The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-06-14

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Mutton breads of sheep are rapidly COM
ing to the front, and America is likely to
take front rank for good ma luton.
The future for profitable sheep business is
good. The stock in England is small, and
good mutton sheep will be in great demand.
OF seveuty-three creameries that reported
to the New York Board of Health, it was
found that sixty-thres sent skinned milk
to New York City.
The Australian Colonies have a popula
ton of 5000, 600, bat they own so 100000
sheep, or an average of nearly thirty sheep
for each inhaoitant
IT is claimed for linseed that it is more
similar to milk in composition than any
other food used for stock, and on that &C
count is much more desirable for young an.
Emals.
Cucumbers and melons that have been
grown in beds for transplanting should not
I be set out until after the 5th of June, OF
until sure of no danger of cold nights,
which check their growth.
Castor oil is largely used for oiling axle
trees, the bearings of grindstones, mowers,
etc. A small proportion of kerosene added
TO the castor oil and thoroughly shaken UP
with it renders ii less liable to gum.
American mutton-raisers must learn what
constitutes best feed for, and how TO feed,
10 make streak of lean and streak of fat.
First-claSs mutton should be well mixed
not fatted wholly upon the outside.
In nearly all cases small-boned animals
are good feeders. will mature early and pos
sess fine flesh. On the other hand, coarse
bones and large joints indicate late ma
turity. poor feeding quality and coarse
flesh, with large proportion OF offal.
Hon. James Wilson, of Iowa, recon-
mends, when grass is sown with oats for a
crop, a mixture of ten pounds timothy, ten
clover and two pounds blue grass Sow
early and plentifully, aDd keep off the cattle
till the oats are six inches high.
In ploughing it is never good plan to
turn up a mass of crude earth of several
inches in depth, never before exposed to
the sunlight and air. 1t will, unless heavy
manuring is given as a top-dressing result
in loss. In deepening a soil it is better to
plough mp an additional inch each year.
Sleeping corn in strong solution of salt
petre twenty-four to forty-eight hours before
planting is said to be protection against
mice, squirrels and worms Copperas in
strong solution is also recommended. AS
protection against worms, mix half pint OF
boiling tar to each peck of corn; stir briskly,
so as TO give thin coating to each kernel.
OF the grains ordinarily used for stock,
the richest in the fattening element, starch,
is Tuscarora corn, so per cent. of starch. and
then come in their order, buckwheat, 75.4;
northern corn. 10; rye, ia; barley, COS,
and oats, G6 4, while peas and beans are less
valuable for this purpose, and of the vegeta-
bles none are very useful in this respect save
the potato, Do; parsnips, Z; carrots, Go
turnips, 4.
Mr. Bradley, an English writer, records 6
count kept of pair of birds bringing cater
pillars to their nest to feed their young The
calculations made OH the count showed that
one brood consumed no less than 500 cater
pillars in day. This would dispose of 10.
600 a month, and if there were hundred
such nests in a Township, the death oil
/, 500 900 caterpillars would contribute to the
life of some 500 birds.
At no season of the year is animal diet OF
its best Observation-Disclosures necessary fol
fowls as at moulting time. A diet composed
of boiled potatoes, mashed and mixed with
ground oats or good wheat bran, and the
mixed with sour milk. will carry the fowl:
through about as we'll as any that can be
given. Fowls should not be ted 90 whole
corn or ON cracked corn during their moult
Cats, wheat, buckwheat, ETC., are better food
until the moult is over.
Dandelions are becoming more and more
the spring when the ground can be made
ready. The seed iSsmall and delicate, anC
will not come well upon land that is rough
or lumpy and it is al all times slow ia ger
minating. After the plants are well up thiT
out, to stand two or three inches apart in
the rows. The tops are used as greens,
and the roots for root beer and medicine
The yield is from ten to twenty bushels tC
the square rod, and the price varies from
Gx-a 20 20 IN1l htrch al
A compost made up largely OF SCOT Of
wood-ashes, with plenty of pulverized heI
manure and little lphur, ishighly recon-
mended by some gardeners who have tried
itfor strawberries that have had their root
partly eaten by the grubs. Some recommend
stool or hill culture as making it easier fo
one to hunt out and find the grubs. The
grub usually works but a short distance
under ground, and is easily found by on,
who knows how to hunt. The middle of {
warm, sunny day is good time to look fol
the grubs, as the leaves from the affected
plants will soon make themselves known by
their droo2ing appearance.
Throughout the most of Central Europ,
fruit trees are planted BY the farmers anC
cottagers with judicious care and discrimin
alton in their fields and gardens. In or
binary season they gather an abundance Of
luscious fruit, not only enough to supply
their domestic wants, but also to send larg,
quantities to market, from which they re
alize an acceptable addition TO their income
This is all done without losing a squar,
yard of ground that could be profitably de
voted to any Othei food crop. The trees are
planted along roadsideS, on the margins o
the fields in the hedgerows and the othe
odd places and corners, where they occupy
ground that can not be conveniently profit
ably cultivated
An old farmer writes to the Country Gen
tleman as follows: 1.-THE value of corr
husks in the art is much greater than tina
realized by the generality of farmers in
| feeding, although as a fodder / conside
them worth as much per pound as the aver
age hay for cattle. They are used for q va
riety of purposes. If our farmers woulC
pick the corn from the stalks, husks anC
all, they then could safely house ii in gooC
weather Bnd pull the husks under cover
thus saving them by themselves, either TO
sale or other purposes, as desired Tht
husking could be done at times when out-of
door husking would be very dissgreeabIe o.
impracticable Good, clean corn husks ar,
sometimes sold TO upholsterers at higl
prices, and are always in demand by them.
Preserving potatoes for the table in sum
mer by slightly heating the surface and thus
destroying the eyes was recently sugges &c
in the New England Farmer as method
worthy OF experiment MI. J. G. Adams
Greene County, Pennsylvania, writes the
New York Tribune that the plan is prac
tieed in his County to a considerable extent
The eyes are destroyed by simply pouring