The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-11
AGRICULTURAL.

Chicago elevators now contain 5,31S, 329
bushels of grain-a very large quantity for
/ this time of the year-and stocks are accu-
mulating rapidly, about 80 per cent. of the
above named quantity being added during
last week.
Dat meal tea is an excellent drink for the
harvest field. Put about fifteen tablespoon
fuls of meal into gallon jug, adding some
/ salt. Fill up with boiling water, stirring
briskly. Then let it stand in a cool place
until needed.
At the annual meeting of the agricultural
/ convention of Georgia last week the presi-
dents address, in referring to the present
drawbacks to farming in that state, cited as
means for counteracting them the extern
sion of popular education.
Entonologists describe only four varieties
of insects parasitic upon the bodies of hens,
not including the mites of the chicken
I house. Our correspondent MIR. Hales, has
sketched twelve additional varieties He
| thinks there are others vet.
The annual grain fair of Austao- Hungary
opened on August %. 1t is calculated that
the whole empire will be able to export from
l2.00O,0 900 to IL, 000, 900 of quintals of wheat,
100000 of rye, 1000, 600 OF barley, and
$500, 900 TO 3, 100000 of oats.
The Michigan Farmer, whose opinion in
! Sucn matters is entitled to much weight.
anticipates that there will be general drop
in the price OF wheat from this time till the
income of the crop, when it will probably
settle down TO the lowest figures known here
since 1858.
Picked Chicken.-Boil three chickens
until the meat will fall from the bones; re-
move the meat as whole as possible and put
into stone jar; add to pint of the water
in which they were boiled enough vinegar
to cover the meat; season with cloves all
spice, pepper and salt, and pour hot over the
chicken.
What eats the Colorado potato beetle
Crows quails, rose breasted grosbeaks, ducks,
chickens, Guinea fowls, skunks toads black
snakes, grand daddy long legs, yellow mites,
lady birds, rust red social wasps, tiger bee
ties, ground beetles, soldier bugs, tachina
flies, asilus flies. Cut this out and post it
where you can always see it, and don't de-
stroy any such friends, for they destroy
many other insects as well.
Twenty-Five years ago seven-eighths of the
cigars smoked in this country were of
foreign manufacture. Out of the two thous.
and millions of cigars we now smoke, but
fifty-five millions are of foreign manufac-
ture. We not only smoke cigars made
here, but they are mai My made from Ameri-
can grown tobacco. Who grows this cigar
tobacco? Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New
York, pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.
st. Paul, MINI: The Pioneer Press edi
torially estimates the aggregate wheat crop
of the state at 100000 bushels: acreage
:, 225, O6l !; average yield per acre, IL bushels
Below line due west from ST. Paul the
yield is probably ten bushels per acre. This
region furnishes three-fourths of the crop
Above this line the yield is estimated at 10
bushels per acre.
Bloomington Progress: Redick NJ. Wylie
brought to this Office on Saturday last a box
of his FultZ wheat, of which he this season
raised four acres. The yield was % bushels
per acre. The grain is round and plump
though not large, and of an amber color, and
the weight is about 62 pounds to the bushel
Mr. Wylie has been experimenting with the
Tennessee and Fultz wheat, but finds that
the Tennessee is almost always ravaged by
the fly, while the Fultz is entirely free from
1t. The Fultz should be generally sown.
A Chicago honey dealer has constructed a
floating bee house large enough to accommo-
date two thousand hives This he Is towing
up the Mississippi river. from Louisiana to
Minnesota, keeping pace with the blossom
ing of the flowers. thus stimulating the
honey making ability of his bees. In his
return trip he designs to take advantage of
the autumnal flowers at each point, just as
he does of spring in going up the river.
This plan of moving bees to get toe benefit
of fresh flowers has been tried in some parts
of Europe.
The farmer who will carefully consult
the catalogue of seed merchants and nurse
rymen, look for markets near home, and
keep his wits as busy as the successful manu-
facturer must do" says the New York Her
aid, will find In the long run that the
most money does not come from the most
popular crops or the greatest number of
ACRES under cultivation" That is true; but
it is not the seedsmans catalogue that is go
ing to tell him what crop there will be an
extra demand for. That gives the list; the
farmer must judge for himself.
Western butter, apart from the CREAM
cry" takes a low rank in the Eastern mar
kets, and judging of what Is sent out by the
other western states, from what we know of
what goes, and how it goes from Michigan,
it is not to be wondered at. At present but
ter brings ten cents per pound in Lansing,
and is correspondingly low all over the state
not excepting in Detroit. One would think
this price would cause makers to hold on to
it; but, in the main, it does not. Butter is
at present drug in the market, the east
having tendency to keepit so.
WOMEN