The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-22
food for converting into bone and muscle as

food for converting into bone and muscle as
well as fat
Long rye or wheat straw is considered
preferable to oats or barley straw for bed
ding for animals for warmth, cleanliness
and its durability or capability of being used
a number of times. Its length and crispness
prevent it from mating or packing; conse-
quently by laying loose, the absorbed mois-
ture is soon evapOrated.
1t is gratifying to know that in some
places where the clover-worm has destroyed
the clover that a disease has attacked the
worm and destroyed it. The disease is
fungus, and it is suggested that diseased
worms be transported TO those localities
where the worms have not been attacked in
order to spread the epidemic.
One of the most successful of Illinois
dairymen keeps 100 cows, but never raises q
pound of hay. He feeds his cattle on corn
fodder, cut when in blossom, bound and set
mp till cured, or till winter, when it is re-
moved TO the barn. He gets seven tons of
this dry fodder to the acre, and claims it is
worth as much as the best of hay.
Land that will grow seventy-five bushels of
corn is estimated as capable of producing 400
bushels of potatoes. The latter will remove
from the soil 43 pounds phosphoric acid, 135
pounds potash and l04 pounds nitrogen,
while the corn will remove 30 pounds phos-
phoric acid, 134 pounds potash and SO pounds
nitrogen.
An experienced swine breeder states that
he avoids hog cholera, even when it RACES in
his neighbours herds, by feeding apples. He
does not claim that apples alone are preven-
tive, but they act in dietary manner. He
is of the opinion that when hogs are fed on
a variety of vegetables and waste fruit they
will keep in healthy condition.
The ratio of seed TO straw varies greatly.
On rich land, MANFRED with heterogeneous
fertilizers, the growth of straw is great COM
pared with the grain, and the same in wet
seasons and the reverse when the season is
very dry. To prevent lodging it is recon-
mended that an application of lime and salt
be applied in the fall on the land intended
for grain crop.
A member of the Warsaw, ILL.,, Horticult-
ural Society, Mr.. Stewart, says he has had an
annual crop of apples for fifteen successive
years. pleasing fact due in some measure,
he thinks, to his management. He cultivates
so as to make the trees grow rapidly as posi-
bic until of bearing age, after which he cul-
tivates little, but keeps the sod down by
mulching.
One of the greatest nuisances in farming is
the way that weeds are encouraged and pro-
| tected in the crooks and vicinity of fences,
from which places their seed is scattered over
the surrounding lands. The extent to which
seed is scattered by high winds proves that
one negligent farmer may annoy hundreds
of farmers by failing to exterminate the foul
| heritage.
Kerosene oil is attracting much attention
| as an insecticide. 1t is a deadly poison TO
nearly all insects, while it is harmless to
| man. As it does not mix with water, an
| emulsion should be made with milk. An
| emulsion composed of one-third oil and two
| thirds milk, either sweet or sour, is found to
| be more serviceable. The emulsion may be
| applied i'm the same manner as Paris green.
A peach tree at Shelby, N c., continues to
| bloom for six successive weeks every season,
| and the fruit ripens in the same way. A few
days ago there were fresh blossoms on the
| tree and peaches as large as the end of a
mans thumb. The fruit begins to ripen
about the middle of July, and while some
| peaches are ripe others are not half grown.
| The tree is nineteen years old. and has been
/ following this course all its life.
| A few miles from Macon, Ga, is the large
willow farm of Mr.. /. c. Plant. All the
| leaves and bark from the switches are dried
/ and baled, and command price of about
4 twenty-three cents pound, being used for
some medical purpose. Mr.. Plant has 400, 600
| willows growing. A ton to the acre is the
| average yield, which, when shipped dried,
bring 500 per ton. The bark, leaves and
| switches only are Sold the trees remaining
on the land.
| To kill lice on cattle, mixture of one
| bushel of dry sand and five pounds of sui
| phur will clear fifty head. Get them into a
| huddle, if you have a large lot, then go to
| the windward side and throw it or sprinkle,
| as best you can to get it on. One good
| sprinkling will kill and clean out every one.
| Sulphur, coal oil and lard oil will clean
| fowls of lice and scaly legs. Rub il on the
feet and legs, and run your greasy hands
| through the feathers