The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-31

spersed with shrubbery, makes the best of
pasture for sheep
Eggs are beginning to be very high, be- |
cause the matured fowls have been sent TO |
market to make room for early pullets, which |
do not begin to lay till somewhat later:
After the remaining old fowls have finished
mounting they will begin to lay as soon as
they again become full in plumage.
The Pittsburg Stockman suggests that too
many farmers are inclined to put off many
necessary jobs until the time comes when
the necessity is made most apparent Thus
many leave off their draining and ditching
until spring, when the ground is full of
water, the worst and most inconvenient time
| for such work.
Near Beeton, Ontario Can. is a bee farm
| consisting of four bee yards. situated at the
! angles of a square mile of country. The owner
| had at the end OF July secured 1000 pounds
| of honey from go colonies OF bees. The pro-
! prietor estimates that the yield will be 10000
| pounds, and the net profit about 5000 The
number of bees is estimated at 100000.
Many farmers who secure for themselves
all the labor-saving improvements are slow
in arranging similar helps for their wives A
reaper or mower is used, at the most, only
| few days in the year. A creamer, to make
| butter-making easier will be in use nearly
or quite every day in the year, and the but
| ter product will bring enough more to pay
/ heavy interest on the first cost, besides the
| saving in labor.
| A writer in Farmer and Fruit Grower
| SAYS: IF the Agricultural Colleges and eX
| pertinent stations would make disinterested
| trials of the new fruits and give the public
| unbiased opinions of the character and mer-
| its of each fruit, il might prove of as much
| value in their bulletins as some of their
! lengthy accounts about the albuminoids and
carbohydrates. Nurserymen's circulars are
/ generally made to puff those plants in which
\
The cost OF storing ensilage is stated by a
| Wisconsin farmer as follows: "My ensilage
| last year, made of grass, cost me eighty cents
ton to put il in the silo. This season, in
three and half days, put 125 tons of grass
in my silo at a cost of 81 75, or a fraction
less than 6fty-seven cents per ton. At the
rate OF four tons of ensiage as an equivalent
of a ton. of hay, this would be equal to So %
| per ton of hay. j doubt If hay can be putup
| for less than this, and DO doubt well-pre-
served ensilage is better than hay"
Overcrowdng of fowls is the cause of
nearly all diseases that occur among them.
There is too much strife and competition
among them when kept in large numbers.
and the same is true OF animals. The largest
breeder OF fowls in the world. Hawkins, of
Lancaster Mass, divides his large flock into
many smaller ones. He keeps over 600 hens
| on the same farm and finds them profitable.
i In addition TO this number OF hens thousands
OF chicks are annually Matched and sent to
the large cities.
The pumpkin contains six or seven times
as much water as either corn or oats; in a
word, it is a food in state of much greater
| dilution. Analysis proves that even II the
pumpkin should DE freed from its large
percentage of water, corn and oats remain
much more valuable as feeding stuffs. While
pumpkins cannot be recommended as fat
producing material, they possess excellent
milk-producng qualities, and being cheaply
raised, may be counted as valuable food for
mich cows-New York World.
One acre of good meadow grass properly
cured into hay will furnish food for a COW or
steer during the five or six months of winter.
| IL will be found that three or four acres are
devoted to pasturing one COW or steer through
the warm season. Every stock feeder knows
that it takes more food TO keep an animal in
cold than in warm weather, This statement
shows the great waste incident to pasturing
and the value of the soiling system where
one acre of land may be easily made to feed
as much stock as will four acres OF pasture
Southern World.
The American -Cultivator thinks that
from recent experience the pear seems likely
to take the place of the apple as the fruit
most easily grown. 1t has been the past
three years more certain bearer than the
apple, is less affected by insects, and has no
disease excepting blight which 'may be
kept in check by cutting away the affected
parts" The Cultivator is correct in its sup
position that the pear will supersede the
apple, but that the blight can be kept in
check by cutting away the affected parts is
otindorsed by leading fruit growers.
How much pork will bushel of corn make
is thus answered by a correspondent of the
: Farm, Herd and Home: I'VE have fully
) satisfied ourselves by experiments that good
stock, well cared for, on a short feed, will
2 make ten pounds to the bushel in large lots
7 but we are quite satisfied that the great ma
jority of hogs fed make from one to three
pounds less. Out of this has come the rule
, claimed by breeders that they can buy at
, seven cents and sell at seven cents; but il
z | will certainly result in loss no allowance
! is made for shrinkage; sickness, etc. Good
] stock that has been summered on clover,
, | without corn, if then fed plenty OF clover,
! will make twelve to fourteen pounds to the
bushel for short feed
The Scientific American gives the follow
|, ing waterproof branding ink, good for mark
ing sheep: Shellac, two ounces; borax, two
ounces; water, twenty-four ounces; gum
: arabic, two ounces; lampblack sufficient.
| Boil the borax and shellac in water till tn ey
: are dissolved, and withdraw from the fire.
! When the solution becomes cold complete
, lampblack enough to bring the preparation
: TO suitable consistency. When it is to be
| used with a stencil il must be made thicker
than when it is applied with a brush. The
ABOVE gives 0lack INK Tor red INK Su0stl-
tute Venetian red for lampblack; for blue,
ultramarIne, and for green. mixture OF
uluamarine and chrome yellow.
We have time and again written against
the folly of dairymen trying to fatten their
/ | old COWS at profit. 1t can not be done,
and if any farmer wishes TO try il let him
have them at any price. Ii man has more
| grass or other feed than he knows what to do
with let him buy some likely young steers
and make money with them instead of vast.
! | ing his time and feed on the remains of an
old COW. The Proyisioner of England on
this subject says: ''0ld animals can seldom
be fattened at profit, even il their flesh
was as valuable as that OF younger Ones be-
cause ID requires so much more time and
\ feed to do it," What we particularly object
10 in old cows for fattening is the immense
proportion of offal in them. pot belly
makes no bsef.-American Dairyman.
Freaks and varieties in vegetables have
been numerous at the New York Expert
mental Station. One of the beets planted
for seed instead of throwing up seed shoot,
! omitted branches from the root and these
branches coming to the surface, threw out
leaves, thus forming a cluster of roots which
have grown as ANNALS showing no tendency