The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-02

the injury done by this insect. 1t is, there
| fore, recommended to gather the infected
leaves, and instead of burning them. throw
| them on the ground in bare places. Parasitic
| insects would hatch and be saved, while
such of the noxious kind as would hatch
would perish before reaching the feeding
| place.
The tomato vines should be raised from
| the ground in some way, and perhaps as
| good way as any is TO drive in four stakes.
with about fifteen inches above ground, and
| tack little pieces of lath across the tops.
| This will keep the fruit from the ground,
and twill not be nearly so liabla to rot, but
| livery large and early tomatoes are desired,
the vines should be clipped back and part
of the fruit also be pinched off as soon as
| formed.
Attic New York Experiment Station
Geneva, the following squash borer remedies
have been tried with partial success: A So
| luton of one ounce of Paris green in eight
| gallons OF water. applied with watering-pot
| for distance OF two feet from the main
stem of the plant. -Four ounces of copperas
| dissolved in one gallon of water, and gallon
of the solution poured about each plant for
a distance of four feet, has also been partially
/ effective.
The treatment usually practiced for scab in
| sheep is 10 steep one pound of tobacco in
| gallon of boiling hot water; then add four
ounces flowers of sulphur, and stir frequently
| untll the lltlulu Is COlOretl lZON. II Is tnen
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 treatment will pre-
| vent healthy sheep from being infected. APP
ply once or twice, and then keep the sheep in
q dry place for few days
The New England Farmer gives the follow
ing old and good recipe for grating wax:
Four parts of resin, two parts of beeswax
| and one part of tallow. Melt all together in
a kettle over a moderate fire, and when well
mixed pour into a vessel of cold water TO
| harden. When stiff enough TO handle, grease
| the hands and then pull and work the wax
until it is white or amber cOlOred and of
| even quality throughout. In colder weather
the wax may need warming by working il in
the hands, or it may be melted and applied
with a brush.
The way sulphur operates in the nest of
sitting hens is this: 1t is warmed by the
heat of their bodies and then gives out odors
something similar to what is produced by
| matches, and this odor is dc structive to YER
min in the nest. You need not be afraid Of
its injuring the young chickens if you man.
| age rightly. You should give the nest a
sprinkling the first week of Incubation, and
repeat the dose during the second week. BY
| the time the chicks come forth the sulphur
| Will have ratified down to the bottom of the
nest and will not get into their eyes.
Hog-pens and runs should not give off Of
| fensive odors any more than the stables and
pastures of horses and cattle, and if they do
something is wrong in their management,
| and cholera is likely TO devastate herds so
kept Cleanliness is specific preventive as
well as remedy for many ills accident 10
both man and beast, and filthy quarters may
| not only be the means of spreading disease
in the herd, but also of disseminating fever
germs, etc, in the family. Many cases of
fever and diphtheria NAV trace their origin
| Il no 5rt of
As a rule the hogpens are the most filthy
places on the farm.-StOckman.
Variety of food is absolutely ESSENTIAL TO
hens, but that is not good arrangement of
the variety which provides corn this week,
bran the next week. oats the next week, and
wheat the week following. These are all
good, but should be given at proper periods
of the day rather than during the several
weeks of the month. Corn affords heat, and
should be the last thing in the evening, so
as TO supply nOurishment during the long,
cold nights. The bran, with table scraps
thrown in and all mixed with warm water,
is best in the morning, and the wheat and
the cats should be placed where the fowls
can scratch for them during the day.
A writer says that combination of feeds
for sheep is more important than a change.
1t is most true that a combination of feeds is
most beneficial TO sheep and is greatly relished
by them; but a complete and radical change
of feeds occasionally is equally important
and necessary, as an appetizing expedient
and to maintain the highest vigor of each
member of the flock. a change from hay TO
straw, from straw to fodder, from oats to
meal, even to whole corn occasionally, and
and from one pasture field TO another. Is re-
cOgniZed, by experienced and successful
| fock-masters. as one of the most salutary and
practicable means of maintaining the best
average condition of the whole flock.
Farmers who have grasses. weeds or any
other plants they wish Unidentified should
send sample of the same TO the Agricultural
Experiment Station of their State, if il has
one; if not, to the State Department of Ag-
riculture. The same advice is given in regard
TO minerals and insects. These State or
CARNATIONS are in the interest of the farmers
and it is or should be their aim to assist in
| solving all problems pertaining TO the farm.
Few farmers can afford to pay the price
asked by entomologists. botanists and min
eralogists for examining and reporting upon
specimens, and it is to aid in these and other
scientific matters that Agricultural Depart
ments and societies are organized.
1t is not to be denied that the standard OF
butter as made on our farms needs lifting
very much higher. We all understand this
Poor butter is turned out by the ton and is
a curse all around 1t is a curse TO the man
or woman who make, to the consumer
/, who buys it and to those who make good
butter. PROFESSIONALLY this is one great
cause of the success of the butter swindle
Not that bogus butter would sell to any
l great extent if they were known to be bogu:
buffers. But they are offered to the public
as pure butter, and of course, the ignorant
consumer accepts what appears to be good
sweet butter in preference TO that which Inc
has no difficulty in seeing is inferior.
Dairy farming adds 81 per acre to the value
, | of land, while il saves 81 per acre of the
! value OF land as against grain-farming. Thi;
is 50 per acre-good rent. Twenty of the
poorest mich cows in the county, that two
men can milk in one hour and half in the
. morning and an hour and a half in tht
evening, will pay the wages of the two hired
hands and furnish groceries for good-size6
family, by selling cream at ten cents gage
The skim milk will raise twenty hogs that
will be worth s. each 500, and to this may
he added $500 worth of calves. as clear profit
: over and above the crop raised by the two
! hired men. Don't calculate simply the
price of cream, but take results at the enc
of the year.
Clover hay, in good condition, is perfec
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