The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-24

A few small boxes filled with charcoal.
ground bone and pounded oyster shells and
placed within reach OF poultry, will be Of
great service during this season, when the
fowls are moulting.
Every additional COW, we'll fed puts SO
worth of fertility per annum on the farm,
besides what she puts in her owners pocket:
Cows have been around 5000 years or more
and never disappointed aliberal and humans
owner in any country.
1t Is said that tomato plants can be raised
from slips or cuttings as easily as many of
our house plants. If so, the farmers wife
can take few slips in the fall and furnish
the kitchen garden with plants in the spring,
even farther advanced than the seedlings
grown in hot-beds.
The Elmira Farmers Club has been dis
cussing the barbed-wire fence question, and
arrived at the conclusion that the wire fur
nished with fat pointed pieces of metal SO
attached that they projected above and be-
low the wire, was dangerous material to
employ, whereas the wire barbs. pointed
sharp, We're much less liable to mi re stock
IN case OF accident or ENHANCEMENT.
The practice of some of the best farmers
now is to keep pigs through the summer on
green food, cut and carried to the pens, with
little grain and what milk can be spared
after butter-making. Spring pigs are thus
made to weigh 200 pounds at seven months
old, and except the last month, they get but
little grain. The best time to sell such pigs
is at the beginning of cold weather, usually
in October
A Du Page, ILL.,, farmer, claims that for
three consecutive years he has obtained sou nd
apples free from worms on trees in his orch
ard by sowing three or four quarts of salt
under each tree, while the fruit on trees not
so sailed was all injured or ruined by the
codling moth The ground in this case was
under cultivation, and he had never tried
the salt remedy on trees growing in ground
that was seeded down. 1t will cost but little
to try the salt remedy and now is the time
to do it,
Sheep often 90 a long time without drink
ing, especially if in a pretty good pasture,
and the dews are heavy so that they can ELL
up with wet gress in the morning; but when
they do want to drink water is as necessary
TO their health and comfort as to tn 1T of any
other animals Therefore, keep supply Of
pure water in the sheep pastures as much as
in any other, and if the sheep do not drink
from it, give them little salt once week
They should have salt as often as once a
week under any circumstances.
An English gardener says he does not
agree with those who say that one good
wedding is worth two hoeings. He says:
Never weed a crop in which hoe can he
used, not so much for the sake of destroying
IL
be well done, as for increasing the porosity
of the soil, to allow the air and water to pen
trate freely through it. Oftentimes there is
more benefit derived by crops from keeping
them well hoed than there is from the ma
nure applied. Weeds or no weeks, keep
stirring the soil, we'll knowing from practice
the very beneficial effects it has"
Wheat ranks by origin as a degenerate and
degraded lily. The pedigree of wheat is
traced from the time when its ancestors first
diverged from the common stock OF the lilies
and the water plantains to the time when the
savage man found it growing wild upon The
untitled plains of prehistoric Asia, and took
1t under his special protection in the little
garden-plats around his waited hut, whence
it was gradually altered under his constant
selection into golden grain that now covers
half the lowland filth of Europe and Amer
ica There is no page in botanical history
more full of genuine romance than this, aud
there is no page in which evidence is clearer
or more convincing for those who will take
the easy trouble to read it Alright.