The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-31

Drawing out 90
Sprea ling manure and dragging. ............. so
Rldging the land 90
Paid for three pounds Yellow Globe man.
sow ns seed with ... IS
Cultivating Eve times with horse .-.......-.. W
Hoeing three times by hand 81
SIS IS
AMOUNT OF BEETs RAISED,
twenty tons per acre; cost per ton. 81 49,,
or cents per bushel. Adding to this ccs.
for pulling, topping, and burying in heaps
for winter, q cents per bushel, or twenty
five cents per ton, makes total cost AZ
cents per bushel for an article invaluable
to cattle from sanitary point OF view,
and, compared to other feed at average
prices, worth at least Is to 20 cents per
bushel. Mangel-wurtzel and sugar beets are
| the nearest approach to grass, and have q
them in better health in the spring, thus
gaining much time and money. l feed
beets every day mixed with a little meal
the latter to improve the quality of the
greatly increased quantity of milk OBJ
tanned. 1t Is q great pity that every farmer
| wintering cattle does not grow beets for
them, as there Is nothing grown more pro-
| fitably and nothing will add more to the
| comfort of his pets, except good stsbling.
man has seen to before this, leaving it su-
perd1oUs to mention.
LOOK TO THE BOXERS.
Among the worst insects in our or.
chards are the borers. There are two of
them that trouble the apple. 1t matters
very little to practical orchsrdists whether
these insects attack perfectly healthy trees
30 80
slightly Injured or stuDted. The one
thing to look for is their determination.
This must be attended to at once. The
tree should be looked over with care and
as many cut and dug out as can be found.
Nor is this all; during the warm days of
June the perfect insects are flying around
depositing their eggs. The best thing to do
then is to wash the trees wi b
SOMETHING DIsTAsTEFUL TO THE INSECTS
Mr.. Bstchsm, of gainesville, Ohio, recon-
mends the following: Take quart of soft
soap; thin it with quart of hot water-or
dissolve two pounds OF hard soap in a
quart or so of hot water; when cool, stir IN
an ounce of crude OF pure csr5olic acid,
and let stand q few hours, or as long as
you please. When ready TO go to work,
pour the mixture into a common twelve
quart pail, and fill up with soft water.
stirring it up well; then take an old paint
brush aud wet the bark of the trees with
the wash from the surface of the sT Ourd TO
the branches of apples, and for peaches only
to the height of five or six inches. This
seems in every way a sensible lotion, but
we can not see how Mr.. Bstcham can think
of using the application, since it takes
so much time, as he objects to putting
barrels about apple trees for like reason,
to catch the apple moth.
PLANTING EVERGREEN.
Now is a good time to plant out ever
greens. Not that 1t is much better than
other months in the year, bat they can not
be planted too soon, nor can we urge upon
those who do the work too much care.
The safest thing to do is to select proper
day, then with ordinary practice no one
need have very large per ceutsge of fail
ures. The truth IL, when al evergreen is
moved it ought not to have any sun upon
root or branch while it Is out of the ground,
and If the mantle be one of clouds all the
better, and safety is about assured If the
day is drizzly one.
THINNING FRUIT.
1t seems like an interminable job to
those who have had no experience to thin
a crop of peaches or apples, but to the
skillful orchadist 1t is only a ready and
profitable means of accomplishing several
ends.
/. The trees are prevented from over
bearing, and often permanently injuring
their vitality. This does not come from
the formation OF pulp as seeds. The pro-
duction of large numbers of seeds taxes
the tree to the utmost, while the same
weight of fruit in smaller number of
specimens Is not very exhaustive.
2 Thinning tends to equalizs the bear
ing in different years so as to overcome
the tendency to alternate crops. This is
great point gained.
8. The size of the fruit is enlarged,
making 1t more valuable to use and in
definitely more valuable. Even in years
of abundance fine fruit brings fair re-
muueration.
The thinning of fruit may be done by
clipping the buds off with shears, or
taking the fruit from the branches after
it is formed. In either case experience is
worth great deal as master OF economy.
WILD FLOWERS.
Many of our wild flowers exhibit beauty
aud delicacy OF form and color equal to
cultivated plants. But it is rare to see an
arrangement OF these exhibiting anything
like delicacy. The reason is that the early
spring blossoms are very succulent and
easily bruised, and will not bear the
pressure of the hand in bunch without
willing. But IL plucked carefully and car
ried In a box from the air and sun and
placed loosely In a vase, giving them the
same alter care of other flowers, they will
remain beautiful for many days. The
blcod-root, triturus, violets and phlox,
with the leaves of snemone and squirrel
corn, II deity arranged, form exquisite
combinations.
Mrs. W., In the Detroit Free Press, fur
nishes the following original receipts:
BOILED HALIBUT.
A thick slice of halibut OF five pounds
should be put in cold water sufficient to
cover 10, with q teespoonful Of salt and q