The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-13
Farm Notes.


plants it in the vacant place.
Subscriber The disease caused by worms
in the wind-pipe of young chicks, commonly
known as eapes originates from filth, such as
feeding loft food OH tho ground, and also
when it has begun 20 ferment The safest
cure for eapes is TO mix teaspoOnf1l OF
spirits of turpetine with pint of corn meal,
make into dough and iced to the chicks.
N. L., of Portland. Ind, has grated grape
vines successfully. as follows: He sets the
| graft the same IS in an spple tree and then
| buries the vine about six inches below the
| surface Of the soil, allowing the end OF the
| cion 10 come little above the surface An
other correspondent tells how he gratis tame
| into wild grapevines: 'Cut the vine you wish
to grow three feet from the ground, dig a
| trench four inches deep, into which lay the
! vine; set the cion into the split, and, leaving
| Two buds on the cion, bury &c in the eartb,
| fastening the vine in place witha forked
stick, leaving the last bud of the cion ADORE
| The ground, and there will be a growth OF
/ fifteen feet during the first season. Some
pTCtt ction shculd be placed above the newly
set craft, so it can not be disturbed aud
| spoiled"
Fruit trees that have been girded by mice
| NAV be saved by process described in the
| Country Gentleman. Take twigs from
| fourth 10 half en- inch in diameter (tae larg
e. size being best If the tree is large enough
|
| each end, ard make an opening in the bark
above ard below the girdled part with
| narrow chisel to receive them. The twigs
| are first bent like bow for entering, and
then brought nearly straight when in place.
| They should be bound to keen them firmly
| in place, and the points of insertion COW
| cred with grating wax. The editor says he
| has always done this work in spring before
| the bads opened, but if we'll performed
| thinks it would succeed later. An instance
| is given Of nearly 1,200 pear trees several
years old being saved in this way.
A series of experiments were recently con-
Quoted in Europe by Mr.. Samson to deter
| mine whether it wss better to feed horses
| with eats whole or crushed. A graduated
| electrical apparatus was used to ms2sure the
| muscular and nervous excitability caused bv
| the feed, and the results led TO the belief
| that cats eaten whole produce more exciting
| power per hour than crushed oats. The ex-
| citing principle In oats is a brown nitroge-
| nous substance uncrystslzabie, apparently
belonging 10 the family OF alkaioids, and
| which Mr.. Samson calls avenine. On many
| Of our breeding farms u is the custom to
| bTuise or crush oats fed to Old mares aud
| ycung colts. The stimulating effect Of the
! food il more immediate han il the oa,s wee
| fed whole, but it is not SC strong or durable
For race horses and work h rises uncrusaed
cats are the better food.
And now a few words as to the expense of
eDsilege. / have found it very cheap My
silo consists of 8 single square hole dug in
the ground, and has no masonry of any kind
about il. The soil is solid clay for four and
ard One-half feet in depth; after that more
| Iorus soil exteE DIS all through to the bot
tom. It's dimensions are 12x10x10l% feet
deep, and it cost 81 TO dig it. The wells sre
very smooth and exactly perpendicular, to
| allow IL 10 settle evenly. l dug il under an
old house, so that the roof did not cost me
| anything, and NJ use the house fer storing
dry iced after the ensilage mas been pusln
lie silC-of cOUTse using the dry food out
first. One acre of good low ground planted
in rows three and one-half feet apart and as
thick es sny c0rn-panter will drop H. will
produce enough corR to fill nay silo, and this
quantity will feed nine cows about three
moE ths-C. A. S., in Southern Planter.
Endive is one of the best salads for
fall snd winter use. As it is used mostly in
! the fall months the main sowings are made
in June and July, from which plantations
are formed, at one foot at each way, in Au-
| gust aid Sc ptember. II REQ aires ne special
soil or manure, and after planting Is kept
| clesr OF weeds until the plant has attained
| It's iull size, when the process OF blanchlDg
| begins. This is effected by gathering up the
| leaves and tying them by their tips in q con.
| ical form with bass mating. This excludes
| the light and cir from the inner leaves
which. in course of from three to six weeks,
| according &c tse temperature at the time,
become blhDched. Another aud simpler
method consists II covering Gp the plants as
| they grow with Stats or boards, which serve
! the same purpose by excluding the light as
! the tying up.
| UsUally like produces like, +" 1.-The offsping
| rCsem bles the parent but experiences abund-
| 81 tly establishes the law that not the imms-
/ date but some nore remote ancestor may
| give character 70 the stock we rear. The
! hest possible security short Of the actual
| test, that az animal Will reproduce its char
/ acteriStics in its offspring is that these char
scteristics are known TO have belonged 70 a
! long line OF ancestors. Individual mer.taad
/ adoption to our needs should be the firss and
/ most important Joints of cur selection.
| Next the character Of the ancestors should
| Re considered. AS We 90 back each genera
| tioa becomes less and less important We
need trouble ourselves very little in the en-
/ deavor 20 determine the character CT any
| one OF the / O24 different animals ia the
/ tenth generation back. if we know thst the
! bull or COW which we think OF buying is good
in itself-can see that its parents are equally
| good, and have credible testimony that
| their ancestors. for even three or four genera
TONS were Of like character
Sometimes we feed too well and get orr
/ fowls too Fat. The Plymouth Rocks ere
notorious for being always fat. while the
Leghorns are said 10 be never So A Brahms
| chicken will not fst:en perfectly, bat, when
grown, takes on fat quickly. To reduce th-
fowls in flesh. without deprivinG them OF
food may be done by forcing them TO scratch
for living and giving to them oats only,
and but once day. Select dry portion of
the yard, or, if in wet weather the floor Of
the fowl-house, and cover it with leaves cut
straw or salt hay. ana such waste material
| as answers. Throw the osts into this, and
let them hunt for tie grains. Feed nothing
in the morning. give the oats at noon, and
allow nothing az night On very cold nights
a little CORE May be fed. Watch the fowls
| carefully, and 90 not carry on the process
| aDy longer than NAV by necessary Moist
ening the oats 10 swell them q little before
feeding, AID also DaTching them occasion
ally will be sufficient change daring the
feeding for reduction of fact.-rarm and
Garden.
Says a correspondent OF the Garden: THE
| best insectcide. and the safest l have ever
| met with. is nicotine soap, which, from con-
tanning the active properties of tobacco with
other Ingredients is fatal 70 insects and has
a marvelously cleansing effect on the bark OF
trees, which il frees from all parasites in
very quick time. For using on the stems of
vines and peach trees IL is quite unrivaled
as with q brush and slight scrub. followed
directly after by dash of water from the
syringe. il leaves them bright and polished,
| fra oil eli danOaif- and off,ar