The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-23

ment by garment. A change from thick
clothing to thin is always unsafe; it is the
best way to put on lighter hannels for
month or so after the heavy ones are re-
moved. Spring brings great deal OF i'll
health with 1t, but most of the trouble is
caused by the carelessness of people in
changing their clothing. Health is too
precious to be di.regarded for momentary
comfort.
Farm Notes.
Thirty thousand head of sheep have re-
Gently been shipped from California to How
ard County, Texas, where they Will be
ranched.
A practical farmer recommends the grow
ing of two crops of buckwheat in succession
as q means of DISCRIMINATING wire worms
They will not eat buckwheat, and are starved
to death.
An experimental farm and hospital is to
be established near Washington City for the
treatment of domestic animate, and to as
certain by scientific experiments the causes
of their various diseases and how they may
may be cured.
Asarule less attention is given the pig
pen than the stable, and the swine which
are kept constantly in confined quarters are
much more liable to become diseased when
neglected than any other live stock. Clean
quarters for pigs will well repay their OWL
ers.
The Scotch, always thrifty race, are in
vestiDg largely in American cattle ranches.
During 1882 ten large ranches for herding
cattle were bought by Scotchmen. The
profit is so much greater than from any use
the money can be put to at home that in
vestments of this kind are sure 10 increase.
As far as possible, the formation of ma
nure heaps in the fields should be avoided.
If f ned, the practice of turning over the
manurs should be abandoned, as labor is
thus lost and muci manure wasted. The
best authorities consider il best to cart the
manure direct from the barnyard to the laid
and spread it at once.
When potato is exposed TO the light in q
cellar the eyes nearly all start good healthy
green sprout; but if in a pile, or in dark
ness, only the strongest eyes grow long,
white, worthless sprouts. Hence seed pota-
toes should be spread thinly in the light
The sprout should not be broken off when
cutting the seed for planting.
The Vicksburg Miss Planters Journal
describes five apiaries whose total product
last year was So. 2S7 pounds of honey,
49. los pounds of which was extracted aud
6lS2 pounds comb honey. The vino
product was sold for s. 62S The yields
ranged from $40 % 10 $40 81 per colony.
Southern Ststes.
A correspondent OF an exchange, writing
from the South, says he some time since
bought Jersey heller whose color was ex-
traordinarily fine, but which has since dis
appeared which would indicate that sharp
ers were experimenting in the matter of
producing fictitious color in breeding stock.
Is there such thing as setting limit 70
| fraud?
Before filling up vacant places in the or
chard with young trees il is best to think
whether the full-grown trees now standing
will not, with very good manuring bring
more fruit than larger number would
Most of our orchards were planted toe
closely, and the tree roots interlace SO as ia
rob each other of what fertility each should
have.
The way 10 bring the best stations within
your reach is to literally patronize his class
Men are great imitators aud if you Will only
take the lead and breed the best, and illus
trate the advantage in so doing, il will not
be long until at least enough of your neigh
bors will take hold to fully justify bringing
into your midst horses of superior quality.
To remove stumps by the use of saltpetre
is to bore holes 10 them and fill them with
saltpetre. Insert plugs to keep out the
water. In two or three months after fill the
holes with coal oil. After sufficient time
has been given the oil to diffuse itself sci
| fire TO the stumps and they will be entirely
| consumed. This is the plan proposed by 6
Western experimenter.
Professor H. w. Wiley says of sorghum
seed that all starch-esting animals will cal
it with svidity, but that the full nutritivt
value can be gotten only by grinding OF
boiling. He thinks an estimate of ter
4 bushels of seed will be nearer the truth
hot xrbf Ia fl,a 81
make a valuable fodder, it is doubtful
whether they will pay the labor OF gather
ing them.
| farmer who is largely engaged in rails
ing stock adopts the following method in
| raising calves, and meets with excellent sue
cess: The calves are tethered and allowed
dyeQuarts of skim-milk morning and night
In the winter they receive one qnart each OF
wheat and bran, and when they have fin
ished that they are alto wed q small quantity
of hay.-Pennsylvania Farmer.
Abortion among mares may be traced tc
so many different causes that il would be
/ hard to enumerate them. The only wonder
IA that there are not more reported thar
| there are when the careless treatment thai
mares often receive is taken into considera
| ton. IL is often the case that they are
worked along beside geldirgs, worked Just
as hard. or driven as fast as their mates
without any regard to their condition.
Horses are naturally scrupulously ceanly
and the nearer you keep them in such q
condition the better they will thrive. Is
pecislly are they so about their food when
at liberty to select what they wish, yet it is
too often the case when they are fed in sta.
bles and elsewhere their troughs become
sour and mouldy. or that their food is
thrown to them in some filthy place that
would be enough to destroy their appetite.
Mr.. ]. s. Barnett. of Iuka, Miss, in letter
to the Petersburg (va.) Rural Messenger,
thus gives his experience with the Japan
pea: There is no pea for the table, If
soaked the night before cooking, that has a
more delicious flavor. They are sure crop
per, are not affected by excessively wet or
dry weather. the weevil never gets into