The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-30
Farm Notes.


One cord Of birch wood weighs 2,36s
pounds.
Worms infest the lungs, the intestines
and the kidneys of pigs.
Soft soap differs from hard in having pot
ash in place of soda as an alkaline base.
Water in which flax has been stepped not
only kills fish but is injurious to vegetation.
The Chicago Packing and Provision House
kills 10000 hogs every day, a day being ten
hours.
The first one or two litters laid by pullets
are not so good for Matching purposes as
those laid later.
Andrew Sprague, of Easton, Me-, raised
200 bushels OF very large sugar beets from
forty square rods Of ground.
The average price of the corn crop of ILL
nois for 1850 is thirty-three cents per bushel
which is six cents less than the average price
for the last twenty years
Do not be in too much haste to set your
hens, unless you have a warm place, not
only for them 70 set in, but also for the
young chicks aftey they are Matched.
A couple of ounces of carbolic acid to
three quarts of water sprinkled on the poul-
try house through the fine nose of n small
watering pot once in three or four weeks
will destroy lice and other parasites.
An exasperated Pennsylvania farmer, who
had lost a great number of sheep, placed
some poisoned meat where he thought il
would do the most good. His rage was con-
siderably soothed the next morning on find
| ing the dead bodies Of eighteen sagacious
dogs.
Nothing is equal to tallow for large cog
wheels, but a good grease may be made OF
twenty-five pounds OF tallow, twenty-five
pounes OF tar, fifteen OF soda, and three or
four gallons of water. Boil the soda and
water till the former is dissolved; then add
the other ingredients.
Instead Of oil, which thickens and makes
whetstones dirty, mixture OF glycerine
and alcohol is used by many. The proper
| tons OF the mixture vary according to the
instrument operated upon. An article with
a large surface, razor, for instance,
sharpens best with n limpid liquid as
three parts of glycerine to one of al
cohol.
IL you wish to be successful with trees do
not plant large ones; they cost much more
than small ones, you lose larger percentage
of them and the tops of "A number die down,
while even those which do the best are
much longer In starting than smaller ones.
OF two persons planting two lots, one of
/ large trees, the other OF smaller ones, in a
few years the small trees will be the best
value.
On account OF lack OF sheds and other
means of protection, the winter in the
Northwest has been very destructive TO
sheep and cattle, but more particularly "a
the former. Two young Scotchmen, who
went into the sheep business about year
ago with a herd of about 1000 sheep, have
lost them all this winter and are financially
ruined. 1t is not wise policy to have all
the eggs in one basket.
In 1871 the yield OF wheat was 2G0, 722, 400
aushels. In 1875 292, l36, 600, and in 1850
$50 S42, 1913 bushels. In the last decade the
production of corn has increased from 99l,
Sos. 900 bushels TO ,337, 535 $40 bushels. In
1850 the grain area of the country was lOt,
l42 676 acres. Ten years ago the total export
of grain from all parts of the United States
was 70, l22, 1903 bushels; last year it amounted
to Dds. $50, 947 bushels.
A recent improved recipe for preserving
plants with their natural colorals 20 dissolve
one part of salicylic acid In GOO parts OF
alcohol, heat the solution up to the boiling
pOn in an eyaporating vessel, and draw the
plants slowly through il. Shake them Ia
get rid of any superfluous moisture, and then
dry between sheets of blotting paper, under
pressure, in the ordinary manner. Too
prolonged immersion discolors violet flow
ers, and in all cases the blotting paper must
be frequently renewed. The novelty APP
pears to be salicylic acid.
The air bubble or air cell in an egg is al
the round or blunt end. 1t contains the air
which is to supply the chick during the pro
, cess OF incubation. 1t is known to contain
a greater proportion of oxygen than the ali
we breathe As the chick increases in sz'
the air bubble grows larger, and when OF
the point of Matching it occupies one-fifth o
, the whole egg. The slightest perforation o
this air chamber will prevent success t
Matching out. About the nineteenth day o
incubation the air cell is ruptured ant
the chick breathes with its lungs. 1t is a
, this date that the lively movements seen II
eggs placed In water are observable.