The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-30

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parts of the vine. The gsll-inhsbiting form
exists only in the female sex, and descends
to the roots at the end of the growing sea
son. It's propagation is essentially similar
to that of budding in plants, and the sue
| ceedipg generations may be looked upon as
but combinations of the regular stem.
mother. The roct-inhabiting form, while
possessing the same power Of bud-produc-
| tion, likewise combines that OF true sexual
| reproduction, so that it may be said TO null
| tiply both by bud and by seed. The COM
parison of the propagation OF phylloxera
with that OF plant is quite permissible, and
really warranted from physiological stand
point. The gall making insect is much more
often observed than the reot-inhabited form,
| though the latter is so exceedingly destruc-
tive compared with the former.
Farm Notes.
Quick lime Is destructive to worms, slugs
and larv;e of injurious insects.
Vick's Magazine says that cabbage worms
may be killed off by an application of lime
water.
It is said to cost as much to raise one acre
OF tobacco as 1t does to raise eight acres of
corn.
Manchester township, York county, de-
rived 500 900 revenue from the sale Of its
tobacco last year.
A two year old Leicester buck, owned by
Mr.. Vaughn, Darlington, Ind, sheared q
fleece which weighed fourteen pounds.
Fowls are very fond OF milk and thrive
well upon 1t. Sour milk will bring better
returns In eggs than in any other way it can
be fed.
Three tabIespoonfuls of London purple,
well mixed in a peck of plaster of Paris, will
make a compound which is sure death TO
the Colorado beetle.
The Country Gentleman relates an in
stance where an old pasture that had nearly
run out was restored by applying two bar
rels to the acre of wood ashes and salt mixed.
Clean farming is the best under all circum-
Stances and il adopted as q rule will tend
largely toward preventing the increase of
clinch bugs and all other njurious insects.
1t is said that In Scotland, on a farm con-
tanning 1000 acres, there would be 800
lambs obtained q year at least. The death
rate in ordinary seasons Is from to 10 per
cent. per annum.
The number of cattle killed per year in the
United States is IL, S25 coo, the meats from
which amount to f. sS 800 600 pounds, and
their total value when killed for food is
S606, 200, 900.
DR.. Voeloker analysed the milk from q
Dutch cow and also from an Ayrshire. He
found the milk from the former contained
q per cent. of butter, while the latter gave
D per cent.
For maggots which work at the roots OF
squash vines, it Is said that tablespoonful
OF saltpetre in pailful of water applied to
the roots will destroy these pests and greatly
invigorate the vines.
Never work with dull tools; they require
too great an outlay of strength. The best
mower we ever saw was a man who
weighed only nInety-fiye pounds, but the
secret of his success was keen edge.
Mr.. Richard Hawley of Goodrich. Ontario
County, New York, has steer which, at
three years of age. weighed 9. go pounds. In
six months and ten days in gained 40
pounds, or about "a pounds per day.
The young Jersey cow Arawana Batter
cup, owned by Mr.. William Crozier. of
Northport, L. l., due to calye June 8, $780,
on the 26th of May gave twenty two pounds
of milk, after being In milk eleven months.
Professor Riley, Chief of the Entomologi-
cal Commission, expresses the opinion that
the army worm will not remain long in the
sections now afflicted by 1t, but will move
northward, following the ripeniDg crops.
The United States now have ten times
more acres in wheat than the United King
dom; they have twice the number of horses
of both England and France, one-third more
cattle, and four times more hogs than both.
The Agricultural Appropriation bill,
pissed by the Senate at Washington, contains
items appropriating S2S 900 for experiments
with machinery for making sugar from corn
stalks and in the cultivation of tea.
The New England Farmer quotes a sue
cessful old farmer with saying mat early cut
hay is the best for cattle. They eat il later
and like it better than that which is cut late.
He will cut this year before tie Goth of
June.
There are new produced from Indian corn
millions of pounds of starch and glucose an
nually, OF which large quantity is export
al fertilizers; they come entirely from the
atmosphere.
The butter globules in milk from far-ow
COWS and cows nearly dry smaller than
from COWS In flush of milk aud, in order to
OBTAIN all the butter, the cream from the
former should be churned together, and the
same Of new milk cows.
Sulphur has been found to cure roup In
fowls when applied as follows: Open the af
fected fowls besk, and with tube, which
may be formed OF paper, blow hall a tea
spoonful of sulphur down the throat Three
applications have been known 10 cure.
In the vicinity of Jackson, Mich, com
plants are made that clover is being de-
stroyed by an insect which strips the stalk
OF It's leaves and in some instances destroys
the whole plant Clover fields in the vlcin.
ity OF Parma have been damaged by this in
sect.
Notwithstanding the fact that we receive
such large quantities OF cattle from Texas
that State imports large quantities of butter
and cheese. The prospects for a fertile State
hundred years from now would be much
better il she made more butter and exported
less beef.
A horses hoof is of the same nature as
horn. Ii you desire to know The effects of
applying hot shoe to a horses hoof, place
your comb on hot stove for q minute or
two, then let il cool, and see how easily it
will break. A hot shoe makes the hoof brit
tia instead OF tough.
Dr. Lswes says: Forty.two pounds OF
nitrogen applied in the form of nitrate OF
soda, with other mineral manures, to one
acre of barley, has. for twenty five years in
succession, produced as large a crop as an
annual application of fourteen tons of farm
yard manure per acre."
An old gardener says in the Detroit Tri-
bune, with regard to cultivatIng onions, that
ia ia 10 N drou O he