The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-04-03
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


with white clover forms the choicest OF
lawns; two bushels of blue grass and six
pounds of white clover per acre. Mix tim
othy with it il you please. : mixture is
better than single kind; SOW at the rate OF
three bushels per acre OF this mixed seed.
The sweet vernal grass is excellent TO mix
with blue grass and white clover for lawn.
1t is fragrant and beautiful when IN blossom.
WASHING SHEEP.-NIichsgan sheep breed
ers, in recent convention, resolved, without
a dissenting voice, to discard the practice of
washing as cruel to the animal and not
productive of the desired result-cleansing
of the wool Members declared their prefer
ence to submit to "a Just dockage" at the
hands of buyers. There was an entire agree
ment that the proper time for shearing is
from the LIST to the 9th of May, and not later
than the 10Th.
WHITEwAsH FOR POULTRY HoUsEs.-Into
the whitewash pail, while the imewater is
still hot, drop teacupful of soft boiled rice
and mix thoroughly. Then pour into quart
pot of cold water say ten or twelve drops OF
crude carbolic acid. Mix this into the rest
and swab the interior OF your hen house
with it. For outside, use rock salt dissolved
instead of boiled rice, and dispense with car
bolic acid. No other preparation of white
wash ever equalled this for poultry build
ings.-Farmers Advocate.
CURE FOR SwEKNY.-I have used the fol-
lowing many times is the last forty years,
and never knew il to fail: Take - ounces
of salt pork; fry the greese from it thor
oughly; dissolve three handfuls of salt in
the hot grease; take three hens eggs; bruise
them fine, shells and all stir thoroughly
with the grease and salt when warm enough
to dissolve the eggs, but not to cook. Apply
to the part affected every other day until
you see an improvement; then as often as
you think best. Warm it in well with red
hot shovel after each application. Usually
two or three applications will cure--COun-
try Gentleman.
SEEDING FOR PAsTURE.-New pasture may
be produced most speedily by preparing the
ground as early as practicable in spring by
blowing, narrowing. ETC., sc as to give fine,
smooth, mellow surface to The soil, and then
SOW the grass seed alone, or without the
intervention of any grain crop. If the soil
Is rich, and the grass gets an early start, il
will make good growth early in summer,
but it may not be advisable to turn In ami
mails on the young plants before midsum.
mer. and then only when the ground is hard
and dry. Glover and timothy NAV be sown
together; or clover and orchard grass, ex-
cept in such localities as orchard grass does
not succeed well. This grass must be kept
grazed rather short, or il will become hard
and unpalatable, and is objected to on this
account by some good farmers who wish to
allow their pastures to make heavy growth.
n il is intended to allow the pasture to re-
main several years, and the soil is rich with
a good deal of vegetable matter, q portion of
Kentucky blue grass may be mixed with the
grass seed. In order to secure a good dense
pasture SOW three or four times as much
seed as is done in common practice.
GOoD Fowls FOR LAYING.-A noted writer
on fowls says: For laying hens, select large,
strong, healthy birds of the Leghorn varie-
ties. with large, square bodies, without regard
to fine points, such as pure white fat ear
lobes, or very yellow legs, or combs with
Just five points, or plumage that is perfectly
white in the white variety. or without a
white speck in the brown. 1t is,not that
these points are any detriment to the health
or the vigor of the birds but to a constitution
has been too often sacrificed to them, which
often results in q strain of enfeebled though
handsome fowls. The Leghorns are acci
mated American breeds, which originated
from birds brought from the Mediterranean,
and they have been often improved in this
country by circumstances that have given
them pre-eminent position for the farmer,
when birds such as are above recommended
as selected In regard to fowls for market
he adds: "Other breeds or crosses from them
are much better than the Leghorns or any
of the smaller breeds. Chickens that are the
result of a Dorkin cock and Brahma hens are
J large, and mature much earlier than the other.
Moreover, they are hardy, heshy. tender and
fine favored. Houdans in place of Dorkings
are also good to cross On Brahmas, or to breed
with the first mentioned cross, as they keep
up size and quality. Plymouth Rocks are
also good table fowls and are good to cross
with the above"
LANENEss IN SHEEP.-The principal part OF
the body is supported by the heel or back
part of the foot The front part is, from its
pointed nature, well adapted to preserve the
fOothold and prevent slipping, particularly
in ascending rocky declivities; and in sucn
situations, and particularly if the animal has
to travek the wear of the horn at the toe is
equal to its growth. But in wet pastures, or
on soft soil, the growth of the toe is much
greater than the wear, and consequently
this part often grows extremely long and
irregular, so that it separates from the quick,
and dirt insinuates and lameneSs and a
troublesome wound are the consequences,
sometimes leading to foot rot. This might
be prevented by cutting off the superfiuous
horn with knife. The foot OF the sheep
often becomes sore from travelling, particu-
larly on sandy roads. In this case it is the
heels and the skin between them that suffer,
but timely rest will set the matter right, and
alittle oil of tar may be applied TO the wound.
Sometimes the bif1ex canal ian infection
of the skin between the digits above the
clefts of the hoof) becomes the seat of disease
and the cause of lameness; sand may pene
trate, or the parts may be chafed by much
walking IN the dirt, and Inflammation and
liberation are the consequences. This part
may be cleaned and dressed with tincture
myrrh and tincture of aloes, equal parts
mixed. II proud flesh forms it should be
kept down by a few applications with a
feather) of muriate of ammonia. These
various injuries often prove very trouble
some, from the circumstance of the sheep
being exposed particularly in the fail of the
YEAR, to dust and moisture and the vicissi-
tudes of the weather, and sometimes prove
the forerunner of still more troublesome
malady-the footrot- 'rairie Farmer.
SITUATION Oh THE RcHARD.-A northern
slope in most localities is preferable, as it
retards the time of blossoming sufficiently
to escape late spring frosts. 1t also prevents
late fall growths. so as to insure perfect buds
and well ripened wood. Second, thus stu
ated they are almost entirely exempt from
the ravages of codling moth and other in
sects- They all seek a warm and southern
slime and the cOdlin0 moth in such a eitII-