The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-21

DR.. Sturdevant says that potash whether
in the shape of woodashes or in the form of
sulp hate or muriate is a special fertilizer for
melons.
Give all your farm implements good coat
of paint before the time comes to use them.
1t is the best preserver of all wood and iron
exposed to the weather. and costs but little.
No investment pays better.
Poultry per pound, let the breed be what
it may, will cost very near the same. One
bushel of corn will produce nine to eleven
pounds of poultry. 1t makes no difference
whether Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks or Brah-
mas eat the corn.
Many farmers in northwestern Iowa use
hay as fuel, cut from the prairie dried, and
twisted up nut-cake fashion. 1t is even used
in brick-kilns and economically. 1t can be
gathered and stacked for sixty cents a ton,
and thus is said to be cheaper than wood at
81 a cord.
The sudden changes in the weather. COM
mon this month, are hard on the young
lambs and pigs and BOTH if exposed to Sc
we're storms, are liable to become diseased, or
at most, so stunted in their growth that they
never fully recover from it. 1t is good econ
omy to provide warm and comfortable quar-
tiers.
Much sickness is caused by the odor aris-
ing from decaying vegetable matter IN eel
lars beneath liying-rooms of the house. 1t
should be removed at once, and the windows
and cellar door be thrown open daily when
the temperature is above the freezing point
1t is cheaper to do this than to pay doctors
bills.
There are said to be fifty injurious insects
in our vegetable gardens; fifty in our vine
yards while seventy-five attack our apple
trees and more than fifty our grain fields,
Seventy-five million dollars is estimated as
the damage done to the wheat in Illinois in
one season, and nearly ten years ago the
annual loss IN the United States from insect
depredatiOns alone was estimated at nearly
$500, 100000.
The National Tribune says: sit is not gem
erally known that sorghum is valuable for
grazing purposes. Itgrows quickly after being
eaten down, and branches out into a number
of succulent shoots, which are highly relished
by live stock of all kinds. With a patch of
rye sown in the fall, which will afford good
grazing until midsummer, supplemented by
a sowing of sorghum in May, a supply of
succulent pasture may be secured equal in
value to any mixture OF other kinds of
grasses and clovers.
The selection of suitable stocks for grating
is matter still requiring much scientific ex-
pertinent. The object of grating is to expe-
dite and increase the formation of flowers and
fruit Strong-growing pears, for instance, are
grated on the ounce stock, in order to re-
strict their tendency to form gross shoots
and a superabundance of wood in place of
flowers and fruit. Apples, for the same rea-
son, are worked" on the paradise" stocks,
which, from their influence on the scion are
known as dwarfing stocks. Scions from a
tree which Is weakly or liable to injury by
frosts, are strengthened by ENGRAVING on ro-
bust stocks Lindley has pointed out that
while in Persia, its native country, the peach
is probably best grated on the peach, or on
its wild type the almond, in England the
summer temperature of whose soil is much
lower than that of Persia, it is most success
full on stocks of the native plum.