The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-04
Farm Notes.


There will be an increased acreage in to-
bacco in Wisconsin this season.
Sugar beets can only be grown to perfec-
ton on deep, rich soil. Poor, shallow soils
can be made deeper by deep ploughing and
richer with more manure.
Lice may be deriroyed by dipping the
plants in hot water, so hot that the hand can
Just bear il and no more. Dip them in and
take them out again instantly, and repeat it
two or three time. 1t will not hurt the
plants.
1t is a law of nature that low forms of
heritage thrive on poor soils. where higher
and better types could not exist Weeds
abound in fields almost destitute of fertil-
ity-felds that could not support a blade of
timothy or red-tOp.
gentleman in Colorado informs us that
by irrigation he grew caulihower heads four
feet three inches in circumference. Cauli-
flower is fond of water, and we have seen
large plantations in the continent of Europe
that were regularly watered every evening,
except during rainy weather.
SCOT contains a large amount of ammonia
when first brought from the chimney. SCOT
also absOrbs ammonia after il has been
spread upon the land; it also contains a
large quantity of creosote, which is useful
in destroying insects, besides being All excel
lent fertilizer for all kinds of crops.
A. s. Gardiner, of Ypsilanti, Mich, in
response to a challenge to produce an ear OF
corn with 900 kernels, produced a basketful
of ears averaging foot in length and none
having less than 900 kernels to the ear. One
specimen had .269 kernels. The variety IS
yellow denied red cob, and was planted in
hills four feet apart each way and yielded
| 40 bushels to the acre.
All keepers and feeders of cows should
bear this III mind, that COW can not make
cud when fed on shorts or meal alone These
must be mixed with longer feed either in
their Manager or in the animals stomach. II
is not necessary 10 mix these substances be
fore feeding, as the motion of the stomach
will mix them sufficiently to form a cud.--
American Cultivator.
Joseph Harms saws that an excellent
manure for the gardner and fruit grower is
made by mixing two or three bushels Of
bone dust through load of stable manure
and letting the whole ferment together. The
bone dust increases the fermentation anC
the heating manure softens the bone The
whole becomes 4 strong fertilizer if the hear
is properly attended to-
Speaking of our great wheat crops. tn,
American Miller remarks that few people
in our own country realize how inexhausti
BILE our resources are for wheat growing
The total area OF lands available for whea
470, 0Oc 900 acres. Our entire wheat crop o.
the pest year would not supply seed enough
to SOW so vast an area of wheat land.
One writer on ensilage truly says: 81
will asst enormously in making mankind
independent of the weather; for the con
slant use of the pillow and the cultivator
and the raising of strong. growing crops will
greatly obviate the difficulties from drought
while the serious loss and expense of har
vesting crops in wet seasons will be great,
diminished by this method Of preserving
food"
| A subscriber writes that, notwithstanding
the many new methods for Kidding squashs
!, and cucumbers of bugs, he has not yet foun,
! a mere certain remedy than the following
; Mix fresh COW dung with water to the con
, sistence OF paint; then. with a wisp OF stray
! or an old broom, smear the vines. Beside
, destroying the insect pests the above appli
! cation invigorstes the vines.
A great advantage that may be claime
I for sugar-beet culture is the utilization o
4 the land annually left open TO fallow, whic
r would effect great saving and be a fruitful
annual source of profit to cultivators. TIL
ground after previous culture of India
Q corn would be in excellent condition for tn
o beet crop, after having been broken up /
Q the fall and could, after beets be plante
4 in the subsequent spring in oats or barley
= and these in turn, after application {
!: manure, may be followed by wheat.