The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-24
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
Nearly one-third OF all the sugar sold on
the English market is beet sugar.
Mr.. G. +. Cobb, of Leeds, Me-, raised the
past season from about one acre 62S pounds
of hops, which sold for $410.
1t is said that Australia has more meat
producing animals in proportion to its pop
ulation than any other country on the
globe.
Across the water the shorthorn editor of
the Field insinuates that shorthorn blood
was the element that increased the size of
the polled cattle.
Mr.. w. H. Francis, of Frankfort, Mich,
realized s145 for the first three crops from
ten Hale's Early peach trees, which are still
in thrifty condition.
Statistics place the shortage Of wheat in
Great Britain at l36,0O0,OOo bushels. The
shortage OF the oats crop of this country is
placed at 1000 600 bushels.
1t has been ascertained at the CRANKY
Conn Creamery that it takes ten quarts of
milk TO make an inch of cream, and an
inch of cream. makes pound of butter.
In the last ten years Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, has produced 142 000.UOU
pounds of tobacco. The annual profits on
tobacco alone in that County is estimated al
100000.
A Montreal dealer ships tomatoes to En-
gland, where they bring good prices. The
taste for tomatoes has been acquired, but
the English climate will always be too cold
for them to ripen.
London purple is better adapted to fight
ing the canKer worm on apple trees than is
Paris green. 1t dissolves in water which is
not the case with Paris green, and the
former is, therefore, more evenly distrib
uted.
1t is severe calamity to any agricultural
country not to be the producer of its OWE
wool. All the varieties producible in
the world are equally producIble in the
United States. Saxony or Silesia can pro
duce no finer.
To cure warts on cows bags, Mr.. H. G.
Abbott, of Maine, recommends to saturats
them three times a week with kerosene oil
and in short time they will all be gone
leaving the skin smooth and free from sore
| ness
If cows hind feet are tied together sh,
can not kick. 1t will make the COW som,
trouble for time, but the mind of tn,
| mixer will be secure and undistur bed
After few weeks a slight cord on each lie,
will be enough.
The COW population of the United S.ate
is IL, 81, l48, or about one COW to every foul
people. This only includes mich cows. anC
| their value is estimated at $40 SOC, $685. al
average of $27 per head, based upon thei
prices in different States.
Dear as corn has been, ii we'll paws to feeC
1t moderately to COWS giving milk. Butte
is proportionately as dear as corn, and
feed Of the latter affects the butter product
| both in quantity and quality, even NOR
than it does the flow of milk.
| DIR. Hoskins, of Vermont, writes to th,
Rural New Yorker that he has fruited anC
compared the three supposed distinct varie
ties of Russian apples known as brand Sal
tan, Yellow Transparent and Charlotten
haler, and finds them identical.
The advantage of breeding from polled
rams, says Missouri shepherd in an ex
change. are that the animals fight less, ar,
never fly-blown around the horns, are NOR,
convenietly sheared, and, what is of create
importance, keep easier and grow larger.
The branding of cattle as now practiced il
the West is pronounced by the Shoe ant
1 Leather Reporter to be a crime. That ther,
is much unnecessary cruelty and much
wanton destruction of hides in the way thi
work is generally done is hey ond question.
An Iowa correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph makes his granary distasteful t.
i
side of the building with hot pine tar fo
the width of three or four inches, and ais,
any seam or crack where rat our mouse Cal
stand to gna~."
The following are the measurements o
three intestinal tubes of sheep which wer
lately examined: Lamb, Southdown, 81,
months old, "A feet 9inches; old eve. South
down, 100 feet inches; old Leicester ram
III feet inches, when the intestines ar
pulled out from the mesentery.
| A new white potato. called Duke of Al
bany, is becoming very popular in England
It is q sport of the Beauty of Hebron. Mos
of our American potatoes do well if takeI
to England, but the rule does not work boil
ways as American families who have plante,
imported seed have found to their cost.
| On a cranberry farm at Hyannis, Mass.
$40, 600 worth of cranberries have been soil
this season, and 81. 900 paid to pickers at tn
rate of from one to two cents per quart
Picking affords busy work during the tim
so occupied. and after the crop Is gathere,
the cleaners often secure large quantities O
the fruit.
In the New York Tribune resident OF OF
Creek warns fruit growers against usin
petroleum on fruit trees and shrubs.
kills all trees around where IL is pumped
and neighboring orchard that had bee
, planted with il began to decline. This q
plies to crude oil, but Others claim thI