The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-28

as q candidate for the Lunatic Asylum, Jet
a common-sizsd flock of fowls, such as are
kept &C most farmsteads, will yield as much
value yearly. il properly treated, as q first
rate COW.
II. A. Chase, of the Massachusetts, Plough
man, SAYS the tendency of Kieffer's hybrid
pear is to overbear, frequently setting twice
as much fruit as 1t ought to be allowed to
mature. The best remedy for this is thin
ming but if plenty of plant food is furnished
the tree il will mature n larger quantity OF
fruit than any other variety. The trees
come into bearing early, not unfrequently in
the third year from the bud, and the pears,
he says, have no superior for culinary pur-
poses.
In DIR. Sturtevants experiments in sugar
making from Wanshakum corn, on the 10Th
of September, when glazed but not dry
enough for storage, the stalks gave 81 per
cent of juice. containing 81 per cent. OF
glucose and 96 per cent of sugar. Three
days later the stalks yielded so per cent OF
Juice the glucose had increased to 3.25 per
cent. and the sugar to 6.72 per cent. Still
later the percentage of both glucose and
sugar rapidly decreased. as it probably went
| inIo the corn in form of starch.
One pint per day of good, country-milled
| bran and oats in equal quantities, by meas
ure, does not seem very liberal feeding for a
sheep. Yet if this is fed regularly, in addi-
ton to what good straw. hay and corn fodder
| they will eat, sheep will thrive handsomely
upon il. We know a small flock of grade
Cotswold ewes, all expected to produce half
blood Southdown lambs in February, which
are being fed precisely in this way, and one
could not wish to see sheep do any better
Agricultural Epitomist.
A correspondent of the Iowa Homestead
says that the exhibit of potatoes at the Iowa
State Fair of 1882 was larger than ever be-
| FORE but that the Committee to- which was
| intrusted the duty of making awards was SO
| ignorant of the sorts presented that an early
| rose drew first prize for Chicago market and
the white star masqueraded as Burbanks
Seeding. He says this was the only State
Fair he ever knew where the same basket OF
potatoes was exhibited under three different
names.
| A correspondent of the Germantown (Pa.
Telegraph says that the main failure il
raising strawberries is in setting poor plants
Old plants are good for nothing; new plant:
| from an old bed are not worth setting. We
should set plants that are grown from those
that have never fruited. When a plant
prod aces a crop of fruit that fruit exhaust
the energies of the plant to a certain extent
and its young plants will not have the con
shtution and vigor of those from plants tina
give all their energies to the young plants
a DcdCu duQ lCAb WlbnOA
attention, as is so frequently seen, will hard
ly last more than ten years. OF those fou
are required for the tree to attain the age o.
fruitage and as there are rather more thar
two years of total failure in every five, no
, more than three or four crops are realized
. Now, If the same trees be cultivated, prunet
and wormed, they are quite certain to b.
in better state of preservation when TWEEN
ty years old than the neglected ones at ten
and the number of years of profit is yer,
nearly doubled.
The value of good animal is to subserv
certain required purposes by allowing us t
breed in those directions only that are bes
for our interests and desires, and while ma
ture has confined the females of all animal
to limited reproduction of offspring. sh
has endowed the male with powers that al
: unlimited, which is of the greatest advan
| tage to US in the improvement OF stock. Th
expenses incurred in the purchase of a goo'
male. therefore, are trifling in comparison
, to the advantages derived, as the benefit
are without hmit.-Farm, Field and Fire
} side.
. Wet lands should not be plowed deep IN
til they have been thoroughly drained. Al
luvial soils and deep loans, where the SUI
; face and subsoils do not materially differ
can scarcely be titled too deeply. Thin soils
} however, should not be plowed below tn
pldub IOOu. LII bdhcS JWlCc dS III
manure to fertilize land when 1T is plowed I
| depth of ten inches as when it is plowe
70 depth of five inches; yet, on the othe
hand, oy blowing only five inches deep th
! soil will be exhausted much quicker tina
when the blowing is ten inches.-America
Cultivation.
! DR.. B. ID. Halsted, in the American Ayr
culturist, SAYS that as q rule pure bred stoc
/ are not the most profitable for farmers t
/ keep. Not because he does not advocate tn
pure breeds in preference to the grades, bu
[ because farmers are not prone to giving til
/ attention generally bestowed by reguls
breeders. Fancy farmers are a nations
e blessing, says the writer, because they ar
pleased to make large investments in tho
! oughbred stock from whence farmers ca
4 easily procure, for improvement of the CON
: mon herds and focks, such animals as ma
n be particularly adapted for the purposes II
quired.