The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-22
FARM NOTES.


on every ton OF sugar cane grown in that
State, and one cent per pound for every
pound of sugar made.
A decduous tree, if the buds have started,
is always a risky thing to handle. With ever
green's it is different; they transplant better
after vegetation has started.
II is not generally known that the noun
tain ash is liable to attacks of the apple tree
borer. thereby becoming breeding pest for
the insects that destroy the orchard.
The largest apple tree in the United States
is growing at Cheshire Conn. 1t is sixty
feet high, spreads 100 feet and yields from
seventy-five to 100 bushels of apples per
year on alternate sides of the tree.
At the Iowa Agricultural College last year
five Holstein-Fresian cows were used, and
each gave over 5000 pounds of milk, the
difference between the highest and lowest be-
ing less than 100 pounds.
Do not sell off the hens that begin to mott
early, as they will finish the shedding of the
feathers and begin to lay before the winter
sets in. The late melting hens, however,
should always be sold.
The plants known as weeds is the coating
which nature has taken to cover up her
waste places and neglected soil. Without
such covering the soil would become sterile
unless cultivated by man.
Turkeys are great fOragers, and will gather
their entire food from the fields during the
summer at the same time destroying myri-
ads of grasshoppers, bugs and other insects
that prey on vegetables and grain crops.
Have measures and scales, and learn how
much difference there is in the yield of your
cows and then figure out the loss in keeping
a poor COW. Do net take some other mans
word for it, but do ii yourself, then you will
remember il.
Great care should be used to have the hay
perfectly free from due or rain when put
into the NOW, says the New York Herald, as
single load OF wet hay thrown in may
cause great injury by heating several tons of
that which is put in later.
Great caution should be exercised in turn
ing stock on field of clover, especially if it
is in bloom, as gorging themselves with green
clover may give rise to hoven, collie or other
complications which would endanger the
lives of the animals
Galvanized wire netting can now be OBJ
tanned for l cent per square foot, and as ii is
more easily converted into fence than is
lumber, and is at the same time more durable,
more of it is being used this year for poultry
yards than ever before.
Ducks can be easily raised without ponds,
provided they have a trough of water for
bathing purposes. They are, however, more
expensive when kept in that manner as they
procure large part of their subsistence
when running at large and having access to
ponds.
Celery plants may be nicely kept for use
during winter. il is said, by standing them,
after being cleaned, washed and the ends of
roots trimmed. in tub or barrel containing
few inches of water; or pack them in box
in wet moss and keep standing upright.
Gardens and other pieces of ground which
have been manured often with coarse barn
yard manure will be greatly benefited by
dressing of potash and phosphate, but per-
haps common caustic lime would be as
good a fertilizer as can be applied to such
ground.
Although but a short time has elapsed
since the present system of testing the milk
and butter capacity of the Jersey COW was
adopted, there are already 700 of the breed
that have records of butter running from
fourteen to forty-six pounds twelve ounces in
seven days.
Storing farm products for higher prices is
not always the best method. A lot of 200
bales Of hops of the year 1882 were lately sold
at Sheriff. sale at Schenevus n. ", at from
five 10 seven cents a pound. The year they
were harvested they could have been sold for
81 per pound.
In cultivating the potatoes the last time If
you hih them up at all make the hills broad
and fiat, so that water will not run off, but
soak in and wet them through and through.
When the hills are made high and sharp,
the water runs off and the potatoes are liable
to suffer from drought
In all the tests of the new grapes il should
be remembered that the test for mildew is
not conclusive unless the vine has acquired
age. Most very young vines are exempt 1t
would seem that after a few years the annual
pruning destroys the proper proportion be-
tween branches and roots.
An Iowa farmer gives as his experience
that an exclusive diet of corn is the cause of
hog cholera. He claims that the hog should
be treated to a variable diet like any other
animal, and that corn is not complete
article of food, the hog requiring suitable