The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28
Agricultural Notes.

Any of the cereals may be cut at the roots
when the kernel As in the milk, and the seed
will ripen Just the same, showing that at
that time all the elements for perfecting the
grain are in the plant.
Nature is one of the most accurate book
Keepers, and unless you charge her with a
thorough pulveriGa ton OF the soil and its
liberal fertilization in some way, you will
never have to give her credit for bountiful
harvests.
The pulse OF healthy horse beats from
thirty-seven TO ferty times per minute; that
or q sheep, seventy to eighty; that of a COW,
from thirty tosfOrty, but during rumination
1t may count over seventy and be consistent
with health.
Give the fowls a variety-corn, wheat,
oats buckwheat, cooked vegetables of all
kids, fruits, refuse of the table, raw cab
bage in winter. grass of any tender variety
in summer. Variety is the spice OF fowls
life as we'll as of mans. Meat should be fed
often.
Gees are a fruitful subject for study.
IL a,oueen is removed from the hive, the
bees select certain of the workers eggs, or
even young larvss two or three days old, the
cell Is enlarged, and q totally different food
supplied. The result is that in five days, less
than would be required for a worker, q
queen is Matched.
The larger part of the garden vegetables
should be planted in long rows rather than
IN short cross rows, ami q small light cul-
tivetoF-a narrow-one especially adapted
can then be run between the rows, and the
labor Of hoeing will be materially lessened.
Onio1s, beets, radishes, ETC., can be best
sown in this manner.
A late writer says: "Most farmers have
noticed that in fattening swine rapidly, they
appear weak in their hind legs, and some
times lose the use of them entirely. In
such cases we find that a small quantity of
bone neal mixed with their daily feed will
prevent weakness, ead will strengthen the
animal 30 as to admit of the most rapid
forcing
Vegetables require rich food. In getting
ready for spring vegetables, do not fear to
pile on the manure. 1t is the rank, rich
growth which gives the agreeable tenderness,
and without an abundance Of manure this
can not be secured. Deep soil is also great
element of success in this branch OF hus-
bandry.
1t is held that England will eventually
become one of the best customers for our
mutton sheep. To accomplish this how
ever, our stock of mutton sheep must not
only be increased. but especial care must be
taken in breeding, and special pains used in
fatteniDg. In beef cattle, what consumers
want nowadays Is superior flesh, not
masses OF tallov.
Every farmer may not be able te reach the
maximum of production, yet he can make
his land produce what he needs, and what
an accommodating market will pay him well
for. when he has il in excess Of home wants.
No farmer in the land, however poor his soil
may be at the outset, has any excuse for not
making every acre contribute to his own and
the general good
An Iowa law RENTS q certain percentage
OF taxes for five years on every acre OF fruit
and for ten years on every acre of forest trees
planted within the State and kept alive.
Under this stimulus more than rs, 600 acres
of fruit and forest trees have been planted,
and there has been a remission of State and
county taxes to the amount OF about 500 900.
The average farmer who makes no spe-
cialty, and has no source of revenue aside
from the sales of farm products, will be
pretty certain 10 make poor investment OF
borrowed capital in high-priced. full-blooded
animals FsE better will il be for him to
procure the services Of the best sires in the
locality, and give the young animals brought
forth by his farm stock the care and atten
ton that full bloods usually receive.
Asa general thing the daughters of farm
ers make good wives. From childhood they
help about the house, and frequently take
sole charge OF the housekeeping in the tenn
porary absence of the mother. Thus they
learn the duties and responsibilities OF