The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-02

SOLD for the best butter In the city. retails
for about twenty-five 10 thirty cents, and
not one-quarter of 1t Is a. to go on the table
HAroHINa CHIcKENs.-I am an old
chicken breeder, having 40 years expert
ence, and know that often chickens never
see daylight until the shell is broken, and
very often not then. Who that has raised
many chickens does rot remember finding
chicks with all the outer shell Clipped away
by the mother, while the chick was still en-
veloped in the inner membrane of the egg,
often alive, often dead? This thing often
happens in very dry seasons. Last sum-
mer, for instance, saved many chicks by
breaking the egg myself, knowing the period
of incubation was past from the fact that
most OF the other eggs being Matched and by
strict care observed in setting the hen, every
egg being dated when laid, ETC.; had more
than twenty chicks skin-smothered last
summer. 1 think, from observation, the
chipping belongs to the chick, the shell
breaking to the neutrality-suspicious. West
ern Rural.
ORCHARD PRUNrNe.-At the late meeting
of the Pennsylvania Fruit Growers Society
the subject of cultivating, manuring and
pruning was opened by Thomas Meehan.
He thinks much time thrown away in culfi-
waiting orchards. He prepared piece of
hard, rocky soil, by blowing under a heavy
old sod and planting potatoes, followed with
rye; and set in the fall, On stubble, 500
fruit trees Of ali kinds and sorts. for his
own use-dwarfs and standards. The
work was done by common laborers,
in rough manner, and the land
seeded, since which he had moved from two
10 three tons per acre yearly. for four years.
All varieties seemed alike to do we'll, and
make large current years growth. He
has applied surface soil, taken from along
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the trees, as far as the roots extend; but the
next year leaves the place where applied the
year before, and puts the mould outside the
former application-thns getting the tree
food farther and farther from the trunk, and
placing it where the feeding roots can get it.
He also applies to the grass S. or IS worth of
phosphates per year. He Prunes but little,
and grows fine fruit with little expense.
WINTER PLoUGHING AND CUT WORMS
Without being able to exactly account for
it. it is now a well established fact that
the most inexpensive and thorough manner
of providing against the ravsges of the cut
worm in sod land is to turn under the sod
in the fall, winter and very early spring
The worm is a busy fellow, and performs
his work thoroughly in the coal, damp
weather of April and early May, and as he
only yields his hold under the hot suns of
summer, farmers are, in many in
stances, constrained to deter the plant
ing season too late in order to checkmate
him. Corn, to do well in this latitude,
should be planted earlier by week or ten
days than it usually is. If it can be forced
to substantial growth before the annual
drought sets in, we are much more likely to
garner good croP than if it is planted later,
AMI has to struggle through dry, hot weather
to arrive at maturity. Plow your sod lands,
intended for corn, during the open spell in
February. Cross-plow early in April, har-
row and lay of, and plant as soon after the
18th of April as the circumstances and
weather will permit. Early planting may
fail sometimes, but it is preferable TO late
planting nine years in ten.
HINTS on TEA MAKINe.-Ii the tea is de-
sired to be of good flavor, be careful not to
make it in a teapot which has been long out
of use. without having previously washed
it out with boiling water. This is done to
remove any slight moldiness which might
| bs present in the vessel without being OBJ
served, and which would impart dissa-
greeable taste to the tea when made. Always
keep the tea in proper canister, protected
| from the atmosphere and from damp, other
wise it will lose the pleasant scent peculiar
| to good tea, aud, when used, give the bower
age an unpleasant flavor. In making
tea, always fill up the teapot at once
By this means the whole of the the
ine-wh;ch is the vegetable principle on
which the peculiar effects produced by tea
depends-is extracted at once. This will be
found much superior to the plan sometimes
adopted of wetting the tea with a small
quantity of water, and then allowing it to
stand before filling the teapot. For the pur-
pose of extracting the whole theme, the
water should be allowed to remain in the tea
for at least ten minutes before pouring it
out. Be also careful that the water EN-.
ployed for making tea is boiling before FILL
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and the tea employed will not go as far as it
otherwise would.
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