The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-31
Farm Notes.


gill of milk is recommended by Mr.. j. A.
Dodge, in the Journal of Agriculture as an
excellent remedy for hog cholera.
The long-continued experiments of Lawes
and Gilbert certainly show that nitrogen is
the constituent in soils which first fail when
cropping is continued without applying ma
nures.
Charcoal should be fed to hogs and poul-
try. Experiment has demonstrated that the
same amount OF feed will produce a far
greater amount OF flesh and fat when fed
with plenty of charcoal.
Twenty-Five tons of hops, valued at 800
900. were harvested in Aroostook County,
Maine, this year, where six years ago there
was scarcely hop field of any extent, and
only year ago the crop was but five tons.
The general effect of lime is to render
available the plant food already in the soil
without itself supplying any significant
amount. Lining can not, therefore, be
successfully repeated except at considerable
intervals.
A Kentucky farmer cures fowl cholera by
| boiling bushel of smartyeed In ten gallons
of water down to three gallons. and mixing
the decoctions with their food twice day
for three days, then every other day for q
week.
A Southern planter, writing from South
western Georgia, in speaking of the amount
of farm products that are necessarily al
lowed to go to waste, says that ian econom-
ical Yankee would live on the profits OF
our wasteage."
Mr.. w. w. Woodruff, of Vineyard, Ga,
has $50 acres in choice fruit. Thirty thou
sand vines" the Atlanta Constitution says,
''are in sight from the railroad station, and
10000 pounds of grapes were shipped this
season."
Weed out your stock and get rid of the
poor milk and butter COWS. The profit in O
dairy comes wholly from the good cows,
while the poor ones not only do not pay for
their keep, but they reduce the profit made
by the others.
| A good butter cow ought not to eat less
than from six to eight quarts of meal pei
day, but not clear corn meal. Bran is not
worth much to make butter, but mixed
with corn meal gives health and thrift
/ Western Rural.
An English grower of damson plums re-
ports to the Gardeners Monthly having sold
bis entire crop, which realized $3.50, SIC
parties who, in the season, go about the
country buying up the ripe fruit they can
find for dyeing purposes"
Many man has had his pork fail to keeI
properly because it was sailed in frozeI
condition. Frozen meat, whether beef
pork or mutton, will not properly assimilat,
the salt, and can not be depended upon to
keep in hot weather.
The Aberdeen miss. cocoonery has large
orders for mulberry trees and silk worm
eggs receiving on an average fifty letters
day from all parts of the South, and show
ing the practical interest the Southern
people are taking ia the silk industry.
In the localities where beans are largel,
grown difference of ten to twenty fiv,
cents per bushel is made in favor of thos
that have been hand picked. In bad 10
of beans this is very tedious operation
and the pickers fully earn the additions
price.
The most fourishing branch of British ae
riculture during the last year or two ha
been. dairy farming. The Mark Lam
Express says: american conf petition
stimulated those interested in butter an,
cheese TO set about improving their prac
tice."
A peach grower at st. Joseph reports
case in which peach tree affected with tn
yellows was dug up and dragged out of th
orchard, brushing against nine other tree
during removal, and says that the following
year the nine trees were infected with tn
disease.
} Sheep will endure severe cold if kept dry
but exposure to storms, either ram or snow
is very hurtful. The water remains in ID
wool, and in an atmosphere little, if any
above freezing, it chills the body lon
time. II Is for this reason that an open win
ter is generally unfavorable for feedin
sheep. If kept housed they are too warm
their appetite fails and they lose flesh, n
! matter how fed. The coarse-woolled shee
, are more impatient OF wet than the fine