The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-01-19

cheese to the value of Sl,714.s63.s 50, being
s565, -33 more than was sold in 1879.
Good sweet milk contains one fourth more
sugar than butter; this sugar turns to acid,
and If this acid is too much developed
before churning, the coveted aroma is de-
stroyed.
The following may be accepted as an APP
proximate to the average quantities of milk
given by the different breeds of COWS: Ma
tives produce annually ,794 pounds; Jersey,
3,720;. Ayrshire, 1890; Holstein, 1927.
Ashes, are, for many soils, standard fer
tilizer. Places where tree or brush-heap
has been burned often show the effects of the
manuring for years. 1t is an old saying:
THE land never forgets ashes"
A black ash teee, with beautifully figured
grains, taken out of a marsh in Canada,
when cut up, sold in New York at s., 900;
the stump was sold for 800, the produces
being used for making into yeneers.
At Utica, \. Y, the number Of boxes OF
cheese sold during the season of 1850 were
29S, S57-2, 702 boxes less than 1879. The
amount obtained for the product of 1886
was 81 0S5, 573. 80 being $597,017.S6 more
than the product of 1879 sold for.
in Germany the dairyman sends his but.
ter through the mail TO the consumers table
In winter it is sent in parchment paper and
wrapped in common paper; in summer, in
tin cans or wooden boxes made expressly
for that purpose.
In the process of dressing hogs for English
bacon the hair is removed by being singed
instead of being scalded off; therefore, the
animals must not be too fat and chuffy:
Hogs suitable for making this singed
bacon, tor which there is growing de-
mand, are cross with the pure Berk-
shires.
The raising of horses in the great Yellow.
stone Valley has become an important and
profitable business Some of the herder:
have from 500 to 1900 each, and dispose OF
their three-year-old colts at from $50 to 500
per head. The animals feed on grass alone,
and the only shelter from the weather j:
roughly-huilt sheds.
Any land which will grow good corn OIL
wheat will grow raspberries. The ground
should be well plowed, and receive liberia
coating of manure, before planting. Plan
Blackcaps seven by three feet, and the rec
varieties six by three feet, if set in rows, AND
five feet each way, if in hills, so that they
can be cultivated each way.
A lady who has raised a large number o.
hens says that after vainly trying the recon-
mended remedies for lice, she has hit upor
the plan Of giving them, once or twice {
week, a large loaf of Graham -four, in which
handful of sulphur has been mixed. The
hens like it. and are freed from lice anC
kept healthy through the season.
Dairying has made great progress during
the past twenty years Three thousand pounds
of milk, 800 pounds of cheese, or 100 pounds
OF butter per cow is no longer satisfactory 81
profitable, and a low grade of butter viii
only add to the unsatisfactory condition o.
the dairyman's finances.
4.
feeds about 1000 bushels of grain annually
after thirty years experience, says he is sat
isfied that it was worse than lost labor L
grind cobs for cattle, and that corn should b.
ground as fine for stock as for bread, the oh
ject being TO so reduce the grain that ii cal
ne the most readily acted upon by the gastri
juice of the stomach.
A correspondent of the Western Stool
Journal saws he once had a valuable heife
which was an exceedingly vicious kicker
To cure her of the habit he put common
garden hoe end in front of her off hind leg
and behind and above the gambrel joint o
the nigh hind leg. Then sitting down on tn
! right to milk he put the handle of the ho
well up under his arm and began milking
The heifer could not stir either hind leg
and after one week she could be milket
safely without lettering, and proved to be
valuable and gentle animal
1t is said to cost less per pound to rails
turkeys than to raise chickens. You cal
not raise fine, large poultry from small, i'll
| formed hens, no matter how large the cool
is. 1t is true that the cock has the create
| influence in determining the external points
but the size and weight depend mainly OIL
! the hen. The bronze turkey is the larges
and hardest of its species, and will give bet
ter results at the close of the season than an,
other 1t should be, therefore, as it is, tn
favorite. In breeding this magnificent fow
care should be taken TO procure large bird
of a suitable age. The older the better, "
to three years.