The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-05-28
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GONE ANA YARN.
Agricultural Notes.
Onions, parsnips and lettuce can not be
put in the ground too soon.
ga dry March, wet April and cool May,
VIII iii your barn with grain and hay.
Loss of appetite, thirst, diarrhoea, general
weakness and cyanosis of the comb are the
principle symptoms of chicken cholera.
A dairyman saws: Never keep poor COW
the second year. No man can afford to keep
a COW that will not make from 200 to Zzo
pounds of butter or its equivalent every
year. IS
For potatoes and tomatoes take one wheel
barrow load OF earth where the vine Is 70
stand and fill it with half coal ashes and
half soil. The yield will be nearly doubled
thereby. O
A gill of raw (unboiled) lipseed oil given
to q sow, Just before and after narrowing. Will
prevent the disposition to eat her offspring
Perfect quiet and isolation are considerations
which should not be Observation-Disclosures
phla Record.
It is useless to say that good crops come
from luck 1t is not so. The secret Is IN
selecting the seed with care, draining the
fields, keeping out the cattle and having
sound fences. Thrift is what honest men
thrive by. Rogues have luck, If getting
along only Is luck.
The English dairy farmers get immense
returns from their grass lands by free use OF
bone manure. One Cheshire farmer says
that by this he can feed 40 cows from land
that formerly gave him product sufficient to
feed only 20 The English farmers believe
in 'boning" the grass land especially.
A Sussex county, N. j., citizen has grown
over bushel of new potatoes before May 1.
Last fall lot of potatoes were buried In the
ground and covered with muck and straw.
During the winter some OF them sprouted,
and when the heap was uncovered this
spring new crop was found with the old.
A miller OF Halliday, ILL.,, who lost many
hogs from cholera, has found that dry bran.
slightly salted, is good remedy for it. Ii
the hogs rofuse to eat it, starve them until
thew do. Another farmer claims that if
hogs are given what salt they need in
clean pasture it will have the desired effect.
By simply soaking oats in tepid water
saving may be effected in their consumption.
By this method the rations for each animal
NAV be reduced one third. Horses whose
teeth have seen their best days mastlcate the
gram in its ordinary condi ton insuficientiy,
and younger an mails in their greed often
swallow much of it whole. All this maA be
obviated by the remedy suggested.
No doubt there will be an unusual breadth
of land planted this year with potatoes on
account of the high prices the last crop COM
handed. This always has its influence, but,
when we consider that no crop raised on the
farm is SO uniformly profitable, this alone is
inducement enough to plant fully up to the
limit wide-awake farmer ought to do
It is said that if chickens are allowed to
run in the orchards the prospects for good
crop are made better. The insects have
more to do with weakening the trees and
emasculating tine fruit than many have the
least idea OF All of these, more or less, in
habit the ground and, in all stages are SUBJ
Jected to the searching eye of the fowl.
Do not give tired horse very cold water
as it often produces c,lic. Many allow
water to stand for some time in buckets. On
the road horses should be watered once In
10 miles at least. The stomach OF horse
is so small in comparison to his body that
large draughts mi uriously distend 1t, conse-
quently small quantities at regular Intervals
is the best rule.
A farmer who has been very successful at
raising corn says: Last spring took no ears
that were less than II inches In length.
Then / took off three inches at the tip eud
and two inches at the butt end, and from
these central grains l got ears 10 inches IN
length and from Ia to 16 rows. II farmer:
would be more careful in selecting theil
seed corn they would find themselves repaid
IN the difference of their crops"
It is we'll known that horses and oxer
sleep standing, and it is also known tina
some horses never lie down when we'll L
is common belief, toe, that when hors'
lies down in the day time he Is sick. Blu
this is not always SO, as we have knowI
horses to do this habItually. A horse is
ouentIy Injuries himself in getting up, ant
especially when the flooring is wet
The Scientific Farmer, in speaking of tn
Of
that Mr.. Schulz, of Little Falls, N. Y, est
mates the land in pasturage an
hay requisite for the support OF
COW at three acres. The amour
three to 10 acres In dairy competition i
Jefferson county, NewYork in 1857, the firs
prize dairy, of 16 cows, was kept on 80 acre
of land; the second premium dairy. OF
cows, on 60 acres: the third dairy, OF Ii COW
on 80 acres the fourth, of 20 cows, on
acres; the ffth of % cows. on 80 acres.
Lard and kerosene are good to keep lie
from calves: sulphur mixed with salt is GOO
to drive ticks from sheep. Calves, like a
animals, should be kept growing from you;
to maturity. Here is one place where tt
profit comes in. There Is always loss
time and feed, and more, too by allowlr
young ANIMALS to stand stilr' for 81
months or more of the year. Sheep are We
clothed and need shelter from the snow
rain, and perhaps from the strongest wind
but cold agrees with them feeo tnem WEI
give them plenty OF water in small flock
keep them dry, and they may stay out in Il
cold and thrive. A close, dark pen is po
place for sheep.
Useful Recipes.
GINGER SNAPs.-One quart molasses, o.
pound butter, one pint sugar, one pint swe
milk, one and a half ounces soda, one-h
ounce ginger; flour till stiff.
ALMOND CAKE.-One pound of butter, o.
of sugar, enc of -four two of sweet almon
blanched and pounded, half pound
desiccated cocoanur, the juice and graf
Hnd of one large lemon, 10 well beaten ee
and gill of wine or brandy.
Wurrr RosE CAKE-Supar one half Gu