The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-09
Farm Notes.

/ Exclusive feeding of cloyer to COWS gives hard
cheese and soft butter.
The milk yield of cows can be largely in
creased in winter by warming the water given
| them, bringing it to temperature of about
| 66o F.
The demand for mules is said to be con-
Stantly In excess OF the supply, and the business
of mule breeding is growing all the while, be-
cause there is money in it
| A Connecticut farmer whose COWS had become
| accustomed to the barbed- wire fence wishing to
part eff piece of his moving, did it with Irvine,
and the cows didn't try to break through.
! The Milwaukee Wisconsin puts in a plea for
| wooden shoes, especially for the farm.
1t says they are much cheaper and more durable
than leather, besides having the virtue of keep
| ing the feet dry and warm even in the coolest
weather.
A writer in the Rural New Yorker speaks of
the many hundreds of dollars which have been
taken from farmers in the West by what he
terms the Russian mulberry swindle the fruit
proving of little value, and the tree for timber
overrated
The Illinois Horticultural Society denounces
the practice Of ringing orchard trees to produce
early bearing, except in thekly- planted orchards
where the final intention is to take out alternate
trees In this case the trees to come out may
be profitably forced into early bearing.
Here is a somewhat remarkable experience in
growing Lima beams A man poled them with
common four-foot laths, driven one foot into the
ground, and when the vines had climbed the
three-foot poles they were pinched back. Re
suit, more and earlier beans than ever before.
Bonedust and wood ashes will supply all that
may be lacking for Strawberries in any SOIL says
M. Crawford, of Ohio, and these can be obtained
| III nearly all parts of the country OF all the
commercial fertilizers, none is safer to buy than
pure ground bone. 1t must, however, be de-
composed before the plants can use it, as they
take up all their food in solution For immediate
effect it is sometimes advisable to use dissolved
bone tsuperphosphate of lime) which will be
washed down to the roots by the first rain.
There may be differences of opinion in this
| country concerning ensilage, but in England the
| farmers all believe in it. At recent competi-
| tive exhibition of silo products at Smithfsld,
| there were $50 entries. One point in favor of
the silo is that it takes away much of the terror
/ of a wet daytime. A Scotch farmer states that
| this year his grass was cut ana carted in heavy
| rain, and part of it lay under water An old
| bHilding was converted into silo and the grass
\ was put into it, The farmer is using it as
\ ensilage; it is of a bright green color and the
cattle eat it with relish.
According to English papers, the sheep indus
try in Australia has brought out variety of the
/ sheep dog remarkable for sagacity but differing
in many other particulars from those Of other
countries 1t is related of them that they will
hunt for stragglers miles away from the hut,
and either drive them In or watch them, If they
| happen to be exhausted, until they gather sniff
cient strength to walk 1t is common thing in
traversing the grazing country to come upon one
broken-down sheep, and while pacable and gen.
| tie to q remarkable degree, as a rule, are then
resentful of interference with their charge, and
| fierce in the extreme