The Indiana State sentinel., 1885-09-09

get the brine in all the cracks and crevices,
which destroyed the weevil Since then we
have whitewashed the interior of the bins
each year before putting in the new crop,
which keeps the weevil out. Make the wash
hot; apply with an old broom and get il into
all the cracks.
The treatment usually practiced for scaO
in sheep is to steep one pound of tobacco in
gallon of boiling hot water; then add four
ounces flowers of sulphur and stir frequent
ly until the liquid is colored TO 100 degrees
Ii is then poured over the sheep, along the
back, and as It runs down rub il into the
scabby part with the hand, using also a corn
cob TO break up the scabs. The same treat
ment will prevent healthy sheep from being
infected. Apply once or twice, and then
keep the sheep in dry place for a few days.
Regarding the use of pea-meal for produc-
ing butter the Live Stock Journal says il has
the least fat of all other grains used as food
for animals except beans Nearly all anal
ses give peas but . per cent. of fat, whereas
oats have per cent. and linseed oil 10 per
ceut The legumen of the pea is the same
chemically as the caseine of milk. Peas are
excellent TO keepup the muscular condition
of the COW and to furnish the cheesy ele-
ment. Canada pork made on beans is lean
and not like our corn-fed pork.
Mr. Mills, the apostle of ensilage, or the
preservation of crops in a green state for
fodder, lays down the following conditions
as essential to success. Air must be perfectly
excluded from the pit or silo by uniform
and continuous pressure of about $50 pounds
10 the square foot; the crop should have
tiOwered before being cut, and the knives
should be sharp enough not TO tear the
saccharine sacks. Last year Mr.. Mills fed
for seven mouths 40 animals cows and
horses, from ten acres of corn fodder.
If sow produces two htters each year, it
follows that during two-thirds of the time
the energies of her system are directed to
the growth of these litters before farrowing.
This leaves only four months of the year to
suckle the two litters, or only the length
usually allowed for one. 1t sometimes hap
pens that sows are bred soon after they have
farrowed, and are thus required to carry one
litter while sucking another But this al
ways results in the diminished thrift OF one
litter or the other, and often in the injury
of both, as well as the sow herself
Il horse can not kick if his head is kept
up, and hence Kicking brace will some
times prove a correction of the habit. This
brace is made of half-inch iron, with a fork
at one end and a ring in each end of the fork,
each ring being furnished with snap. or
with a strap and buckle, by which it may be
attached TO the bit. the opposite end of the
brace being made to fit upon the front of the
lower part of the collar by similar fork
fitted with a strap. The length of the brace
must be adjusted to the size of the horse, the
point being TO keep the head well up.
The introduction of the creamery has
wrought a wonderful revolution in dairy
methods. Scarcely ten years have passed
since cooperative butter-making came into
vogue. Yet in that brief time the butter
product of Iowa has been raised from only
few million pounds annually to almost l00,-
0O0,OC0 in 1891; from a few hundred thou
sand cows to 200, 600 in 1884; from an infe-
riOr article of western grease" to a superior
article of Iowa gilt-edge butter" and from a
mere pittance to handsome price per
pound. Cows have nearly doubled in aver
age value The average of pasturage was
crcatly increased. which rests the soil and
the farmer.