The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-05

inches, and on this place a layer of potatoes
so that they do not touch each other. Then
cover with dust add another layer OF pota-
toes and dust and so continue till the recep-
tacle is filled Many experiments have been
tried by the writer, and he has selected this
mode as the best.
Superintendent Graham, of the Kansas
Agricultural College, says: 1--WE have in the
Kansas Agricultural College ponds carp that
are something more than two years old, and,
although we have not seen them lately, we
feel sale in expecting some OF them to pull
down to the extent of five pounds or more
The ponds are now plentifully supplied with
fry, and mp to date the carp seem to have full
filed all that we claimed for them in rapid
growth and increase in numbers"
Hon. George F. Lord, of Elgin, keeps 100
cows on 300 acres of land, and has not raised
a pound of hay for years The corn is sowed
in drills three-anda-half feet apart and
about the time it blossoms it is cut with
self-raking reaper, cutting one row at time,
the machine thrOwingit offthe gavels. When
sufficiently wilted, it is bound and set in
large stacks and allowed to cure, standing on
the ground until winter sets in, when it is
hauled to the barn. He secures q yield of
about seven tons of cured fodder to the acre.
worth as much as the best hay. He is one of
the most successful dairymen in illinois,
Western Farmer.
Delos Lyon, of Chenango County, New
York relates his experience in putting in
wheat after buckwheat in a letter to the
Country Gentleman as follows: II have
been engaged in farming over thirty years,
and / satisfied that buckwheat is not in
furious to wheat. oats or seeding. | have
raised large fields of buckwheat with the
best results to the crop following. C. Van
Buren,, of Laurens, \. y, a man who is too
we'll known for further comment, told me OF
one field that had been sowed to buckwheat
for several years i'll succession, until the land
would not produce that crop, and then he
seeded, it with the best results"
Artichokes have been grown for swine sew
eral years at the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege. The method of management has been
to have a small patch OF artichokes conve.
nient to the swine pens, upon which the
breeding sows were turned early in the
spring and allowed to harvest the roots for
themselves The crop is thus grown with
very little labor, since it requires no harvest
ing, the roots remaining in the ground all
winter, and it furnishes succulent food for
the sOws Just when it is most needed and
most difficult to obtain from other sources
Professor Johnson, Farm Superintendent, is
so well pleased with the results of this man.
agement that he is enlarging the artichoke
plantation.
The Swiss COW is large bodied but fine
boned, of the style of shorthorn; the horns
are large short, clear and tipped with black;
the color Is chestnut brown, mixed with
white; the nose, tongue, hoofs and switch
are black; a mealy -colored band surrounds
| the black nose; the udder and teats are large
and we'll formed, and while they differ to a
| great extent from our common notions about
the right form which a COW should have yet
| they are excellent and profitable cows. yield
! ing twenty to twenty five quarts of milk
daily. and the milk is rich in butter of All
excellent quality. The skin is yellow, soft.
| elastic and covered with soft silky hair; they
carry remarkable eScut cheons and are ex.
| tremely even in appearance, showing careful
and good breeding, for a considerable length
| of time,
Harry Sedgwick, Cornwall Hollow, Conn.,.
| has pair of Percheron mares weighing about
l,C00 pounds each. In driving them forty
miles from his home to the State Fair they
easily averaged seven miles per hour. In adj
! dition to this natural trotting pace they have
that also of fast walking, which is still more
/ essential. Now, this is exactly the kind of
| horses which is wanted in pairs for heavy
soils and hard farm work. while on lighter
soils and for lighter work a single horse OF
| this breed is equal to a pair of the ordinary
sort, for he can turn a sufficiently deep fur
row alone, harrow, cart a ton or more of
| manure or an equally heavy load of veget-
| ables or hay. IL is much more convenient
and cheaper to use single horse than pair
| for general farm work, and it is only half the
| trouble to take care of one, and it does not
consume though so large, over two-thirds as
much hay and grain as the smaller pair
| New York Tribune.