The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-29
and ponds until they are a month or six

beet cultivation.
A stamp tax on oleomargarine would be a
measure of the greatest popularity.
Never undertake to rot barnyard manure
by mixing il with lime; the lime llberates
the ammonia.
Last season between !, 800 and l, 400 tons
OF sugar beets were raised on 100 acres of
land at Schenectady, n. Y.
Apples placed among the ensilage in a
certain silO were well preserved. Cattle food
may thus be varied by preserved fruit placed
in the silo.
Coal oil is very destructive TO insects, but
it should not DO used as wash for trees, Is
il often kills them. Peach trees are very
sensitive 20 its effects.
The greater consistency of the excrements
from ensiage fodder shows that the material
is prepared in the silo for digestion by the
softeRing OF the cells.
About 250,oe0 bushels Of leached ashes
were imported direct from Canada last year
by Connecticut parties for Fertilizers, at "A
cost OF seventeen cents per busheL
la setting cut apple trees keep them away
frem the wells, n the apple tree will push
ITS roots dong distance TO get water, ana
seems 10 delight. whenever possible, in send
ing an extra root down well.
The Western New York Farmers Club
lately discussed the question of which Is the
most proEab stock TO keep in connection
with gra;n-growing and many of the MEM
beTs expressed a preference for sheep.
After peach trees begin 70 bear there is
nc manure 50 well adapted TO them as that
from the prvy. Ii is a special fertilizer for
peach trees, aud the effect of one apPiica-
ticl can be noticed for successive seasons.
Cabbage, containing as il does large per-
cenIage Of phOsphoric acid, makes one OF
the most valuable kinds of food for young
pigs, calves and chickens. All young ami
mails require bountiful supply of phos-
phOric food to make bone. Glover is next
in value TO cabbage,
As soon as the ground is warm enough
every person possessing garden should SOW
patch OF mustard or kale for early use.
The plants come up quickly after seeding,
grow rapidly, and not only furnish green's
before any other crop but are out of the way
in time for some other vegetable 10 90 on
the same ground.
Collect some SCOT from q chimney or a
stove where wood is used as fuel, put it into
an old pitcher and pour hot water upon il.
Wien cool use IL to wafer your plants every
few days The effect upon plants is won
dsrful in producing rapid growth OF
thrifty shoots and great number OF thick,
richly-tinted leaves.
Crab grass is the worst enemy to slow-ger-
minating seeds known on light, sandy soils.
IL is a very quick grower. and has very
large mass OF roots 1t seems 70 spring up
in a night. Ii is hard to kill when il gets a
start, but easily destroyed vixen very young.
4 raking will keep it down, if given early
aod often, but the delay of even day too
long may make the use of the hoe necessary.
The common practice is to keep hogs in a
grJS wing and fattening state without forced
exercise. An exception, by way of an ex
pertinent, was recently mace with boar on
Pennsylvania farm. He was well and
literally fed, but was forced TO take good
run in front of a boy every day. His or
spring were much more vigorous OF consti-
tuition than were pigs from bears that were
kent confined all the time
In planting early peas and corn the quail
ty OF the future crop may be partly known
by observing the degree OF contraction in
them. All peas and corn that seem shriv-
elled UP. with large fluctuations, will be
tenderer in hesh and contain more sweetness
and juice than the plGmper kinds. Ii good
table varieties are desired, it is advisable
tnen to select the wrinkled kinds.
Whenever possible set turkey eggs under
a turkey hen. She sticks very clio. ely to the
nest, rarely coming or, even 70 feed. Unlike
the eggs OF other fowls. the eggs of the tur-
key will not bear much variation of temper
atUre, and they must never become chIlled.
When a turkey leaves her nest see that she
is coOped in dry location, as the slightest
dampness is injurious TO the young ones.
They are also very sensitive to filth.
Dry road dirt is an excellent absorbent
A few barrels OF il should ALWAYS be kent in
dry place for use when the weather as
damp or the ground frozen. IL should he
free from gravel. IL used with ben manure
and plaster IL il a good preservative. Used
in the privy il absorbs the liquid contents,
and removes the unpleasant OdOrs. 1t can
be busted freely on the floors of poultry
houses and stables or mixed with liquid
manures
c. ID. Zimmerman, of the Ohio State
Farm, says: There are no grounds for the
belief that new insects are generated or ere
sted; the sudden appearance of our worst
pests is due to impOrtations from Europe.
Some heretofore quite unknown species may
closely related, which, il cultivated one.
provides them with more plentiful pastures.
and therefore greater increase of their
kind is possible"
! Fowls that-are excessively fat will not
/ lay. Corn alone wall not do for laying hens.
| III the flock is in q very fat condition il
should not be fed corn ofIener than twice a
week. Substitute oats, wheat, scraps and
steamed hay-eut in short lengths and
steamed. A good dietary and sanitary
mess consists of tablespoonful of flaxseed
meal 10 pint Of tine bran mixed into a
dough twice week.
| In selecting potatoes for seed see that they
are sound, the eyes Perfectand fully deveI-
oped in every respect. There is much con-
troversy now, as is usual at this season of
the year, regarding cut potatoes or whole
ones for planting, the greater number of
writers seeming TO favor seeding with whole
tubers. The fact is that good whole pota-
toes are better than those that are cut, bat
cut potatoes are superior in every respect to
small whole potatoes, cullings or such as
were deemed unfit for table use.
But few persons north of Mason and Dix
on's line use turnip tops as green's and yet
they Sring higher prices in the Southern
markets than Cabbage green's. Turnip
seed is sowed very thickly on weli-manurea
soil late in the fall aud the turnips allowed
/ TO remain in the ground all winter, some
times without covering. but generally with
litter of straw and brush over them.
s,srly in spring this is removed and the
Young shoots grow rapidly. They are cui
! ftom the sub for greens, and cooked in the
same manner as kale to which they are
superior. Turnip salad, as it is called. is
c0Esidere6san excellent dish in the South.
Doctor on the Pscsele.
"a Country Surgeon writes to the Lon
don Lancet bout the bicycle as follows:
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