The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-23
FARM NOTES.


by women, and that twenty dairy farms
are managed by women.
Vermont furnishes one-third of the maple
sugar crop of the country. 1t produced this
year 100000 pounds.
At recent sale held by the Springfield
Jersey Cattle Club twenty-three females
brought So, 125 or fraction over S135 each.
When cleaning the perches in the poultry
houses it is necessary to apply the mixture
of kerosene oil and grease to the under side
as well as the top.
A large flock of fowls confined in one
acre yard will manure il to such a degree
that enough green food can be grown on it
afterward to feed them.
When cattle begin to bloat after eating
green feed, or from any other cause, give
them promptly from three to four table
spoonsful of common baking soda
Mr. b. F. Wheeler, Amherst, y. H., sold
last season SEQ worth of small fruit from
four acres of land, most of which six years
ego was overgrOwn with bushes and very
stony.
Honey should be kept in the dark or it
Will granulate. The hees, knowing this,
work in dark hives. If light could enter,
the honey would become solid and the bees
would starve.
Celery rust is occasioned by anything that
Injuries the roOts-either an excess of rain or
a drought-which kills the working roots,
and the yellowing up or rusting OF the leaves
soon follows.
On farm near Boston the new milk is
subjected at once TO the action of a centrifu-
gal cream-separat0r extracted in few min
utes and served in the city that same morn
ing at breakfast.
putrid carcass polluting the air of pas
ture will spoil not only the milk of the COWS
running there but also the entire contents
of the vat into which the tainted milk is
poured at the factory.
As complement to his 4, 000-acre vineyard
in Napa County, California, Governor stan
ford is to build a wine house 800 feet long
and go feet wide. The Weld of his vineyard
for this year will be 100000 gallons.
Young calves and colts should be kept out
of the pasture when flies are active. 1t re-
quires but a few days for very young animals
TO succumb to such annoyances. y cool dark
stable is best for them.
The hog pen should be always literally
bedded with straw-nOt only where the pigs
sleep, but the yard outside where they run.
Unless this yard is well bedded, much of the
liquid manure will be lost.
Do not attempt to get a mich COW very
fat A COW can not fatten readily and pro-
duce milk at the same time Consequently
WI en- the COW is noticed to be taking on fat
she is correspondingly lessening her guam
THY of milk.
Fruit Notes cautions its readers against the
| Superb raspberry, stating that it is a poor
| growing bush and a worthless berry, which
| can not be picked without crumbling. 1t
| has no merit and has been too highly
praised.
A healthy fowl will drink fifteen to twenty
| times per day, and in close coop, or in hot
weather, still oftener Therefore, when
fowls are shipped, all possible pains should
| be taken to property fasten water cups in
their cages.
When manure is spread OH the surface the
| roots can not get it until the rain washes it
down. and if dry time comes the plants
| n ay starve The manure should be fine,
and incorporated with the soil in order to
bring it in direct contact with the roots.
The percentage of nitrogen and carbon are
al out follows: Wheat straw, and 30;
Oat straw, and SO; millett, 10 and IS;
prerie hay, 3 and "a; corn fodder and 80;
| sore hum, and 80. These are only approx
nations. They are taken from analysis in
food ratiOns.
Cooperative dairying is no longer an ex-
| pertinent. 1t has been before the country
| long enough to demonstrate its economy,
| and to prove that factory for cheese or but
| ter-making will be good investment from
the start in any good dairy region, if it will
be well managed.
AT this season of the year bees use large
| quantity OF water in preparing the food for
| the brood. and if the keeper will supply it
| by feeding one part OF sugar or honey to
three of water it will save thousands of work
ers that would go out on unfavorable trips
in search OF water never to return.
The average weight of milk is eight and
| hve-eighths pounds per gallon of four quarts.
Richness slightly varies 1t; the more cream
the lighter the product. This is, however,
the standard usually accepted in this coun-
| try and Europe. In ordinary calculations,
We reckon two pounds to a quart.
Nest boxes may be made sixteen to eigh-
| teen inches square, raised two feet above the
| ground or floor of the house. In front of
| these should be fastened a shelf, say eight
inches wide, upon which the hen can mount
easily to enter the boxes and lay. Keep these
Oxes always supplied with clean hay or
| short straw.
1t requires from ten to thirty acres to sup
| FORT COW or steer on the range while one
cow is easily supported on two acres on the
Island of Jersey. Accepting the ten acres as
| the Minimum 1T is plain that under a better
| system of catte-raising the ranges can sup
| port five animals where one is now main
tanned
There is a great difference in the compo
sitiOns of the solid and liquid excrements OF
animals. The former contains the greater
L part OF the pnOSDnOrl aclQ. the latter uSu
ally contains more of the nitrogen and pot
ash. The manurial constituents in the solid
exerement are mostly insoluble; those in the
urine entirely soluble
| The habit of feeding bran, meal or cut
feed in permanent managers to the COWS, and
allowing the sharp angles to retain the re-
fuse until it sOurs, mildews and in many
cases becomes infected with maggots, says
the Jersey Bulletin, is slovenly and pernic
ious. They should be thoroughly cleaned
and rinsed with brine every day.
Young pigs when very fat often die sud
denly when confined in pens. If, however
they are allowed a small yard for exercise
and feed upon meal of grass daily, in con
nection with other food, they will thirty,
well. 1t is best To avoid getting them too
fat, however, but they should be pushed il
growth as much as possible.
A successful cultivator says that dashing
handful of dry road dust against rose slug
will kill these depredators; that white helle
bore is more efficient, but that little Pari
Green mixed with water-say a teaspoonfu
to a twelve-quart pail of water-applied will
a broom or brush, acts like masie and make
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