The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-17

the light, tomatoes included, says the Farm
journal
The largest creamery in the world is at
West Andover, O., and it works up the milk
of 500 cows.
The shoots of the seasons growth should
be cut from grape vines, g0oseberry and cur
rant bushes any time from the lst OF Novem-
Der to the middle of December.
One cause of failure to procure eggs at
this time is the moulting OF the hens
Those that moult the earliest Will begin to
Law the soonest, and should be Kept for
winter laying
Young calves should not be allowed to
become stunted for want of proper care
or a sufficient supply OF milk. Push them
| from the start whether intended for veal or
| the dairy.
Saws Fuller, in his Small Fruit Culturist:
Il do not believe there is one acre of straw
| berries in thousand cultivated in this coun-
| try that Yields over one half what it would
if the ground were properly prepared before
planting"
The thorough airing given to cream by the
! centrifugal machine has a very purifying Ell
feet. With 1000 revolutions a minute, the
cream gets more airing in that time than in
day in still atmosphere. Ii also puriiies
the skim milk
The weight of a horse is an important item
| in estimating his value for draft purposes
| IL
bOned horse, with well-develOped muscles
may do as much work rs the heavier-boned
one for short time, and is even better for
| road purposes, but in blowing or other heavy,
steady drawing. the light horse becomes use
less. Then, in price, the weight is an inn
portant item. If a good horse weighs over
( 1000 pounds he readily sells for more than
; a dollar per pound; 800 TO 1000 pounds,
for less than a dollar per pound. Under
that that the price readily declines, l, 200 TO
| 1900 pound grade horses selling at twenty
five and thirty cents per pound, though il is
considerably more than any other grade OF
stock on the farm will bring.
If plant be burned in the air % per cent
| of it will disappear in invisible gases diffused
| into the surrounding air and per cent. of
it will remain unburned, constituting the
ash. The combustible parts are composed of
| four administration, hydrogen, nitrogen
| and oxygen. The ash is composed of nine
elements-potassium sodium, calcium, mag
| nesium, iron, silicon, chlorine, phosphorus
| and sulphur These last are conveniently
| called the ash minerals The ash minerals
exist in all soils. but not, as frequently sup
/ posed, in inexhaustible supply, for expert
ence demonstrates that the phosphates are
especially liable to become, after continuous
| cropping. deficient for the full need OF our
cereal crops In like manner, in some soils.
potash and lime are deficient DIR. Elizey in
American Farmer Baltimore(.
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other things talks suggestively about the
compost heap, saying that it is good plan
TO have one for the benefit OF the farm. The
compost heap may be made OF road scrap
ings, the scOurings of bitches. the cleanings
of ponds. clippings from banks aud hedge
rows, scrapinGs and sweepings of farmyards
garden refuse. house refuse, and indeed all
sorts of rubbish may be added to a compost
heap. Even weeds will decay and then help
10 swell the material for enriching the land.
The heap should occasionally be cogered
over with layer OF lime, and layer OF salt
now and then IL also good addition. These
materials are beneficial in themselves, and
keep weeds from seeding on the top of the
heap. The compost should be turned over
from time to time, and when we'll mixed the
land may be dressed with il either IN spring
or autumn.
The value of sorghum as food for sheep is
demonstrated by the statement OF a member
of the Kansas Wool Growers Association
which was that 'he had tried sorghum as
sheep food with success. He had 800 sheep
feeding on il that winter in one place and
$500 in another. He thought that fif y acres
of sorghum, drilled in at the rate of about a
peck 10 the acre, being careful not to get il
too thick, and cutting one half up to feed in
stormy weather, would put 1000 sheep
through the winter. He used the Minnesota
amber and orange seed varieties. Amber
was the sweetest, but il shelled out more 4"
farmers possessing light soils, which are
adapted TO sorghum, as it will enable many
| TO keep sheep who have heretofore refrained
from so doing, and, according to the claim of
Mr. Webster that fifty acres will thus sup
port l,OC0 sheep" the profits should be very
large.
The Riverside Press and Horticulturist saws
that those who have tried the new plant
called evergreen millet speak very favorably
OF it. It does well on very dry soils. as the
roots so down from five To fifteen feet into
the earth. 1t grows to height of from six
to eight feet, and resembles orchard grass. 1t
is highly relished by all kinds OF stock. The
New York Topic says that seed Sown in New
Jersey in May, in drills eighteen inches apart,
at the rate of four pounds per acre, grew so
fast that culuvator was used on the crop in
twelve days after the plants were up. After
that time no cultivation was possible, owing
to the astonishing growth, which crowded
| down all other vegetation. The first cutting
was made July ], Just forty-five days alter
sowing. i: was seven feet high and weighed,
green, thirty tons to the acre, and six and a
half tons dry. The second cutting was on
the 10Th OF August. IL was then nine feet
high, weighed fifty-five tons green and eight
tons dry
| Mr.. w. +. Massey, a correspondent OF the
American Farmer, (Baltimore) says: The
more j observe the habits OF all our fruit
trees the more am convinced that all fruit
| trees Ol indiuTt aye OuSub W oe kepI III SnOTI
| grass and annually MANFRED. The best feed
| ing roots OF these trees are the surface roots,
which are injured OF destroyed in cultiva-
ting The blight in the pear tree is more fire.
| quent among trees that are cultivated than
among those standing in the sod. The fungus
| which bligbts the tops starts from the lacerat
| ed roots" This agrees with the account of
the experience of two Newfield y. j. fruit
growers, lately published in this column.
| The trees OH one farm that were cultivated
blighted, while those on the other. that were
kept in gsass, are bearing now, and both or
cbards were planted at the same time, on adj
| joining farms, with only few yards distance
between them the trees being bought from
the same nurseryman and grown on the same
kind OF soil.
Mr. i. Z. Bishop. in Poultry Messenger,
gives the following plan for constructing a
| poultry fence: Take common fence boards
| rip them in two; then take three short pieces,
three feet long, and mai one to each end OF
the two pieces and one in the middle; it is
then panel of the length desired; now nail
on lath three inches apart. The way fasten
is by wire around the post and the end OF
the panel. Where there is not much wind a
post at each end will do but one in the mid