The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-04

| ply to most families upon the farm. Inc
latter too often fail to try it. We know OF
many vell-to-do farmers, men who have
well-stocked farms, who do not slaughter q
sheep during twelve month, yet who kill a
| pig every month in the summer
season, and in the fall put down" pork
enough to last every other month during
| the year This is a nation of meat eaters.
but it confines itself too exclusively TO pork
and beef. 1t is better to sandwich in little
more mutton. A few sheep for family con-
sumption, even when they are not kept for
sale or for wool, will be found most excel
lent investment of all farms.
Farm Notes.
1t is stated that nine-tenths OF the apples
exported are Baldwins.
Mr.. Darling. of the Fifth Avenue Hotel
| New York, has sold bull calf out of his
famous Jersey COW Eurotus for 81, 500.
The great disadvantage of cold storage
comes from the fact that fruit thus retarded
must be used as soon as taken out.
Thirty thousand head of sheep have re-
Gently been shipped from California to
Howard County, Texas, where they will be
ranched.
The secret of success in growing cacti is
water freely while they are growing, and to
keep them dry and warm while they are at
rest.
The Royal Canning Factory at Muscatine,
Iowa, has declared dividend of IL per cent
on a capital Of $40 600 for 1882. Fruits and
vegetables were canned.
President Barry, of the Western New
| York Horticultural S ciety, says the cult
vation of the ground in pear orchards must
| be confined to near the surface. and with
out much depth.
Tile draining is the best method of sub
soiliug for then the roots will go far beneath
the surface, attracted by the elements they
require, and will do their own sub-soiling
and deep blowing.
An authority declares that ticks and lice
will never BE- found troublesome where
sheep are fat and in good condition, the
pests only attacking poorly kept animals
The moral is obvious.
DR.. Voelker, of the Royal Agricultural So
ciety, says it will take four tons of clover
ensilsge to equal one ton of clover hay as
! food, owing 10 the loss by fermentation, at
the expense of the most valuable elements
of the food.
The haycinih delights in a rich, light
sandy soil. The Dutch incorporate freely
with their naturally light soil a compost
| consisting of one-thiTd coarse sea or river
sand, One-third rotten COW dung without
litter, and one third leaf mold.
American buyers have taken so many
Clyde-dale stations in Scotland that it has
caused an increase in price of 100 per cent.
within the last year and a half. There is also
great demand for polled cattle and Shrop-
shire sheep.
Earth worms in pots will generally sue
cumb under liberal doses of lime water or
tobacco water A florist also uses success
fully ten drops of carbolic acid in pint OF
water. Poured upon the earth the, worms
are killed and the plants improved.
DIR. Sturtevant says that the experiments
at the New York Agricultural Experiment
Station seem to indicate that the seed end of
| a potato has more vigor than the stem end,
and suggests the close analogy between the
potato and portion of the branch.
There is more nutriment in straw than is
| commonly supposed, and if rich food like
corn or cottOn-seed meal is fed, more will be
eaten by stock. Straw alone is not nutri'
tious enough for perfect feed, while corn OF
cotton-seed meal are too concentrated.
The State Chemist of Georgia finds by
analysis that bushel of sweet potatoes
contains half as much nutrition bushel
of corn. As the sweet potato crop is usually
more than double that of corn, in number
of bushels, here is an item for farmers to
consider when fattening stock.
The manure from unhoused stock exposed
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animals carefully stabbed, with he same
feed Not only is much of the excrement
washed BY rains, but il is in itself poorer
the extra food required to keep unsheltereC
stock warm being absolutely wasted.
Professor Shelton, OF the Kansas State
Agricultural College, holds that the cultiva
ton of such crops as broom corn hemp. fia1
and perhaps castor beans, which furnish buI
little, if any. stock feed, will ultimately
lead to serious consequences in the loss Of
fertility sustained by The land so cultivated
If seeds are to be kept over a year they
should be placed in a cool location and ex
posed to the light and air. Keeping them
in the dark weakens vitality, perhaps from
the tendency to grow which darkness in
cites, but unaccOmpanied by moisture
enough to put forth leaf and roOt-Ameri
can Cultivator.
When a potato is exposed to the light in q
cellar the eyes nearly all start agood healthy
green sprout, but If in pile or in darkness:
only the strongest eyes grow long, white
worthless sprouts. Hence, seed potatoes
should not be broken off when cutting the
seed for planting.
Before filling up vacant places ia the or
chard with young trees it is best TO think
whether the full grown trees now standing
will not with good manuring bring more
fruit than larger number would. Most oil
our orchards were planted too closely, and
the tree roots interlace so as to rob each
other of what fertility each should have.
At recent Western fair the prize cheese
was afterward discovered to have been part.
ly oleomargarine. In that case oleomargs-
rine was pronounced superior 10 cream, al
though the mistake was discovered in time
to allow of explanations. 1t was clear
victory for oleOmargarine, however, as the
cheese won on its merits at the time.
In Germany. during the slippery season,
temporary calks are used for horseshoes
Two sharp pointed studs an inch long are
screwed into holes left in the shoe and wher
the horse enters the stable they are taken of
and a button screwed into their place, there
by preventing all damage to the horse and
keeping the screw-holes from filing
In an average OF years early-sown clover
seed is the surest catch. 1t is all the better
if sown on light snow, which as it melts
will imbed the seed in the line earth on the
surface soil caused By alternate freezing and
thawing. If left late the ground should be
| dragged before seeding. but when sown
early this is not necessary. Michigan Far
mer.
1t is said that the very small onions used
for pickles are raised In England and i'm
ported by the owners of our picking estab
lisbments. The plan followed by Engllsh
market gardeners 10 SOW onion seed very
thickly on a bed of poor soil, where the
plants do not grow thrifty but produce very
small bulbs, many of them being no larger
than hszenut.