The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-12
FARM NOTES.

II is urged 10 give the asparagus beds
good sailing at this season.
Ashes and gypsum have proved highly
beneficial TO potatoes in many sections
How to purify butter is a recommendation
which is unnecessary in well regulated
diaries.
The Baldwin apple is favorite IN Ohio.
Ii bears young and seldom misses a season
without a crop.
All the smaller fruits may be grown from
cuttings and in this manner may be indet-
nitely multiplied.
Over Il, 900 carcasses OF mutton in frozen
condition were lately received at Manches-
ter, England, from South America.
The cost of Transforming an acre of swamp
dition is about 800. The profits, however,
are large.
The New York World is authority for the
statement that plantain, if not permitted to
go to seed for two years, will die out. Nov
previous to seed time two years in success
sion.
The Rural New Yorker claims that there
are laws in some States against weeds, and
that il must be the duty Of some one to at
tend TO the enforcement OF such, but this is
not usually done.
When horses are compelled to remain ex-
posed to storms at this season the use of
rubber blan ket with flannel lining, will be
of valuable assistance in the prevention of
colds and lung diseases.
The farmers who make the farm profitable
are those. who grow crops that are not always
| the easiest produced. They endeavor to
make labor profitable. and apply it where it
| it can be used to the best advantage.
An Orange County, y. Y, dairyman has
| tested the matter and found that his milk,
| sold at ) y cents per quart, was as good as
butter-allowing twelve pounds of milk to
| quart of butter-at rs cents per pound.
r.. Alex Smith, in the Breeders Gazette,
| says: ''As to the escutcheon, while there
may be room for difference of opinion as
| 10 its value as indicating milking propensi-
ties. we think it useless in Judging butter
| cows"
Veterinary practice was recommended to
| young men at recent meeting OF the Ken
| lucky Medical Society. The horses of the
| country being valued at $500. O00 600, it is
| estimated that the annual loss from want OF
\ sound advice and treatment amounts to Sl5,-
| 00u,000
While it may be an advantage to keep
| young pigs over winter in order to obtain
| hogs of large size next season, it is not al
| ways profitable, unless extra care be be-
slowed in supplying liberal food and warm
1 quarters. The spring pig makes an animal
| OF fair size and at less expense.
| 1t is a difficult matter to exactly estimate
1
cause much depends upon the character of
| the season, since the amount of care required
| to prevent the growth of weeds may be very
much increased or diminished according to
| the atmospheric conditions.
In certain French beat-rasing districts it
is customary to sprinkle the young roots
| with liquid organic manures. In other dis
| tricts ammonia sulphate and nitrate OF soda
1 are used, The yield to the acre is consider
| ably increased by this practice, but at the
expense OF the saccharine quality OF the roots.
a Cayuga County, y. y, farmer spreads
from twenty-five to thirty loads of manure
| to the acre on the spot for an intended straw
berry plan tation in the fall, and plants pota-
toes or corn for the spring crops. He then
Supplys a dressing OF ashes, phosphate or
liquid manure when the strawberries are
| planted.
Old vines and canes are of no use to the
| new ones nor to the ground, and they should
| be cut out at any time after the cold weather
sets in. Most agricultural journals are recon-
me1ding that such be cut away now, but the
best time for so doing is when the earth is
frozen hard and stiff. You will then, also,
have more time tor so doing
An indianapolis (Ind.) fruit-grower SAYS:
Last year 1 put twelve moles in my straw
| berry patch OF five acres, TO catch the grubs,
| and they did the work. | never had a dozen
| plants injured during the summer, either by
the grubs or moles. / know some people do
not care for moies on their FARMS but | want
them in my strawberry patch"
Condensed milk is one of the purest arti.
| cles placed upon the market, as its manufac-
| ture demands the strictest cleanliness and
best skill in preparation. 1t contains all the
nutritive properties OF pure milk, and is
! nearly the same thing in composition, water
| excepted. Sugar however is added, and it
is not Objectionable, as it enters into use with
the milk.
| OF the different breeds OF blooded bulls
| that have been sold to Western ranchmen
| In recent years, and there have been thou
sands sent to the range, no breed has given
| better satisfaction than the Poled Angus
| and Galloway cattle, their hardness and
| compactness OF build maxine them most de-
sirable to cross upon the Texas.-Kansas
| City Stock Record.
The ooekerels can not be Judged for form.
| plumage and carriage until they are in full
feather To discard and reject them when
| young may occasion the loss OF the best I'M
| knowingly. Sometimes the most unprom-
Using are the best, and in order to Gull the
| stock judiciously the cockerels should be
1 allowed TO mature whenever such course is
| not inconvenient.
Professor Budd, of the Iowa Agricultural
| College, makes the seasonable suggestion
that cellars in which fruit is stored between
| picking time and the setting in of winter
should not be opened during the day, but
the windows opened during the night when
| the air is cooler. The warmer air of the day
has its moisture precipitated by the cold OBJ
| jects in the cellar, and dampness is engen-
| dered.
II. p. Speer. in the Iowa Register, says:
"Plums should be planted on ground which
is rich and naturally moist, but well drained.
! For plum orchard l would not select very
| high ground, because usually it would De too
dry; nor very low ground, because in such
| places the blossoms of trees are more liable
TO injury from late spring frosts than on
| grounds which are more elevated"
To find out whether any individual cow is
| profitable member of the dairy herd or not
a separate account should be kept OF her
| milk and butter. If no such pains are taken
| it is not easy to tell just what the worth of a
doubtful mixer is. The true policy is to
| throw out every one which does not Weld
profit and replace her with better one. IL
costs just as much TO feed mean cow as q
| good one.-Stockman.