The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1879-08-30
AGRICULTURAL.

A breeder of poultry says: LIVERY
spring / procure quantity of cedar
boughs and scatter them plentifully in
and around the hen house. This is all
that is necessary, as the odor of cedar
keeps away the lice"
Growers of fruit should bear i'm mind
that now is the time TO look after their
fruit. If the trees are crowded the i'm
perfect fruit should be pulled or knock
ed off to insure a crop of sound, we'll
matured fruit i'm August or September.
| Gardening is regularly and practically
taught i'm 10000 primary schools in
France. Every school house has its
garden, and teachers must not only -
good gardeners, but qualified to Z en-
horticulture, or they can not n..ss eN'-
animation.
Land which without a, ~ Dli ation
Of manure will give a yield II ifteu
bushels of wheat per scre, y og the
addition of eighty pounds nitrogen
in favorable s. sscn give rnga Hiriy-
five to forty bushels ct /ehesf wiz a
proportio,4l jrcrease ~ straw
The National Live stock Journal
say. d slop made " corr md oats,
ground 10 about equal yaf.s, with a
itf.e III meal added. makes the best
rood Ger the SOW While sucking to in
crease the flow II Tx; ard this, with
clover peslGre aud plenty of soaked
corn, cil3ng the summer, will promote
a rapid and -ealthy growth of pigs.
Prof harrington, I'm a summary of
,he axperiments begun i'm 1870 by the
Milne Agricultural College, to ascer-
ain which has the greatest value as a
food for swine. cooked or uncooked
meal, says: 1--WE have by an expert
ment which has been continued from
three to four months of each of the
nine years Eince its beginning, obtain
ed evidence that all the money and la
Dor expended i'm cooking meal for
swine is more than thrown away
The Agriculturist says: "When h ogs
are put up to fatten and fed on dry
corn, ii Is the practice to give them but
little water; but they require some. 1t
would not be possible for a hog to live
for weeks without water or other drink
when feeding on dry corn, although
when fed on new soft corn, very small
quantity of water will be sufficient,
and possibly, if the corn is very soft
and unrlpe, water might not be indis-
pensable."
A correspondent, speaking of crops.
says that farmers should have diver
sity of crops, so that if there is a fail
ure in one there may be hit i'm
! another. The intelligent farmer laws
his plans as much as the leader of mill
tary. 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 abil-
| ity.
"A French veterinary surgeon SAYS
that simple method of preventing
flies from annoying horses consists in
painting the inside of the ears or any
other part especially troubled with a
few drops of empreumatic oil of juni-
per. 1t is said that the odor of this
substance is uncomfortable to flies, and
that they will keep at distance from
the parts anointed. If this treatment
should accomplish the alleged result,
it will be great blessing to introduce
into the sick room.
Much has been said about getting
down to "hard pan" in financial mat
tiers. The farming of the country
needs to get on this basis as well, and
this will not be until crops are grown
with the distinct understanding that
their growth has taken from the soil
something that must be replaced be-
fore we can know whether the crop is
profit or a loss. Selling crops year
after year without manuring is quite
as bad in farming as doing business OH
fiuctuating and deprecated currency
is In money matters.