The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-02

ana put IN OT0er every vacant bed, as IL Will
not only facilitate spring work, but do the
soil good. and have a neater appearance than
if left in a rough and weedy condition.
What eats the Colorado potato beetle?
Crows, quail, rose breasted groebeaks, ducks,
chickens, Guinea fowls, skunks, toads, black
snakes, grandaddy longlegs yellow mites,
lady birus, rust red social wasps, tiger bee.
ties, ground beetles soldier bugs, tachina
flies, asilus flies. Cut this out and post it
where you can see it. and don't destroy
many other insects beside the potato bug.
THE SWEATING Process" IN WHBAT-We
notice by our exchanges that many of
the farmers about the state are again thresh-
ing from the shock and hauling their grain
direct to market Ordinarily this plan has
some advantages to recommend il, but this
year. when the wheat has been bleached out
by hot suns and repeated rains, is not advis-
able. 1t should by all means 60 into the
stack and undergo the "sweat" before being
threshed and sold. This Will in most cases
raise the grade and save the owner from
to 10 cents on the bushel. The sweating
process is not one generally understood.
Taking either wheat or oaIs, or even hay, and
stacking or moving them, In. short time
they will be found to be undergoing what is
commonly known as the Sweat" On
opening the stack the straw will be found
damp as well as the grain accompanied by
considerable heat, which lasts for a number
of days. At such times IL is difficult to sep
arate the berry from the head, and it is sell
dom threshed by any good farmer till this
period is past. The result of this sweat is
that the dead color of the berry is restored,
while the kernel itself Is filled out and is
considerably plumper than when it went
into the stack. But this is not all. During
this period there has bsen q constant alb
sorption by the berry of the nuritive ele-
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fermentation, and this develops and ripens
the kernel. Some question whether there is
any more gluten added but IL is our opinion
that there is and that it is richer in album
inoids, and will make, consequently, high
er quality of flour than If not stacked at all.
Bot the suggestion we desired. to urge was
that stacking would brighten the grain,
which Is this year mostly of a dead color.
and add few dollars more to the revenue
of the farm, which all will frankly acknowi
edge is always small enough.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
WHAT SHADE TREES TO PLANT-A cores
pendent in a recent number of Scrib-
per's Monthly says upon the subject:
There is great satisfaction in knowing
what selection of shade trees those who are
competent to judge would make for road or
lawn planting. Just such information is
] now before the public, and it will prove of
very great value to those who intend TO
beautify their roadsides or private grounds
| The park commissioners of Washington, ID.
| c., composed of three men of high standing
in horticultural circles, have planted miles
of shade trees numbering about 40, 600. The
| bulk of these are made of twelve varieties
and are named herewith in the order in
which the commission valued them for the
purpose: White maple, American linden,
American elm, scarlet maple, box elder,
sugar maple, American white ash, English
sycamore, button ball, tulip tree, honey
| locust, Norway maple This is an excellent
assortment TO select from for roadside plant
| ing Each variety here named when
full grown assumes handsome proportions,
and most OF them have brilliant and attrac.
tive foliage in the fall. In planting shade
| trees along the roadside, especially in a
clayey country. they should be set at least 90
feet apart for if closer, there will be too
much shade, and bad wet roads in the spring
are sure to follow. This close planting
should be strenuously avoided in decorating
private grounds. Any system that excludes
the free access OF sun and air from the
dwelling houses is perDicious. Go wherever
one may, he Will find tins faulty system of
close planting ia vogue, and in eight cases out
! of ten there are two trees or shrubs on a
space where one would have been enough.
The plea for this is desire for immediate
| effect. The remedy is to cut down in time
ever, carried out.
Tools AND TEAMs.-Prof Beal states that a
beginner at the farm business had better not
just then buy very large assortment OF
tools. His expenses are likely to be large,
and he may not know exactly what he wants.
OF this he may be certain, that poor tools
are not economical. He should remember
that days work of a man Is often worth a
dollar or a dollar and half, while good
hoe can be bought for half that amount.
Labor that is performed with dull, rusty
hoe that is loose on the handle will cost more
than that performed with o nice new imple-
ment. 1t is economy to throw away poor
tools and buy good ones. To some extent
the same is true OF team. IL taktsas much
time of the driver to care for and drive a
poor team as it does a good one, while the
cost OF feeding may be about equal. The
wages OF q driver will cost about as much as
the wages of a team OF two good horses.
| Why waste q half or a third, or even quar-
ter, OF the labor of valuable man in setting
him to work with cheap. light or inferior
team? A good, handy, fast walking team Is
more economical at high price than team
which walks slow, or which is awkward or
OF poor quality. A poor tool or poor team
is always dear at ony price, and Is one OF the
signs OF Encouragement and poverty. An
implement should be as light as is consistent
with strength. There is great Satisfaction
In handling excellent tools. Ii is well
to be little shy OF patent high priced I'M
| plements of all kinds. unless you have
plenty of money TO spare. The thrifty man
on garden or farm will take care OF the tools
and the team. He will pant the former, oil
them, clean them and house them. The
careless man will leave them in the open air,
scattered about the premises where they
were last used, or he will leave them along
the road or in the lane, or In front OF his
barn or dwelling house. We can nearly al
| ways Judge OF "A farmers care, and generally
OF his success, by seeing his tools, and how
he takes care OF them. Many men are heavy
listed ano twist pry or break or soon spool
nearly every implement they lay their hands
ON. They are proud Of displaying their
strength. They are very uniucky." 9th.
ers are the best OF hands, take hold OF tools
with care and use them properly. Such men
are handy, lucky and profitable 70 employ
The beginning farmer or gardener will ne IL
a few carpenter tools. IL will be very fortu'
nate for him II he has had some instruction
| and practice In the use of such tools, and In