The Indiana State sentinel., 1885-09-09
FARM NOTES.

Raw meat if fed sparingly, is as good as
cooked for laying hens.
Tee cattle ranches in the West occupy
1866, 600 square miles of land.
Jersey bulls are now held at high figures
son of Eurotas deriving fee for his owner
of 81, 900 for his services alone.
Whenever rust or smut attacks any of the
stalks of growing grain such stalks should
be Immediately cut and burnt.
When any farm crop commands paying
price it is folly for the farmer 10 turn specu-
lator and hold for possible riSs.
Three carloads of live chickens 5000 in
number) were recently shipped from Mary
vile, Mo-, to New York City.
England produces Sl5OO0O,O0O worth of
milk annually, and furnishes the world with
many of the best breeds of beef cattle.
Plums and cherries may be budded until
the middle of September. If the sap seems
thin and watery, wait few days until it be-
comes thicker.
The honey boxes should be removed. No
more surplus is likely to be stored, and the
bees will only darken that in the boxes II
they 90 not carry it below.
The public recognizes only a few varieties
of potatoes, and when the new sorts are ship
ped they are sent in under the names OF the
kind that they most resemble.
Not every man can make extensive and
accurate experiments in farm work. but all
can take good paper and keep themselves
posted as to what other people are doing.
The period of CESSATION in the eve is about
five months, and if the sheep are coupled
now the lambs will be dropped In February,
and, if well fed, may be marked IN April.
1t is noticed that as a result of tree culture
birds are becoming quite numerous in parts
of Dakota In Kingsbury and some other
counties quails are making their appearance.
California papers report the discovery of a
new wine-peach wine-made from the juice
of soft, ripe peaches. 1t is said to be the
finest favored and most delicious wine ever
made.
Pigs fed npon grass and middlings will
have larger frames and grow faster than those
fed on corn, especially in summer, when fat
should be avoided, il possible, in feeding
young pigs.
The milk that is to be used in the dairy
must not be mixed with that from sick cows
or dry cows, and the milk should not be used
in the dairy until the sixth or seventh day
after calying.
The following is recommended as excellent
for keeping blood-sucking flies from horses
and cattle: Mix twenty parts of glycerine
with one part of carbolic acid and rub lightly
OH the hair, but not on the skin.
\ Georgia dairyman has figured out the
cost of good butter in that State at twelve
and half cents a pound, where good pas
turage can be had on easy terms for ten
months in the year, and the butter sells at
| TIVE nty-iye cents pound.
Professor Cook says flies do not like the
| atmosphere of his stable, as the barrel in
which he makes his mixture of carbOlic acid
| and soft-soap is kept there. This is hint
| to those who find flies troublesome in the
| stables
| 1t will soon be time to cut the cOrniOdder
| and farmers will frd it to their advantage to
| carefully store il, using it in the winter by
| cutting it with fodder-cutter. As a rule
| one-half the crop is annually wanted under
| the feet OF the stock.
When you are ready TO sow your wheat
| select the choicest and plumpest grain
| Shriveled seed should never be used. With
| good seed one-half the difficulty is removed
1 Make the seed-bed fine, and have all the CON
| ditions as favorable as possible.
Mixed husbandry is the true system on
| farms adapted to grain-growing, and rota-
| tion of different crops, partly for market in
| the grain and partly for feeding to make
4 beef pork, mutton and poultry for market,
l should accompany it.
| 1t is very convenient to have a breast col
lar on the farm, made with an extra wide
j brcastpiece, to be used in of sore
shoulder. OF course such collar must Il
| be used i'm heavy work, as il will bear upon
| parts not sufficiently toughencd by
California seems to be overrun this year
with grasshopperS The hog is proving the
most effective means for their extinction.
| When flock of turkeys turned against
them the grasshoppers ate all the feathers of
the turkeys backs.
\ Although the rich soil of Holland Is worth
| from $500 to $500 per acre, large portion IS
| devoted 10 pasturage and meadow. She
| feeds over $50, 900 head of cattle. although
| her area is only 100000 acres, and produces
annually 21,000,000 pounds of cheese and
| 1,000, 600 pounds of butter. The cows used
have been carefully bred for centuries for
producing the largest yields OF milk, and are
| now unexcelled.
The cost of harvesting grain is said to be
| less in California this year than ever before
| The combination harvesting machines have
| greatly reduced expenses, and the wages oi
labor are comparatively low. One farmer in
San joaquin Valley reports that the cost oil
harvesting his crop this year has been only
| four cents a sack, whereas the cost of thrash
ing alone under old methods was as high as
| fifteen cents sack.
Look out for rag weeds now, not only in
the regular pasture, but in any of the lanes
through which the cows have to pass. When
the pasture is sunburnt and dry many COWS
get into the bad habit of biting off the ten
der tops of the young rag weeds, and this
gives bitter and very disagreeabe flavor to
the milk, which finds its way into the butter
or cheese made from it, Take scythe and
cut the tops of this weed off, for cows will
not touch hem unless fresh and green.
Some years ago we got the weevil in oui
wheat bins, says writer in the South and
West. The affected wheat was at once re-
moved and the bins scrubbed out with strong
brine, heated boiling hot. Care was taken tc