The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-19
HOME AND FARM.


worked. Afterward, If it and the climate
are naturally moist, top dressing Is best.
b. J., in the Country Gentleman. says
the best orchard in Central Illinois, on the
prairies, do not bear a full crop oftener than
once in five years, owing to the want OF
potash, he thinks.
A correspondent OF the Country Gentle
man keeps cider by rarking of when fer
mented Just right, and adding pound OF
white sugar to each gallon. lt Is a good
drink in haying and harvesting the year Iol-
lowing.
A good lubricator for wooden axles is
made Of six parts of clean tallow and two
parts of fine, smooth plumbago. Another
- made of five parts of tallow, five parts of
soapstone. one part of plumbago, and nine
parts rosin oil; the tallow and the OIL are
heated and mixed, after which the soapstone
and plumbago are added.
Yon can save feed and trouble by getting
rid of your poorest stock now. This is par
ticularly true OF sheep. Get rid of the mis-
enable. scrawny ones that you know will not
winter over, or if they do, will be worth
nothing when spring opens. Better
knock them in the head and sell the pelts
than feed them all winter for nothing. 1t
pays to keep good stock, but poor stock
never.
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man. " no has had experience in hog rails
ing, SAYS: az am satisfied that, other things
being eoual, a cross between a Chester
White SOW and Berkshire boar VIII make
more pork from the same amount OF FOOD
than any other breed; tney may n ots 20 a
large ag the same age as the full ChesteFs'
but they will consume less food and keep
in better condition"
In putting away winter apples, give them
the coolest part of the cellar. Every cellar
ought to have q partition in it, cutting of
space large enough to store apples, and then
keen this room at a much lower tempe nature
than that for other vegetables. Instead OF
stufing straw in the cellar windows or
banking dirt over them, put In an extra sash
outside of the one that is in, giving four to
six inches space between them. III the outer
sash is fitted close with weather strips there
is no danger of freezing, and your cellar Is
light enough to 90 into without q candle or
lantern. cellar perfectly dark is nuisance.
In curing meats of any kind, says the
Country Gentleman, it is absolutely neces-
sary to use salt enough to saturate the brine
around the meat, or to substitute sugar in
place of part of the salt, if the meats are TO
be used dried, or smoked without much
freshening. 1t is immaterial what kind OF
salt is used, provided it is pure. Finely
ground dairy salt is worth Just as much per
pound as the coarsest of rock salt, from the
same source. In an experience of % years
re have never had but one package OF meat
Injured. and that was sailed with the coarse
salt usually recommended as the only re-
liable sort TO use. 1t is always necessary
that the salt should be pure, and that enough
should bs used to saturate the brine, or some
equivalent substituted.
writer in the Chicago Tribune says
This is a trying time for many farmers aud
farrn-hands, and many of them fan at this
point. Many farmers and farm hands who
can do good days work when they have &
steady line OF work for all day, make 1
decided failure at this time, vheI
tbev have to go bobbing around, al
hour at this, a half hour at that, and
when all the small matters are ATTENDED
TO- put the team TO the wagon and 60 TO haul
ing manure. or two farm hands equal.
valuable for summer work, one may be goo'
for these odds and ends of work, and tn
otner OF little or no value. One waits 70
YOU to direct him-to switch him, like a de
pot engine. from one little job to the other
while the other knows what is to be done
and sets himself about doingit it. And, whei
work becomes slack, and part OF the hel
must be dismissed, you have no hesitation
in fixing on the one TO part with
THE CORN CROP.
The department of agriculture make
another report upon the Indian corn Gro
in the United States for the year 1874. TIL
area planted 10 corn was greater than las
wear, but there was decrease in the numbt
of bushels produced. The enlargement
breadth planted was confined to th
Gulf coast, and the region mort
OF the Ohio and west of th
Mississippi. The quality of corn Is at lea'
an average i'm all the Eastern states, exceE
Inns in al n
die states except Delaware; in the Carolina
Georgia and Texas; and in all the Wester
states except in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri
Kansas and Nebraska. The yield Is less tina
last year on the Atlantic coast, as far south q
Virginia, except in portions OF New Ens
land; larger from North Carolina TO FlOrid'
and in Mississippi and Texas, and In Obi
and Iowa; the reduction IN other Wester
states ranges from TO 81 per cent. The az
parent reduction (which may be slightl
modified in the final estimate) IS aboT
10000 GEO bushels; the aggregate of Loci
estimates exceeding but slightly 500, 600 OF
bushels. AS the crop of last year was not a
average one. the present product is M
more than four-ffths of the yield of goo
corn year.
recent writer speaks thus of the poss
bilities of the oranges in the obtaining
accurate statistical information: The n
tianal Grange might open correspondent
each year with paid agents in Russia, HUI
gary, Poland, France, England, German
etc, and obtain positive aud reliable info
nation as to the quantity of wheat raise'
and at the same time each subordiDa
grange in the United States and CanaC
might report to the National Grange ea'
week, during he growing season and harve
time, the amount of wheat on hand or ha
vested in their respective localities. The
reports could be tabulated and summarize
aud furnished weekly to every subordina
grange in the United States. the farme
would then have reliable information b2s
upon actual data: and not be compelled
accept the guesses of the agricultuI
bureau; or the garbled 10 ports OF interest
bulls and bears. The National grange cou
also give, in these weekly statements, t