The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-05
Farm Notes.

Where fuel Is not too expensive, the cooking
of broken pumpkins in large watts and mixing
corn-meal with the mass, produces a very valua-
able feed for hogs, and one on which they will
very rapidly grow and fatten.
AT all times, and especially when fattening,
should hogs have a constant supply of salt and
clean wood ashes, When kept continually be-
fore them, they will not eat too much salt The
more charcoal in the ashes the better. Salt
assists in the digestion of the food; ashes rids
the intestines of worms and strengthen the ap-
petite.
In France footrrot in sheep is prevented by
placing shallow trays in front of the doors of
their quarters in order that the sheep may be
compelled to wade through a mixture of lime
and water. 1t is not used as a cure, however,
ana diseased sheep must be caught and the
hoofs pared and anointed with a solution OF blue
vitriol.
If one wishes 70 improve a certain flower.
fruit or vegetable he must first decide what kind
of a product he wishes to produce. He must
have his ideal always in his mind. He must
then select aseds from those specimens which
come nearest to his ideal. OF the offspring he
must select in the same way, and so continue
until perfection is attained.
In keeping onions it is much better to have
them in a cold place than in one that causes
them to become too warm, as they sprout into
activity with the least degree of warmth. Should
they become frozen during severe weather, do
not handle them, but endeavor to prevent them
from thawing too suddenly when the weather
begins to moderate. Do not put them in heaps,
but keep them in thin layers and cover them
with straw oP some other light material.
Cleveland Leader: 1t is estimated 5nat fencing
cost about $11 an acre in Ohio, and must be re-
Viewed every fifteen or twenty years. This is
rather a high estimate but it shows that it is
only a question Of time when the farmers of the
State must learn to do without fences, or vastly
less, as do the farmers of Western Europe, Italy
and Nebraska. They have shown it can be
done, and necessity will lead the way to it here.
1t cost the fathers very little to fence their
farms. The fathers and their fences have had
their day and gone, and the boys must learn to
do without them.
Carey Smith, in the Iowa Homestead, says
that after trying nearly all the sure cures for
lice on stock he has gone back to the tobacco
remedies. Tobacco can be bought cheap, and
stems can be had from the ~cigarmakers for
nothing. Steep until you have a strong deeoc-
ton, and apply to every part. Apply the second
or third time. To eXterminate, one must not
only kill the lice on the stock but burn all the
bedding, fumigate or whitewash all stables and
sheds being careful to have the whitewash
penetrate every crack and corner. If once rid
of them, examine every new animal brought
on the place, and, if necessary, doctor immedi-
ately, -
If corn is thoroughly dry before being eribbed
it may be put up in very large quantities, but if
it is not dry, then the crib ought to be narrow
and open. There is no need of having an open
crib take rain. Let the siding be of four-inch
boards, with two corners diagonally opposite,
champered of at right angles. Put the boards on
horizontally, one-half inch apart. The lower