The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-31

traIia already exports wine to France for
mixing with the product of the latter coun-
try.
The total exports of this country amounted
last year to 1888, OBS, e47, the proportion pro-
duced by agriculture being $729, 620.0l6, or
very nearly IS PER cent.
The most important study of cultivator
of the soil is to plan for such crops as will
always be in demand and always pay; crops
that will be in demand year after year.
Men who use improved tools do their
work better and much easier than by the old
way. The fact is, horsepower is cheaper
than man-pOwer and much more reliable.
One hundred sacks of new wheat, grown
in Arkansas, were lately received in st.
Louis, and sold at $3.50 per bushel. 1t is one
month earlier than any previous shipment
20 that place.
Gather no seed from a forest tree that is
not clean and straight and rapid grower.
Scrub trees beget their like. This law of he
redity holds good in trees as well as IN the
lower animals and men.
While the Southern floods have been dam
aging to a great degree, yet it is claimed that
cotton lands will be worth from 81 10 So
more per acre than formerly.
If you have hens of the right breed and
stay in, and keep them supplied with every
thing they need, you will have eggs, simply
because hens can no more help laying than
they can help breathing
Very recent reports to interested parties
in New YORK from the States OF Delaware
and Maryland whence the peaches are to
come this year, show that the, crop promises
at present from four and hal, millioa to
five AID quarter million baskets.
The value of all farms in the United
States is estimated at $40 1876, S90,6i5; value
of farm implements at S4O6 5l6,9 s2; live
stock, $1,000, 4S7, lS7; fertilizers purchased
and used in 1879, S27, sos, S55; fences, cost OF
buildings and repairing in 1879, s77,765, 723.
The South does not grow enough provi-
sions for home use despite the advance
made in that direction. So far this season
she has drawn on the North for wheat TO the
value of $50 600, 900; corn, $50, 100000, and
provisions. S72, zoo, 600. Total, SLY ,OOO,O 600
A successful Boston florist says that he
seldom fails to root slips of the most tender
and rare plants. He credits his success to {
layer of oats placed under the usual layer
of sand in which the slips are planted
When moistened they act as a stimulan
and feeder to the tender roots of the slip.
| Hundreds of farmers in Pennsylvania
have turned their attention TO fish culture
|
in most cases they have been successful
especially with carp, and in q few year
| they will depend upon fish Tor subsistence
as much as upon any other farm product.
An English mechanic has invented {
horseshoe composed of three thicknesses o
cOwhide compressed into steel mould ant
subjected to a chemical preparation. 1t vii
last longer than the common shoe, weigh
only one-fourth as much, does not split tn
hoofs, requires no calks and is very elastic
The value of pare short horn cattle is still
very great. At a recent sale in Chicago tn
Fourth Duchess of Airdie brought 81, lOO
the Second Marchioness OF kirklivington
So. 525; the Ninth Duchess of Ilillhurs
4 So 500; the Tenth Duchess OF Hillhurs'
81, 100; the Eleventh Duchess of Hiilhursi
81, 700; the Eighth Duke OF Hillhurst $500
: DR.. Nichols, the well-known agriculturis
estimates one bushel of Northern corr
ground with the cob, equal 10 bushel {
shelled corn from the West. while man
farmers consider ton of well cured corr
) fodder equal TO ton of English hay iC
making milk. This being the case, and cor
at the present time being ninety cents to
. per bushel, every farmer should raise all Il
will be likely 20 use.
+ 1t is not best to renew the orchard b
planting young apple trees in the plac'
- N~--|
= OF the old ones. To a certain extent II
l material needed for the growth of the app
Y wood has been extracted from the soil, an
l many of the elements with which the app
, has to contend have found IA location. 1t
: better to supply the vacancy with uee
{ of some other fruit or perhaps leave it =
e cant, and plant a new orchard in some oth
d locality.
The practice of thinning potato vines
{ two stalks in the hill, when they exec
that number, has been annual with corr
: spondent of the American Cultivat0r, al
! his father before him for fifty years. TIL
!, is done at hOeing time-the superfiuo
weakest) stalks being treated as weeds. II
l. effect is as may be supposed, an increase
} large handsome tubers. The object
], cutting seed TO single eyes is in part TO pl
u vent overcrOwding and competition OF stall