The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-26
FARM NOTES.

Nearly 5000 patents have been granted in
this country for chuns.
A pound of poultry flesh may be produced
cheaply pound of pork, and it sells
for twice the price in the market.
\ Connecticut gardner prevents the attacks
of insects by the use of mosquito netting, and
states that it pays him to do so.
Verbenas to do their best must have rich
soil and sunny position, have the branches
pegsed down all fading flowers cut of.
In Iowa the oats are slightly injured, but
corn is ahead of it's usual time, while the
yield of wheat in some portions of the State
is large.
French cheese-makers aim to get $50 to
500 yearly per COW. Fine stock, great care
and specialties in the manufacture are the
means.
The new Begonia hyoria gigantea. now in
trOduced from Germany is said to have
flowers six inches across, probably the largest
of the family.
Sow grass seed over the thin places in the
lawns and rake it in, as it will enable the
lawn to have a more uniform appearance
next spring.
The annual meeting of the National Dairy
mems Association Will be held in November,
at Chicago, during the continuance of the
Fat-Stock Show.
grease gets on the. eggs it closes the pores
through which the confined chick gets its
air, and the consequence is death.
The number of sheep slaughtered for NUT
ton annually in this country alone is rough
ly estimated at l., 000, 600, from these the
bulk of pulled wool comes.
If the farmers will burn over the stubhle
in the wheat field, after it is well dried, they
will destroy many of the insect pests that re-
main in the stubble until the next season.
Chicago packs more pork than all other
cities combined, Kansas City ranking second,
Cincinnati, formerly the chief pork-packing
city. is now exceeded by several other places.
Two Holstein cows belonging to Stillwell
& Co., OF Ohio, in recent test for a week,
gave over eighty pounds of butter, each,
daily, and made twelve pounds of butter,
each, during the week.
Mildew on roses is caused by sudden
changes in the atmosphere dampness and
cool nights. Powdered sulphur applied daily,
when the dew is on the plant, is the best
temedy and preventive.
From flock of eighteen sheep, a ST.
Adams, Me-, farmer has raised the present
season thirty-one lambs. A good flock of
sheep well cared for pays even in dull times,
when wool is down to low-water mark.
The Hubbard squash, is a good winter
keeper, and may be planted as late as this
month in some sections, though July is bet
ter. Any process practiced for keeping
pumpkins will answer for Hubbard squashes.
In the experiments made with potatoes at
the Ohio Experiment Company, the varieties
first to ripen were Clark, Early Harvest and
Early Ohio; Vanguard, Pearl of SAVIOR, Early
Gem and Beauty of Hebron ripened five days
later.
A writer says that il is fact, established
beyond successful denial, that a thorough
bred Shorthorn or Hereford steer will cost no
more to raise than rative. and that at the
same age it viii weigh more and command a
more ready sale at better price.
o. w. BILL a prominent Kansas farmer
and President of the State Shorthorn Breed
ers' Association, says he knows that young
cockle-burrs will kill pigs. He found elev.
en- head, about six months old, dead in pile,
and four in another, from eating cookie
burrs.
Hardy shrubs in pots are frequently used
in England for indoor ornamentation and
the decoration of balconies, verandas, ETC.
They Withstand great amount of harsh
treatment, and good, healthy shrub is GER
tainly more ornamental than sicxly, ten.
der plant.
Professor Shelton's results with five pigs
fed on corn-and-cob meal, having like size
age and grade, with five pigs fed on simple
corn meal, were as follows: Total feed OF
corn-and-cob meal, 3,G19 pounds; average
| gain per mig. lila pounds; total feed OF
corn meal, 1882 pounds; average gain pei
] pig, ll44 pounds, showing that the pig: