM NOTES.

HOME AND FARM NOTES.
Why not raise thirty bushels of wheat per
acre?
Nine-tenths of the honey bees in this state
are dead.
DIR. Furnas says that strawberries at fifty
cents a gallon pay ten times more profit
than pork raising.
To prepare and cook food well is an &C
complishment that every woman should
study earnestly. 1t is an art to be proud of.
Rarely, if ever before in the history of
Illinois, has the growing wheat crop present
ed so promising an appearance at new
year as at the present time.
RECIPE PoR SAUsAGE.-To ten pounds of
meat take three ounces of salt, one of black
pepper. one-half ounce sage. if desired; mix
the seasoning well, and sprinkle it over the
meat before it is chopped, as no after mix
ing will blend the whole so nicely.
DRILLING Fletcher Carr, Ell
mira, New York, believes in drilling in
buekwheat. de says: Zone field which
had borne buckwheat 20 years out of the
last %, gave nearly twenty-five bushels to
the acre drilled, while other fields, quite as
fertile, gave not more than twelve broad
cast"
The Agriculturalist well says: Sheep
should have dry quarters. Dry cold is bet
ter than warm, wet weather. Avoid close,
damp. ill-ventilated easements; also be care
full not to use so much straw for bedding in
the sheds and yards that the manure will
ferment under the sheep. Nothing can be
worse.
BABY SHows.-From the beginning of
mere fancy, the baby show promises to be-
come standing feature of the fairs. HUI
man stock is to be tested and encouraged by
premiums and ribbons. The state fair of
New Hampshire will be adorned with baby
show next fall. 1t was so voted by the
board last week.
PET HoRsEs-As with man, so the horse
ought to work. Hard work and good care
make a horse that is good for some thing.
But the family horse and pet of the city is
little better than an invalid. Fat, soft and
debilitated, a decent drive on the road would
kill him. If you keep a horse give him the
luxury Of labor.
EARLY LAMBs.-There is a vast difference
between young lambs and ducks. Keep the
former dry. Those expecting lambs early in
February and March should make special
provision beforehand to give warm shelter
in cold, windy, and rainy weather. IT one
happens to get chilled, apply warm bath,
and dry with hot flannels.
WINTER ToMAToEs.-A lady correspon-
dent tells MooTe's Rural that for many years
past she has had ripe tomatoes in February
growing them in her kitchen from seed
sown in midsummer in large boxes. She
trains them on trellises. and they are Orna
mental as well as pleasure to the palate.
The above suggestion is entirely practicable,
and happy device for combining utility and
beauty.
CURE OF GARBAGE WoRMs.-The Tribune
says the cabbage worm, that proves so de-
structive to the cabbage, is easily driven of
by busting the cabbage with finely Stacked
lime mingled with carbolic acid. To pre-
pare it, slack the lime in water in which the
acid has been dissolved, just sufficiently so
that the lime is brought to a fine dry pow
der. Scatter over cabbage early in the even
ing, and also early in the morning.
PUTTING A HORSE TO BED.-Tne Agricul-
turist gives a good hint for farmer
boys. The stable men understand it well.
A warm bran mash is good thing to give
a horse when he is brought homo hot and
exhausted from long journey. Blanket
him at once, and rub his ears and legs. and
parts Of the body as can be got at without
wholly removing the blanket. Ifyour man
thinks this too much trouble, and wilt not
do the work Willingly, discharge him. Bet
ter part with man than lose good horse.
BUTTER HUMBUG.-It has been lately an
nounced that suet butter was going to drive
old brindle out of her kingdom, and fac.
tories have been started to make butter from
SOAP grease or something of that kind. The
editor of the Northeast Farmer, having
tested the artificial butter" which has re.
ceived so much paid putting, expresses the
opinion that fondness for it does not come
by nature, but must be acquired. and that il
might be acquired just about simultaneously
with the time that person learned to like
''the peculiar taste of cold taliow on the roo
of the mouth, or the smell Of wet wooler
overcoats drying around a stove."
TAKE CARE OF THE CARRTAeE.-Science !,
worth little something. Below is the how
and the why vanished carriage will b,
ruined in the horse stable. 1t is from thu
Coach Makers Journal: There is common
and very vexatious complaint from partie
who store their carriages in the same build
ing with their horses, or in damp carriag
houses, Of poor varnish. This will happier
even after the very best material and var
nish have been used, for no varnish car
stand the action of the steam arising in
stable where horses are kept. Whel
a vanished carriage is exposed to an at
mosphere of ammonia, arising from manur
or decaving vegetable matter, the alzal
unites with the oil Of the varnisb, formin
An almost imperceptible filament of soar
which, when the carriage is washed dissolve
in the water and Is removed, leaving fres