The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-02
Farnl Notes.

1t is said that pullets first eggs are not
40 good As those laid later.
\ race horse, when galloping, clears about
twenty-four feet at a bound
Apply glue, as nearly boiling hot as pos
sible, especially upon large joints.
Keep files a. clean as possible. Just as
YOU keep other tools well sharpened.
To make paint dry rapidly use a large
amount of Japan varnish in mixing.
Powdered chalk added to glue in small
quantities makes it hold the stronger.
\ new instrument of German origin has
been invented for measuring the butter fat
in milk.
The heaviest pigs, as well as the most
healthy, are raised on milk, grass and clover.
Tubers and roots are also fine feed
Never overload n team or discourage it by
too heavy pull ut first starting, nor start
from bad place if possible TO avoid it.
| Fowls seldom tire of milk They may eat
too much grain or meat for health, but
milk in any form is both palatable and
/ healthy.
| 4 young farmer invested $50 in blooded
/ hogs last year. Up to date he has sold from
them 800 worth of meat and has 500 worth
of hogs left.
/ Texas is importing large numbers of
I
ported more the last year than during any
one of the last ten years.
Almost all show animals winch are ex-
hibited at our agricultural fairs are overfed
Many are the defects in form which are COW
cred up by heavy coating OF fat.
There are ten hocks of Angora goats IN
Texas, which contain from 100 to 800
head The hair sells for double the price
of wool, the pelts bring fine price and the
meat Is unsurpassed for delicacy
1t is SAID that 5O,OOO,OOO pounds of hides
are sold annually in the Chicago market,
and that on One-fourth of them there is a
loss of two centson pound by reason of
holes made in the hides by grubs of the
gadhy, at loss of $25C, 900 a year in the Chi
cago market alone from the work of this
pest.
Glover is very strongly tap-rooted plant
and strikes its feeders deep into the earth.
finding nutriment where the finer roots Of
cereals would not go. The proportion which
the roots bear to the top is very large, and on
the removal of the crop these are left to rot
and add their elements to enrich the soil.
For table use fowls that are killed directly
from a free range, where they have been
fed for some time previously, and having
taken plenty OF exercise are in perfect
health, are TO be preferred to those which
have been kept in close coop, in connec-
sion with their own excrements and a
polluted atmosphere.
Set your hens at night, and see that they
have set steadily day and night for few
days before you put the eggs under them
Some hens. young ones particularly, will
keep the nest all day and quit at night 1t
is good TO put artificial eggs under them for
a while until you are certain they are deter
mined to-brood steadily.
An Eastern man writing of a Kentucky
sheep exhibition to the New England
Farmer says: 1.-THE show of Cotswolds ex-
ceeded by far any show of this breed that it
has ever been my privilege TO witness; and
il would have made our Yankee farmers
smile TO see these large. noble animals, each
with young negro to fan them with palm
leaf fan"
There great many farms and fields
which can never be cultivated at profit.
These, if planted with forest trees, such as
chestnuts oaks of different varieties pines
and larches, would produce a growth of
timber which would be source of profit,
and then the energies of the farmer might
be concentrated upon his best land, and his
manure could be applied where it would DO
the most good.
During the hurry of work at this busy
season the stock ought not to be forgotten.
One of the most important requisites for
health and thrift isregularity in feeding and
Watering This refers not only to times OF
feeding but TO quantities and qualities OF
fodder. 1t Is important that live stock have
plenty of good, fresh water, especially at
thir time of year. when tie herbage does not
afford the abundance of juices of spring
growth
Between sleeps boots small aperture
may be seen called the bitlex canal, whose
office il is to secrete an oily fluid for the
purpose OF lubricating the skin between the
hosfs it being called into action by every
step the sheep takes in procuring It's food.
Therefore when perpetually wet or con-
stantly dirty. the parts swell, and this secre-
ton already spoken Of is stopped or re-
,ar,ied: hence not only IL the skin deprived
Of the oily secretion, but the secretion itself
becomes an irritaBt of the glands which
secreted IL. Inflammation of the parts is the
u consequent result, berce foot rot, which I'M