The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-25
Farm Notes.

| A writer in Vcks magazine says dozen sets
| os perennial larkspur plants, in row alongside
of his potato field, will actually kill off the POI
| tato beetles.
| Cleveland Leader: If there is any one luxury
| the farmers family should enjoy, it Is comfort
able carriage A pleasant ride is a dispeller Of
WEAKNESS from hard labor. Don't 60 trundling
| around in alumber wagon, scrimpng to add moro
acres to your already too large farm.
| The potato and tomato being both members
| of the same family, may be grated into each
other with success SO far as growth is concerned
gardener who tried grating the tomato N
| potato plant had q crop Of tomatoes above
| ground and one of potatoes underneath. The
latter, however, were not good, as potato leaves
were needed to give character and maturity to
the crop.
Considerable complaint is made by Western
fruit growers of the ravages of the apple cur
culio This insect is similar in its work to the
plum curculio, but is distinct from il. Earring
the trees does not dislodge it, it will the plum
curculio, aside from the fact that apple trees,
after few years, attain size which makes
Earring impossible. Keeping pigs in orchards TO
eat the fruit as it falls is the best remedy for
this, as it is for the apple maggot
Hungarian grass and millet may be sown in this
latitude any time before July /. The proper
season for seeding, however, is from June 10 to
20 Late-sown millet is difficult to cure on ne
count of cool weather and rain in autumn for
hay one bushel of seed should be sown per acre,
DuC II Seeu Is the OUJecG not more IMAM Twelve
quarts. For hay the seed should never be al
lowed to form, since it renders the hay strongly
| diuretic.
| The dust from moldy hair and grain causes
| unpleasant sensations and sometimes blind
| staggers and death in animals and men,. Rust
| and black mold on wheat affect threshers dis
| agreeably always and sometimes injuriously.
| An exchange mentions that California vine
dresser had been badly poisoned by grating
| vines when the cuttings were diseased with q
black fungus Care should be exercised in thesa
respects.
So many improvements or inventions have
been introduced in the setting Of milk for cream
| that the term ''skimming' has become mis-
homer. In both deep and shallow setting ar
rangements have been made in several of tho
patent cans for drawing out the milk from tina
bottom and leaving the cream. Glass gauges are
set in the vessel so that the exact depth of the
cream can be seen, and the milk drawn down
complete method, compared with the skimming
process.
A st. Paul merchant has very poor opinion
of the farmers in that section because they buy
at the stores what they ought to raise. Farm
ers !" said he contemptuousys why, we haven't
got twenty real farmers in this country. They
are all nothing but wheat raisers, and that is n
long way from being farmer. large number
of farmers in Dakota, who own whole quarter
sections of land seldom have a drop of milk i'm
| the house. and the butter they eat is bought at
the nearest store They don't even keep cor
or pig, or try to raise vegetables enough to pro-
vide for the winter"