The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-09

acid. Copper produces yerdigris. Tin costs
too much, and 80 tin plate is the safest and
least expensive.
No man can afford 10 have his milch COWS
driven by dog unless the dog knows as
much as his owner should know.
The dairy COW is a work OF art. and 30 Is
the beef animal; both are the productions of
man 10 suit his needs and convenience.
The average yield of Indian corn per acre
throughout the United States is 29.2 bush
els, OF an average value per buShel of 81 =
cents.
Nine-tenths of the fixed capital of all the
civilized people i'm the world is embarked in
agriculture, which employs 2O0,O00,000 Of
men.
There are 100000 square inches to an
acre; in "A bushel OF timothy seed there are
100000 seeds, or nearly seven seeds to a
square inch.
The raising OF sheep Is of the greatest
benefit to the land, because wherever they
feed new and sweet grasses grow and flour
ish, and the weeds are destroyed. Farmers
should raise turnips and feed them 10 sheep.
Too close inbreeding produces barrenness,
and the very opposite has the same effect
The other extreme is known asvioient cross
ing. The most violent cross is that between
unlike species. as between the horse and the
ass, the product Of which is a barren mule
fl is we'll settled that nitrogen, phosphoric
acid, potash, sulphuric acid, lime and mag
nesia are the only ingredients of plant-fOOd
which need TO be supplied in fertilizers; and
all other ingredients of plant-food are sup
piled by the soil in quantities sufficient for
the production of the heaviest crops.
Ii is said that horse which can walk live
miles an hour is worth more than either
Maud :. or II. Julien, and would probably
walk Ia san Francisco before either of those
two horses could trotthere. The horse should
be trained % walk. \ good walker will
travel more miles in day than a fast
trOtter.
A WatcrtOwn y. v, farmer says that "A
cubic foot of his ensilage weighs from forty
six to forty-seven pounds. and il takes about
six and half tons to feed one COW through
the winter He also states that he has fed
fifty-ive pounds of ensilage, five pounds of
middlings and one-half pound of cotton seed
meal per day TO his cows The butter made
was fine, and sold at high prices.
An extensive apple-grower cultivates his
orchards six or eight years after planting,
and fertilizes with bone-dust and wood
ashes. Afterward the soil is sown To grass.
and annually enriched with good stable
manure as a tOp-dreSsing or mulch. The
trees are pruned late in the autumn or
bodies of the trees are washed with strong
lye.
A correspondent of the Farmer and Fruit
Grower recommends the use of common salt
as a cure for red rust" the deadly scourge
of our native blackberries and black rasp-
berries. This so-called rust is one OF the
higher forms OF parasitic fungi. and not gen.
orally observable on the growing plants
until il shows its bright, orange red
fruiting heads in the form of large red
scales on the under side of the leaves in
June and July.
In feeding animals, a in other things,
time is a most essential element of Snccess.
Nature has most clearly pointed out TO Us
the road to success in cattle feeding. IL is
found in this law: that the young animal
takes the least amount of food to produce a
pound OF growth, and that, all other things
being equal each succeeding pound of
growth or live weight up to the maturity OF
the animal costs more than the preceding
/ pound.
| Concerning frozen potatoes, an English
authority writes: We know of no plan
equal to burying them in the ground. Dis
trench, spread the potatoes as thinly "a
possible, aud cover them with the soil
which should be mixed with the tubers; il
! this does not remove the frost and leave the
tubers sound nothing will that we are &C
quainted with. Potatoes that are left i'm tn,
ground all the winter are usually sound il
/ the spring, though, on account of theil
nearness to the surface, il is almost or quIt'
certain that they had been frozen. We have
often observed potato that has been partl,
| imbedded in the soil frozen above where eX
posed and sound below where imbedded
vet the frost must have penetrated the sol
below the potato