The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-28
Farm Notes.

erly closed, will permit rain to enter, and
much harm will result. The consequence
is that, rain entering, it carries away large
amount of the nourishing elements"
In making gilt-edged butter the housewife
should see that the milk is set where it will
| be free from all communicating odors. Set
| in shallow open pans, two inches deep, the
room to be at a temperature of Coz the year
round.
| Scab is said to have been eradicated from
New Zealand and almost driven from Aus
tralIs by law imposing penalty of $500
for every case of scab found after seven
months from the date of going into effect of
the law.
Farmers trying to make a living off worn
out lands must stop selling their calves and
pigs and sell fat oxen and hogs instead, and
they will soon see an improvement in the
fertility of their lands and IN their bank &C.
count.
One of the results of the late Commits
sioner lie Dues experiments in tea-raising
at the South has been the adoption of the
shrub in some localities as a hedge plant,
for which, where the climate and soil are
suitable, it is said to be excellently adapted.
A process has been discovered in Missis-
sippi by which sweet potatoes can be kept
through the winter without difficulty. The
| water is evaporated, leaving the sugsr and
starch by another process, and farmers are
thus enabled to either store away or dry
| them, preferred.
| A good COW has full eye a small and
short head, dished in the face and sunken
| between the eyes; soft and loose skin,
deep from the loiD to the udder, and a very
short tail, thin udder. and square bag
with teats a good distance from each other,
| and one which, when MIXED. shrinks to a
small pass.-Farmers Magazine.
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without artificial heat, are being built in
London, according to the Garden. They run
north and south, are about twenty-five feet
| long, seven feet wide at the bottom, and
slope to three feet at the roof. 1t is claimed
for them that in this shape the rays of the
sun glance of, so that there is no burning.
According to the Forth Worth Journal
Texas sold 600 600 of beef cattle and $50 900
head of young stock, cows, etc.. this year for
$23 100, 600; increase in value OF the 4 600 600
cattle in the State, SIG, 0e0, 600; cost of rails
ing cattle, expenses. etc. leave a net profit
of $27. 200. 000 of which 1928 loo, 900 is in cash
and 81, 19O, 900 in increased value of stock.
A steam pillow is reported in successful
operation at Blanchard. Oak. 1t is the in
vention of an Englishman, who represents 8
firm AT Leeds, England. that manufactures
steam plows 1t consists of framework to
which are attached six plows, each of which
cuts sixteen-inch furrow. The motive
power consists of two immense traction
engines.
The Farmers Home Journal, of Louis
vile, KY, says that q German gardener be-
yond the Almshouse bought some land in
1881 at $3.50 per acre. This last year he put
it all in potatoes. which cleared him $500
per acre. He paid for the land and bought
for cash as much more land at $40 per acre
and has now big farm, all paid for out OF
one years crop.
At the meeting of the Western Iowa Hor-
ticultural Society at Corning, in their prac-
teal discussion on small fruits, it was said
, that the strawberry is the most discriminate
ing of all fruit plants of common culture in
regard to composition and texture of soil
, 1t must be moderately rich and deeply pull.
verified, and fed from year to year with fer
tilizers.
A Colorado ranchman has sold 1874 head
of cattle for SIS, las, averaging four cents &c
five cents per pound gross weight. He
AYERS that the only expense they had been
to him was the cost of branding and gather
ing. averaging 81 per head per year of the
animals lives. They were high-grade short
horns, and brought more than the ordinary
prices for wild steers.
Every ore interested in potatoes should
, try on g small scale new varieties, till they
! find something adapted to their cultivation
etc, and, by. being a little careful, car
double their yield on any of the old kinds
with but little additional expense. Money
spent for good seed is well invested, and
will be very certain to LAY q large dividend
New England Farmer.
A. fruit grower in the Ohio Farmer says
, THE beginner must first try on a compare.
lively small scale. This will apply particu.
larly to berries. OF tree fruits it tskes O
longer time to ascertain the value of any
particular kind. / would therefore advise q
beginner to make his choice principally
from such as are known to do well in his
neigh6orbood, and not plant too many
varieties
dairyman says: "In the case of an un-
usually large and weil-developed heifel
, there is no objection to having her first cali
before she is two years old but when under
! size or at all weakly it is safe to let her
reach the age of two and half or three
years. II thrifty beifers come In at an early
age and are properly attended 10 they usual
! ly MAKE better mixers than when they
come in late.T
One-half of the care and labor required to
earn $50 tilling some crop will produce that
amount for the farmer ii bestowed upon his
flock OF fowls. II you propose to him to per-
sistently neglect his best COW from one end
of the year to the other he will set you down