The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-16


medium cocks produced the greatest mum
per OF good cockerels for breeding or ior g
hibition.
Exports from New York last week ID,
ci1ded 900 live cattle, 525 live sheep, 200
quarters of beef and ], 3I4 carcasses mutton
Hereford breeders have made up purse
of 81 600 TO be distributed in special prizes
for Hereford stock in six classes, ~ the
next Chicago fat stock show.
1t is estimated that the monthly recelpts
of eggs in New York are 60 900 barrels, OF
seventy dozen each, which would make tne
aggregate egg trade OF the National metIopO-
lis over $4,000, 600 annually.
A great shortage of young pigs IN the
West is reported this spring, In consequences
of the severity of the winter, by which many
thousand were destroyed and the growth Oh
many others retarded.
Squashes and all kinds of vines grow and
yield the best by surface culture; manure
as you would for corn; drop the SEED IN
rows: cover lightly; stir the SOIL often, ano
eternal vigilance is death 10 bugs, Win 3
good sprinkling of insect powder.
The present is good time to collect the
bones scattered about the premises. Break
them no and bury them near the roots OF
fruit trees or grapevines. IL the bodies of
half the worthless dogs owned in the country
could be similarly planted they would be
of much more service than their animated
carcasses are above ground.
At a recent meeting of the New York
Sugar Association. at Genoa, President
Williams said of the sorghum industry in
the North: 1--WE are going TO make a strip
that is superior to that OF New Orleans.
Men are experimenting all the time to per-
feet the process OF manufacture. / expect
r. a IN CIR ri Qnr
homes by better and purer article"
Young chickens drink a great deal OF
water, but they, in common with all ami
mails, know Just how much they need. Mix
your corn and dough very dry and GRUMPY,
and let the fowls drink fresh, cool, clean
water alter they are through eating. II your
mess is mixed too thin and sloppy you will
force them t. swallow more water than they
need, in order to get at their food.
Crop estimates made at this early date are
not of much value, as past experience has
shown. So far, however, as any opinion
can be formed from the scattering reports in
regard to winter wheat the outlook is not a
favorable one. Nor is there any apparent
likelihood of an active foreign demand,
which, should it occur, might compensate for
reduction Of our surplus by enhancing its
price.
Grain, the staple food for fowls, is plenty
and cheap, but it requires extra labor, the
closest attention and good accommodations
to raise young chickens during the change
able spring weather. Nothing is more GER
tain thsnThis fact. II no skill and care were
required possibly the business might become
so overdone that poultry and eggs would be-
come drug in the market. We believe that
it pays well to give this extra care and to
make the necessary outlay.
Tho ,Iv raoa; ,yad d.; 20 o-obarJ
lists, to scrape the rough bark from the old
apple trees has been contradicted, some
having tried it and concluded that the prac'
tice did more harm than good. The rough
bark Is a protection to the tree from sudden
changes of temperature. The benefit often
claimed from scraping the trees comes from
the greater attention paid to them in other
respects by men who take this trouble
Whitewashing apple trees is equally inef-
fectual for good.
A correspondent of the Fruit Recorder,
who had planted cabbages where the hills OF
corn had missed, discovered that they had
not been visited by the worms. He there
fore advises persons in sections where the
cabbage worms are destructive to plant their
| cabbage II the fields surrounded by corn.
The plant flies fly low and consequently are
disturbed, if not shut out, by the stalks anS
blades of the corn, and the cabbage escape
their visitation and the consequent crop OF
green worms.
A direct supply Of plant food does not
| fully explain the action of manUres. Many
fertilizers act directly to feed crops, by their
chemical effects on the soil. This barn
yard manure, in undergoing decomposition,
yields a supply of carbonic acid, which may
act on the mineral constituents of the soil
and liberate its elements. Many mineral
element, also, such as common salt, plaster
| of paris, and other saline matters, may react
on the soil, converting potash and magnesia
for instance, into soluble forms, and thus
| giving the same results us Aould follow an
immediate use Of the Last named substance,
The following statement, made by Will.
| liam Simpson, of New YorK City, is worthy
OF consideration and extended circulation
He says "Most of all is the question, Dc
| we pay sufficient attention to the quality OF
bulls we use? l think not. We can not ex.
ercise too great care in selecting the bull
which is to stand at the head of choice
herd of Jerseys; in fact, all our hopes and
fears should be concentrated in him. He
| should be the best and most perfect animal
| in the herd; far better, if possible, than the
best cow. The progeny of the bull may
NUMBER fifty or more in single year, while
the best COW produces but one calf. Bulls,
as a rule, are kept too fat, and, IN conse-
Q0CbCos alF " DcCOL1c
tent at an age when they should be in their
prime. If kept rather low in flesh and with
proper exercise, bulls should continue in
service until from ten to fifteen years OF
age. and be more valued as their progeny
becomes known"
AT late meeting of the Western New
York Farmers Club, in response to a cues.
ton as to the utility of grinding corn, col
and all, Mr.. d. ID. Simmons said he haC
found stock to do we'll on corn ground with
the cob. There may not be much nutri
ment in cobs, but cattle show a disposition
TO eat cobs in the yard. and will sometimes
leave hay for them. They must meet som,
want in the animal. Millers do not grind
the cob fine enough, aud p. 6. Reynolds
suggested that the fact that chemists fine
but little nutritious matter in cobs does no
entirely condemn them. In almost all kind
OF feed there are indigestible portions
woody fibre, ETC., that can not be assimilateC
into the animal system; yet they are no
without their use in food. They distenC
and stimulate the digestive organs, anC
probably perform other important offices in
the animal economy. Actual, careful feed
ing trials alone will fettle the question.