The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-09
Farm Votes.

1t costs no more to raise the best breeds Of
poultry than the common barnyard fowl, while
the returns are more than double. Get % set
ting of eggs from some reliable breeder and
convince yourself of this fact
Strawberries like the Wilson can remain stand
ing three or four years, if kept clean. If the
runners are cut the first year they may be
allowed to run after that as long as the bed re-
mains productive. Deep, mellow soil, if not too
dry, is the proper place in which to plant the
strawberry.
George w. Wall writes to the Fruit Recorder
that he has boiled leaves and stems Of tomato
plants until the juice is all extracted, and finds
the liquor deadly to caterpillars, lice and many
other enemies of vegetation. 1t does not injure
the growth of plants and its odor remains for a
long time to disgust insect marauders.
The Utica Herald tells of a dairyman who was
troubled with the smell of garlic or wild onions
in the milk. To observe this he put the COWS in
the stable at about o'clock each afternoon, and
fed them on hay and gave grain as usual. The
result was all he anticipated. A rest of three
hours allowed all the scent to pass off in other
secretions, though previously it favored both
milk and butter.
Red clover will produce the heaviest crop of
hay on suitable land that can be grown. About
four pounds of green grass make one Of hay. Or
chard grass produces pound of hay to less than
three pounds of grass. Alsike clover yields less
than the red variety, but the proportion of grass
to hay is the same. While it is advisable to Sc
cure as large ylelu as possible, IL is DeSU 10 grow
a mixture in order to secure quality.
The Jersey cow usually breeds at two years
old, and sometimes at little more than one, and
gives milk almost or quite up to the time of her
next calving. She gives fair quantity Of milk,
in proportion to her size, and it is rich that it
makes much butter as the milk of any breed
however large. The butter is remarkably fine
and brings double price. 1t is churned with the
greatest ease. Often a little stirring of bowl
Of cream with spoon is all that is needed.
Farmers in England are taking to beet grow
ing. In Norfolk they have undertaken to grow
this season at least 800 acres of sugar beet from
selected seed, and on the faith of this an associ
alton has been formed, which, long before the
beet is ready, will have $780, 900 worth of plants
ON the ground ready to make sugar as fast as
the roots come in. The farmer will get So q ton
for the white beet delivered at the works, and as
lie can grow from fifteen to twenty tons to the
ing and all costs Of land, labor, seed and trans
port be able to reckon, even in an Indifferent
season, upon return of at least SIS an acre.
White polled cattle were bred in ancient times
on the monastic estates in several different
counties in England. few descendants of
these still exist Although of large SIZE they are
century ago. At that time and previously, as is
supposed, they resembed short-horns and
were famous for milk and beef. 1t is a great
misfortune that the highly useful breed has
been neglected and suffered to almost run out
for had it been carefully cultivated like the black
polled cattle of Scotland, and the red poed of
England, it would have been counted in the
foremost rank of the improved stock of Great
Britain.