The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17
Farm and Workshop Notes.


Farm and Workshop Notes.
Butchers waste, such plucks, etc,
when boiled and thckened with meal, an
swer a good purpose as u substitute Tor In
sects when fed TO poultry.
An English paper asserts that it costs as
much to transport a bushel of wheat twelve
miles on a turnpike road in England as
from an American seaport across the broad
Atlantic.
When roots are injured, as in transplant
ing the broken roots should be cut smooth
and the top cut back in proportion to the
roots removed. Dead wood is OF no use, and
shouId always be taken off.
An Illinois correspondent states that ex-
perience has Taught him that cattle will
thrive better on good, bright fax straw than
on Oat or wheat straw, and he never knew
cattle to be Injured from eating it.
In selecting potato seed two things should
be kept in mind: first, plant only such seed
as may be expected TO produce smooth. fair
sized potatoes: second, plant only when the
seed is in full vigor.-A. w Cheever.
Eastwood trees are urged for planting by
the roadside, as they serve the double pur-
pose of attractive shade and abundant forage
for bees They also make excellent timber
whenever il becomes desirable 10 fell them
1t is said that in England new use has
been discovered for damsOn plums. Farm
ers sre planting quite largely, less for pies
than for dyes. it having been ascertained
that beautiful color can be Obtained from
the ripe fruit
Ifevery farmer would keep record of the
number If eggs laid, chickens hatched and
those sold or eaten each year. the, would
form the basis of most interesting statistics,
p1 ha atf of Tn l.
to the value represented by them in money.
Charles Beach, President of the WiscOn-
sin Dairymen's Association, is authority for
the staten ant that the COW had contributed
$3.50, 600 600 to the wealth of the Nation
within the past year, and that cattle raising
had decreased over 10 per cent. in the past
ten years.
The Pillsbury Mill at Minneapolis did
one day last week what it has been trying
for some Time to do, and what some skep-
teal persons have said it could not do, viz.
turn out 600 barrels of -four. 1t succeeded
in making the est record ever made by any
mill in the worlds l07 barrels.
The aphis, or green fiy, is one of the most
troublesome enemies of pot grown plants
IL is most easily destroyed by Swinging the
plants twice a week with a tea made from
tobacco stems, moving them up and down
until the insects are thoroughly washed off
This will also destroy other insects.
Forty thousand horses are bought and sold
annually by seventeen of the leading dealer:
of New York and Chicago who unanimsus-
ly declare that the one half and tbree-fourth!
blood PercherOn Normans have more style
action, best endurance on pavements, and
sell for more money than any other class o.
horses on the market.-Chicago Tribune.
H. w. Stark says: Il keep a COW fol
milk. and the better feed and care for hel
the more milk 1 get l pour hot water OIL
the cut hay and stir the hay we'll after put
| ting on four quarts of cornmeal. Tnis ration
| | give twice a day, with a little dry hay a
noon. do not waste pound of hay al
winter. My method keeps a COW in good
order and saves nearly one-fourth the hay.
Guinea grass, known as Means grass" and
johnson grass" liz reported To be CROWNS
| in popularity among Southern farmer
| familiar with its value as a hay grass Like
Bermuda, il is said 10 be perennial, though
the tops are killed by severe frosts. Th,
roots being perennial the cost of renewal o
| the seed is saved. while the land is con
tinuslly improved by their occupancy o
| the soil.
DR.. Johnson, of Indiana, says: "In dair,
| products we in the West, with our methOt
of using five acres of high priced land I,
keep one dairy animal year, can not com
pete with the inten itied farming of the East
| where they keep one animal a year on on
acre of land, and that, too, of a natural fer
| tility much inferior to ours and, more thar
that, where by means of silos aud ensilae
now they are keeping two animals to
single acre"
In contrast with the common practice o
letting dairy cows go dry four months OF 80
every year, recent writer says that he ha
a COW that has completed her fourth Harrow
year, and has averaged during the past 81,
moarhs fraction over five pounds of butte
per week Of firsl-rate quality. He cites ais.
the case of q COW in Berkshir', England
| which ten years ago dropped twins, and ha
given good mess of milk daily ever since
In Ireland the sod cut on boggy ground i
piled up in heaps until dry, then burned
! into a species of CHARCOAL. This is then pull
verized and mixed with well-rotted stable
or hen house manure or night soil in equa
proportions. Placed in drills where tnrnip
or carrots are to be planted, IL is said q
make them attain a monstrous size. Tn
experiment is worthy of tri al by farmer
who can get the bog mold without too mucl
labor or expense.
The only paying sugar-beet manufector,
in the country now is in California. 1t ha
done a paying business for three years, ant
shows no signs Of giving out. Last year
ending with May, IL made 1891. 900 pound
of refined sugar and "a 600 pounds of crude
besides HITS gallons OF molasses. Tn
| average price paid for beets at the factor.
was 81. % per ton, price for which Eastern
farmers think they can not afford to delive
this crop. The problem OF beet-sugar Iro