The Indiana State sentinel., 1880-08-18
i've the horn any shape you please by rasp-

| give the horn any shape you please by rasp-
ing.
The present cattle grazing belt of the
L nitec States wild laDds) is about 9, ,00O
miles in length and $50 in breadth. II
stretches from the Rio Grande TO Manitoba.
The total wheat crop of the United States
in 1873, according to estimates OF the Agri-
cultural Department, was 449 600, 600 bushels,
and 1t is believed, with favorable close of
the harvest, that the product of this year
will exceed il to the amount OF about so 000, =
600 bushels.
A Devon COW Is reported that made a
pound of butter In summer from twenty
two and one-half pounds of milk, and from
fifteen POUNDS in winter, with pasture only
and two qusrts OF bran fed dry twice day.
She gave % per cent. more milk when
MIXED three times day.
In all probability the potato is the most
valuable vegetable produced, taxing it the
world over; certainly there is no single one
for which so much labor and money is ex-
pended, and none so universally consumed.
The idea OF dinner without potatoes is the
best illustration of the idea OF the play Of
Hamlet" with Hamlet left out.
A French paper relates the following ex-
pertinent: A COW was MIXED three times a
day for eleven days, and yielded 170 quarts
OF milk. With two milkIngs daily she gave
only 146 quarts in the same number of days.
Analysis moreover showed that the milk in
the first case was richer in butter globules by
more than one-seventh than in the second
case.
Never water horse directly after feeding
him, especially If he is fed on corn. Thirst
should be alleyed before the feed is given,
and j! any water Is allowed after it should be
merely mouthful, until the lapse of two
or three hours time has baen had for gastric
digestion. Many valuable animals have
been lost by allowing them TO drink freely
directly after eating.
Last years wine product in France aggre-
gated 565, 400, 900 gallons, or 250, 600 600 gals
Ions less than the previous year, showing
the enormous falling off of nearly one-half
The insect pests which hove infested many
OF the wine districts for yesrs have not been
the only cause of the diminished yield, but
it Is largely attributed to the unfavorlbls
weather for the past year.
1t is asserted that fifteen or sixteen years
ago Chicago merchants obtained their sup
plies OF cheese from the East, while al the
present time as much as 100, 600 900 pounds
of the compound pass through that city an
nually for Eastern markets. During the
same time prices have fallen about % per
cent, but are still sufficiently high to make
the business very remuneratIve.
Parsnips, carrots Swedish turnips, and
especially mangel wurzsl, will all fatten
pigs. The roots ought not to be gwen in a
raw state, but always cooked and mixed
With beans, peas Indian corn, oats or barley,
all of which must be ground into meal.
When pigs are fed on such cooked food es
We have stated the pork acquires peculiar
ly rich flavor, and is much esteemed, es
pecially for family use.
The greatest enemy TO young fruit trees il
the curculio worm. There is no batter time
than now TO destroy them by digging about
the roots and following them into the trees
through the bark. Timely attention will
rave the thrifty young fruit trees-sn im-
portant item of interest to the farmer and
nurseTyman.