The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-26
HOME AND FARM NOTES.

Much wisdom is found in farm papers, but
there is great mass of impracticable nom
sense printed.
Plant sunflowers. They yield honey for
bees, the seeds are valuable for poultry and
the growing plant is a preventive of ague in
its vicinity.
Potatoes are an exceedingly profitable
crop, if properly attended to. Michigan
profits largely by the potatoes sold to Indi-
ana and Illinois. Put ashes an the field.
Sloveliness and filth make half the farm
ers unhappy and measurably unsuccessful.
A neat farmer is careful and systematic
farmer, and such one rarely fails of sue
cess.
Poor MANS FILTER.-Take q common
garden fiower-pot. of some nine inches in
diameter and ten inches in depth. The
drainage hole is stopped mot too tightly
with piece of clean sponge. layer OF
about two inches of animal charcoal is first
placed in the pot, then a second layer of
three inches of clean course gravel Is placed.
The pot can be set over-sn earthen pot, into
which an abundance of pure water will I'LL
ter for all drinking purposes.
To KEEP HAMS IN SUMNER.-The Ger
msntown Telegraph says: There are
a number of modes given to keep hams
through the warm season free from the at
tscks of insects. Some bag them and while
wash the bags, which is troublesome and
somewhat expensive; some cover
them with dry wood ashes and
pack them in barrels; some pack them in
barrels and cover thoroughly with pine
shavings; but we think the best plan of all,
and certainly the least expensive with all
who have a smoke-house, and every farmer
should have good one, Is to keep the hams
hung up in the smoke house, which
should be kept perfectly dark at all times
GRANGER vERsEs.-Some years ago, the
committee on bread and butter. at the Dor
chester (Mass.) Agricultural Fair, closed
their report with these wholesome. and to q
certain class, of young men, rather touching
Hines:
The girl engaged in moulding bread
shall make some sweetheart iutter,
To make his bread and butter.
She may not play the game croquet,
OR French and German stutter,
And makes sweet bread and butter.
- In meal and cream she's elbow deep,
And cannot stop to putter;
But says Ii he Will sow and reap,
She'll make his bread and butter.
The dairy maid the farmers wife,
Shall be that toast we utter;
Alone, man leads a CT usty life,
n Without good bread and butter.
PLANT TREEs.-T. G. Peters, of Kings
county, N. Y. says in the Tribune: know
of nothing that will give man more pleas
ure than preparing and laying aside an acre
of land for a nursery. both for fruit and for
est trees. In the fall it is but a small matter
to gather few quarts OF acorns, chestnuts
black and shell-bark walnuts, butternuts
Spanish chestnuts. beechnuts. the seeds OF
the white and black ash, and taking any old
barrel that won't hold water, fill it with
good loan, scattering in your
seeds, and put the barrel. out
doors and let it stand exposed to the
weather till frosts are past in the spring,
then empty the Darrell upon the floor of the
barn or clubhouse and pick out the seeds and
plant them in your nursery. II well cared
for you can draw from your nursery in the
autumn and plant the trees about the farm,
both fruit and forest, and in a few wears be
well rewarded for the time you have spent.
Every farmer should keep his wood lot as
securely fenced and free from cattle and
sheep during the summer as he would his
cornfield, and should always plant some por-
ton of his wood lot where denuded for win
ter fuel or timber. II so done we should
hear less about the destruction of forests.
DRESSING UP. Moore's Rural lectures thus
wisely: The negligent habit acquired when
young, Of never hoeing out the row, crops
cut nowhere more conspicuously with