The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-07-21

than il Is with the improved corn-cultivator
Corn is now ready and "laid by on the best
farms OF Iowa, it being too tall for the Guilt
vator. But IL any one wants to SOW corn
field TO rye, where the intention IS to cut up
the corn early and haul out for the cattle,
and then use the rye pasture In the fall,
temporary return TO the shovel piow can be
done to shovel in the rye in the corn,
in July or August. A correspondent in
quires IL the rye would injure the corn IL
caring. III sown in June, IL would be likely
TO be as injurious as crop OF fox-tail. Bot
sown later, and plowsd in as suggested, it
would be early enough for fall pasture, At
can be made valuable in aiding mich COWS,
as well as preparing other stock TO go into
the water in fine condition. Too many
farmers neglect the advantages which can be
taken to provide the best food for stock at
proper seasons. The practice of letting
stock prosper and starve at alternate
the injury OF the profits Of
the farm. Study and search to know how
the stock can be the cheapest and easiest
way kept constantly growing and develop
ing. There should be neither rest nor re-
trograie in the growth from birth to death.
Farm Notes and News.
The German Government has prohibited
the importation OF sausages and pork from
the United States.
There is great mortality among the cattle
in some sections of New Jersey, owing to
lack of food and water.
Some one says hog should never be fat~
tened for food without being fed on char
coal to purify the meat. 1t is an assertion
that with plenty of salt and charcoal hogs
would never be affected with cholera or
trichine.
Chemistry teaches that nine-te OF the
oil ouyth 10 ahaOr fha
phere; consequently we are ahead as fer
tilizer nine tentha of its growth. Clover is
the only crop the farmer can raise that will
not exhaust the soil.
The farmer who puts all of the best apples
on the top Of the barrel, half dresses his
chickens, puts stones in his. bundles of hay,
will sooner or later be compelled to sell to
those who take all the advantage they can,
in both buying and selling.
There is great uniformity in the arrival of
hogs at Chicago, winter or summer, hot or
cold. There were received SOS 901 In Janu.
airy, 1880 562 942 In February, SOC 127 in
March, ass, 593 In April, sol 4S2 10 May, and
q little over SOC. 900 in June.
Keep a sharp lookout upon the pastures to
see IL the water supply fails. There Is dan
ger that cattle and sheep, pastured ST dis
lance, may suffer from want of water In the
dry season, especially in q year like the
Pure water and salt must be supplied to
milch COWS ad libitum, as 81 per cent. of the
milk consists OF water, aud where salt is
sparingly supplied the digestive powers OF
the cow are enteebled, and the milk is de-
fective in keeping quality, and probably,
also, in quantity ana quality.
Experience teaches that the manner of as
sorting and preparing produce for market,
does almost as much to secure the sale, as
~. oh .,al~a
study how to select and arrange produce TO
the best advantage; and he should sls) ex-
ert himself to put all perlshable articles into
the market as fresh as possible.
We would advise farmers and orchariists
to look after the welfare Of their fruit trees.
The borer is now very busy. Go through
your orchards and examine every tree care
fully, You may pass tree showing no signs
of them, but there is generally near the tree
bits of ground bark. Do not be satisfied
until you have examined four or five inches
below the surface around the tree.
Connecticut dsiryman, who has been
experimenting with turnips as food for
cows, thinks they are worth twenty-five
cents bushel. There was no saving In the
amount of hay consumed, but they increased
the flow of milk, and were an aid to the
digestion of hay and other dry fodder.
European experimenters have come to the
same conclusion.
Hon. Harris Lewis, OF Hsrkimer, n y,
was one of the three Commissioners whom
the Legislature furnished with $40 600 to
find out q cure or prevention of abortion in
cows. When he returned home, he said he
had learned a great deal about the effects of
abortion among COWS, but did not
know as much about the prevention
as he thought he knew before he started
out.
A Western farmer, to determine the
amount of loss of weightin killing and dress
ing hogs, selected twenty hogs that had been
feed in the average way, on corn, etc and
weighing about $50 pounds. The shrinkage
in this experiment. was a trifie over one
seventh OF the live weight. The loss from
the flow of blood In sticking was deter
mined in two cases, namely, eight and seven
and half pounds.
The last Iowa Legislature passed law
providing that a lawful wire fence shall be
one whose posts are not more than two rods
apart, with two stays between, or one rod
without stays; top wire not TO bs more than
fifty four inches nor less than forty-eight
inches from the ground; wires to be securely
fastened to the posts, to be three wires,
barbed, or four wires two of which shall be
barbed. with not less that thirty-six barbs,
with four points each to the rod.