The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-24

the roots again commence to absorb crude sap
and force it upward, where it meets soluble
organized matter, changing its color, taste and
chemical properties. If this were not the case
we could not account for the saccharine proper
ties OF sap, as In the maple
Commercial hay in bales, like human food in
pound packages, has SO fixed the fashion of liv-
ing from hand to mouth that the farmer who
means to make business of dealing in hay will
have to press it for his local market. If the hay
is oaied in well-popuated community the con
sumner will often haul it away from the farm
himself and trade is quiekened by getting the
bulky goods ready beforehand.
The greater the number of fowls in a place
the greater the chances for loss from disease and
accidents While one man may own a great
many fowls, he cannot succeed unless he man
ages to give about as much care and watehful
ness to every twenty or thirty as he would to a
single flock of that size. 1t is just there that
most am bilious poultrymen, aiming to do some
thing large, make their mistake.
1t is said that there are very few localities in
Europe where the honey bee prospers there be-
ing no staple bloom upon whish they could de-
pend for honey. The most progressive people in
agriculture are the Swiss, who successfully main
tain great apiaries at great alttudein the Alps
France is dependent on Switzerland for her
honey supply, but the time is not far distant
when America will be exporting largely to all
the European nations.
There are great differences in the average
growth of some of the more common trees. In
twelve years white maple increases one foot in
diameter and thirty feet in height; ash, leaf
maple or box elder one foot and twenty feet
white willow one foot and half and fifty feet;
yellow willow one foot and a half and thrty-f
Feet blue and white ash, ten inches in diameter
and twenty-five feet in height: Lombardy pop
lar, ten inches and forty feet; black walnut and
outternut, ten inches and twenty feet.
Utah has now 10000 small farms averaging
twenty five acres, and the weole must be irri-
gated, There is only one large farm in the
Territory, and it is owned by company. The
great Salt lake, according to Elder Cannon, con
tains enough salt to supply America for cen
turtles All that is necessary in preparing it for
the market is to drive to the edge of the lake
with a wagon, and man with pair of rubber
boots can load it with a shovel. The salt lies on
the bottom of the lake in small, coarse CRYSTALS.
After loading it is taken to a grinding machine,
and after being run through it is ft for the
table.
potato that has been greened in the sun is
spoiled for eating, but for seed it is all the bet
ter Such potatoes will be from a week TO ten
days earlier than others of the same variety
planted at the same time. With late varieties
they will produce larger CROP as the growth
will be more vigorous on the same kind of land
This secret of exposing potatoes to sunshine for
time before planting has been worth fortunes
to the potato growers who learned it. 1t may be
done with the hills selected for seed by partly
QRconvering the potatoes while still attached to
the roots, taking that it be done in not very
hot weather, and that potatoes so exposed be dug
before danger from frost