The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-08-22

raised mostly in that country" says: Tine
longhorDed Southern Texas cattle. mostly
but We are constantly Introducing neg blood
end experimenting on different breeds. The
Herefords and the purbsms have been in
tToducsd quite largely, and with some sue
cess. Tn. loDghOrn is the steer for that
country, however. IA can live through a
hard winter and come odt as q : as young
colt in the spring, and by the lst OF June be
is ss fat ~ butter anu ready for market. IL
bred too highly they don't stand the winter
well. and they Will come out too poor IN the
spring The we'll bred cittle are too tender,
and sometimes sicken on the drive. ! find
that from one quarter 10 one half Hereford
with the longhorn Southern Texas makes
shout the best suited 10 that climate. Those
lonehorns were introduced on the coast by
the Spanish 200 or 800 years ago. The ci
mate suits them exactly, and they flourish
down there"
Items OF General Interest to Farmers.
Professor Collier, late chemist of the
United States Department OF Agriculture. is
engaged in a work on sorghum, which is TO
be published by Cincinnati house at an
early day.
Tomatoes not many generations ago were
considered poisoOus. Last fall there were
-, 80, 052 cans of tomatoes put up by the
canning establishments of the United States.
II is found if rye is grazed so closely as not
10 allow seed to form, its root will live sew
ersl years and form q turf. The root pene-
iTates deeply and the leaves while young
s1e greedily eaten by all kinds OF stock
London Gardeners Chronicle: 1 think tina.
the custom 0 beating pans, etc, originated
in the desire TO prove that swarm OF bees is
still held in sight by the owner of the hive
from which it issued and he took this means
of warning his neighbors and maintaining
bis rights.
The General Court of Massachusetts,, at its
recent session, established eighty new schol-
srships at the Agricultural College, two for
each Senatorial District Of the State. In
several of the Districts arrangements have
been made for filling these scholarships by
i. competitive examination open to al the
youth of the District
ADu Page County Ill. farmer claims that
for three consecutive years he has obsiined
sound apples free from worms on trees in his
orchard by sowing three or four quarts of salt
under each tree. while the fruit on trees not
so salted was all injured or ruined by the cod
| ling moth. The ground in this case was under
cultivation. and be had never tried the salt
remedy on trees growing in ground that was
seeded down.
A Southern Illinois farmer who has had
| considerable experience with cheat has dis
! covered that il is 2 triennial product of the
| soil, yielding its own seed bat once in three
| years. Cheat" he adds, will grow with rye
| IS we'll IS with wheat If il is deposited two
| yeaIs previous 10 sowing the rye. ! have
seen cheat in rye in Indiana and know
l whereof / speak. ANY ore who saws wheat
/ produces cheat se;s aside the laws OF nature
srd denies that nature has any laws. There
| is no such thing as transmigrsting one kind
/ of grain into another"
Mr.. S. G O'Nesl, who resides only aIfew
! miles below Columbus, Ga has tried the ex-
! of
crop, for which there was no remunerative
! prices into strip. He has succeeded finely,
and believes that there is no reason why an
! acre of melons should not yield a much
! strip as a similar area OF sugar cane, while
the former does not tax the land near so
heavily as the latter The strip has delight
| ful peach preserve sirup flavor. Planters in
different sections of the same State intend
trying this same experiment.
The Germantown pa Telegraph notes the
fact that, as the Western States are steadily
coming into formidable competition with
each other in the production of tobacco
I fruit, cheese, butter, vegetables ETC., the East
is coming back 10 wheat growing, and urge;
the seaboard farmers to imp in, raise all the
wheat they can, export the surplus to Europe
| and thus arrest what is called 1.-The drain oil
the agricultural districts to supply emigrantS
to the West. In fsct," it says, 1.-The Eastern
farmers have suffered in many ways from g
which has built up the West at their ex
| pense."
Professor W. o. Ayers, in Coleman's Rura
World, claims that the United States can in
time stop the importation OF sugar absolutely
because IL has no need of importatio and
because its domestic productions will satisfy
the full need of the country. I'VE have bui
to consider" says he, whether we have the
means within our reach and the ability tc
nse those means For my own part believe
that we have. and that instead of producing
as We do new, say 195, 100000 pounds Of
sugar, and importing the remaining huge
amount which We consume. we may Just as
readily produce, and in justice TO ourselves
ought to produce , 600, 900 pounds, and
as much more, in fact, as We require in the
future" The ground OF this belief lies large
ly in the future of sorghum.
The Florida Dispatch suggests means Of
strengthening trees inclined 10 split at the
forks 1t says "Crotched or forked fruit
trees of any kind can be kept from splitting
down by twisting together one twig from
each OF the main trachee These twigs thus
twisted together will in five years grow into
a solid branch that can not be broken. Twigs
which grow from the lower part of the
branches are preferable for this purpose. Ii
there are no such twigs on the branches q
water sprcut or sucker should be allowed
TO grow; or one may be started by nicely To-
! serliDg a scion into a slit between the bark
and wood and securely waxing it. TwigS
from the size of lead pencil to half an inch
in diameter can be used for this purpose"