The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-13
Farm Notes.

DIR. Goessman, of Amherst, by treating a
wild grape vine with phosphate and potash
so increased the sugar and lessened the acid
that grape as sweet as the Concord was pro-
duced.
A quart of good milk should weigh about
2. pounds or nearly pounds "a ounces.
If milk is weighed, this rule will give the
monthly yield in quarts more exactly than
measuring
A good horse power on farm will each
year save many times the interest on its
cost in furnishing power to do great many
things such as saving wood, emitting feed.
grinding grain, etc, and with proper care it
could be made to last for years.
shipment of 300 bushels of red oak
acorns has been made to Germany for plant
ing on untillable lands and hillsides. This
tree is found to do well in Europe, and its
wood is val liable. The acorns were gathered
in Missouri at an average cost OF 81 a bushel.
In judging a horse, be should always be
made to stand still. Defects in the limbs or
feet that would be unnoticed when in mo-
ton will be plainly seen by his care to rest
weak or diseased muscles when standing Ii
perfectly sound he will stand firmly on his
legs, the feet fat on the ground, and without
moving. If one heel is raised disease of the
mavicular bone, or, at least, tenderness, is
probable.
A lady in New Jersey found that from one
ounce OF silkworm eggs, which she purchased
for S. sufficient employment would be given
two persons to keep them busy until the CO.
coons are all spun. Usage orange leaves were
used entirely for feeding, and the worms
kept healthy and gave satisfaction. She
thinks that an experiment one season with a
few silkworms by farmers daughters will
prove an interesting one.
Sorghum makes excellent fodder If cut
when the heads begin to shoot 1t is best not
49, I, .
thirds grown the fodder is tender and very
juicy. 1t does not dry and crumble as
quickly as corn-fodder, is sweeter and much
preferred by stock. If the crop is cultivated
until matured the seed will be found excel
lent for feeding to poultry, or may be ground
into meal for other stock, but this is not
desirable, owing to their small size.
A writer in the Southern Planter gives this
remedy for chicken cholera: when signs
of cholera appear, feed once or twice on salt
dough, in the proportion of one tablespoon
full of salt to one quart of meal, to which add
teaspoonful of alum, dissolved. The salt
and alum may be given, when the fowls are
too sick to eat in pills forced down the
throat by opening the mouth and dropping
the pill into the throat. In this case increase
the proportions of salt and alum mixed in
the crumbs of bread
Tomato seeds may be grown in gardens
where different varieties are near each other
without danger that varieties will mix. The
cabbage family mixes freely when different
plants Of different varieties grow together
or near each other Pure seeds can only be
depended on when the varieties grow at con-
siderable distance from other varieties. Peas
do not readily mix by blooming in proxmi-
ty, but beans are quite liable to do So and If
pure seed, true to name, is desired. the vari-
cites must be planted at a distance from
Others blooming at the same time.