The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-13

missioner. Inc senate aQQeQ an apprOpr1a
ton of $500 to pay John L. Hayes for his
report on sheep husbandry in the South
published by resolution of Congress.
Farm and Work shop Notes.
Three thousand species Of grass are known
to botan;sts.
The roots of the grasses in a good pasture
will weigh from five to ten tons.
An Insurance Company has been formed
in Prussia to insure against loss of hogs by
trichina.
Never feed decayed roots of any kind to
cows giving milk. One decayed turnip fed
to a COW would affect the milk of fifty cows
if mixed together.
Among French farmers il is considered
much better to feed beet pulp to sheep and
cattle for production of meat than for milk.
Horses will not eat il readily.
A Frenchman is breeding camels in Ne
vada. He has forty eamels. all but three
natives of that State. engaged in carrying
goods from railroad stations to mining
camps.
A simple adhesive for rubber belts is
made by sticking powdered chalk, which
has been evenly sprinkled over, to the sur
face of the belt by cold tallow or boiled
linseed oil.
West have decided that there is no better
remedy for the codling moth than to pas
ture hogs in the orchard, to eat the wormy
apples and the worms therein.
In transplanting trees never set them
deeper in the ground than they were origi-
nally before they were moved. The roots
of grape vines should always be kept near
thesurface, since their roots never run
deeper.
Spring flowers are generally small and
delicate, but sweet; the flowers of summer
are larger and more plentiful and have
brighter colors. and are also very sweet and
load the air with fragrance; the flowers of
autumn are bright and snowy. bat have lit
tie fragrance.
Thousands were sold In the fall at ruin
ously low prices, but in spite Of this il is
estimated that from 30 to 40 per cent. of the
cattle in Colorado have persisted during the
winter. In other sections the loss has not
been so great but it has been sufficiently
large to check the business.
Loose pulleys require constant attention
and much oil, and are very hard on the belt
1t is best to have them trifie smaller than
the tight pulley, and with step or iange
running up TO the diameter of the tight one.
This takes the strain off the belt and the
friction from the pulleys.
The phylloxera, the deadly enemy of
vineyards, has appeared in six Counties of
California. No means of getting rid of this
pest has been discovered abroad. where its
ravages have been severely felt Since 1875
it has driven out OF vine culture GOO, 900
acres, and reduced the vintage of 1880 one
third as compared with that of 1875.
To make paste for paper take ten parts by
weight of gum arabic, add three parts of
sugar in order to prevent the gum from
cracking; then add water until the desired
consistency is obtained. If a very strong
paste is required, add quantity of flour
equal in weight to the gum, without boiling
the mixture. The paste improves in strength
when 1T begins TO ferment.
AS soon as the frost leaves the surface OF
the ground, and we have a few days of warm
sunshine, the grub of the canker worm will
leave its winter quarters and take up its line
of march for the trunks of apple trees, up
which, if no obstruction prevents it will
climb TO deposit. on the smaller branches,
its eggs Apple trees in locations where
this destructive enemy is found should be
at once looked after; il they are not pro-
tected by patent protectors strip of tarred
paper a foot in width should be tied around
the trunk and kept well-covered with tar,
printers ink or preparation made by melt
ing four parts of rosin with one part linseed
OH. Inc greatest SnOulu DE TAKEN 10
keep the paper covered during the month OF
April so thick with some sticky substa nee
that no grub can pass over it.
In discussing the merits of different breeds
of swine, John ID. w. French, of Andover
writes: The large breeds, such as the Berk
shire, are best for bacon, the smaller breeds
for pork. II you want pigs with good con
situations, which will come TO early maturity
and weigh 200 pounds or thereabouts at a
year old, take an Essex, or small Yorkshire
bear, and cross him on some of the large
coarse sows with which the State abounds
Such pigs will be good feeders, easily kept
and will give the best average results for
pork and bacon. If real Improvements is
expected, pure bred boar should be used as
much as pure bred bull on herd of cows
whether the calves are wanted for the dairy
or the butcher. The larger the sow and the
smaller the boar, the more will the little
| pigs be able to eat in proportion to their
size, and the greater will be their growth in
proportion to the food consumed. To pro
duce pigs merely for the butcher we should
resort to crosses with a large vigorous, un
pampered SOW put to the finest thorough
| bred boar of the small breeds that can be OBJ
| tanned American Cultiyator