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

ed from a few grains found in the crop of a
wild goose. The wheat has a hard outer
husk and the bran is very coarse; il makes
peculiar grade of flour. Its exact duplicate
is found in a small province of Spain, and
the inference is that the wild goose must
make pretty rapid time.
The following rules for estimating the
amount of hay in stack will be found APP
proximately correct: In stack, timothy,
after ten days or two weeks settling, 500
cubic feet 10 the ton; clover, zoe, and prairie
hoy $50 feet After thorough settling about
500 cubic feet of timothy, $50 of clover, and
$50 OF prairie hay. To get the cubic dimen-
sions of a stack, multiply the average length,
breadth and height together.
Secretary Fisher, of the Illinois Depart
ment of Agriculture. lately received from
Colonel John Lynch, of olney, Illinois,
several stools of wheat damaged by the new
wheat insect, the wheat bulb-worm. On the
samples were found specimens of this insect
in various stages of development, some hav-
ing as many as five active little fellows at
work sapping the life from the plant. The
egg is brown and looks much like that of the
Hessian fly.
Professor Forbes. the State Entomologist
for Illinois, has been at Anna, examining
the depredations of a newly discovered
enemy to the strawberry. It is known usually
as the tarnished plant bug (Lygus Iineolorris)
an insect well known for years, and which
abounCs everywhere, but not heretofore
known to injure the strawberry. The de-
structiveness of the little pest is wonderful
1t has cut the berry crop short two-thirds. 1t
sucks the juice Of the young berries and
prevents them filling out
Clover seed has retailed at the enormous
prlce of 50 per bushel this spring, and scarce
at that figure. 1t is strange nore of our
farmers do not make this farm crop The
first growth can be cut in June before the
middle of the month, and when well cared
ior makes the best of feed. The second or
seed crop can be cut with dropper or self
rake reaper during the fret half of Septem-
Der before the fall rains set in. or as soon as
the clover heads are one-half Drowned.
Three TO four bushels of seed is a fair crop
ger acre here, worth about $40, which. added
to the value of the hay or FIRST crop, will psy
the farmer well, say total of about $40
per scre. Twenty to forfy acres at this rate
will bring in enough money to permit the
farmer to buy clover huller.
Hop plants can be used for various pur-
poses. Thus, the wires or twigs are of SER
vice for basket or wicker work and the leaves
furnish food for farm stock and sheep; from
the tenirils vegetable wax is obtained, and
from their juice a coloring matter. The
young roots, too, are eaten, tasting when
boiled, like asparagus, and when blesched
they can be made into strong paper and
cardboard from their fiber in Sweden yarn
ard linen are spun, and the ashes are used
by the makers of Bohemian glass; while
from the flowers, which give an agreeably
bitter tsst to beer, a tincture is derived aud
medicinal extract; and pillow filled with
hsps, will often cause sleep, and is a great
! specific with old country danes.
Many persons overstock their pastures and
the animals fail TO gain as much as they
would with better range. During May and
June the grass seems so abundant they
purchase more stock to keep down the
| August and September frequently gain moth
| ing The farmer must recollect that he can
not depend upon much growth of any grass
except red clover from the middle of July
until fall rains set in. With plenty of rain
in the latter part of summer the grasses dc
| not grow half as fast as during May aud
June. These things must be considered BY
the breeder of cattle il he expects the largest
gain in weight, and his pastures must be al
all times such that the cattle can readily aud
| quickly find sufficient grass.-Timothy Viii
son in New York Tribune.
The sofa bean is new agricultural plant
| that has been grown for some years in Aus
tris and Hungary, both as a foroge plant and
vegetable. 1t resembles somewhat bean
the stems are stif and hairy, as are the
leaves; the pods are produced in punches Of
from two to Eve. and contain each from two
to four smooth, oval nankin-colored seeds
The latter, which are produced in grea
abundance, pronounced by chemists to bl
the richest of all human food, may be usel
as food for mankind as we'll as for beasts
and the straw is eaten by sheep and cattle
Sown early in May, in any good soil, in row
twelve or fifteen inches distant, it rpens IL
August, and stands we'll heat and drouth
Forfy-five pounds are reported from on
pound Of seed; all kinds of stock1ike it a
well as peas, while sheep and cattle relist
the straw even better than hay.-Southerl
Industries.
All vegetables that are grown for thei
leaves or stems require an abundance OF nj
trogenOus msnures, and it is useless to al
tempt vegetable gardening without. To thi
class belong cabbage, lettuce. spinach, etc
The other class, which is grown principal.
for its seeds OF pods, as beans, peas, ETC., doe