The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-03-14
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
Both Illineis and Iowa are now importing
corn for farmers use to make up the de-
ficiency on their own crop. Much of the IL
linois corn was so immature when winter
set in that the corn froze on the ear, destroy
ing the ger1a. 1t will therefore be worthless
for seed.
There is likely to be an increased planting
of potatoes in the South for the early North
ern market this year. The business has
been very remunerative for two years past.
Late potatoes do not succeed we'll in the
South, owing to hot weather at the time for
forming the tubers.
AS an illustration of the profits of corn
culture in Los Angeles County, California
the Ansheim Gazette cites the case of q
farmer who last year sold 1850 centals Of
corn from thirty acres. He sold it for 81 s.
per cental-a total of 81, S74. 50-and his cash
outlay was barely $3.50.
Layering consists simply in bending down
a branch and keeping it in contact with or
buried to small depth in the soil, until
roots are formed. The connection with the
parent plant may then be severed. Many
plants can be far more easily propagated
thus than by cuttings.
The best time for shipping bees any cen
siderable distance is in April or quite early
in May, before the combs are too heavy with
brood, though with proper care in preparing
them and ordinary usage In handling, they
may be shipped at any time with compare
tive safety, except in quite cold weather.
The milk of cow in her third or fourth
calf is generally richer in quality than a
younger one. and will continue so for sew
eral years. In dry seasons the quality is
generally richer, although cool weather
favors the production of cheese. Hot weather
increases the yield of butter-FArm, Herd
and Home.
The poorer the condition of the cow, good
| feeding being supplied, the richer in gen
eral is the milk. If a cow be MIXED only
once a day the milk will yield more DutteI
than an equal quantity of that obtained by
two milkings, and even less by three
Morning milk is of better quality than that
of the evening.-Farm, Herd and Home.
1t should be remembered that no matter
how good and rich mixer cow may be il
is unreasonable to expect the quantity anc
| richness of the product to be kept up unle.:
both the quantity and adaptability of tht
food are matters of attention. Do not sx
pect impossIbilities, even il you are the
owner of prize milking animals.
The Navajo Indians in Arizona have 900,
500 sheep and 10000 goats, the result of ar
investment of $50 600 TOR them by the Gov
tofore expensive tribe required an appropn
alton of only s.. goo year and are now con
sidered self-sustaining. They occupy ar
immense tract of land, however, which il
held for settlers.
A writer in the Fruit Recorder makes tn,
statement that one of the neighbors planted
some cabbage plants among his corn wher
the corn missed, aud the butterflies did no
find them. He has, therefore come to tn,
| hot he 0ah hoCo atol, :,
the middle of the corn-feld the butter file
would not find them, as they fly low ant
like plain sailing.
There are fewer cattle now in Colorado
than there were three or four years ago. TIL
profits of herding were great, and there wa
rapid increase until drought and subse
quent severe winter caused the less of thou
, sands of head from starvation and exposure
1t is probable that Colorado will not il
many years have as many head of cattle q
it had before this disastrous experience.
A fruit grower in Western New York sol
the past season So. coo worth Of ounces fr0r
an orchard of 10000 trees which have bee
bearing three years. Every year hereafte
the sales will, or should, largely increas'
c So far the only manure used has been
: mixture of salt and ashes. The orchard
! kept Clearly cultivated, and the trees al
: now too large to grow other crops anon
= | them.
. The greater part of the water found
h plants, and the earthly or mineral ingred
o ents, including the nitrates, enter the plan
. matter may also be absorbed by the root
I Absorption of haids by the roots is due
e diffusion, by virtue of which liquids of di
h ferent densities have tendency to mix, til
thinner passing into the thicker Gqui
:. through the cell-walls.
II Sandy soils are, In the average farmer
t sense of the word, the hghtest of all soil
e because they are the easiest to work, viii
d in actual weight they are the heaviest SO
b known. Clay, also, which we call heaN
y soil, because stiff and unyielding to Il
e pillow. is comparatively light soil in actu
d weight. Peat soils are light in both sens
g of the word, having = tie actual weight ar
Il being loose or porus.
q The sheep is close grazer, and even Pr
n fers short pastures. 1t is scrupulously clea
70 though not very select in the choice of u
e heritage on which it feeds. Wool, being
e highly nitrogenous substance, requires
u larger supply of albuminoid food for she
q than other rumiDaDts demand. Wool bell
e the chief profit OF sheep farming, 1t will
70 economy to feed oats or oil-cake pretty fire
y ly to secure liberal growth of this staple.
p think the value OF fax straw for feedil
" stock depends generally on how much Sc
o. there is in it. have stacked upon my pla
sr seventy-fve or 100 tons of fax straw.
n have.also'a quantity of prairie hay, which
rs do not value very highly for the winter
of stock, and l was obliged 10 fence it In
10. keep it from being eaten up, while my fl
II. straw went untouched. ! would not gi
1s fifty cents ton for flax straw for feedi
o.S stock, as there is not any substance in it.
70 H N Norman, Mama County, Kansas,
II Farmers Review.
sc Gladiolus bulbs should be planted in s
ed cession at inter gals of two or three Wet
he through the months of April and May. TT
cts hould be plated about three inches de
sst little pure soil or sand being laid over Ell