The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-16
HOME AND FARM.

A great many remedies for bed bugs are
published, among them this has been going
the rounds: To rub the bedstead over
with fat bacon, a very dirty trick. OF
course all oils and grease are rulnous 70
that class of insects. But the best thing 10
use is scalding hot water. That Kills sno
cleans az the same time, and cleanliness Is
a sure preventative OF such pests.
A slight frost now would benefit rather
thaniujure the corn by checking further
growthof blades and the flow OF sap.
WESTERN BUrrER-The American Grocer
avs the price of new grass fed butter is firm
for both Eastern and Western, but the
Western butter is inferior to the Eastern
becsusa IL Is not so well made. This is
,oa.te% worthy the attention of Western
farmers ana especially OF those having put
tar factories. The farmers around New
York are making and sending to the city
butter put up in small jars OF from i've to
fifteen pounds. They sell to families readily
at increased prices over butter rom largs
packages.
HIaa FARNING.-On Mr.. Mechi's farm OF
$50 acres of arabls land there are six acres Of
pernanent pasture, but there are 461E acres
Of green fodder crops, and 1O6H acres OF
grain crops. On his farm he sustains p fat
lo.SI
Asan example of the success or his hlgn
farming II might be instanced that from his
81 ewes he raised last year 129 lambs, and
made 200 pounds Of fat meat for every acre OF
his whole iarm OF 175 acres, including roads,
bitches. fences, yards and buildings; $40 per
acre of purchased food is given to his
stock: 81 so per acre is spent for guano, and
Sl3 % per acre is spent in human labor.
VALUE OF RYE.-The Missouri Farmer is
probably correct in the following remarks:
Rye has been very much overlooked in the
West LAST fall an occasional farmer
thought far enough ahead to realize that it
would be a difficult undertaking to get his
stock through the winter on the small
amount of feed on hand, and in searching
fo- q substitute, selected rye. Never did
meuuakea better choice. Those That soWed
earlier were blessed with good pasture
long before even the oes~blu9 grass would
do to turn on. Aside from the great benefit
of this cereal as a pasture, we think 1t is
perhaps moro profitable as COM
merciaI crop than either wheat or
oats II has demonstrated It's lmpreg-
inability to cold winters, chinch bugs and
all other insects, and will yield from
twenty TO sixty bushels per acre. Last fall
it was worth more per bushel than wheat,
and ordinarily Is worth nearly
as much. Aside from its COM
merciaI value it is good crop for
the land: the TOOLS Deu6LIaLo 10 q BIShb
depth, acting to some extent as an under
drain. AS = feed tor horses it Is excellent,
promoting q good bone, health and fair,
glossy coat. When 1t Is desirable, as II
is this year, to grain the hogs early, il will
nav Very handsomely to let the crop stan
until its straw falls, then turn on the hogs
and no kind of feed will make a larger or
quicker growth IN them.
WISE HINTS ABOUT SHEEP.-A writer in
the Country Gentleman says: The number
OF sheep IN a summer flock, if the pasture is
not rough, thereby causing too much travel
by the sheep to get their living, may be as
many as the owner can oversee and care for;
IN the winter not mOre than 100 should be
kept together, and a smaller flock is pre-
ferable IN every respect. Sheep, If kept in
large fiOcks, do not winter as well, besides
wasting more feed in proportion AS TO
which breed will stand the greatest amount
OF cold probably the Vermont MerinOes suf-
Ter the least from cold, but any sheep, IL
strong and healthy, with plenty to eat, will
endure any amount of cold weather il they
are only kept in a dry yard and have
dry place to eat and sleep in. Here is The
great cause of failure IN many cases-muddy
yards and leaky sheds, Or worse, no sheds
at all. The best TODD for sheep ever used,
ali things considered, is coed, bright, early
cut hay, and one peck of corn and Oet-,
mixed equal parts to 100 sheep daily. Roots
may DO we'll enough, but one season cured
me OF any desire 10 raise and feed them. The
best rack ever saw was simply siX-inch
boards nailed to posts like a common board
fence, eight inches apart, three boards in
hight, with perpendicular Stats tour inches
wide, twelve inches apart; rack eighteen
inches wide, il only one side is used, thirty
inches if both sides are used.
An ODIoUs CoMPARIsoN.-There are no
such wasteful people anywhere as some
farmers, living and dying in poor houses,
surrounded by poor fields, where the best
fruit the Children get is in the woods, or in
some distant orchard which they enter by
stealth. II merchant should use the means
in mis- hands after this fashion he would De
certain to break; nor could a banker rdu
his institution ia this style. Undoubtedly
the most profitable business Is manufac-
turing, and it is SO because genuine econ
Omy is used. None of the material goes 70
waste, they who work must be on hand at a
given hour, and there shall be no laughing
no lettering; eyes, hands, feet, mus cies, next
keep thsir places, and correspond in all
their lsbois 10 the turning wheels aud the
falling hammers. And yet, with all the
rigid economy OF time, labor, and material,
cant is large profit on yard of cloth
and two cents on a pair of shoes. The truth
happens to be that il the farmer should
really use economy and unite it with skill,
as the manufacturer does, he would be GER
tain to get rich, because he has everything
at frst hand. Nobody can come between
him aud nature, and if he only knew
enough he would then be master OF the
world.-Micswber In the Tribune.
FLIRTS FROM THE CRADLE.