The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-17

in place of rain. The deeper we pulverizs,
therefore, the greater the amount OF moist
IRE lected.
Suplus stock are nuisance in the poultry
quarters. They eat as much as the hens,
and yield no return for the feed consumed
Where fowls have their liberty one cock to a
flock of twenty or twenty-five hens is enough,
but where they are restricted to small runs
one cock to six hens will be necessary.
Tillage and manure seem to go together or
are intimately connected. Complete success
can not be looked for without both. However
stong the tendency on the part of mankind
to avoid labor, it must be remembered that
il has been proven that, SIS rule, crops will
not perfect themselves without attention.
The science of successful farming as well
as success in any other line recognizes the
all-important factor of economy Every
thing must be made use of, nothing be al
lowed to 90 to waste. The bran of the mill
must be turned into feed; the rags to paper,
the manure to the soil and so on; everything
must be put to use.
George w. Wall writes to the Fruit Re-
~order that he has boiled leaves and stems
Iitomato plants until the juice is all ex-
racted, and finds the liquor deadly to cater
pillars lice and many other enemies of vege-
tation. 1t does not inJure the growth CT
plants, and its odor remains for long time
to disgust insect marauders.
The quantity Of seed wheat required de-
ponds greatly upon the manner IN which
the seed is covered. If the soil is made
very fine, and the seed drilled and rolled in
so that it is well covered to depth not
greater than one inch, more seeds Will ger
inmate than If the work is impeafectly done,
and the yield will also be larger.
The centrifugal separator, or dairy centri-
fuge, is the appliance which more COM
pletely separates the fats from the milk than
any other yet devised leaving an average Of
only 90 per cent. fat of the weight OF the
whole milk in the creamed milk. Skim-milk
from centrifuge has been analysed which
contained but per cent OF fat-in other
cases and 10 per cent.
A. B. Allen states that he finds wheat
bran an improbable feed for swine. They
do not seem to possess the power of digest
ing il, consequently much of il passes
through them only partially assimilated. If
mixed with cornmeal it does better, and can
be fed with advantage to cattle, along with
cut hay, if mixed with it and well wetted,
as it then undergoes second justification.
Natural vegetable acids do not harm milk
but the artificial acid of fer mentiHg food
introduces an element into the consump-
ton that is not possible for nature to neu-
tralize, and hence affects the milk. The
amount of ferment may be small and do
little injury, but il carried beyond certain
point will have deleteTious effect, which
experiment time and again has demon
stTated.
One of the most difficult things to cure
for fodder is the green corn stalk. Great
quantities OF good winter feed are often los
by early frost, and the American Cultvatol
suggests as a remedy drying the stalks on 8
platform of rails or loose boards, laid so as te
allow a current of air under the stack, with
column of barrels built up through the
middle to give additional ventilation.
Charles Downing says in the New Yorl
Tribune, that a great deal of canned fruit il
prepared when quite hard aud unripe, which
| makes it look inviting, but it does not com
| pare in quality with that put up ripe Sugar
| when cooked with fruit renders il hard anC
indigestible; but the practice, now happily
coming into use, of using no sugar when can
ming, but adding it when put on the table, il
great improvement.