The Indiana State sentinel., 1883-08-29

prt cure them without knowing s0mething 0f
he parties who Oifer them There are agreat
many varieties, and the eggs will not give
satisfaction unless from healty p2reats.-
Silk and Fruit Culturist.
The London Live Stock Journal states that
| dipbthera smoug fowls made pnsiderable
| ravsges in France this year, and that the
most valuable remedy fonnd for it's cure :
| perapire tthe sctive principle OF the "a paw
| trtel which dissolves away the false mem-
brsne n is applied with q csmels hair
brush to the diphtheric patches three times a
| day.
The water that flows over plowed field
/ washes OIL the most soluble portions OF the
! soil, and deposits them in the bottom OF the
! bitches. When II percolates rough the soil
| to an uT derdrain the loss is reduced t. the
/ smallest possible amount There is some
/ less in understanding water; bat even this
| is in great part prevented by having grow
! ing crop on the ground all the time.
Sheep at this sesson are much troubled
with the cad fly, which lays eggs in Their
nostrils. and these Matching out cause the
grub on the head. Tsrring the noses is said
to be good preventive. 1t may be done by
! giving salt to sheep in q narrow dish that has
tar smsared on its sides, or ompelling them
10 lick their salt through tarred ring barely
wide enough to admit the nose.
An Australian sheep-breeder recently pur.
chased 173 meripo sheep in Vermont for
4
! the Iams cost 81 600 each. The freight TO
| Australia will amount to nearly s. 600,
! which increases the sum 10 $50 000 or about
an average of 500 per sheep. The broader
already has a flock of 92, 600. and the Yer
mont sheep will be used for purposes of inn
| pIovement.
Clay soils are generally better for wheat
than sandy ones, because they are not sub
/ ieot TO such sudden extremes OF temperature
and moisture, and are more renaciaus in
their character. Timber land is better than
prairie land, because the decaying roots are
pretty sure 10 effect underdrainage mag
nesia and lime and silica are more abundant
and nitrogen is less abundsnt, and such land
bsing more rolling is better drained aud
dryer-PrAirie Farmer.
1t is gratifying to know of the attention
being given to the ornamenting waste pieces
of ground Railroad gardening is an ex-
preston indicative of q decided improve
ment in the tastes of The people. 1t is dreary
enough TO ride over miles of sand or through
tlistles and kiI dred weeds on a rail Tay
coach. The irregular spaces about depots
ard hotels and public buildings are receiving
an increased share of attention. Michigan
has taken step ahead OF sister Sta es in or
nsm enting school grounds. For such kinds
/ of foinRmeDtation many of our native plants
ale superior. An increased attention TO
them Sill result in wider and more mex PEN
sive orpsmentation and in a desirable kno vi
/
American Cultivator.
marked feature of rural life in England
al the press mt day is the substitution of per
msnent pastursge for tillaee. Year by year
the djsproportiOn between titled and untitled
| land be comes greater. In the whole of r.
gland there are upward of 100000 acres,
and Of these in 1870 upward of 1900 900 acres
were laid ut in permanent pasturage. In
1850 he untitled land had increased to IL,
UC0COO aces, and the increase is now main
teir ed st the rate of eco 900 ceres per year.
Taking the whole OF Grea Britain the In
crease is even higher, 1903. 600 acres only
heiI g untitled in 1870, rs compared with IL =
| S2l eco in 1852, whilst in Ireland the change
Is sill more marked. This is owing to / n
eign competition in the cereal crops.
At the Kansas wool-growers' meeting In
quiIies were made about sorghum as sheep
food. Mr.. Wadsworth was called for as an
authority upon this matter. He stated that
be had tried it with success. He had 1 800
sheep feeding in one place this winter, aud
2,300 in another; and about $50 acres Of
SO, ,ghum. Sorghum was not as good this
year es generally; the seed shelled off and
ohinck-bugs iridTed it considerably. He
thought that fifty acres OF sorghum, drilling
in about peck to the acre. being careful not
to get ii too thick, ana cutting one half up TO
feed in stormy weather would put about
LOCO sheep through the winter. He used
Minnesota amber and orange seed. Amber
was the sweetest but shelled out more.-Ex,
A correspondent desires to know some
thing relating to the raising of goats, the
cost of feed, rate of increase, and number oi
acres for large number. Any locality suit
able for sheep aIswess veil for goats, the
rate of increase being little in favor OF the
latter Being more active than sheep they
, are well adapted to hillSdes, scanty psstur-
, age and such places as can not be made
profitable for other stock. Goats need bat a
little assistance in feed, the cost in that re
spect being somewhat less than for sheep
? They usually bear two kids, often four, and
single male can be mated with eight or ten
females, but often more. The officially in
the way of raising goats is their tondness fol
barking fruit trees. A very nigh, shat D.
: pointed fence is necessary in order to keep
I them confined in particular fields.
The Governor of Florida reports that the
? tendency of the sgrculturists OF that State
; is toward small farms. The richest New
York farmers are those who have grown Der
ries and added every year an acre or two to
Z ! their pear orchards; and the most prof table
farms of all are those withing few miles Of
this city, whose managers bank considerable
money yearly from the sale of vegetable;
3 grown on a few acres that are hired at rentals
!. 'sometsmes reaching 500 per acre pei
: annUm. One man who bought an
/ up river farm of twenty-theee acres twenty
? 81 600 yearly on the yield OF pear trees that
. be planted himself. But the American
4 farmer generally seems to imagine that hu
} manity needs only wheat, corn and pork. sc
he sttempts to raise these on large scale
while The vegetables and fruits on his own
/ table are purchased at high prices In city
. markets. The farmer should learn 10 ea
! sometbiPg besides meat and bread.-NeN
3 York Herald.
IF. 4. M in the Baidwinsville IN. Y.
Gazette, advises the use OF bark in the tobao
co field TO trap the destructive little miller
He speaks as follows; Last season, in cut
ting time, / discovered the fact that the mil
lers that cause so much trouble to tobacco
: ground seclude themselves during the day
: time under any thing that will protect them
} as / discovered one under piece of elm
T bark, at the edge of the tobacco field and
J upon examining other similar places,
found rs many as four under one piece. As
] | this experiment would cost nothing, think
( | many growers should try it, and il found
| valuable, it would be generally practiced
: Place pieces OF bark, or something that
would answer the purpose best, at the ends
or sides of the rows or even in the field
where they could be exapined when the
, workmen were doing the hoeing, wormiDg
: | etc. / intend testing 1t sully this season, as
did not have time last, the cutting was