The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-30
AGRICULTURAL.

Just DeioW III, you AhO"'
An orchard and vineyard OF ten acres,
lying a short distance no III OF stockton,
California, was recently sold ior SoVo 4"
acre,
Owing to- the famine In China large de-
mand for breads,uffs from the Pacific slope
has been develoDsd, and all the steamers
from San Francisco 10 China go out iuiiy
loaded with -four.
Modoc county, California, boosts timoSny
Bk feet IN height, with heads Z incseS IN
length; oats over 6 feet in height, and thick
as they can sand; and club wheat that Will
yield from 50 v 90 bushels
A superior grating wax may be made by
mIxipg one pint of hnseed oil, six pounds OF
rosIn and one pound OF betsSax. The OIL
will admit of a much greater proportion OIL
rosin than where tallow Is used.
There are in ireland SCI, 963 small farmers,
being 2Io more than 10 1876. o. these OF ylo
hold not above one acre, S. 63I not above hVe
acres. 1914 917 not above Is acres. 1904 not
above so acres 80 I4l notabove 200 acres, and
1918 not above 500 acres.
Manure applied TO anything now will work
wonders. Ii furnishes the means and leis
the plant know beforehand that business rs
going 10 be brisk next aa5On. Manurlng IN
the fall has the same effect upon perennial
vegetation that stable currency has upon
trade.
Here's a big farm, il floating paragraph
is to be believed: a farm sixty miles long
and ten wide in ooe tIaet mostly fencPO, Is
that of Miller & lux, cattle monoPolists OF
California. Thy have so O00 head OF stock,
own 1900 acres OF choice land, ana are
rated as worth SIS, 600, 900.
Mr.. Josiah Hopes, wrihugof "hidebOund
trees" says: Like svery other gardening
operation, This, too, Is liable to be Overcome,
bat slight cat, merely through the outer
layer of Dafk, when The tree is suffering,
Will bring relief, and so far as have Oh
served, does no evil.
On stiff clays barley may yield greater
produce, but II il of a c)arser qaslity. On
light chalky soils, il is thin-skinned, rich IN
color and, though light in weight, well
adapted for mailing. On loamy lands and
sandy marls il assumes greater pluInpness,
yet sill retains its mailing quality.
One great leak on the farm is found in the
vsy stock Is kept. Some try. to stop the
leak by seeing how small quantity or tood
will sustain life, and often succeed by hay-
ing their stock almost entirely leak away;
whilst their neighboT who feeds oounteous
ly does not have this leak 10 contend with,
but generally has a profit 10 apply 10 the
roppage of other leaks.
To keep sSest potatoes, take common sand
and have ii perfectly dry; then dig the 20
tatoes before the vines are frosted, or as SOON
thereafter as possible: have the potatoes per-
fectly dry, and then take boxes or barrels
and put in layer of sand, then a layer OF
potatoes, and SO on, uutil the barrel Is full.
Then place IN dry place where they Will
not freeze.
As an Illustration of the rspidity with
which sheep husbandry Is advancing in
Texas, Sheep HusbandTy In the South saws
that in 1866 San Antonio received but 100000
sounds OF wool, which was sent through
Galveston. In 1877 she received 10000
pounds The wool of Nusces and the neigh
boring counties 10 shipped from Corpus
Christi. In 1866 there were shipped only
COO 900 pounds. This year there Will be
shipped 6,5O0,OoO.
A writer in an exchange says Expert
ence gained the past season goes 10 show
that liberal manuring IS the most economl-
cal We can see in the past harvest where
IS worth more fertilizer per acre would have
given twice that value OF gram. There can
be no doubt that artificial manuring must
become part of our settled practice III the
future, and making q few careful expert
merts will give valuable experience as TO
the use of these fertilizers"
A weed may properly be defined to be "a
plant out of place" A beautiful rose in the
middle OF coFnfltld, where it has no bust
Z III,
way and interfeTes with the proper culture
of the grain would BE- q weed. The writer
knows of vineyard of several acres aow
overgrown with asparagus seedlings which
have sproutfd from seeds dropped by rds.
These are, of course, most excellent in their
place, but where they are now are nothing
more nor less than weeds.
Mr.. Cheever, OF the New England Farmer,
very justly says that 1.-The question whether
butter made from milk that is closed IN
tight cans So soon as drawn Is every way
equal to that made from milk which is ex-
posed to the open air is, we believe, still an
undecided one. Much would depend upon
the purity of the milk when brought to The
milk room, and also upon the purity of the
air in which il is set. We never drank
sweeter or better milk than that which had
been submerged in Cooley cans, within 10
minutes after being drawn from the cow"
New York continues TO be the great dairy
state. Ii has I39 factories for cheese, or
butter and cheese-Jsfferson county leading
With 126. followed by HaTkimer SO, Oneida
81, Madison 80, and Allegheny. Tue average
numbtr of COWS contributing milk was $685.
352, owned by % 005 patrons and producing
80 ll6. 006 pounds of cheese, 3, pa 125 pounds
of butter and 7.SSO,153 pounds OF skim
cheese. Orange ulty sold Is $50, 700 gallons
of milk; Wsstcbeser. 5,244,007; Duchess,
5,10l, $40; Putnam, 2 1862.
The Live block Journal decides general
questions as TO COW food: 1--WE have seen
pumpkins fed quite freely with excellent
result in quantity and quality of milk; bat
il is not nc or economical TO feed too largely
OF any one food. Potatoes fed IN moderation
are excellent for milk. but given IN too great
quantity they viii, reduce the yield. Tur-
nips or beats must noe be gwen too literally;
corn fodder, given as a sole ration, is I'M
profitable, bat fed with half pasture will
keep up the yield OF milk aud add largely 10
the profits of the season."
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