The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-13

or other drink when feeding on dry corn,
although when fed on new soft corn, q
very small quantity of water will be sufi-
Gent, and possibly, if the corn is very soft
and unripe, water might not be lndispensa-
ble." ~ f-sfsf g.,
Land which without an application of
manure will give yield of Is bushels of
wheat per acre. will. by the addition OF 50
pounds of nitrogen in q favorable season,
give from IS to 40 bushels of wheat, with
proportional increase of straw. rite
Carrots seem to have some peculiar effects
on the health of horses, rendering the skin
especially glossy and healthy looking For
milch cows carrots are valuable for the
golden tinge and richness which they inn
part to the butter. They are also more
nourishing for COWS than turnips are. In
feeding carrots care must be token that the
pieces are not cut in such shape as to choke
the animal. Cut large carrots lengthwise.
not across
A writer in the Ohio Farmer says: sit is
the belief of observing ones that the seeds or
spores of mildew exists during the winter
and spring on the bark and buds OF vines
ready to vegetate anew when suitable
check to this am about to wash most of my
vines, before the buds open, with carbolIc
soapsuds. / think this will also tend to
lessen the mischIevous work of the steel
beetle on the buds" i1-...gsI..i -aS5 x
A correspondent, speaking of crops, says
that farmers should have diversity of
crops, so that If there is failure in one
there may be q hit in another. The inteli-
gent farmer lays his plans as much as the
leader of military. He looks ahead to see
what will make him money; and he don't
put all his eggs under one hen, for she might
leave the nest and all would be added.
Farmers should plan wisely and carry out
the plans to the best of their ability.
Something on Feeding Oats.
Oats are justly advocated as the grain
above all others adapted to horses, and it is
true that for young horses and those used
on the road there is probably nothing equal
to oats; but they ought to be crushed or
bruised and not ground. In fact, 1 think all
grains are better fed in this way, and it
seems strange that there are no good Ameri-
can oat crushers. They seem to me simple
affairs-as l have seen them in English
stables. A wheel, of perhaps is inches in
diameter, made strong and having perfectly
fiat periphery (of steel, presume). like q
steel tire. having a face about three inches
wide, is turned so as to bear evenly against
a smaller one of, say eight inches in dame
ter, having similar face. These two wheels
are geared to turn together, and the oats are
slowly fed in by hopper. Good
oats, when crushed, are nearly
round, and as big as a silver three cent
piece, and the husks are quite inconspicu
Gus; poor ones show more husk than grain.
and retain more nearly the form of the
uncrushed oat Barley may be crushed
equally well with OATS although harder, and
corn, when too green to grind, might well
be thus treated. If grain be swallowed
whole it is not easily digested, butif crushed
or broken even, it is likely to be. Coarse
meal" that is, the corn meal usually sold
for feeding in many Eastern towns. simply
because it can be cheaply produced, is better
than whole corn, because it is broken and
some portion of 1t tolerably fine, but all the
fInty part is in large solid pieces, which 60
not adhere to cut hay, do not soak quickly,
and are slow of digestion. When new corn
is crushed, although it is not comminuted
into meal, its integrity is destroyed and is
easily digested, because it readily absorbs
the water or the juices of the stomach. +,