The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19

part of the country il is the grasshopper
which we dread more than the worm in cab
bage raising. ] save all the scraping Of the
smoke-house and fish-salt for this purpose,
using about a pint to every dozen plants
Rural Home.
There are three varieties of worms working
havoc IN the great onion meadows OF Orange
County, New York There is striped worm,
dark worm with red head, and black
worm-all ravenous cut worms. The striped
worm commits its ravages only at night or
on cloudy days, and scores of men, women
and children are hunting them nightly by
the light of lanterns and torches The red
headed worm is a new conner and is present
in less numbers than the other two. Many
onion producers have lost their entire crop
and others have plowed up their ground.
1t is generally conceded by cheese mer-
chants that the dairymen of this country are
fearfully wanting in the variety of cheese
making genius, says an exchange. They seem
TO neither know nor care for anything but
English cheddar in style and quality. While,
OF course, this is good commercial cheese,
and the English market keeps up pretty
good demand for it, and it is also true that
the home market for this old style is grad
ually improving, at the same time there can
be but little doubt that the home market
would greatly improve if there were some
other styles for sale.
1--WE have tried every known method of
raising celery" says the Rural New Yorker,
land give the preference to shallow trenches,
say, six inches deep. They are better than
planting on the surface. as nowadays recon-
mended: better than deeper trenches. Apply
old manure literally IN the trenches and
spade it under, enriching and mellowing the
soil. A slight sprinkling of any high grade
complete fertilizer will be found advantage
Gus. The plants should be set six inches
apart in this trench, and see to it that they
never once suffer for water. This is the price
of fine celery"
A writer in the Orange County Farmer
concerning potato scab, says: There is at
least one phase of scab which is unmistaka-
bly, produced by grubs, which gnaw the ten
der skin of the young potato. So far as We
have personally examined the matter, the
most of the scab seen here is thus produced
There can be no mistake about it, we have
surprised the grubs at their work and watched
the progress of the scab. We have noted
that il prevails most on lands where COW
manure has been used, and in the same ma
nure we have seen thousands of the young
grubs, both white and brown, when it was
being forked over"
Mr.. ]. Henry Gest, who teStitieS for the
Jersey Cattle Club to the enormous butter
yield of Princess I'd, viz, forty-six pounds,
twelve and One-half ounces of sailed butter
in a week. is willing to wager that the COW
raise the record to fifty pounds a week.
Pea meal is considered by Mr.. Gest as the
great fat producing element in Princess IA
tions. Seven pounds of. butter were made
from the last days milking. One pound Of
bntter to six pounds or three quarts of milk
Dairymen may well be skeptical about the
accuracy of these figures, but the test seems
to have been fair one.
The Canada pea, sown one and a MALT bush
els, mixed with the same amount of oats, is
said TO be capital feed for swine. The oats
are to help the peas stand up. The ground is
plowed early, MANFRED well and narrowed
fine. They are harvested with a common
revolving rake, left in windows until cured,
and then stacked in rail pens. Swine with
rings in their noses are then turned in to pick
up the shelled peas or those which the rake
left After this they fed the stacked
peas, on which they thrive amazingly. A
few bushels of corn per head to harden up
the pork will fit them for an early market.
Sandy soil is the best for peas.
Complaint is often made that the water on
clay soils will sometimes stand on the sur
face, TO the injury of crops, even when an I'M
dcrdrain is near. This is sometimes the case
| the first year after the drain is dug, as the
stirring of wet clay puddles it, making a
mortar through which water can not pene-
trate. The freezing which such land gets in
winter is very beneficial. Frost opens this
clay, and if there is a good outlet to the
drain, the water runs off, leaving it loose and
! friable The growth of clover on clay land
| is one of the greatest improvements that can
| be made to it, but clover will not succeed on
clay unless the latter is Standardization
| Cultvator