The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-24

refined oil. as used for lamps, is less hurt.
full. 1t kills lice and destroys the eggs Of
insects il brushed on lightly IN winter, bui
in summer mustnot be applied 10 the foliage
except largely diluted with water which
should be kept constantly stirred.
The Boston Cultivator says that the flower,
of raspberries, where this fruit is largely
grown, are running the honey product o.
the neigh bOrhood. The bees like this food
preciates the product. The honey from
raspberries is dirty yellow in appearance,
with very dissgreeable odor.
Sorghum seed is said by DIR. Wilhelm, of
Minnesota, to be equal 70. corn as feed for
all kinds OF stock. and twenty-five bushels
may be obtained from an acre. 1t also
makes q flour equal to that from buckwheat.
The skimmings from the pans when Boiling
for sugar are found 10 be very valuable as
food for hogs, they taking on flesh rapidly
when fed on this alone. Good vinegar is
made from the clear liquor. The seed and
vinegar are estimated al 800 and q material
used for making wrapping paper yields So,
or S42 per acre without estimating sugar.
It is a common remark that most any
thing is good enough for a hog, and to this
senseless proposition is traced the disease
among swine owned by breeders who
indorse il. Since time immemorial the hog
has been called the farm scayenger, but
nevertheless, the successful breeder is he
who relies the least upon this over estimated
characteristic of the animal. Bad water,
worse treatment in handling and a super
abundance OF filth are the foundation of all
diseases to which hogs are subject, and it is
consequently easy to believe That the health
of the animal and the quality OF the meat
must increase In proportion to the cleanli-
ness of the food and surroundings.
NJ. Pasteur, of France, says that the grass
grown over the graves of cattle that died of
splenic fever is a source of infection to cattle
feeding upon it. He points to the agency of
earthworms in carrying the germs of deadly
bacteria from buried carcasses of living ami
mails Having introduced worms into pit
which had contained the carcasses of cattle
that died from splenlc fever, he filled il with
earth. In a short time he procured from
the intestines of these worms the means of
reproducing the disease in its worst forms by
inocu alton. He also showed that the
worms, by casting out over the surface earth
containing the bacteria germs, gave the dis
ease to all cattle that grazed over it.
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man claims that he gets the greatest number
of eggs when he feeds his hens on wheat
screenings. He feeds in this way: II have
fed sorghum seed, corn meal, oats, corn and
middlings, and have concluded that feeding
wheat in the morning and shelled corn at
night, with a feed of ship-stuffs wet up,
having good dose of ground pepper put in,
and then baked and fed twice a week, and
once in while substituting powdered sui
phur in the place of pepper, is the best plan.
| have good shelter and good, clean nests;
feed regularly and allow them good range,
with plenty of gravel to scratch in. l sell
the fowls when they are two years old, and
always keep the hens for Matching"