The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-13
HOME AND FARM.

Here's Darwinism for you applied to
breeding. Gen. Adair, who makes the study
of the honey bee specially, proposes some
curious changes in the honey bee that are to
DO accomplished by careful attention TO
their breeding, He proposes changing some
of their habits and characteristics. He says
their stings should be weak ened, their pro-
bosses heightened, their swarming instinct
and the enmity OF queens destroyed.
You must work If you are going to be
happy man. / know you think il is hard;
but if God had meant that you should be
butterfly, you woald be horn a butterfly.
And as YOU were not born a moth or a mil
e.. but a man, you must accep. the cen
di.ions of your manhood. And II there Is
one principle that is more important at the
threst o. of life than another, 1t is, that man
is born to work.
Let it not be forgotten that three of Gods
most benefcent gifts to man, health, SUM-
light, fresh air and water, are free to all; you
can have them in abundance, without
money and without rrice, II you will. If
you would enjoy good health, then see to it
that you are supplied with fresh air to
breathe all the time; that you battle Tor an
hour or SO in the sunlight; and that you
quench your thirst with no other fluid than
water.-JOurnal OF Health.
WIDTH OF WHEAT DRILL.-The German
6 own Telegraph calls attention to the TACT
that sin England, where close calculation Is
much more the rule in farming among the
moro intelligent Than with US, there is a
growing feeling in favor of the wide drill
Some set them wide as ten inches, and
the reports, especially this year, are gener-
orally in favor # the wide drills" The con-
diticn and strength Of the land must be
considered.
SWEET PEAs.-A skilliul cultivator of the
- res, pea plant says that il grown properly
it VIII bloom for months; that failure arise s
from poor soil, sowing too thickly, and not
allowing Tor a we'll developed and luxur;sat
growth. The soil should be very rich, and
for hedge or screen the peas sown in row.
TO keep Up the bloom the seed pods should
Toe promptly removed, rs the growth and
ripening OF the seeds would exhaust the
strength of the plant. By this process they
will bloom all summer and, until frost. BY
tia Way, there are few ventures in flowers
that pay bstter than the charming d lowering
peas OF mOderH times.
HIRED MEN.-Get the best hands, and
keep them. When a man has been used TO
his work and his employer, he is worth
moro than stranger. There is way o.
making men interested In their work, of sat
isfying their self.respect, treating them
4rourteouslv and reasonably, giving them
credit for succsss, while holding them strictly
responsible for failures, and above all, by
paving them promptly and literally, that
will make their work worth double what II
would otherwise be. AS land advances IL
price, more labor must be expended on IL tC
snake I. pay profit, and by and by we mus
have a settled laboring class. We are now
IN process of educating this class OF men
aBdmust do it by good mansgement.-PeI
ard PlOw.
SOME SOUND ADvIcE.-W. o. Spencer o
Madison county, n. Y. hits the nail on tn
head as follows: I know a farmer VIII
bought lumber wagon now almost 30 year
ago and to-day it is nearly as good as new
1t has been in constant use, but always keL
under shelter when not behind his team il
the field or on the road. A neighbor of hi
bought one at the same time and made a
the same shop, but in consequence of always
leaving it out OF doors it went TO ruin year
ago, and now he has bought new Wagon
for the third time. This is a fact, and thu
men are living to-day, one a successful
farmer, with plenty of money to use and +
loan, the other an example OF the worst eff
fects of the opposite system. This one ia
stance alone is sufficient to point moral.
II should teach lesson to every man en-
gagged in the pursuit of agriculture. To b
constantly buying farm tools is more than
farmer can afford. Implements are expen
siYe. and they should be made to last by be
ing cared for. Every farmer should have
Toulouse, and when a tool is not in use
should stand or hang in its place. A Garrett
inventory Of such tools occasionally woul
do much toward keeping them in their plsC
and In good repair. Industry, economy an
system will be OF as much service TO farmer
as 10 any other class.