The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-02-19
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Agricultural Notes.


Scaly legs in fowls are caused by para
site mite which burrows under the skin OF
the shank and feet. They may be destroy ed
by applying mixture of lard and kerosene
Wood ashes are beneficial to all crops of
grain, roots, grass and fruit, and can not be
applied anaiss. From 10 to so bushels
per acre can be applied without danger o.
excess. Scatter them over the plowed land
and harrow them in.
w. w. Harris, president of the Maine
Board of Agriculture, in she course of an
address ON Saving and Preparation of
Manures," says he would, sin summer, sd-
wise stabling as we'll as in winter 1t is use
less to make manure unless you save it.
Mr.. Robert McKinstry, of Hudson, Column
bis county, n. Y, Is the possessor of an or
chard, situated on the east bank OF the Hud-
son river, on high, rolling table land. that
contains more than 81 900 apple trees, IL 600
pears, LOCO cherries, 500 peaches, 2ee plums,
200 crabs, l,6oS vines, 900 currants, and 2oO
chestnuts
Wisconsin farmers, or some of them, think
they can make fair profit Just now in pro-
ducing po-k at s. 80 per hundred, live
weight This sustains us in the position we
have taken relative to raising swine. Their
manure alone is of incalculable benefit to
the farmer, and we question II he hnds any
other stock SO profitable in the end.
In order to keep their butter over the Pc
Rod of low prices and hot weather, Califor-
mia dsirymen simply seal up their products
in tin cans, sinking them to the bottom OF
of cold streams. Butter made in april
comes out in October in good order, aud con-
tinues to keep fresh in the cold weather OF
winter. Foreground cans are commonly
used.
An exchange speaks to the point when it
says no investment pays SO well as money
judiciously spent upon the farm in reasonable
improvements. Draining wet land will pay
from to 100 per cent on the cost every
year. Good stock pays vastly better than
poor; good fences, well selected fruit trees,
all pay large profits, rs well as adding to
comfort and self-respect.
For winter feeding, where cattle are kept
IN stalls and heavily fed, there is no better
diyfsor for cornmeal than wheat bran. 1t is
also cheap. and furnishes what the cornmeai
Lacks. When cattle are fed on cornmeal as
the principal food for fattening 1t is apt to
cioy il fed in too large quantities, hence our
best feeders are in the habit of using bran as
the cheapest and best means for rendering
the neal fed more dgestible. In this each
feeder must use discretion as to the proper
quantity to be used.
A correspondent tells how he makes q
cheap yet sufficiently effective ice house II
the form of a rail pen. He lays down some
rails for the bottom on which be places a
fifteen inch layer of sawdust. He then
packs his ice, leaving around the outside a
space of Is inches to be packed with saw
dust. Straw or boards can be used to pre-
vent the sawdust from escaping through the
cracks between the rails. Two or three feet
of saw dust should be placed on the top of
the ice: and, finally, four posts or forks
should be set up, one at each corner, to sup
port SOME planks for covering. 1t would
be we'll to place the whole under a good
shade tree, and with such device one may
have ice throughout the summer.-Rurai
New Yorker.