The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-12-24
FARM NOTES.

The Rural New Yorker reports yield OF |
1919 bushels of potatoes on an acre of land, |
A top dressing OF fine stable manure in
winter is great benehs to lawns and grass
plots.
A German company with a capital OF
800, 900 is about to engage in the Angora
goat business IN Texas.
A slophole at the back door will make
enough doctors bills TO drain the whole
farm. says the Rural Home.
The French cheese makers do not consider
q COW profitable unless she produces ID the
vrlue of from $3.50 to $500 per annum.
1t is estimated that it costs from 80 to
SIS to feed steer through the winter, and
sometimes as high as $50 when the animals
forced.
II is claimed that gooseberry mildew may
be prevented by keeping the ground under
the bushes cool by q thick mulch of manure
or straw.
That sheep are the best adapted OF all live
stock to assist in renovating rundown
farm and increasing the fertility of any land
is generally admitted.
Lately wheat has been three shillings per
quarter lower in London than it has been
for 1O4 years. Low as wheat is, it is not
much lower than other products meat ex-
cepted.
Late Germ that may not ripen before frost
should be cut up aud fed in bulk. All
kinds of stock are fond of it, and will fatten
rapidly on it. For early pork and the
feeding of mich cows it is particularly
valuable.
There is no certain rule about the use OF
plaster on clover. Ia some situations a
bushel will yield ton; in others it does no
more good than SO much road dust 1t
should be tried in all localities where fer
filters are needed.
Farmers who like cabbage green's in the
spring pull up their cabbage, when ready to
use thea, and set the stalks close together in
trench, with the roots deep. In the spring
these will throw out sprouts that furnish
nice green's.
Peach and plum stones, il kept in q cellar
during the winter, must be exposed to freez
ing before spring. The best way is to spread
them on a bed and cover them with few
inches of earth or tanbark, and allow them
to remain out all winter.
The Journal of Chemistry states that the
ant is an active and efficient destroyer OF the
canker worm. They seize the worms, which
feed upon the leaves, and bear them TO their
nests in the ground. 1t is claimed that they
alse attack the army worm.
Stealing horses in Delaware is bad busi-
ness for the thief If caught. One was re-
Gently sentenced TO pay the costs of prose-
cution, 500 restitution money, 5000 foe, to
stand one hour in the pillory, receive
twenty lashes and then suffer eighteen
months imprisonment
The hens that lay best in winter, and
which are less liable TO colds and roup,
should have heavy puff feathers under the
wings. Those that appear naked when the
wings are raised up invariably suHer from
cold more than those that are plutfy.
Whatever method of feeding pigs is
adopted, it should be liberal. Let the
quarters be dry and comfortable, and dis
| t1rb them as little as possible Pigs are, in
part, alternating animals, and the more they
| sleDp the better for them and their owner.
A good hog eats aud sleeps alternately.
Apples keep best when stored in close bar
rels, in dry place of an even temperament
| They should not be slowed away until the
weather is somewhat cool, and will do better
| in the orchard until the season is rather sd-
vanced. Much depends upon the variety,
| however, as some apples keep better than
| Others and the climate also affects their
keeping qualities.
The supposition that bees. when kept in
cities, make honey of the sweets Of the gut
| ters glucose, ETC., is known to be erroneous.
| 1t has been demonstrated that they work
| principally upon the blossoms of trees and
| flowers in private gardens and in the parks.
| Bees travel to long dstsL ces, and visit the
| fields even when the hives are situated in
| the centers of large cities.
| A writer in a scientific journal ridicules
4 II.
must undergo sweating process before they
| are put in barrels in order to keep we'll. He
states that only injury comes from leaving
4 apples in piles in orchard, and that the
| moisture found on them comes from the
| atmosphere. He recommends placing them
| in barrels as soon as they ara picked.
A good condition powder for poultry,
which may be made chesply, is composed of
the following Ingredients: One pound
| ground bones one pound chalk, two pou nds
ground dried meat, one pound charcoal, one
pound linsesd meal, one pound fenugreek,
and an ounce each of salt, sulphur, ground
| ginger and c0pperas. Mix intimately, and
feed tablespoonful to six hens once day
| in the soft food.
TIE editor Of the Cleveland Herald says;
''If two pots of butter be taken, and the one
| thoroughly washed in weak brine SO that it
will not color the water, and work it over
and expel the surplus moisture, aud take
| another lump from the same churning and
| work it over without washing, bat salt it at
the rate OF an ounce 10 the pound, and set
them away, the sailed butter will be the first
| to get rancid and worthless"
Professor A. E. Bloant of the Colorado
Agricultural College, reports that he is test.
ing 25O varieties OF wheat, gathered from all
| parts of the world, besides thirty-eight cross
varieties, or hybrids, some of which are tar
superior TO their parents. He says that 80
| great are the changes made by the soil, cli-
mate and his selection and crossing, that
hardly one variety in ten can be recognized
when shown to the parties who sent the
seed.
If you are going TO set q new orchard re-
member that il is an excellent way to pre-
| pare plan of the orchard, showing the po-
sition of each tree, its variety, etc. III a tree
dies it can be replaced by one OF the same
sort. Some fruit-rasers keep q book in
which they register the age and variety OF
every tree in their orchard, together with
any items in regard to its grating. product
iveness, treatment, etc, which are thought
| to be desirable.
Recent experiments with feeding for milk
| demonstrate that ensilsge gave as much
butter as hay, bran and meal fed together,
and therefore ranks as an economical food.
| 1t is best, however. 10 use it as supplement
| to other foods. The churniug quality of
| milk was found to bear no exact relation to
the chemical composition, and the ohurn is
! Therefore the only reliable implement for