The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-20

proportion of twins.
There does not seem to be any feasible
wsy of getting rid of the rose bug except by
Manipulating. The rose slug is another
| depredator which should be kept under by
| busting the plants with powdered hellebore.
The Sugar Beet calls the attention OF farm
| ers TO the advantages of hill culture for
| heets, saying the French and Austrians have
largely adopted il. This plan of culture
| seems TO present the most practical al van
| tages.
Professor Sanborn has conducted a series
! OF experiments which prove conclusively
that 1t takes more corn TO make a pound of
| pork when the hogs were allowed TO run at
large than when they were confined in the
pen.
Ii does not pay to keep poor stock of any
kind. If every animal is good of its kind il
is always saleable, and can be turned into
money at any time that it il is desirable TO 90
so, whereas an inferior one is always drug
| on the farmers hands.
About $4,000 dozens of eggs are consumed
daily in New York City, when the prices are
as high as they are at present. When the
cost or eggs reaches the lowest point they
will be cheaper than meat, and the consump-
ton will increase to 100000 dozens day.
The growing OF cauliiowers is receiving
more attention than formerly, particularly
so the earlier varieties. The crops of Dwarf
/ Erfurt and Snowfall begin to c1ms forward
in June, and those, with the latter sorts. are
in the market almost without intermissiol
until November.
1t is question with some Western farm
ers whether they are really prohting By rob-
| bing their land of fertility and selling
enormous crops at present low rates. When
this fertility is gone IL will be a SLOW and ex-
pensive process to replace it. as Eastern
farmers are learning to their cost.
Members of the Elmira Farmers Club adj
! wise the mulching OF wheat fields with straw
saying the cost Is small, the benefit sure even
in favorable winters, but greater in winters
like that just ended, when nearly every day
| after the first freezing was a STRAIN the
| plants exposed.
1t never pays to underfeed anything, even
if the animal is only kept in store condition,
that is, neither giving milk nor fattening,
little grain will do no harm. Young heifers
however, should not be given fattening food
before they have their first calf. Hence oats
and bran are better than corn.
Every spring peach growers select speci-
men branches from variously situated trees,
and these are placed in lighthouses and their
ends dipped in water that is kept tepid
Then the buds are forced until an expert can
tell, with the aid of microscope, precisely
what the nature Of the coming crop will be.
From these and other recognized indications
it is thought that the yield this year will be
of average bulk and of the fioest flavor
American Cultivation. ; So ess.s5 -. .ssssi
Many farmers of Western New York are
going out of tobacco raising because of the
uncertainties OF the crop, the loss of fertility
and depreciation of the land, and disappoint-
ments in sales. Even those farmers who
have realized the highest prices and tn,
quickest sales admit that the effect IN tobac-
CO raising is.to reduce prfiots on general farm
ing; that its exhaustive tendency is a serious
matter to consider, and that in the long run
II is destructive TO more important interests.
A horticulturist writing to the Ohio
Farmer says: Nothing is more distressing
10 el-headed horticulturist than TO see
tomato plants foot or eighteen inches high
and bare of branches to the top, swaying and
whipping in the cold wind alter transplant>
ing. Where such draWn-out plants must be
used small inclined trench should be dug
and nearly the whole stem placed beneath
The soil. No evil will result, but much
good, from such planting, and vigorous,
sticky growth will fOllow."e &es
The Germantown Telegraph says that "in
selecting old apple and pear trees for the
purpose OF grating care should be exercised
TO take only those that retain their foliage
late in the autumn. They will insure the
growing Of the graft sufficiently long to
firmly establish it and cause it to remain un.
affected during the winter. In every instance
that we have tried to raise fruit from gratis
on old trees which shed their leaves early
we have failed. They grow for few years
bear few specimens, and then die"
The American Caltivator says: "Did you
ever try plantiRg peas in hillsP Make large
hill, rich with well-rotted compost or fertili-
zeri then take nail keg or something about
that size, and press II into the ground 81 as
10 make deep circle uDon the bill; SOW yoar
peas In the center. You can grow as many
peas to the acre in this way as IN drills. They
are convenient for the plckers, and they have
a neat and tasty look in the garden, which is
rot q small item, esosc. tally when you are
trying new method"
Professor Beal OF the Michigan Agricul-
turel College, reports az experiment where
he planted an early, eight-ro we'd, yellow
dent, and through it q single row of yellow
flint. Before Towering the tassels of the flint
corn were all cut off, meking impregnation
by the dent on this row a necessity There
was no trace on the ears of the flint of anv
crossing with the dent the first year. The
next year, however. the flint corn showed all
gradations from the dent to the flint He
reports some varieties as being less affected
with crossing than Others and names the red
or brown varieties as having the creates;
fixity of type.
France receives annually from England
about $40 100000 for buttsr and cheese. This
OF our farmers know how TO aud d make
good butter, but there are many farmers
who do not know how TO, or at least do not
make good, clean butter. III any one doubss
this let him visit any city commission house.
and he will fiud butter of every conceivable
color, form and smell, and will lose his ap.
petite tor butter for week at least A little
piece of tad butter will ruin the taste of the
best bread that the skillful miller and baker
can make.-United States Miller.
The quantity of food needed by stock
varies even among animals of the same age
ana breed, and it necessarily varies TO
greater extent among animals of different
breeds. Upon this subject farmer in f X
land says IL is sufficiently CORRECT to reckon
a sheep consuming twenty-eight pounds of
green food, an OK or COW I'D pounds, calf
forty pounds. and yearling eighty pounds
daily. at this rate an OK or COW consumes
as much as Eve shsep. The latter will re
quire 10, 300 pounds. 0r nearly Eve tons
apiece, the former "a $50 pounds. or nearly
'wnn'v-6ve tons of green food, for its yearly
maintenance.
H0usehsid Hints.
To keep pudding sauce warm il prepared
too long before dinner is served set the basin
containing IL in pan or pail of boiling
water; do not let the water boil after the
sauce-dish is set in it, but keep it hot.