The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


weeks in spring in moderately warm closet.
occasionally dipping them in water and
changing their position once a week.
The American Farmers Horse Book pre-
scribes for sweeny in horses the use of cOrro-
sive liniment made of pint of turpentine
and an ounce each of finely pulverized cor
rosive sublimate and gum camphor. well
dissolved. Apply with a soft rag to the af-
fected part, rub well. and dry in with hot
iron held near the skin, but not near enough
to hurt.
Where a horse is lover on the knee" or
rather, knee sprung no remedy is so good
proper shOeing. Have the heels of the shoes
thinner than the toes, but let them slope
gently and gradually Do not at first make
the change In the thickness very sudden,
but keep on increasing il for a few shOeings.
The horse will begin to lower his heel by
this treatment, and the knees will straight
en-, if they are at all durable. Flannel band
ages are no goot.-New York Herald.
j. Bassart, of Kansas, asked some time
ago whether wheat pastured IN fall and win
ter would produce chess. A. Falconer an
swers as follows: II have been raising
wheat for 90 years. and my experience is
that il will You may run fence through
wheat field, uniformly good pasture one
side, not disturbing the other, and the part
pastured will have the most chess. The
main root is disturbed or broken of, and the
chess is the result am aware that this is
opposed to scientific explanations, but that
does not alter the facts. never had rye in
jured and have pastured till April"
The American Poultry Journal says there
are no less than four kinds of vermin that
infest poultry. First, the chicken louise
found at first on the heads of young chicks
They are of dark color, about one'eighth
of an inch long, and move sluggishly. A lit
tie lard, applied two or three times for
week. will Kill both nits and eggs; a little
snuff may be used the lard, but sulphur
is about as apt to kill the chicks as the lice.
The spider louise or red mite infests both
young and old chicks. They are nocturnal,
like bedbugs, creeping out in the night and
hiding through the day. Thorough washing
of perches, coops and everything, with coal
oil or lime wash, with liberal quantity OF
carbolic acid in it, is the remedy. The long
gray body louise is found on magpie fowls;
With plenty of dust to roll in, chickens will
rid themselves of this pest. Otherwise, rub
lard under their wings. The feather louise
produces disease of the feathers, and can
be killed by carbolic acid and busting with
sulphur.
All foods that hold large amount of
water, like roots, potatoes, apples, etc., have
comparatively a small value as fattening or
working foods The percentage of nitro
genous and Phosphate substances is so small
that large quantities must be consumed to
produce desirable results. The percentage
of water in several of the most ordinary
foods is as follows: Meadow and clover hay,
143 to is per cent; straw, l4.3 per cent;
dry grains of cereals, etc, 143 per cent;
green fodder, rs to so per cent; mangel-
wurZel, IS to 80 per cent; turnips, 81 10 81
per cent potatoes, IS per cent. Cattle foods
should be selected with reference to the
ends desired in their use and the ralatiye
cost of the same Foods, for work, for milk,
for fatteEing, should be better understood
among farmers. The time will come when
science will be applied to the use OF cattle
foods and it will be of immense service 10
the cattle industry of the country.-Journal
of Chemistry.
The Maine Farmer says that Mr.. Earring
ton, in his report as farm superintendent at
the state agricultural college, gives minute
report on the feeding OF swine with cooked
and unlocked meal, and on mixed food,
which has been tried at the farm for seven
successive years. and to which we have from
time to time alluded. The results are stated
with considerable minuteness, the tables
occupying nearly three pages and being
interesting from their uniformity The
trial last year extended over period of "a
weeks, the average cost of increase in live
weight by feeding Gil cooked meal, being
1871 per cent more than by feeding raw
meal. The average cost of each pound OF
live weight produced by feeding raw meal
IL
81 cents. A very large difference in the
gain of the pigs was found in favor OF mixed
food over clear diet of either raw or cooked
meal. The results are what we would
expect from our own observation, although
contrary to the majority of the ex-
periments recorded. People are too apt to
underestimate the labor account when cook
ing food
A writer on gardening gives the following
N ar tender seeds
matoes, squashes melons and the like: ut
is desirable in transplanting not to check
growth by disturbing the roots. A good
way to avoid this is to scrape out turnips
fill them with good soil and plant in two or
three Seeds setting them in a warm, light
place and keeping them moist When the
weather is suitable, place these out in the
garden at the proper depth. The turnip
will decay and the plant will thrive I'M
checked If properly cared for. Do not use
potatoes in place of turnips. Another
method is 70 get squares of sod, say six inch
-es wide, from good, mellow soil, turn them
bottom up, and put in such seeds as SQUASH
melon or sweet corn, and treat them in
the same way. not putting out till the
weather is quite warm, and then protecting
against bugs. For more delicate plants,
flowers, etc, make little square paper boxes
out of thin writing paper or thick news
paper, merely folding them at the corners as
you would the paper in covering a book, and
lacking them with needle and thread.
make them about three inches square and
two deep. Fill with good soil; start the
seeds and put them out at the proper time,
boxes and all, without disturbing the roots.
If you fear the paper is too strong for the
roots to penetrate, cut carefully on the bot
tom of the box the shape of cross, and all
will be well.
GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS.
After many years OF growing what are
called tame grasses" in the west, in con-
tradiction to those growing wild on the