The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-09

Farm Notes
An exchange says that most farmers are
prone to keep sheep too long. They ought
TO be killed off while young.
The Ohio Farmer advises the use of white
hellebore for cIIrrant worms. IL states that
it should be slfted on the bashes while they
are wet with dew.
CarboIic acid soap lie recommended as an
excellent preventive against Giles. II rubbed
on the legs and neck of horse he will not
be troubled with flies.
Considerable cranberry land was devas-
tsted by the late New Jersey fires. The
flames swept over q single meadow of thirty
five acres, occasioning the heavy loss of abou
$35 600.
The Western Rural says that while most
other plants require a careful preparation
of soil TO insure their growth, bEcSwheat
not only prepares the soil for itself, but for
other crops, by pulveriEing it il it is hard or
tough.
The farmers OF Crawford County, Penn
sylvsnia, are going 10 make thorough test
of the practicability of raising the red
amber sugar cane. 1t is believed the crop
can be made to yield larger returns than
either corn or wheat.
An asylum for aged domestic animals has
Just been opened at Concise. in France.
There are already a COW thirty six years of
age, a hog aged twenty Eve, and an eigh-
teen-year-old goat. The senior member Of
the happy family, however, Is a mule forty
years OF age.
Fresh COW manure diluted with water
until Of o psste-like consistency and poured
on your melon vines Is an eAectGal remedy
for beetles and other insects that are fire.
quently very destructive. 4 second applica-
tion wall seldom be necessary.
Two hundred and twenty-five acres were
devoted to the cultivation of strawberries in
South Carolina this year, yielding 600
quarts to the acre and aggregating goo, 900
quarts, which, at twelve ceDtsa quart, would
give an income OF a triAe over Sl0S 600.
From experiments recently made by Mr..
]. II. Burns il appears that the application
of yeast to insects produces in them a fatal
fungus, and diluted yeast is therefore
recommended as destructive to the potato
beetle. 1t would at Least be an easy thing to
try.
Vick's Magazine says: 80 wing to the mild
weather, gooseberry buds are swelling fast.
Now is the time to keep a watchful eye on
sparrows and bullfnches near town. The
former do more damage than the latter. Not
day should be lost in taking precautionary
measures"
1t Is claimed that If a couple of hsndfuls
Of the common black walnut leaves are put
In u vessel OF water all ulgnt, ana next
morning boised for fifteen to twenty min
utes then when cold take a sponge or rag
and moisten the eyes. neck, legs, etc Of q
horse, the flies will give those places a wide
berth. In some cases this application may
be valuable.
Che Massachusetts, Ploughman states that
in locating an epiary il should never be
plased against house or fence but isolated,
as II were, that il may be worked around.
Il s.Rould not be placed where cattle pass
often, as bees are opposed TO disagreeable
odoE. No grass or weeds should be allowed
to grew near the hive. as the bees are likely
/ to fab into ii and lose time or be lost.
/ The pleuro- pneumonia is prevailing to
some extent in the State of Delaware A
few days ago Mr.. John s Harrington, oil
Milford Hundred, killed three head of valu
able cattle that had been attacked with the
disease. This ls the surest way to check the
spread OF this plague, IL done in time.
The Germantown Telegraph chronicles the
fact that the editor Of that paper planted q
hundred weevil-eaten peas, and forty OF
them have terminated and appeared above
ground. The planting was mede to disprove
statement In the Rural New Yorker that
only fifteen weevil eaten peas out OF shun-
dred would gsrminate.
The potato beetle is said to have appeared
in large numbers in Camden and Gloucester
Counties. New Jersey. this season. Farmers
planted their potatoes early, with the ex'
pechtion OF escaping the pests, but the latter