The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-15

as stock. If they are kept in confinement
pieces of grass should be placed in the yard
daily.
1t is not too late for green peas as a success
sion. String-beans and sweet corn may also
be planted for supply during the latter
part of summer.
Level cultivation is said To be the best for
potatoes, and the ground should be kept
clean and loose until they have blossomed,
when they should remain undisturbed till
dug.
One of the new enemies TO corn is the
root web-worm." 1t works somewhat like
the cut-worm, except that while the latter
cuts off the corn the former bores through
the center of the stalk.
The American Agriculturist states that
remedy for collie in horses, which has never
failed, is an injection of from one to two
quarts of cold water mot too cOld( and that
il is harmless, as we'll as giving instant re-
liel
Sweet corn makes excellent feeding for the
cows in summer. 1t may be sown thickly
in drills and cut at any time after il is high
enough. 1t may be assisted by Hungarian
grass, which is a summer crop, as a variety.
Should the corn be backward the best
treatment is to cultivate the field and apply
lightly around each plant a mixture of 100
pounds dried blood and 200 pounds of super
phosphate per acre. In a few days, if the
weather is not too dry, it will take greenish
tinge and push forward rapidly.
1t requires more labor to clear the crops
from grass and weeds after they have at
tanned good growth than TO destroy them
when young. At first harrow or rake will
suffice t. keep them down, but later on the
cuitivatOr and hoe must be used Never al
low the weeds to more than get their heads
above ground.
Improvements seems to be rapid with all
s. l.,
ting horses are making faster time, the cows
are yielding more milk and butter, the sheep
are shearing heavier fleeces and the hogs are
yielding carcases of greater weight. Progress
is being made every season.
The practice of feeding oats and other
grain by measure instead of by weight is
misleading Some kind of oats are very
heavy while others are light. Very often
horses that have been fed certain quantity
of oats by measure will fall off in flesh when
a change is made to a lighter kind, and the
proper course to pursue, therefore, is to feed
by weight.
Those who have used the Shropshire,
Hampshire and Oxford Down sheep with
native fiocks have found them profitable as
atfording the earliest lambs and the heaviest
carcases. As mutton is always saleable if of
good quality, the price will not soon become
too low for profit. Unlike wool, mutton is
not affected by foreign competition.
One of the great objections to hedges is that
they require too much labor and care in cul-
tivatiOn and trimming. This objection, how
ever. is overcome by the fact that a good,
well kept, effective hedge increases the value
of farm more than sufficient to balance the
expense. Ii serves also as wind brake, and
may be attractive as well as serviceable.
Tie wild celery is poisonous, but by cult
walton it has been changed into a desirable
market crop. For the garden trench nearly
filled with manure and set out to celery
plants will furnish far supply to q family,
During growth frequent waterings with soap
suds will be beneficial. 1t may be blanched
either by killing up or in the cellar by being
packed in moist sand.
One of the enemies of the strawberry is the
furnished bug. The insect is at first quite
small and of greenish color, changing to
grayish. 1t is about quarter of an inch
long when full grown. The insects begin
| their work on the young fruit, preferring
| the sweeter varieties. and are more numerous
in patches that have been we'll worked and
mulched, as the mulch affords a hiding
| place.
The dash churn is passing away asa thing
away as thing of bygone days, its place be-
| ing supplied by the revolving box or barrel
| churn. In the dash churn the butter is
made by keeping the cream in constant agi-
| tation with the dasher operating inside the
| churn. The revolving churns have no in
| side contrivances, the churning being done
| by the cream constantly falling and striking
| the sides of the churn.
Every farmer should calculate the differ
\ ence in the. prOfitableness of his COWS, says
| the Pittsburg Stockman. One quart differ
| ence in the amount of milk given at each
| milking makes $50 quarts a year, or lS2 z
| gallons, which, if sold at four cents a quart
| would make difference of S14.60 per COW.
| This loss would eat up most of the profits in
| the large diaries. and shows the importance
| of knowing exactly what each cow can and
| will do.
Regarding a perennial tree onion, the
1 Farm, Stock and Home (Minneapolis) says:
| 1T is new type of onion, which differs
| from those grown from seed. sets, or top
| onions, potato onions or shallOts. 1t is a
| perennial species and when once planted
| will continue TO come up every year after
/ the frost is out of the ground. For early
| bunch onions they are highly recommended,
| but we are totally ignorant in regard to their
| size, yield or merit
During the summer no greater injury can
| be done the sheep than to turn them upon a
j pasture that has no shade. Sheep prefer to
| Craze early in the morning and late in the
afternoon, resting during the heat of the day.
1 If deprived of a shady resort for that purpose
no amount of good treatment can prevent
| them from losing appetite and falling off in
| flesh. Temporary shelters can be easily
erected for them.
The chief difficulty in teaching calves to
drink from the pail arises from too great
haste. Let the calf become hungry, warm
the food to the temperature of new milk,
| give it the finger to suck, but only for a
moment, and the calf is easily taught 70
drink Calves do not thrive we'll when they
drink their milk, because during the opera
| ton but little saliva is secreted, and the use
of nipples is now being adopted, through
which the calves suck the food from pail.
| In 1880 only 400 carcasses of sheep were
sent from Australia to England as an expert
ment. The voyage was 1900 miles, and
across the equator. In 1888 the trade had
grown to 1S5, 600 carcasses. and in 1854 the
shipments were about 100000. The latter
| quantity is only one-third of the whole sup
| ply of the largest market in London. We
| have a much less distance than Australia be
tween Us and Europe, and there is no reason
why we should not utilize the Australian,
| mode Of exporting sheep.
Animals will often eat ground bone oil
| wood ashes. Hence box filled with clear