The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-24
Farm Notes.

pies would do well 10 engage IN the manu-
facture of jelly, apple butter, cider and vim
egar.
Farm Notes.
1t pays to feed COWS giving milk literally.
Butter is high, and now is the time TO feed
proftably.
Cracks in stoves may be effeetually
stopped by paste made OF ashes and salt
mixed with water.
Evaporated fruit is rs superior to sun
dried fruit as fresh raspberries are to those
dried on the bushes.
Summer hog-packing to August 4
amounted 20 8, 430, 9S3 hogs, against ., SIS, S95
same time last season.
Always give the soil the first meal. If il
is well fed with manure il will feed all else,
plants, animals and men.
1t is estimated that the stalk crop of the
country annually amounts to $1,000 600
tons, worth over S2G0, 100000.
The importation of thoroughbred horses,
cattle and sheep from Europe to this coun-
try for the past year exceeds that of any
former year.
Rapid drying of paint is insured by the
addition of small proportion of litharage,
sugar of lead or Japan yarnish according to
material or color.
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Canada recently contracted for the convey
ance of 10000 head of cattle to the ports of
Liverpool, Glasgow, Bristol and London.
A tract of 3,4S0 acres in Logan Valley,
Nebraska, has been bought by Iowa men for
$50, 0S2 and they will open an extensive
stock farm, starting with 1000 head of young
cattle.
The potato crop of this country, it is be-
lieved, will reach is, 600. 900 bushels this
year, valued at 500, 100000. New York
leads in its cultivation, the crop there reach
ing %. 600 600 bushels.
Suffolk and Berkshire pigs may be profit
ably fed, to be sold at nine and ten months,
upon clover, corn meal, linseed meal, or
corn and oat meal. Half pound of lin
seed meal per day on the average to six
months-old pigs would be sufficient
Recent experiments in England show that
thin sowing of wheat in drills is more pro-
ductive than thick sowing BY special cul-
ture on small plots single grain to the hill
has given a yield of 100 to 1872 bushels to
the acre, according to the Experiment Rec
ord
A dormant bulb of the Gala should be
planted so that the point shall be just above
the surface. The exact depth of this plant
in pot or tub is not matter of much I'M
portance, rs it readily adapts itself to
circumstances if il has a constant supply of
water.
None but earth colors should be used in
painting floors, and the rapid wearing off of
coating of oil paint on a floor is a sure in
dication that white lead has been mixed
with the paint. 1t is important that the
first coating should be perfectly dry before
the second is laid on.
In selecting cows for milking, the free,
easy step, the pleasant and comfortable ex-
preston of countenance and the round, ca
pacious form of body are far more import
ant than the line of descent or family his
tory. Pedigree goes for little unless it car
ries with it the marks of a good mixer
American Cultivator.
The subject of the shipment of cattle from
Omaha to Brussels direct is being investi-
gated. From Omaha to New York the
freight will be about eighty cents per 100
pounds and from New York to Antwerp "a
per head. What the expense on a cargo
would be has not been definitely ascertained,
but it is said that the venture has a favor
able look.
A ton of cottOn-seed meal contains thirty
eight pounds of potash. fifty-six pounds of
phosphoric acid and seventy-eight pounds of
nitrogen. A ton of average barn-yard ma
nure contains twelve pounds of nitrogen,
six pounds of phosphoric acid and thirteen
pounds OF potash. These minerals would
make ton of cotton-seed meal worth. as a
fertilizer, $25 66, while those contained in a
ton of barn-yard manure would be worth
S4. 05; but there would be value in barn
yard manure not given in these figures, aris-
ing from its ameliorating effects in the soil,
and another value arising out of its heat
producing properties, which the cotton-seed
meal lacks. The heat-giving properties and
its ameliorating action i'm the soil make it of
SO much more value to the market gardener.
The first moving machine which met
with any success in this country is believed
to be that of William Manning, of New Jer-
sey, patented in 1881. This machine was
furnished with the saw-tooth knife, having
vibratory motion. In 1884 the Arabler
patent made its appearance, with q cutter
bar of wrought iron, and single smooth
edged knife. operated by means of crank
which gave it the vibratory motion.
Another machine came into use in
1885, by which the cutting was performed
by circular knives fastened on to the per-
iphery of a horizontal wheel FIVE feet in di-
aGeter. The wheel was suspended on a
perpendicular shaft which hung on lever,
by means of which the driver could elevate
or lower the knives at will. In 1887 ap-
peared the Wilson machine. This was OPP
Grated by the horse walking behind the ma
chine. The HoZza machine, of Cincinnati,
was brought into notice in 1S36.-American
Cultivator.