The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
FARM NOTES.

MIX Is per cent. heavier IDdu water, as
a vessel holding 100 pounds of water will
hold 1O3 pounds of milk.
The Jersey COW Medrena 1929 mine years
old) lately tested nineteen pounds twelve
ounces OF butter in seven days.
In moving laws, allow gradual higher
growth as autumn approaches, so as to have
thick mass for enduring winter.
Good seed is one of the most important
things on the farm and poor article is one
OF the most disastrous to the farmer.
There are said to be $4,000 sheep running
wild on the San Juan Islands, oil Washing
ton Territory, which can be sheared only
once in four or five years.
Flowering shrubs should be pruned after
Towering, excepting those that bloom on the
new wood, which can be trimmed In the early
spring or late fail.
The reason why sows sometimes destroy
their pigs is costiveness and the way to avoid
this is to give the sows plenty of wood ashes,
salt and charcoal.
Colorado will this year import 200 bulls
By law OF the State bull must be as good
as quarter thoroughbred before he can run
at large on the public domain.
A good harrow should do more than to
simply scratch the surface an inch or two.
1t should remove the young grass and weeds,
and render the whole surface fine and clean.
A plan suggested for eradicating thistles
and daisies is to cut them on a wet day and
sprinkle salt literally on the stubs. They
should under no circumstances be allowed to
ripen their ed.
Peter Henderson says that he has sold $500
worth of early cabbages from a single crop
on one acre of land; that he followed it
with crop of lettuce which brought $40,
and the lettuce with celery, which sold for
500.
With grapevines, overbearing is the usual
cause of imperfect ripening When the
fruit does not mature we'll we'll it is certain
that the wood is unripe. 1t should be cut
back severely and the canes covered lightly
with earth or brush and straw.
A farmer who had considerable difficulty
from the heating of wheat which had been
put up in damp condition states that by
mixing one bushel of salt to fifty bushels of
wheat the heating was not only prevented
but he was not annoyed by weavil.
A good plan for storing white potatoes is to
place them on loft or floor where there is a
circulation Of air underneath, and while
piliDg them up scatter a little lime (slacked)
throughout the lot. Should any potatoes
show signs of decay they should be picked
out.
Pinch ofltbe tops of your raspberries and
blackberries early, aud serve the side shoots
the same way early and often to make
compact bush. Ii you wait to head back
later the strength Of the vine, which has
been thrown into the top, is all wasted, and
you have fewer fruit spurs.
Gofart, the inventor OF the ensilsge sys-
tenn, says that he does not hold that butter
made from ensilage is as good as when fed
on fresh maize; but while winter butter is
always inferior to that made in the sum
mer, that from ensilsge is of better quality
than that from any other feed.
The depth of setting milk should vary with
the temperature; the lower it is the deeper
milk may be set; the higher, the shallo Eer it
should be. Milk should never be set shallow
in a low temperature nor deep in a high
one. Setting deep in cold water encourages
time, labor and space.
light seeding of buckwheat, not more
than One-hslf bushel per acre. is ample where
grain crop is desired. The plants, when
standing thinly, spread more widely, so as 20
cover the ground and produce more seed
than greater number of plants standing so
thickly as to crowd each other.
writer in the Rural New Yorker saws:
ITO get rid of the csbb ige-worm have sue
cessfully used buttermilk aud water the last
two years; about one-third of the former to
two-thirds of the latter. My cabbsges were
also badly infested with lice. but two appli-
cations freed them completely"
MI B. f. Johnson is credited with the re-
marx that if decreasing the country goes on,
anG tile-draining increases as it has during
the last five years, the channels and bot
toms of the Ohio and rivers tributary to It
will become uninhabtable, being torrauCs Ia
the wet season and deserts in the dry