The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-23
Farm Notes.

A cellar is a good place in which to keep but
ter.
About 100 bushels of wood ashes per acre are
fair proportion to apply on light soils.
If the fences have not been repaired the work
should be done at once as the busy season is
fast approaching.
Hard sub-sois serve to arrest and reSain es-
Gaping fertilizing material but ale usually cold
and late in advancing crops.
Rice is one of the best substances for fattening
fowls quickly. Boiled and mixed with ground
oats and corn-meal, it cannot be excelled.
Good dairying fits admirably into mixed farm
ing There is a suitable return made to the land
in the way Of manure, and the waste in the man
ufacture of butter is great help in the feeding
Of calves and pigs.
A good Vermont farmer obtains his best crops
of spring grain by sowing the seed, both rye and
wheat the last thing in the fall before the ground
freezes up. He has practiced seeding to grass at
the same time with excellent result.
Although pears on apple roots will grow and be
of dwarfish habit and bear few years. they
are short-lived. 1t will not pay in the end to
graft on apple roots. Bud or graft on pear stocks
for standards and on angus ounce for dwarfs.
A little charcoal, fed two or three times week
to the pigs is beneficial in correcting acidity of
the stomach, to which hogs are liable when fed
upon corn and confined in pen. They will eat
it greedily, and fatten much more readily with
charcoal than without
Cabbages will often head if placed, roots down
ward in pit of sufficient depth to bring the
tops of the leaves just above the surface of the
ground and covered with straw or hay to prevent
severe freezing Increase the covering as the
weather becomes colder.
A great width between and prominence of the
eyes indicates a teachable and tractabe horse.
Width between the ears indicates courage,
oleness and strength of character. Roundness
and elevation between the eyes indicates mild
ness of disposition and desire to be caressed,
and to reciprocate kindness.
While kerosene will take the hair off COW or
horse says the New York Tribune, it has no
effect on swine, but assists to clean the skin
nicely, though appearing to make them itch or
smart for short time Where objection may
be entertained aganstpure keroseneit should be
mixed with a like quantity of warm lard.
The Tuscarawas county bee keepers petition
the Ohio Legislature to compel all cider-makers
to inclose their mills so as to exclude bees The
preamble sets forth that the bees are enticed by
the cider, and i'll its production are drowned and
crushed in great numbers, and that they carry
away and store cider in their combs, and this,
eaten in cold weather. causes dysentery, which
sometimes depopulates whole apiaries.
A Western farmer says that he uses the fol-
lowing combined food and condition pow
der, with excellent results: Oil meal, 80 pounds
common sugar, 10 pounds; fine corn meal 40
pounds; fine middlings, 20 pounds; turmeric root,
II pounds; anise seed, 10 ounces; ginger. 2
ounces; caraway seed, ounces; gentian, s
ounces; cream tartar, 2 ounces; sulphur pound
and fine salt, pounds The amount given each
animal is not stated.
The more crowns a strawberry plant has the
more berries one can expect Pull off all the
leaves after fruiting except two three, and it
causes more crowns to grow besides bright,
fresh and very green leaves. But before one
goes into strawberry culture he should take ac-
count of the manure he can get, and also find
out whether he can get pickers enough when the
season opens 1t is OF little use to think of rails
ing strawberries for market without manure and
pickers in abundance.