The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-09-01

grOWtn, ana 10 avert 10 Iru1I GROWTH. AIter
all the punches of grapes have set, suckers
or young shoots of vine will start at the union
of the leaf with the cane or new growth. As
soon rs these shoots or suckers are two or
three inches long, we break them of from
the main. and thus throw the strength into
the fruit and main canes rather than the
suckers. This operation correspOrdstOthat0f
rubbing off suckers or water-sprouts from
apple trees in the summer time. 1t saves an
immense amount of labor and improves the
crop There is no one thing on the garden
border pays better than a well-cared for vine
After pruning i'm the spring there is no,cut-
ting to be done until the spring following
Agricultural Notes.
For chicken cholera it is recommended to
boil one bushel of smartweed in ten gallons
of water down to three gallons, mix the
decoction with the fowls food twice day
for three days, then every other day for
week
There is more gold in farms than in
mines" The yearly product of the farms of
Iowa is more than all of the annual product
of the silver and gold mines of California,
Nevada, Colorado New Mexico and all the
Territories of the United States.
A correspondent Of the Examiner recon-
mends busting tomato plants quite freely
with wood ashes, sowing it over the plants
until they look quite gray as means of pre-
venting the ravages of the tomato worm, or
even of driving the pests away after they
have begun operations.
Cuttings of many plants root freely in any
moist substance, and soft wooded plants OF
free growth, such as fuchsias, verbenas and
lObelia, root quickly i'm sawdust, wet sand,
sand and water, if placed in brisk tempera-
ture. Rose cuttings, as well as those of the
oleander, will strike root freely in bottles of
rain water.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer says
that he has found by experience that six
Cotswold sheep will not consume more food
than a COW, and are more profitable. For
lamb of this breed, weighing 125 pounds,
$3.50 is obtained. He estimates that six
ewes will produce eight lambs per annum
and fifty pounds of wool.
1t is well-known that butter, cream, milk
and flour are peculiarly liable TO absorb
| effiuyia, and should, therefore, never be
kept in moldy rooms or placed where there
are 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.
| An Irishman who had pig in his pos
| session was observed to adopt the constant
practice of filling it 10 repletion one day and
| starving it the next. On being asked his
reason for doing SO, he replied: Coach, sure,
and isn't it that like to have bacon with
strake o. fat and strak O lane equally, one
| after t'other"
Weeds on gravel walks may be destroyed
and prevented from growing again by a
| copiOus dressing of the cheapest salt. This is
a better method than manipulating, which
| disturbS the gravel and renders constant
raking and rolling necessary. One applica-
ton early in the season, and Others as may
| be needed, while the weeds are small, will
keep the walks clean and bright.
1t is of the very utmost importance that
| stock should have good, pure water, and
| plenty of IT, The thirst of animals during
the hot weather can readily be imagined
from judging it by the human thirst; and to
| deprive the animal of a sufficient drink is
about the worst species of cruelty that can
be inflicted upon the brute creation. The
agony OF excessive thirst is simply terrible.
The raising of horses in the great Yellow
stone Valley has become an important and
| profitable business. Some of these herders
| have from 500 to 1,500 each, and dispose Of
| their three-year colts at from $50 10 $500 pr
head The animals feed on grass alone and
the only shelter afforded from the weatheris
in roughly-built sheds; still the animals
| thrive well, and are rs a rule, more valuable
than those bred elsewhere.
The wheat on President Hayes farm, FIVE
| ltlllt> llOItll VI NOulu Ditt>t his
| Excellency's eye 1t is all Tor seed wheat.
The gentleman in charge, Mr. Cushman, ex-
poets 10 get 1000 bushels off 200 acres, and
sell it for S1.25 per bushel. Gross receipts
5000 This is only starter. There is a
fine field of oats-fifty acres There are the
usual small fruits, chickens, etc.
The Country Gentleman says: "From
our own observation, and the reports in the
papers and from correspondents, We Judge
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season, as we have before stated, will be
large, particularly at the West but taken as
a whole, not 50 abundant as some other full
years the quantity being somewhat dimin-
ished in the Eastern States by the drought
and other unfavorable causes. The pear
crop will be moderate in some places, and
small in most. The peach crop will be fair,
not heavy" n
The complaint still continues of the
ravages of the cabbage-worm and a demand
for a remedy for it. But We can tell the
inquirer and all others what is a remedy for
| the cabbage-worm, which is within every
ones reach, if it is properly applied 1t is TO
| simply sprinkle over the parts of the cab
bage-p.ant where the worm usually operates
pinch of cayenne or red pepper. Nothing
more nor less. Keep a few ounces on hand
and use it when needed, but use ii care
fully so as to reach the insect, and il will
promptly dislodge it.-Germantown Tele-
graph.
An exchange says that the annual recur-
renee of numerous barn burnings imme-
diately after harvest and at the time when
such disaster entails the greatest loss on the
farmer, gives rise anew to the discussion of
the various theories of Spontaneous COM
bustion." 1t is very widely held among
farmers and just as earnestly denied by
many of them, that damp oats or hay will
give rise to degree of heat that will cause a
conhagration, and that piece of iron or a
steel fork left in the body of the grain will
intensity the danger 1t is mooted ques-
ton of great interest that can easily be set
tied by scientific investigation, and to which
our agricultural societies should give their
attention. The farmers want illumination
on the subject of different sort from that
| which is afforded by their blazing barns.
A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer finds
the common black ant an efficient protection
against the plague of currant worms. He
/ has several colonies of ants close to his cur
rant bushes, and enjoys an abundance of
| fruit while his neighbors bushes are over
| run with worms. Formerly he took pains
TO destroy the ant colonies, but on witness
ing their attacks upon the worms he has
| taken pains TO protect and encourage them
| Cattle in New Castle Hundred, Del, is
being affected by an insect designated as the