The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-18

after too closely. 1t is now generally under
stood that imperfect seed had much 10 d.
with the partial failure of the crop of 1881
Have good seed, even at greatly enhanced
cost. 1t is one of the best expenditures o.
money which can be made at this season.
Pittsburg Stockman.
In feeding lambs for the early market it ii
less important that they come early thar
that they are kept growing without checl
for lack of food. After the lamb is ten day,
or two weeks old il will usually begin to eai
something besides its mothers milk. Nc
grain is better than whole oats placed in
shallow troughs where the lambs can run
and the old sheep can not A very little
grain fed in this way will bring greater pro
Mt than If fed to any other kind of stock
The best lambs are always salable at fancy
prices. while stunted specimens are often Q
drug and do not pay expenses--Americar
Cultivator.
Lettuce plants that were wintered in
frames may be set out at the same time as
early cabbages, placing them between the
rows of cabbages, and a foot apart. They
may also be transplanted to other cold
frames and give crop earlier. Seeds should
be sown under glass Or in window-boxes
for a succession. As soon as the soil is in
good condition seeds may be sown in the
open ground, in rows fifteen inches apart, to
be thinned to ten inches. The eurled Simp
SOD, tennis-ball ard Hanson are among the
good kinds.
A. +. Colman advises the following whole
sale method of setting orchard trees: "In
planting an orchard Of 500 trees 1 would lay
out my ground by blowing burrows twenty.
five feet square, drive by stakes, then let the
near horse come back in the furrow. BY this
method very little digging will have to be
done. Then have loose surface earth around
the tree, covering the roots nicely and firmly,
and so on until all the trees are planted
then with a small plow and one horse you
can throw the earth around the tree, and
your trees will be nicely planted, and if you
get and keep your trees in good order every
one will grow.
In trausplanting sugar maple trees it is al
together better 10 take small trees of the de-
sired height, and not cut Offtbe top. Cutting
the top causes too many branches TO grow in
too short space about the trunk near the
top, and the tree has no longer central
main stem. These clustered branches may
look very thirty for dozen years, but they
crowd each other at their base and dead
branches soon disfgure the top. Again
section s break away. spelling the beauty o
the tree, aud 1t comes to premature old
age. Such trees yield but little sap aDC
sugar. Examine such trees that have beer
set from twenty to fifty years and see .theil
defects. Cultivator.
The pesch-bo1er is a wasp-like insect. with
transparent wings, and richly ornsmenteC
body, banded and striped with gold, which
deposits its eggs about the bsse OF the trunk
The eggs hatch out and the Larvae bore into
the sap wood and cause the emulation c
gummy matter which appears in the masses
about the base of the tree The Larvae seen
live in fbia ON m, m hst am
partly in the sap wood Of the trte. Some
times three or four are found on the SANE
tree, occasionally girdling and destroying
II. but always inducing more or less of ,
diseased condition, and impairIng its vigor
Altogether, il is very Objectionable anC
destructive insect.
Lime is especially valuable on whes
lands, and it is spread II the rate of so Il
100 bushels to the acre. 1t is also found
beneficial on grass lands 1t may also b.
used with muck 10 form an excellent com
post, and sods and other vegetable mat er
may be composed with il. SCOT contains
salts Of ammonia equal to from 1 to 8 pc
cent. of ammonia. Applied to wheat at 10,
rate of so 10 100 bushels or more To the acr'
it has given good results, and is also usefu
on grass lands. 1t is regarded as especial!
useful for potatoes. Applied in the liqll'
state, two quarts OF SCOT TO a barrel Of water
is an excellent stimulus for garden vegeta
bles and for pot plants, and will be disagree
able TO insects.
The Gardeners Monthly gives in substance
the following good pracucal directions 10
pruning ornamental shrubs on the approach
of spring: "Indiscriminate cutting back viii
not answer the desired purpose. DISTINCTION
must be made between slow and vigorou
growers and between those which bea
flowers on old wood and those which five
on new growth. Such as grow too strong 4
flower we'll should be lightly oruned, and IL
the same individual the weakest shoot
should be cut in more sey erely than ih
stronger ones Lilacs and the Philadelrhu
bear flowers on the wood of last year. and Il
prune them much now destroys the Hover
while the altheas and others which tiowe
on the young wood can not be too eeverl,
cut in"
Any one may grow the tuberose with Ger
tainty of towering it il the following con
tons are observed: In buying bulbs b'
sure that the flower germ is sound, for OF
this point depends success, for if that ha
decayed, all the attention aud care bestowed
upon them will be OF 10 avail. 10 plantin:
remove all offshoots from the sides of thu
bulbs, and plant about four inches deep
Bulbs planted upder these conditions vii
wanted earlier than this they can be started
in pots.
In Vermont the dairy interest has bceI
more inteliigently conducted than In mes
other sections. The result is that the butte
yield OF COWS has increased in the last four
teen years an average Of fifty pounds pc
COW. This increase is nearly clear profit
as the cost of keeping good COW is no mor'
than that of keeping 2 poor specimen
Some of the gain is due to better feeding
| but by soilipg and ensilsge the greater
amount of stock may be kept, and, if bat
| ter and milk be produced at less expens'
than under the old meth DIS OF pasture, hal
and grain.
| 1t is said that In Poland, where ventiie
| ton and drying are continued for som
| time, wheat has been kept sound and goo(
| for half century. Its age never does IL in
| Jury, and such wheat is said to yield hand
somer and better -four than that obtained
| from grain more recently harvested. Il
Dantz;c the preparation for keeping whea
continues for a year or longer, and after thi
period il is often kept for seven years pen
| fectlv sound in large graneries, although
Dantzic Is surrounded by the see. Thes'
facts show bow easily wheat may be pre-
served if proper precautions are taken.
A direct supply of plant food does no
| fully explain the action of maDures. Man,
| fertilizers operate Indirectly To feed crop
| by their chemical effects upon the soil
Thus, barnyard manure, in undergoing de
| composition, yields supply OF carboni'
acid, which may act on the mineral con
stituents of the soil and liberate its ele
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