The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-01-28

worms last season, while in the Deighboriug
vineyards not so treated the bugs and worms
destroyed the crops. The turkeys became
very fat and brought good prices at Thanks
giving.
Until dairymen can be induced to discard
the use OF scrub bulls they can make but lit
tie Improvement. Even If they prefer to sell
the young calves they will find it profitable
to use thoroughbreds. Selling the calves in
osder to retain the milk prompts the dairy
man to use any kind of bulls, and this prac.
tice should be discouraged.
A place, say under q shed, where fowls can
take dust bath in the sun whenever they
choose on fine days, is an admirable spend-
age 10 the poultry house. Bot, to be sure
that lice don't torment them. paint the hen
merry with kerosene about twice year aud
rub little into the feathers OF each fowl.
Do this each spring and fall.
An English farmer says; For two winters
/ have placed six horses on the following
weekly allowances: Forty-swo pounds oats,
IS pounds maize, p pounds beans. 81 pounds
bsy, IA pounds oat straw, cut into chat, 20
pounds long hay. Total. 1876 pounds OF food
per week per horse. Upon this food the
horses have done admirably while in con-
slant work.
One of the best remedies for diarrhes in
fowls is as follows: Give q teaspoonful of
raw linseed oil, repeating the dose the
second day after. Then give one scruple
each of powdered Peruvian bark and hypo-
sulphite of soda made into pills with COM
mon soap once day for three or four days.
Keep the fowls clean and feed them on
cooked oatmeal until they fully recover.
It is said that in order to keep machinery
from rustiDg take one ounce of camphor and
dissolve 1t in one pound of melted lard;
take off the scum and mix in as much fine
black lead IS will give it an iron color.
Clean the machinery and smear it with this
mixture. After twenty-four hours rub clean
with soft linen cloth. 1t will keep clean
for months under ordinary circumstance
One of the strongest points ia q really
good COW is that she will continue to give a
good mess Of milk during g long time.
Many otherwise good cows fail in this re-
spect. They give q large quantity in the
first flow, bat soon drop off, and are dry half
the year. The habit of the heifer with her
first calf fixes her habits as a COW in this re-
gard. 1t is. therefore, not advisable to allow
young heifer to drop second calf within
year of her first. 1t is, therefore, better TO
wsit, so as to have the calves fifteen months
or more apart, in which case the heller can
be kept in milk year or more.
At q Grange meeting in Summit County,
| Ohio, the relative values of married and un-
| married men as farm bands was discussed.
| 1t was urged on one side that the extra work
| put upon the housewife by boarding farm
| hands more than equaled any gain that
might arise from having men about the
| house. The farmers wife said that few
| farmers employ married men and erect
| houses for them, but one who had tried both
| ways and kept an accurate cash account,
found that he paid about $50 year fol- the
| privilege of adopting hired man into mis-
| family, counting the price of board what it
| was worth in the market.
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| B. Allen, states thst he finds wheat bran an
Improbable feed for swine. They do not
seem to possess the power of digesting it,
| consequently much OF ii passes through
| them only partially assimilated- II mixed
| with cornmeal it does better, and eau be ned
| with advantage to cattle, along with cut hay,
| IL mixed with it and well wetted. as it then
uDdergoes second mssticstion." In care
| ful experiments made By the writer, wherein
both the food consumed and the growth
| made were weighed, bran was found I'M
| profitable, as COMPARED with cornmeal,
| whether fed alone or mixed with the meal.
We do not wish to recommend oats as a
| principal farm crop, yet it is plain that more
| profit can be had now in oats than In wheat,
| while, with proper management there need
be no fear of exhausting fertility. The great
| reno7ator is grass, or grass and clover, the
more Of the latter the better. Unfortunately,
clover does not do so well as in past years,
because OF the ravages OF insect pests These
may disappear, however, as there is encour-
| agement to believe they will, for in many
| infested fields clover in the last year or two
has returned to its old character. The main
| question for farmers is what the crops shall
be with reasonable expectation of profit
| Elmira Husbandman.
At a Kansas fair two pigs were fed With a
| view 20 determine which was the best. The
experiment lasted 6fty-seven days. One was
| Poland China, and weighed 80 pounds at
/ the beginning, and at the end weighed 176
pounos, having made gain of 50 pounds,
the 1000 oeins three pounds to each one
! pound cameo. IDe tther was a Berkshire,
and weighed at the beginning 81 = poInds'
and at the end l64 pouh5s. gaining S23I
| pounds and consuming 8. Is DesInds Of food
| to each pound gained. The BerksH;re Gained
three quarters OF pouDo more th.T, the
Poland-Chins, but required trifie l1-are
food for each pound gained. Such expsri
ments should be made on every farm, as they
would soon enable farmers to grow th,
largest proportion OF pork at the smalles
possible cost.
To wean calf as soon as il can crack corr
| and eat grass, says the National Live Stool
| Register. is to wesn il earlier than natur,
intended, and earlier than it is profitable II
| wean it. The same rule applies to the lite
of pigs. Abundance of milk at calviDg anC
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ticipatipg the drain and keeping the flesh o
the dam up 10 a reasonably high STANDARD
during the winter, and feeding literally
during the flow. The parent animal tina
starts In With full flow, because OF beinI
in q condition to make this possible, can
without undue trouble, have the flow KEEP
up to the maximum, but il she starts in
low condition, with an udder meagrely
filed, she will not be lib ely to rise to higt
standard of milk production during any
portion of the season.
The Kochiani 10 the purest breed of Arab
ian horses. Their genealogy for 2 600 year.
has been most strictly preserved. They arr
derived from 6olomon's studs. This race oil
horses can bear the greatest fatigue, can pas
| days without food, show undaunted courag,
in battle, and when their riders are slair
will carry them to place of safety (Niebuhr)
The Kadischi is aLother eel brated race OF
horses, but not equal to the Kochiani. Ac
cording to Burkhsrdt, the finest race O
Arabian blood horses may be found in Syria
and OF all the Syrian districts the breed il
the Hsuran Is the best; bat all the horses o
the noble br ed are not equally distinguished
| Among these there are only a few perhap
not above five or SIX in q whole tribe, of til,
intrate class in respect to size, bone, beaut,
| and action.
Judges OF Election Indicted.
CHICAGO. Jan. N.-The special county Gran,
| Jurv to-dav returned indictments a0atnst D