The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-27

venierce. Only few spooufdls OF such solu
ton are necessary once day in the drinking
water, and for poultry it is considered by
some invaluable, as it can be poured into ths
water in the drinking vessels.
Iowa AID Illinois report poor corn pros
poets In some localities the corn is fo,ting
in tee ground. and considerable replanting
is necessary.
The editor OF the Nebraska Farmer pro-
poses crossing the Berkshire and Chester
Whites both ways, with a view of producing
a new breed of swine, something which
will surpsss in excellence anything in the
hog line.
Il is q good time now TO get ready for crop
of buckwheat, as it delights in q warm soil
and warm weather. 1t grows rapidly. keeps
down weeds and answers well fo- green ma
nurial purposes.
The Ben Davis apple is so poorly favored
that even the codli1g moth generally passes
it by for some better variety, and the conse-
queDce is that but few of these apples are
Wormy, and being of high color aud hand
some shape. they are very popular apple at
the city fruit stands, where they oatsell
other kinds abort two to one on the average.
Indiana Farmer.
f. NJ. Cheney, of South Sutton, n. H,
writes that his method of feeding young to-
mato plants is to apply hen manure and for
a
form, applying frequently. he claims that
the result is large and early crops To avoid
the cut-woTm he plants on ground newly
broken, and stys the same plan is also appli-
cable to the cabbage worm.
Speaking of the hop craze in Central New
| York the Tribune says that farme adapted TO
this plant ere selling for $500 or more per
scre. The winters receipt OF poles at Water
vile was 364 car loads. Roots generally Civ
Ell SWET bring now 50 q bushel.
Beans can be put in to advantage at the
present time, the best variety for winter use
| DgiLg the white navy. They should be plant
I'd 50 as TO admit Of being worked with n cui-
| tivstoT, and may be harvested by being
| pulled up and carried to the barn before
being picked off the vines.
= The glanders disease has appeared in sew
eral places in Illinois, and there is conss-
! quently much excitement among horsemen.
| In one or two cases men attending diseased
| herses have died from the infection.
Over 100000 cans of tomatoes were
/ packed last year. Nearly half of this work
was done in Maryland and Virginia. Toe
| wholesale pnce for thTee-pound cans ranged
from four to five cents each.
1t is not known to many that there are but
| few, if any, Attorney COWS now in this coun-
| Try. Breeders should be careful before ad-
veriising ''pure Attorney milk" unless they
| import it, which is not probable.
| II is important when wintering bees in the
cellar to place the hives on the old stand.
| Fees have tenacious memories of places, and
! il this is not attended to they will go to the
wrong hives and be killed. Many queens are
thus destroyed, and this puts an end to the
| WORK Of that swarm, at least Cor the season,
or until O new queen is reared.
Salt is unquestiOnably useful as a means OF
destroying the numerous parasites which are
| found in the animsl system. The army of
snimalcula which is constantly preying upon
| the muscles and tiss0es of the body would
| soon devour it If they were not expelled or
| KILLED, and occasionally there is found q class
Of these parasites which increase 50 rapidly
and Work so lncessantiy that they sap the
| foundations of life. As q rule, however, na-
turc enables the 81 stem, with proper care, to
| hold its own against them and salt-which
| is q mineral poisOn-is undoubtedly de true
tive 10 The life OF these deStroyerJ. Western
| Rural.
1t is known that queen bee has deposited
IS many as 5000 to 4,e00 eggs in5twenty-four
hours, and in tYenty-one days they ell
emerge from their cells perfect bees, there
being about 3, coo to 40, ESQ workers in a good
colony. The entire colony becomes new
every two or three months during the work
ing season, owing to the amount of honey
obtained sne the distance travelled in gaining
IT.
Inc NLb rs IEOAuh lnS WON pi1S
and leaf mold from the forest spread upon
the ground and plow.6 in are very valuable
in fitting land for an orchard, and If the lat
Ter is used for mulch around young trees
it greatly promotes vigorous growth. espec-
jslly if the old mulching is spsded in once or
twice in the year and new application
made. Such mulching around young trees
helps to keep them from winter killing if put
on IN the fall II put on in the spring il
keeps down weeds and saves from the effects
of a severe drought during the summer
American CuItivator.
An experienced strawberry cultivator says
TIA, the Inconvenience of havingrunners sx-
tended in ell directions may be overcome by
iettiEg the plants in such position that they
will run in given direction. He discovered
years ago. he saws, that the strawberry plant
sends cut runners in bat one direction, or
from one side, and that is the side opposite
the ola runner that produced it. Hence, il
the side OF the plant from which the main
runner was cut is set toward the north the
plant will run to the south. Those who are
intending TO set out strawberry beds would
co well to remember this.