The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-19
Farm and Workshop Notes.


There are forty-fve creameries in Iowa;
all established since 1872.
No system of farming is complete that
dispenses with clover as rotation crop.
A horses hoof is of the same nature as
horn. A hot shoe makes the hoof brittle
instead of tough.
1t is getting rather late for onions They
do not thrive if Overtaken by hot weather
before getting rooted.
Melons, cucumbers aud squashes are cul-
tiyated in the same manner, but they
should never be planted near each other.
An amateur botanist in Wisconsin is said
to have prepared $50 specimens of Towering
plants, all Of which have been identified.
A strong cement is made by dissolving
caustic lime with boiling hot water. When
dry mix with white of egg TO thick paste.
Ii sets instantly.
No class of real property is approaching in
value so rapidly as forest lands or well
wooded areas They will also be rich lega-
cies to future generations.
The -four made from sorgo seed is nutri-
tive and healthy, and many Western ex-
perts claim that in the near future it will be
largely used for human food.
The coffee plant has the general appear
ance of cherry tree. 1t grows to q height
of twenty or thirty feet, but in the course of
culture is Kept cut down to five or six feet.
An old orchard can never be made young
again, but by good care, pruning and cul-
tiyating it can be made to bear fair crop
until young orchard can be set out and
brought into bearing.
1t is not proper to keep ducks and chick
ers in the same yard. The broad bill of the
duck enables it to gormandize, and. being a
v0raciOuS feeder. it IS likely to deprive other
fowls of their share of feed.
The following formula is a good one for a
tobacco fertilizer: Ammonia, 6 per cent. /;
phosphoric acid, per cent; potash, 5 per
cent; plaster, so per cent. Plaster may be
put in in any desired quantity.
Satisfy, or vegetable oyster, is cultivated
the same as carrots or parsnips, and is con-
sidered by many as luxury. 1t is used for
SOUP, boiled, or can be sliced and fried in
batter, when it makes fair substitute for
fried oysters
The fertility OF a soil is nearly connected
with its power of retaining plant food
Sandy Soils from their small chemical re-
tentive power and free drainage, are of
small natural fertility and dependent on
immediate supplies Of manure.
Paint, to last long, should be put on early
in winter or spring when il is cold and no
dust flying Paint put on in cold weather
forms body or coat upon the surface of the
wood and becomes hard and resists weather,
or an edged tool even, like slate.
A German paper says that roof can be
made fire-proof by covering 1t with a mix
ture of lime, salt and wood ashes, adding a
little lampblack to give dark color. This
not only guards against fire, it is claimed,
but also in measure prevents decay.
To maintain fowls in a really healthy
state, appetite must be kept up, and il is
& Oh management to have the poultry in
sdcn state that they will fly up to meet the
poultry man and scramble for their food.
Loss of appetite comes from unwise feeding
on over-spiced food.
Pigs narrowed in May will do better than
those that come in earlier, unless the early
pigs are carefully sheltered and kept warm.
neglect ii is apt TO remain backward. Young
pigs should never be weaned until moder-
ale weather has well set in.
Mouse holes in the walls and closets
should be first filled with lime and after
wsrd plastesed over with plaster OF Paris
mixed with water. 1t is good plan TO
keep paper of the latter in every house, "a
il is useful in filling cracks, and in many
other ways in household economy.
| A chemical analysis of an unpleasant
tasting bread recently made by a German
SHcihiSf. AcftdieN = per cent VI GLUCOSE,
and 1913 per cent of dextrine. This was ac-
counted for not on the ground OF adul-
teraIion, but by kind of "malting' of the
grain, whica was injured by wet weather
during the season Of 1880.
A second early crop OF potatoes fully ma
tured is more profitable than very early
one, as the latter are dug before completing
their growth, and the price received is not
equal TO the value of full-erown crop. The
Early Rose and Beauty of Hebron can be
dug IL July and the ground put in turnips,
giving two crops the same year.
Waterproof muslin is better for coverings
to chicken coops ia cold weather than
boards, as it admits heat from the sun. To
render fabrics waterproof dip them into
water which contains One-ffth of its bulk of
soap in solution. Let the cloth dry and
then immerse in water containing 20 per
cent. of sulPhate of copper ia solution.
The practice is common among the en-
gravers and watchmakers of Germany of
hardening their tools in sealing wax. The
tool Is heated to whiteness and plunged into
the wax, Withdrawn after an instant and
plunged again, the process being repeated
until the steel is too cold to enter the wax.
The advantages claimed for this method are