The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-11
FARM NOTES.

The best months for fattening steers aud
wethers are January, February aad March.
During severe cold weather the hog is
more susceptible to Geld than any other an
imal on the farm.
In many sections of New England Western
corn is being bought in large quantities and
fed to sheep.
1t is estimated that the average consump-
ton of wheat by each inhabitant of the
United States is nearly six bushels.
1t has been estimated that more than one.
half of the fsod consumed by farm animals
in our winter months is required to keep up
the natural heat.
The fifth annual National Agricultural
Convention will be held at New Orleans on
February 20. The discussions will be open
to all who wish to participate.
Before despsiring of the present low price
OF farm produce, consider IL there has not
been a orresponding decrease in the price
of the articles q farmer buys.
The New England Farmer is elated be.
cause the average corn yield of New England
is reported at thirty-three Bushels while
Illinois only reports thirty blshels.
Early pullets will lay about this tirae. and
| 1t is well to observe which lay the earliest
and keep Ii up. so as to be able to select
these as hens for breeding purposes.
One egg in winter is often worth three or
four in summer, and the poulterer who keeps
| his hens in condition for winter laying will
not be disappointed in the profits
Probably the best all purpose sheep is the
| offspring OF the Merino ram and the Cots.
| void eve, the fleece being both heavy aud
| fine and they themselves fair mutton sheep.
A Kansas farmer who had nine head of
sheep put the money that came to him from
the sale of mutton and wool into more
sheep. In nine years he had 100 sheep.
worth S., 000.
The Colorado Live Stock Record says: 1--WE
have it upon good authority that 20 600
sheep have, up to the present date, gone from
the southern counties OF Colorado TO K ansas
to feed fer mutton"
In nearly all cases such diseases as mango
scratches and itch are due to Impurities of
the blood. Hence, in addition to the use OF
| ointments as cures, q dose occasionally of
Rochelle salts will be beneficial.
James W. Lockhsrt OF Lake George,
recommends buying hens in April for eggs
and chickens for summer visitors, in prefer
ence to keeping fowls all winter at an un-
necessary expense to non residents.
Ohio's crop of maple sugar last year was
l 96S, 600 pounds and 564, 1913 gallons OF sirup,
the product of 100000 trees. The sugar
brought from nine to twelve cents per
pound, and the strip about seventy-6ve
cents per gallon.
Whatever else you may feed your sheep do
not forget to mix in little salt twice week.
There is nothing that keeps an animals sys-
tenn SO well regulated, and seems to sharpen
their appetite as well as a judicioas use OF
salt.
One OF the best places in tia world-if
one can not have q green house-in which
to keep roses in the kitchen. There is
always more or less moisture in the air
from the cooking, and as long as the air
is moist the better the growth of your
roses
Mutton sheep require much more care
and attention than the Merinos. but es.
pecially the mutton breeds can not be herded
In great hocks can the Merinos. Yet
where excellent attention can be paid, as
on well-cultivated farms, the profits are
large.
The following is the new remedy for black
| leg in cattle, and it is said to be excellent:
Add to 100 pounds OF salt ten pounds of sui.
phur, six pounds copperas, three pound salt
| peter and three pinIs of slaked lime. Mix
and feed in the same manner as when feed
ing salt.
Professor n. Munk, a worker of some emil
neDce in agricultural chemistry, says that
moderate muscular exercise on the part of
cows increases the yield OF milk, but that
violent motion binders the process of milk
secretion. Dairy farmers may turn his re.
marks to profit.
An Indiana strawberry grower says that
one night when frost threatened his crop.
just then in bloom, mis- son and himself re-
NAMED in the strawberry field till a. m
firing wood and then covering it With sods
and earth to produce a smoke and keep off
the frcst with entire success.
The best fertilizer for an orchard is potash
either in the form of wood ashes or as sui
phate of potash. Trees. however, will be
benefited by superphosphate and manure,
but the best results are obtained when potash
| so tkn ~ al cd f.
tilizers on the soil for an orchard.
Plenty OF good feed and enough OF exercise
to keep the muscles firm is the best treat
ment of horses in winter. 1t is quite CON-
mon for many farmers to underfeed 10 win
ter, because they have little or nothing for
horses to do. But a horse thus managed
soon loses his capacity for hard service.
The annual report of the Department OF
Agriculture. now in press. makes the record
of corr production for 1884 at 1.725, 000. 600
bushels; wheat, 513 900, 900 bushels, and oats.
$50, 000, 900 bushels, which are the largest
ever recorded. The rate of yield is 25.S
bushels corn, IL bushels wheat, and 21.4
bushels oats.
The consumption of sugar in the United
States is at present about l, ZOO. 900 tons; our
imPortations 1000 tons, ten times the
amount of our production. Should our pop.
ulation and consumption increase in the fu-
ture as in the past, in fifteen years this coun-
try would consume annually 4,0OO. 600 tons
OF sugar, an amount equal TO the production
of the whole world at the present time.
DR.. Woods. of Albemsrle County Virginia,
says in the Southern Planter: mo one can
have a No. ham or bacon without having
the right sort OF hog. perfectly fattened.
give my hogs. when fattening especially, an
abundance of charcoal, burning coal kilns
for the purpose also give them salt and ashes
mixed, occasionally little SULPHUR added.
| This treatment makes all Of the organs Of the