The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-11
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm Notes.

England paid Germany S15,OOO,Oo0 for
potatoes.
More tobacco has been planted In Pennsyl-
yania this year than ever before.
But few of the Messina quail which we're
released in Chester County, Peunsylvania,
last summer, have since been seen.
A widow woman in Macon, Ga, sells an
nually $500 worth of vegetables, of her own
raising. from half an acre of ground
During the past fifteen months about
10000 600 acres OF Government land were
sold under the homestead laws-a more than
usually heavy amount.
At recent farmers meeting speaker
gave a recipe for making farming pay, as
follows: Have but one business, and ger
up in the morning and see 70 1t yourself"
A correspondent recommends kerosene oil
as a means of Kidding cattle of grubs. Two
or three applications will be enough, and it
should not be used toU lavishly.
Grasshoppers devoured an acre of tobacco
for farmer, leaving nothing but bare stalks,
which he has ploughed under with the
mental VOW he will raise no more OF the
vile weed.
The tobacco cropin the Connecticut Valley
is reported to be doing finely. Frequent
rams since the first of June have helped the
setting of the plants, and the worms thus
far are not very troublesome.
The amber sugar cane, which has created
SO much interest In the South and Southwest
as being earlier aud of superior quality,
originated from single seed found In a lot
purchased in Paris in 1860
An enterprslng woman in New Orleans
has expArimented successfully in silk cul-
tuIe. She last year raised over 1000 hLe
coCoons, and will this year engage much
N r, extensively in the business
n II u
Mason says tnat flour sulphur sprinkled
upon cabbage will drive the worms, also tue
bugs, from Irish potatoes. He says that he
has tried IL, aod ne is good authority.
Harvest sermons are preached on Sunday
in the interior of Pennsylvania, when
thanks are returned for the bountiful bar
vests. Upon these occasions the churches
are ornsmented with wheat sheaves and all
fruits in season.
A certificate has been made out by the
President of the Montana Territorial Fair
Association that James L Roy, OF Lewis and
Clarke County, that Territory, was awarded
first premium for the best acre of wheat,
being 1O2 bushels to the acre.
A correspondent recommends busting
tomato plants quite freely with wood ashes,
sowing il over the plants until they look
quite gray" as means OF preventing the
rsvsges of the tomato worm, or even Of
driving the pests away after they have begun
operations.
Oae of the most successful farmers in the
country gives the following insight INTO the
secret of mis- success: in the winter draw
a plan for ths next years operations; L
spend no time in grog shops, nor In whining
about the business of farming; read all
can and endesvor to get the best ideas"
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer says
that he has found by experience that six
Cotswold sheep will not consume more food
than q COW, and are more profitable. For q
lamb of this breed, weighing lbs pounds,
s. 80 is obtained He estimates that six
ewes Will produce eight lambs per annum
and fifty pounds of wool.
A Quick and effsctnal method to destroy
plantaln and other weed pests on lawns is
to cut the plant off at the crown, and drop
on the top of the root two or three drops of
kerosene oil. The Lawn will not be defaced
by digging, and the work Is at once and
completely done; the root dies as surely as
if struck by lightning.
Wash your horses and cattle occasionally
in this weather with oarbolic soap; the flies
are not partial to it, aud will trouble your
animals much less. Also, don't be too par
ticular to sweep down the spider webs ia
your stables; spiders eat flies. and ever fly
caught in q cobweb Is removed from all fur
Their temptation to bite your horse.
The Germantown Telegraph knows a
Chicken expert who grooves his hen roosts
from end to end, and fills the groove with a
mixture of lard and sulphur in equal parts,
by which means he keeps his fowls free from
lice. He recommends also q little OF the
same mixture applied to ths neck and rump
and under the wings OF the fowls.
Mr.. John Shute, the energetic owner of
the Five Oak farm, in Washington County,
Ore, writes az follows 10 the Washington
County Independent: 81 have a five year
old COW that gives 248 pounds of milk per
week. and the cream from that milk makes
eighteen pounds OF butter per week. Her
calf Is FIVE months old. I can not say as to
her stock.
1t is confidently asserted that the cotton
crop Of the present year will be the largest
ever harvested-fully 600 900 bales, worth
$500 600 600 1t Is also as confidently stated
that this increase lie largely due to the opera
ton of the chronological experts employed
by the Government in devising means to
check the ravages of the cotton army worm.
1t Is we'll known that butter, cream, milk
and -four are peculiarly liable to absorb
effluvia. and should, therefore, never be kept
in mouldy rooms or placed where there arc
sour liquids, aromatic vegetables, such as
onions, cabbage and turnips; or smoked fish
or bacon, or, indeed, any kind of food or
thing Of strong odor, lest they lose their
flavor.
Dairymen, do not forget your stock calves.
Do not put the N off with a picking of grass
and little VIII ~ from the factory, growing
them up 30 thin as to be hardly able to cast
a good sha low. These young things. well
cared for, will pay Cor all your labor and
food, and, besides, 1t will give you pleasure
to look az their rangy, well-rounded bodies
and limbs.
Weeds on gravel walks may be Destroyed
and prevented from growing again by q
copious dressing Of the cheapest salt. This
10 q better method than hand pulling, which