The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-09-23

BILE. They are rose-combed, beauti-
fully marked, and are short. legged
and compact in shape. They must
not be confounded with the Sebright
bantams, however, as the former are
large in size.
Creameries are coming, and they are
coming to stay. Dairymen should IN
vestigate them. Dairy women should
look into this matter and endeavor to
get their husbands to help start
creamery. There is good butter 10 it.
There is more and better butter in 1t.
A nd last, but far from least, the work
is all taken out of the farm house.
The economy in horsepower OBJ
tanned by using the hardest and
smoothest roads is clearly shown. If
one horse can just draw load, on a
level, over iron rails, it will take one
and tWo-thirds horses to draw it over
asphalt, three and one-third over the
best Belgian, five over ordinary Bel
gian, seven over good cobblestope,
thirteen over bad cobblestone, twenty
over an ordinary earth road and
forty over sandy road.
Marshall P. Wilder says the import
ance of properly thinning out fruit
trees when bearing redundant crops is
more and more apparent. To produce
fruit that commands good price in
market it has become an absolute me-
cessity. This is seen especially in that
intended for expectation. apples of
good size fair and properly packed
commanding in the English market
fully double the price of those which
had not received such care.
Muriate of potash is so strong that
unless it is very evenly distributed
there is danger of injuring the crops.
Whether it is to be used as top dres.
sing of meadows or on ploughed land
it Is always safer and more advanta-
geous to mix it thoroughly with four
or five times its weight of dry muck
or soil previous to application. All pot
ash salts should be applied as early in
the season as possible, that the sprin z
rains may diffuse them through the
soil. Three to four hundred pounds
should be used per acre.
The chinch bug is a little less than
one-fourth OF an inch in length lit
tie less than half as wide as it is long:
rounded on the under side and fat
above; of coal-black color, with
white wings, which have triangular
black dot on the outer margins. The
mouth is prolonged into a slender,
horny, jointed beak, usually turned
under the breast when not in use.
With this beak it punctures the bark,
stems and leaves of plants, and sucks
out their juices Its capacity for ill.,
jury lies not in its size but in its i'm
mense numbers.
The watermelon contains about 95
per cent. of the purest water and q
trace of the purest sugar, and nothing
has yet been discovered that furnishes
so perfect and speedy a "cure" for
summer complaint as watermelon,
and nothing else. Even when diar-
rhea has teen kept up by continued
eating of ordinary food until the di-
sease has become chronic Ghfs delicious
beverage-for it is little more-water-
melon, taken freely two or three times
day has again and again been known
to work wonders, and to "cure" when
all the usual remedies had failed.
The following is the record of Ber-
gen county IN. j. poulterer: From a
flock of eleven light Brahma pullets in
one year he sold IS dozen eggs for $17.-
so; 70 chicks (two pounds each, at 25
cents per pound), $50 so; l cock,
weight 10 pounds, at Is cents per
pound, $3.50; II hens on hand weigh
irg 81 pounds, at Is cents per pound,
$13 65-total, 500 45. Dedueting the
value OF the eleven hens the total is
$3.50, or 81 per head with the hens
remaining. The cost of feeding, did
not exceed $12, leaving a clear
profit of So each.
There is perhaps more hay injured
by not being dried enough than by be.
ing dried too much. Ose extreme Is
equally as bad as the other. Glover, for
instance, if allowed to become too dry
in the sun, will lose all its leaves and
its blossoms, and the stalks that are
eft are of little value. On the other
hand, if put in the NOW too soon it
will become NOW burnt and equally
worthless. A little of last years hay
to mix with each load as it is put in
the NOW is very desirable, absorbing
the moisture from the new hay.
A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph says that the main failure
In raising Strawberries is in setting
poor plants. Old plants are good for
nothing, new plants from all old bed
are not worth setting. We should
set plants that are grown from these
that have never fruited. When a
plant produces crop of fruit that fruit
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