The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-28

likely TO be attacked. This application may
need to be repeated in the course of the day,
but while any odor of the acid remains the
flies decline to settle, and the horse is CON-
pletely free from their annoyance.
The Project of the Department OF the
Seine-et-Marne, France, has issued decree
peremptorily forbidding the destruction of
all kinds of owls, they being considered of
the greatest service against field mice and
rats.
1t is not easy to compare corn meal and
cotton seed meal as food for stock. The lat
ter contains five times as much albumenoids
and six times as much fat rs the former. but
corn contains four times as much starch as
cotton seed meal.
1t is now beyond doubt that the annual
rings of wood in trees are not sure index
of the age, as the gum trees OF Australia, as
is now proved, make two circles year.
Some of the extravagant stories of the ages
of trees will need rewriting.
A French chemist reports that water
made slightly salt, and to which, when
boiling, bran in the proportion of one quart
10 every gallon has been added, has been
found in series of experiments to increase
the yield of milk % per cent. if given TO the
cows as their ordinary drink.
1t is startling fact, and one worthy OF
United States are clearing off thIrty-five acres
of timber for every acre that is planted with
forest trees. We have reached that point IN
denuding our country of its forests where ii
becomes the duty of every land owner TO
plant trees.
The alarm regarding the late planting OF
corn is based upon but slight cause. Many
good crop has been made from seed
planted the latter part of June The warm
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August. Use plenty of manure, and Guilt
vate we'll, which is all that is needed at the
present time.
The Baxter Spring (Kas.) News reports
that at public shearing at the ranch OF
Spencer y Wiswell two young American
merino ewes were sEeared, one fleece weigh
ing eighteen and a-half pounds and the other
sixteen and three-quarter pounds. These
ewes each raised young lambs last season,
and neither of them weighed more than six
ty-ive pounds.
Mustard is one of the most valuable
plants for blowing under. 1t grows as quick
az any other CROP and if sown thickly will
afford an excellent green manure in time
for wheat 1t has the advantage of being
able to grow as early as peas and as late as
the arrival of frost. To renovate with must
ard, not only one but successive crops can
be turned under the same season.
At meeting of the Kansas State Horti.
cultural Society large apple-grower from
Leavenworth County stated that he had an
orchar. Of 5000 Missouri pippins that on
the fifth year from planting yielded 1,5OO
bushels, and that the past year (1SS1), the
sixth, he had gathered 5000 bushels and
had sold them for enough to pay for the
cost of the entire orchard. The above
variety is the only one that bore full crop
the past season in Kansas and Missouri.
A member of the Oneida Community
says that he mulched row of the Franco
MIA raspberry, and also one of the Philadel
phia, side by side. The effect was very
marked. While the Franconia, which were
not much mulched, were literally scorched
and the leaves cTumpled in the sun, the row
which received the mulching carried
through nearly double the crop of fruit
The material used for mulching was old
half-decayed buckwheat straw, etc.